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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.

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WS:MC/NOM

Suggest nominations below. When successful, the works can be added to a monthly data table (e.g. Module:Monthly Challenge/data/2024-12, or a future month) and they will be included in the relevant months' challenges.

  • Add nominations at the end of this section via this link
  • For each nomination, please provide an author, title, publication date and link to the index. If you believe the work is likely to be opposed, please leave a reason why the work should be featured.
    • If you cannot create an index (and you are strongly urged to do so before nominating), please leave a full citation. Remember, Wikisource only allows works in the Public Domain in the USA.
  • Please create a separate section for each work nominated. This allows easier discussion and archiving of each nomination.
  • Works will typically be added to the MC if they a) have an index, and b) have not been opposed. Reasonable grounds for opposition (besides PD concerns) include, complex formatting, be it of Shakespearean dramas or lengthy tables, parallel language texts, or works which are not PD in the UK, but are in the US. [If I have missed any reasonable grounds for opposition, please add them to this list, or remove if incorrect.]
  • Re-nominations of previously stalled works is allowed if you think they will get renewed interest. There is a list here.
  • If anyone wishes to nominate works from the following lists: Category:Mainspace pages with transcluded OCR errors, Category:Migrated texts requiring clean up, Category:Incomplete texts, Category:Texts to be migrated to scans, ShakespeareFan00's Adventures list feel free, else works will be selected at fancy, until the MC has between 60 and 80 titles. Some other suggestions for where to find nominations include Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction and this website.

NOTE: I was hoping to do a little spring cleaning of the MC nominations page. To that end, I was going to add four sections somewhere on this page, specifically, one for "unopposed nominations without an index", another for "unopposed nominations with an index", one for "themed series" and finally one for "validation nominations" [feel free to improve the titles] which are just going to be simple lists, so that this page is not so long. Anything that has either been opposed or that has been proofread and transcluded, I am intending to mark as section resolved, and may well have by the time this is read. If this all goes to plan, there should only be one nominations section where current discussions will be occurring (e.g.~2024 at present)


Unopposed Nominations Without an Index

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Unopposed Nominations With an Index

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[Note that at present, this list includes works which are running in the current MC]

Nominations for Validation

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Themed or Long-Term Nominations

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2024 nominations

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Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency

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Next Year 2025.
Index:Experiments with alternate currents of high potential and high frequency (Tesla).djvu
Best Regards, 82.167.158.179 22:03, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Gregg Shorthand Manual

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Light-Line Phonography (Gregg) by John Robert Gregg introduces a simple, fast, and legible shorthand system. Key features include:

  • No Shading: Eliminates thick lines for natural handwriting.
  • Integrated Vowels: Written seamlessly without lifting the pen.
  • Linear Writing: Avoids complex positioning of words on the line.
  • Ease of Learning: Simple alphabet based on longhand strokes.
  • Speed and Legibility: Supports up to 120 words per minute while staying clear.

The system emphasizes flowing curves, abbreviations, and phrase writing, making it intuitive for general use and reporting. It revolutionized shorthand by prioritizing simplicity and accessibility.

Index:Gregg Shorthand Manual.djvu 82.167.164.19 03:12, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Done but Images not fully transcluded
two more books for this month Index:Making shorthand teaching effective (IA makingshorthandt00greg).pdf and Index:Gregg speed studies (IA greggspeedstudie00greg).pdf 82.167.150.52 09:04, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On January 1 2025, the 1929 Gregg Shorthand Anniversary manual enters the public domain.
https://greggshorthand.github.io/Annivman.pdf
Happy New Year 82.167.158.179 11:14, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Understandably, I won't upload this until 2025, but it's on the list. Thanks for all your proofreading on Wikisource this year, and happy holidays to you too. Regards, TeysaKarlov (talk) 19:51, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Diary of a Journey Across Arabia

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Diary of a Journey Across Arabia (1819) by Captain G. Forster Sadlier is a travel account of his diplomatic mission across the Arabian Peninsula. It provides rare insights into Arabian culture, politics, and the regional movement and conflict during that time.

