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Monthly Challenge

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.

Challenges

2024

January

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: 4513
- (150% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3126
Pages validated: 1310

December

Pages processed: ~2619
- (~87% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 1896
Pages validated: 668

← 2023 2025 →

2023

January

Pages processed: 6108
- (305% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4033
Pages validated: 1804

February

Pages processed: 4393
- (219% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3275
Pages validated: 990

March

Pages processed: 4690
- (234% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3310
Pages validated: 1257

April

Pages processed: 3725
- (186% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2044
Pages validated: 1641

May

Pages processed: 2726
- (136% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 1881
Pages validated: 768

June

Pages processed: 3629
- (181% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2271
Pages validated: 1261

July

Pages processed: 3179
- (158% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2137
Pages validated: 956

August

Pages processed: 3744
- (187% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3008
Pages validated: 588

September

Pages processed: 3648
- (182% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3166
Pages validated: 321

October

Pages processed: 3646
- (182% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2131
Pages validated: 1418

November

Pages processed: 4059
- (135% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3522
Pages validated: 487

December

Pages processed: 3738
- (120% of 3100)
Pages proofread: 2827
Pages validated: 720

← 2022 2024 →

2022

January

Pages processed: 7257
- (362% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4385
Pages validated: 2517

February

Pages processed: 6976
- (348% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4029
Pages validated: 2677

March

Pages processed: 6392
- (319% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4718
Pages validated: 1351

April

Pages processed: 5928
- (296% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4123
Pages validated: 1488

May

Pages processed: 6306
- (315% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4575
Pages validated: 1521

June

Pages processed: 5155
- (257% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2967
Pages validated: 1816

July

Pages processed: 4723
- (236% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2888
Pages validated: 1681

August

Pages processed: 4666
- (233% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3149
Pages validated: 1357

September

Pages processed: 4638
- (231% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3602
Pages validated: 929

October

Pages processed: 5694
- (284% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4280
Pages validated: 1237

November

Pages processed: 4106
- (205% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2895
Pages validated: 995

December

Pages processed: 3876
- (193% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2868
Pages validated: 787

← 2021 2023 →

2021

No challenge.

No challenge.

No challenge.

No challenge.

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 →

Guidelines

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.

Resources

Administration: how to run the Monthly Challenge—adding works and setting up new months
How it works: how the Monthly Challenge infrastructure works
Not completed: works that did not get completed in their time in the challenge: these can be renominated, or worked out outside the Monthly Challenge