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Monthly Challenge

May 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
  • Pages processed: 2051
    • (102% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 1013
  • Pages validated: 936
  • Pages processed: 1964
    • (98% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 1236
  • Pages validated: 648
  • Pages processed: 1701
    • (85% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 1136
  • Pages validated: 507
  • Pages processed: 2606
    • (130% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 1564
  • Pages validated: 891
  • Pages processed: 3672
    • (183% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 2374
  • Pages validated: 1129
  • Pages processed: 6079
    • (303% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 3607
  • Pages validated: 2275
  • Pages processed: 7056
    • (352% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 3970
  • Pages validated: 2864
Daily statistics
Day under 100
Day over 200
DayPVPagesTotal
15498181
2561786167
333861228
451860288
5141346334
6191131365
7224186451
8452499550
99640144694
10202450744
119146154898
1295341291027
1387151061133
141862861219
1541861321351
1640811251476
171448621538
18691652371775
1961621261901
202722491950
212768952045
223620602105
232522482153
245924832236
253320562292
266029912383
27128241562539
28457852624
2968441142738
304639862824
3141322983122
Avg.4937101
Total152111453122

May 2021

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  • Works in current challenge: 31
  • Total pages in current challenge: 13260
  • Average processed pages per day this month: 101
  • Recent changes in this Challenge (only indexes, pages, authors)

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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Sprint: Women Writers

The texts in the Sprint are indicated with a ribbon

Under 50 pages: to proofread
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Orley Farm (Volume 2) Anthony Trollope (Victorian Serial) UK 1861

To proofread (no expiry)
To proofread (new works this month)

Anna Karenina Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian Literature, Novels) Russia 1904

Expression error: total is 0.

Clarissa (Volume 1) Samuel Richardson (Eighteenth Century, Novels) UK 1748

Women Writers

A Daughter of the Samurai Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto (Celebrating the Public Domain, Biography, Women Writers) Japan 1925

The Librarian's Copyright Companion James S. Heller, Paul Hellyer and Benjamin J. Keele (Legal Text, Celebrating the Public Domain) USA 2012

The New Negro Alain Locke (Celebrating the Public Domain, Black Writers) USA 1925

Paradise Lost John Milton (Seventeenth Century, Poetry) England 1666

Women Writers

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

Women Writers

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

To validate (new works this month)

Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Russian Fiction, Novels) Russia 1917

Women Writers

Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë (Novels, Women Writers) UK 1847

Oliver Twist (Volume 1) Charles Dickens (Social Inequality, Novels) UK 1838

Paradise Lost (Manuscript) John Milton (Seventeenth Century, Poetry) England 1665

Women Writers

Sense and Sensibility (Volume 2) Jane Austen (Novels, Women Writers) UK 1811

Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence (British Literature, Novels) UK 1913

Ulysses James Joyce (Irish Literature, Novels) Ireland 1922

The Works of H.G. Wells (Volume 1) H. G. Wells (Science Fiction, Novels, Celebrating the Public Domain) UK 1924

Completed works
page={{{2}}}

Orley Farm (Volume 1) Anthony Trollope (Victorian Serial) UK 1861

Sense and Sensibility (Volume 1) Jane Austen (Novels, Women Writers) UK 1811