Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/October 2021

Monthly Challenge

October 2021

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.

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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 →

Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	115	17	187	187
2	252	132	390	577
3	65	129	196	773
4	65	25	90	863
5	116	66	192	1055
6	195	7	233	1288
7	167	29	197	1485
8	117	5	176	1661
9	35	11	46	1707
10	101	57	160	1867
11	19	8	27	1894
12	66	9	75	1969
13	39	0	39	2008
14	56	49	105	2113
15	71	18	89	2202
16	60	24	84	2286
17	103	40	143	2429
18	36	109	149	2578
19	51	59	110	2688
20	41	59	101	2789
21	35	2	37	2826
22	54	6	60	2886
23	104	47	153	3039
24	80	14	95	3134
25	27	15	42	3176
26	36	3	39	3215
27	15	9	24	3239
28	19	12	31	3270
29	47	42	89	3359
30	118	46	164	3523
31	69	80	149	3672
Avg.	77	36		118
Total	2374	1129		3672

October 2021

Works in current challenge: 33
Total pages in current challenge: 11907
Average processed pages per day this month: 118
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.