Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/September 2021

Monthly Challenge

September 2021

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.

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Pages processed: 3122
- (156% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 1521
Pages validated: 1145

June

Pages processed: 2051
- (102% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 1013
Pages validated: 936

July

Pages processed: 1964
- (98% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 1236
Pages validated: 648

August

Pages processed: 1701
- (85% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 1136
Pages validated: 507

September

Pages processed: 2606
- (130% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 1564
Pages validated: 891

October

Pages processed: 3672
- (183% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2374
Pages validated: 1129

November

Pages processed: 6079
- (303% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3607
Pages validated: 2275

December

Pages processed: 7056
- (352% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3970
Pages validated: 2864

2022 →

Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	60	46	172	172
2	77	58	151	323
3	101	66	199	522
4	69	45	132	654
5	106	42	148	802
6	58	50	123	925
7	121	60	181	1106
8	99	28	128	1234
9	125	40	164	1398
10	69	19	88	1486
11	65	23	88	1574
12	56	19	75	1649
13	73	31	104	1753
14	46	21	67	1820
15	81	19	100	1920
16	45	13	58	1978
17	11	28	39	2017
18	1	17	18	2035
19	5	19	24	2059
20	14	19	33	2092
21	24	14	39	2131
22	38	17	55	2186
23	23	17	40	2226
24	20	15	35	2261
25	73	51	125	2386
26	22	27	49	2435
27	16	16	32	2467
28	11	28	39	2506
29	28	37	65	2571
30	27	6	35	2606
Avg.	52	30		87
Total	1564	891		2606

September 2021[edit]

Works in current challenge: 25
Total pages in current challenge: 7417
Average processed pages per day this month: 87
Recent changes in this Challenge (only indexes, pages, authors)

Proofread works this month

Validated works this month

Guidelines[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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}}.

Difficulty Levels[edit]

Easy – These works have good OCR and have simple formatting consisting mainly of font sizes, bold, italics, centering, and a Table of Contents.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.