Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/October 2024

Monthly Challenge

October 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: 3826
- (127% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2819
Pages validated: 908

July

Pages processed: 3265
- (108% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2578
Pages validated: 586

August

Pages processed: 3818
- (127% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2973
Pages validated: 689

September

Pages processed: 4789
- (159% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3219
Pages validated: 1455

October

Pages processed: 4507
- (150% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3072
Pages validated: 1324

November

Pages processed: ~2696
- (~89% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 1861
Pages validated: 769

December

Not started.

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Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	74	39	137	137
2	81	60	145	282
3	71	17	89	371
4	65	72	142	513
5	88	43	131	644
6	60	65	128	772
7	70	52	122	894
8	80	10	92	986
9	77	5	83	1069
10	117	6	144	1213
11	122	0	143	1356
12	242	37	279	1635
13	59	20	86	1721
14	66	2	68	1789
15	26	30	59	1848
16	90	8	98	1946
17	62	65	127	2073
18	226	79	306	2379
19	41	47	91	2470
20	81	14	95	2565
21	106	3	109	2674
22	64	47	113	2787
23	132	50	182	2969
24	182	43	225	3194
25	72	44	116	3310
26	99	87	186	3496
27	74	109	196	3692
28	112	91	203	3895
29	83	94	177	4072
30	107	33	140	4212
31	243	52	295	4507
Avg.	99	43		145
Total	3072	1324		4507

October 2024

Works in current challenge: 71
Total pages in current challenge: 22151
Average processed pages per day this month: 145
Recent changes in this Challenge (only indexes, pages, authors)

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.