Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/October 2025

Monthly Challenge

October 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: ~1982
- (~99% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 1139
Pages validated: 545

December

Not started.

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Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	119	25	267	267
2	71	16	102	369
3	76	7	101	470
4	62	19	93	563
5	79	10	100	663
6	102	0	115	778
7	77	34	131	909
8	91	33	135	1044
9	98	18	127	1171
10	280	24	314	1485
11	26	27	63	1548
12	39	31	84	1632
13	344	33	397	2029
14	160	34	196	2225
15	150	14	165	2390
16	59	9	68	2458
17	37	7	157	2615
18	59	12	73	2688
19	113	28	149	2837
20	165	9	175	3012
21	124	7	132	3144
22	97	16	115	3259
23	84	32	116	3375
24	124	11	135	3510
25	140	85	225	3735
26	92	68	160	3895
27	20	60	80	3975
28	16	48	64	4039
29	56	54	110	4149
30	32	29	61	4210
31	36	81	117	4327
Avg.	98	28		140
Total	3028	881		4327

October 2025

Works in current challenge: 57
Total pages in current challenge: 16462
Average processed pages per day this month: 140
Recent changes in this Challenge (only indexes, pages, authors)

Proofread works this month

Validated works this month

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}}.