Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/September 2026

Monthly Challenge

September 2026

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: 5449
- (181% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3113
Pages validated: 1971

February

Pages processed: 4232
- (141% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2597
Pages validated: 1313

March

Pages processed: 3695
- (123% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2480
Pages validated: 1016

April

Pages processed: 5341
- (178% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3841
Pages validated: 1328

May

Pages processed: 4130
- (137% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2665
Pages validated: 1199

June

Pages processed: 3924
- (130% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2642
Pages validated: 1195

July

Pages processed: 7703
- (256% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 4430
Pages validated: 3055

August

Pages processed: 6222
- (207% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3394
Pages validated: 2551

September

Pages processed: ~1732
- (~57% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 1031
Pages validated: 574

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Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	142	98	328	328
2	123	93	217	545
3	175	48	223	768
4	127	123	252	1020
5	73	23	100	1120
6	82	48	130	1250
7	163	82	251	1501
8	72	38	136	1637
9	74	21	95	1732
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Avg.	120	69		205
Total	1031	574		1732

September 2026

Works in current challenge: 70
Total pages in current challenge: 22514
Average processed pages per day this month: 205
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}}.