Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/September 2025

Monthly Challenge

September 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: 3621
- (120% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2205
Pages validated: 1031

December

Pages processed: 4423
- (147% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2416
Pages validated: 1814

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Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	82	45	179	179
2	146	52	200	379
3	176	121	297	676
4	75	28	103	779
5	91	111	202	981
6	151	76	239	1220
7	173	116	293	1513
8	80	64	144	1657
9	99	68	168	1825
10	133	22	157	1982
11	86	37	124	2106
12	129	41	173	2279
13	20	44	64	2343
14	62	79	141	2484
15	76	63	142	2626
16	74	76	150	2776
17	123	57	198	2974
18	78	31	110	3084
19	76	72	150	3234
20	40	47	87	3321
21	84	38	126	3447
22	64	28	93	3540
23	51	73	125	3665
24	92	25	117	3782
25	66	56	122	3904
26	48	54	103	4007
27	68	33	101	4108
28	102	13	116	4224
29	51	18	70	4294
30	17	55	72	4366
Avg.	87	55		146
Total	2613	1643		4366

September 2025

Works in current challenge: 58
Total pages in current challenge: 18259
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

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}}.