Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/November 2025

Monthly Challenge

November 2025

Welcome to the Monthly Challenge!

Each month, the challenge aims to proofread and validate several texts.
It provides a safe space for new users to learn about Wikisource.
The texts are featured for a maximum of three months with a few exceptions.
The challenge builds Wikisource's core collection and makes free, scan-backed ebooks accessible to everyone.

Pages processed: 5726
- (190% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3888
Pages validated: 1642

February

Pages processed: 4208
- (140% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2743
Pages validated: 1353

March

Pages processed: 2999
- (99% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2301
Pages validated: 581

April

Pages processed: 4273
- (142% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2222
Pages validated: 1957

May

Pages processed: 3772
- (125% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 1885
Pages validated: 1687

June

Pages processed: 3707
- (123% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2277
Pages validated: 1329

July

Pages processed: 4303
- (143% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2889
Pages validated: 1198

August

Pages processed: 4258
- (141% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3063
Pages validated: 1080

September

Pages processed: 4366
- (145% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2613
Pages validated: 1643

October

Pages processed: 4327
- (144% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3028
Pages validated: 881

November

Pages processed: ~2347
- (~117% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 1360
Pages validated: 668

December

Not started.

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Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	104	65	261	261
2	43	63	119	380
3	106	25	160	540
4	103	29	154	694
5	114	56	180	874
6	144	93	262	1136
7	120	27	160	1296
8	106	42	160	1456
9	43	40	94	1550
10	61	48	119	1669
11	40	17	68	1737
12	94	12	116	1853
13	61	28	129	1982
14	66	9	85	2067
15	72	74	146	2213
16	75	33	119	2332
17	8	7	15	2347
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25
26
27
28
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Avg.	85	41		146
Total	1360	668		2347

November 2025

Works in current challenge: 56
Total pages in current challenge: 17838
Average processed pages per day this month: 146
Recent changes in this Challenge (only indexes, pages, authors)

Proofread works this month

Validated works this month

Bambi, A Life in the Woods

Guidelines

Welcome to this month's challenge. For a general overview of proofreading at Wikisource, see Help:Beginner's guide to proofreading. The challenge has a few special guidelines and tips for new users.

Guidelines, tips and information

Guidelines

If you've worked on a page, but don't have time to finish, please save your work as Not Proofread.
If you encounter a difficulty such as a table, missing image, or a different alphabet, please mark the page as Problematic and an experienced editor will review it.
Once you have finished proofreading a page, make sure to mark it as Proofread.
Validation requires a careful checking of the proofread text to make sure that the formatting and spelling match the original. Be sure to read and follow the guidelines in Help:Beginner's guide to validation. Once you finish validating a page, mark it as Validated.
- Do not use spell-check to validate, as many older works use non-standard spellings. Even if there is a mistake in the original, transcribe it as-is.

Tips

Many books published before 1820 feature a long s (ſ). Replace those with {{ls}} to yield s (its appearance is changed by the Visibility gadget).
Use {{ppoem}} for formatting poems. Separate verses with a blank line.
Mark the spot where an image should go with {{missing image}}, a table with {{missing table}} and other alphabets with {{Language characters}}.
Add a blank line between each paragraph.
For images, use the following format:

{{img float
 | file = name of the image file
 | cap = The caption
 | align = left/center/right
 | alt = A description for those with different visual abilities.
 | width = How wide the image is: e.g. 500px
}}

For more information, see {{img float}}.