Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/Themes

Monthly Challenge

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.

Current Challenge

Nominations

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The Monthly Challenge has multiple themes that recur across each month. Generally, a broad cross-section of themes is aimed for in each challenge.

Themes

Some themes (like "Science") are field-based, some (like "Novels" and "Periodicals") concern the publication format, while others have a focus on human issues such as minority, LGBT+ and women's rights, colonialism and slavery, into which Wikisource's collection can provide uniquely contemporaneous views and primary material. Finally, some meta-themes are related to either the copyright status of the works or internal Wikisource backlogs.

Fields

• Science

Formats

• Periodicals
• Novels

Human issues

• Women Writers
• Western Colonialism

Wikisource and copyright

• Celebrating the Public Domain