Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/June 2024

Monthly Challenge

June 2024

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: 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: ~3225
- (~107% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2333
Pages validated: 797

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Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	100	33	146	146
2	97	20	128	274
3	94	10	110	384
4	69	18	86	470
5	74	22	96	566
6	48	120	168	734
7	85	84	173	907
8	65	39	104	1011
9	88	106	204	1215
10	135	26	161	1376
11	86	24	119	1495
12	123	26	157	1652
13	62	35	108	1760
14	77	26	107	1867
15	326	26	352	2219
16	107	36	143	2362
17	102	29	131	2493
18	52	2	67	2560
19	46	6	52	2612
20	43	1	50	2662
21	88	18	106	2768
22	64	28	92	2860
23	79	21	100	2960
24	87	18	106	3066
25	62	22	84	3150
26	74	1	75	3225
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28
29
30
Avg.	90	32		126
Total	2333	797		3225

June 2024

Works in current challenge: 71
Total pages in current challenge: 27756
Average processed pages per day this month: 126
Recent changes in this Challenge (only indexes, pages, authors)

Proofread works this month

Validated works this month

Ovid's Metamorphoses, in fifteen books

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.