Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge

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Monthly Challenge

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.

Challenges

2025

January

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: ~319
- (~10% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 202
Pages validated: 32

← 2024 2026 →

2024

January

Pages processed: 4756
- (158% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3816
Pages validated: 682

February

Pages processed: 5313
- (177% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 4283
Pages validated: 922

March

Pages processed: 4334
- (144% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3983
Pages validated: 295

April

Pages processed: 4809
- (160% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3224
Pages validated: 1516

May

Pages processed: 7372
- (245% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 4330
Pages validated: 2876

June

Pages processed: 3826
- (127% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2819
Pages validated: 908

July

Pages processed: 3265
- (108% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2578
Pages validated: 586

August

Pages processed: 3818
- (127% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2973
Pages validated: 689

September

Pages processed: 4789
- (159% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3219
Pages validated: 1455

October

Pages processed: 4507
- (150% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3072
Pages validated: 1324

November

Pages processed: 4513
- (150% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3126
Pages validated: 1310

December

Pages processed: 3208
- (106% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2288
Pages validated: 855

← 2023 2025 →

2023

January

Pages processed: 6108
- (305% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4033
Pages validated: 1804

February

Pages processed: 4393
- (219% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3275
Pages validated: 990

March

Pages processed: 4690
- (234% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3310
Pages validated: 1257

April

Pages processed: 3725
- (186% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2044
Pages validated: 1641

May

Pages processed: 2726
- (136% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 1881
Pages validated: 768

June

Pages processed: 3629
- (181% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2271
Pages validated: 1261

July

Pages processed: 3179
- (158% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2137
Pages validated: 956

August

Pages processed: 3744
- (187% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3008
Pages validated: 588

September

Pages processed: 3648
- (182% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3166
Pages validated: 321

October

Pages processed: 3646
- (182% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2131
Pages validated: 1418

November

Pages processed: 4059
- (135% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3522
Pages validated: 487

December

Pages processed: 3738
- (120% of 3100)
Pages proofread: 2827
Pages validated: 720

← 2022 2024 →

2022

January

Pages processed: 7257
- (362% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4385
Pages validated: 2517

February

Pages processed: 6976
- (348% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4029
Pages validated: 2677

March

Pages processed: 6392
- (319% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4718
Pages validated: 1351

April

Pages processed: 5928
- (296% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4123
Pages validated: 1488

May

Pages processed: 6306
- (315% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4575
Pages validated: 1521

June

Pages processed: 5155
- (257% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2967
Pages validated: 1816

July

Pages processed: 4723
- (236% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2888
Pages validated: 1681

August

Pages processed: 4666
- (233% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3149
Pages validated: 1357

September

Pages processed: 4638
- (231% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3602
Pages validated: 929

October

Pages processed: 5694
- (284% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4280
Pages validated: 1237

November

Pages processed: 4106
- (205% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2895
Pages validated: 995

December

Pages processed: 3876
- (193% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2868
Pages validated: 787

← 2021 2023 →

2021

No challenge.

No challenge.

No challenge.

No challenge.

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 →

Guidelines

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}}.

Resources

Administration: how to run the Monthly Challenge—adding works and setting up new months
How it works: how the Monthly Challenge infrastructure works
Not completed: works that did not get completed in their time in the challenge: these can be renominated, or worked out outside the Monthly Challenge