Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/August 2022

Monthly Challenge

August 2022

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: 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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Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	37	47	203	203
2	118	76	197	400
3	54	31	86	486
4	78	41	121	607
5	88	50	139	746
6	175	116	296	1042
7	97	60	157	1199
8	98	49	148	1347
9	103	67	170	1517
10	127	40	167	1684
11	136	25	161	1845
12	113	32	146	1991
13	90	85	179	2170
14	105	111	216	2386
15	72	30	104	2490
16	54	27	82	2572
17	95	15	111	2683
18	149	44	192	2875
19	36	79	115	2990
20	42	56	99	3089
21	112	13	138	3227
22	122	21	143	3370
23	87	14	101	3471
24	193	25	219	3690
25	127	18	145	3835
26	142	24	171	4006
27	104	47	151	4157
28	101	11	112	4269
29	87	20	107	4376
30	142	54	196	4572
31	65	29	94	4666
Avg.	102	44		151
Total	3149	1357		4666

August 2022

Works in current challenge: 69
Total pages in current challenge: 28925
Average processed pages per day this month: 151
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}}.

Difficulty Levels

Easy – These works have good OCR and have simple formatting consisting mainly of font sizes, bold, italics, centering, and a Table of Contents.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.