Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge

Monthly Challenge

2023

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.

Current Challenge

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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: ~0
  • (~0% of 2000)
• Pages proofread: 0
• Pages validated: 0

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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

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2021

January

No challenge.

February

No challenge.

March

No challenge.

April

No challenge.

May

• 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

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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

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

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. At the start of a poem, put <poem> and place a </poem> at the end. 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 oldstyle numbers use {{oldstyle}}.
6. 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

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.

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