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Monthly Challenge

October 2022

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: 7257
    • (362% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 4385
  • Pages validated: 2517
  • Pages processed: 6976
    • (348% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 4029
  • Pages validated: 2677
  • Pages processed: 6392
    • (319% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 4718
  • Pages validated: 1351
  • Pages processed: 5928
    • (296% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 4123
  • Pages validated: 1488
  • Pages processed: 6306
    • (315% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 4575
  • Pages validated: 1521
  • Pages processed: 5155
    • (257% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 2967
  • Pages validated: 1816
  • Pages processed: 4723
    • (236% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 2888
  • Pages validated: 1681
  • Pages processed: 4666
    • (233% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 3149
  • Pages validated: 1357
  • Pages processed: 4638
    • (231% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 3602
  • Pages validated: 929
  • Pages processed: 5694
    • (284% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 4280
  • Pages validated: 1237
  • Pages processed: 4106
    • (205% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 2895
  • Pages validated: 995
  • Pages processed: 3876
    • (193% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 2868
  • Pages validated: 787
Daily statistics
Day under 100
Day over 200
DayPVPagesTotal
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214824189395
312641175570
410513124694
51395144838
6138281771015
796161121127
8261152771404
9407414571861
10154772372098
1190281332231
12120181382369
1387271302499
14136291612660
15107641792839
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19131231543633
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211241032313977
22284253114288
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2474461204577
25204522604837
26501051564993
2769361055098
2863711355233
29146552015434
3083651495583
3138731115694
Avg.13840184
Total428012375694

October 2022

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  • Works in current challenge: 88
  • Total pages in current challenge: 34778
  • Average processed pages per day this month: 184
  • Recent changes in this Challenge (only indexes, pages, authors)
Proofread works this month
Validated works this month

Guidelines

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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

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  1. If you've worked on a page, but don't have time to finish, please save your work as Not Proofread.
  2. 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.
  3. Once you have finished proofreading a page, make sure to mark it as Proofread.
  4. 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

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  1. 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).
  2. Use {{ppoem}} for formatting poems. Separate verses with a blank line.
  3. Mark the spot where an image should go with {{missing image}}, a table with {{missing table}} and other alphabets with {{Language characters}}.
  4. Add a blank line between each paragraph.
  5. 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}}.

Difficulty Levels

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  1. Easy – These works have good OCR and have simple formatting consisting mainly of font sizes, bold, italics, centering, and a Table of Contents.
  2. Average – These works have references and indexes in addition to the formatting of Easy texts. In addition, there language tends to be more academic or contain dialectical English.
  3. Last Bits – This category could use a better name, but the idea is that this is an Index that has mostly been proofread, but a few more challenging pages remain.
  4. Second Glance - This category is for works that appears to have been proofread once, but require a careful look to make sure that the text matches the scan.
  5. Formatting – This category is for Indexes imported from another site that also does proofread, but wishes not to be named. They are fully proofread, but require checking to make sure that all the formatting is there. All pages will require the addition of header and footers. However, most pages will require no other work.
  6. Transclusion – These works have been fully proofread, but remain untranscluded. They are a great place for a user to learn about transclusion and reduce the backlog.

Challenge texts

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To fix

The Blacker the Berry Wallace Henry Thurman (Harlem Renaissance) USA 1929

Under 50 pages: to proofread
To proofread (new works this month)

The History of Witchcraft and Demonology Montague Summers (Requested Texts, Celebrating the Public Domain) UK 1926

The Land of Mist Arthur Conan Doyle (Novels, Requested Texts, Celebrating the Public Domain) UK 1925

The Plumed Serpent D.H. Lawrence (Celebrating the Public Domain) UK 1926

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward Lawrence (Celebrating the Public Domain) UK 1926

Show Boat Edna Ferber (Celebrating the Public Domain) USA 1926

Soldiers' Pay William Faulkner (Celebrating the Public Domain) USA 1926

The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu (Celebrating the Public Domain) Japan 1925

Those Barren Leaves Aldous Huxley (Celebrating the Public Domain) UK 1925

Uncle Tom's Cabin (Volume 2) Harriet Beecher Stowe (Slavery in the USA, Novels, Women Writers) USA 1852

The Wanderer (Volume 4) Fanny Burney (Novels, Women Writers) UK 1814

The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler (Acclaimed Books) UK 1903

Under 50 pages: to validate
To validate (new works this month)

Moby-Dick Herman Melville (Acclaimed Books) USA 1851

Notes on Democracy H. L. Mencken (Celebrating the Public Domain) USA 1926

Principia Ethica George Edward Moore (Acclaimed Books) UK 1922

Uncle Tom's Cabin (Volume 1) Harriet Beecher Stowe (Slavery in the USA, Novels, Women Writers) USA 1852