Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/January 2025

Monthly Challenge

January 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.

Pages processed: 5726
- (190% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3888
Pages validated: 1642

February

Pages processed: ~4062
- (~135% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2667
Pages validated: 1283

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Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	214	46	303	303
2	154	41	214	517
3	130	63	199	716
4	209	116	325	1041
5	110	28	148	1189
6	79	16	95	1284
7	138	31	169	1453
8	135	27	167	1620
9	137	44	183	1803
10	187	185	372	2175
11	131	13	168	2343
12	77	47	124	2467
13	118	15	133	2600
14	111	45	156	2756
15	152	43	195	2951
16	117	40	158	3109
17	197	68	301	3410
18	92	54	147	3557
19	86	28	114	3671
20	163	100	265	3936
21	72	63	135	4071
22	79	47	126	4197
23	144	27	173	4370
24	82	73	155	4525
25	95	76	172	4697
26	202	40	242	4939
27	73	44	117	5056
28	164	28	200	5256
29	103	133	236	5492
30	83	26	109	5601
31	54	35	125	5726
Avg.	125	53		185
Total	3888	1642		5726

January 2025

Works in current challenge: 72
Total pages in current challenge: 23559
Average processed pages per day this month: 185
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.