Hi, Do you happen to know if there are any other good scans of this work? I found one on internet archive (https://ia803408.us.archive.org/2/items/dli.ministry.01689/9942.E12836_Diary_of_a_journey_across_Arabia.pdf), although the quality wasn't great. At present, I have downloaded the version from the link you provided, but am concerned that as every page is tagged with the Qatar National Library logo, it may be ineligible to upload to commons (see, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Qatar-National-Library-Logo.png). I may be able to upload the above to Wikisource directly if there are no other good scans, but figured I would ask first. Regards, TeysaKarlov (talk) 20:38, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Progress and Poverty

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In "Progress and Poverty" (1879), Henry George argues that poverty persists despite economic progress due to private land ownership. Landowners profit from rising land values without contributing to production, worsening inequality. George proposes a single tax on land value to replace all other taxes, aiming to reduce poverty, discourage speculation, and promote fair wealth distribution.

Home-Made Toys for Boys and Girls

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This book by Albert Neely Hall is a practical early 20th-century guide to making toys from wood, cardboard, and simple electrical components. It provides step-by-step instructions for crafting traditional toys like dollhouses and cars, as well as mechanical and electrical toys with moving parts. The book encourages creativity and hands-on learning for children.

I have uploaded the text here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Home-Made_Toys_for_Boys_and_Girls_(Hall).djvu. Regards, TeysaKarlov (talk) 21:03, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Warning: This file type may contain malicious code. By executing it, your system may be compromised.? 82.167.156.229 01:12, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, at present, I think the issue is that the index on commons is showing up as 0 x 0 pages for some reason, which has falsely generated the warning. I recall seeing this issue every now and again appear in the Scriptorium. I will check if somehow else can explain how to fix the file. Regards, TeysaKarlov (talk) 20:32, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. The warning should have vanished now, and you should be able to create an index. TeysaKarlov (talk) 21:13, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Index:Home-Made Toys for Boys and Girls (Hall).djvu Done 82.167.156.229 01:58, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The front matter pages are all out of sequence; the file needs repair. --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:55, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Can you do it? 82.167.156.229 20:20, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Multiple pages in the front matter are out of sequence; the file needs to be corrected before Proofreading. 82.167.156.229 20:00, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have put in a request for the scan to be fixed at the scan lab Wikisource:Scan Lab. Regards, TeysaKarlov (talk) 21:06, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. It has now been fixed, and can be proofread. TeysaKarlov (talk) 20:36, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Great 86.60.40.58 04:59, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Riverside song book

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A 19th-century collection of folk songs, hymns, and traditional music, compiled by W. M. Lawrence in 1893. It was created for educational use, especially in schools, to teach music and promote cultural understanding. The book includes a variety of accessible songs, from patriotic tunes to folk and classical pieces, reflecting American and European traditions.

Musical talent and the ability to read and write musical scores are needed for this book. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated, and we hope that people will enjoy listening to the results.

Goethe's theory of colours

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Ancient Records of Egypt

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While this series would be challenging because of the tables and dotted letters, the five volumes contain academic translations of ancient Egyptian texts, and might attract a crowd to work on transcription.

--EncycloPetey (talk) 22:43, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • For the moment, I might leave this under discussion. If anyone has any ideas about how to preserve braces in the page entries of dot-leader tables let me know, otherwise this might be one of those works where a hard and fast, no dot leaders rule, should have to be applied. Regards, TeysaKarlov (talk) 21:06, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Qur'an (Palmer)

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It's crazy that we don't have a full version of the Qur'an, which is arguably the second-most popular book in the world (see wikipedia:List of best-selling books for an explanation). This is a bit unusual for a work in that it uses two indices instead of one, namely Index:Sacred Books of the East - Volume 6.djvu and Index:Sacred Books of the East - Volume 9.djvu, but this can be easily fixed by listing them separately. Duckmather (talk) 02:41, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this suggestion! FPTI (talk) 14:26, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Folk literature

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This Portal has long lists of potential works that would enrich Wikisource. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:37, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@EncycloPetey Thanks for the highlighting this portal, even if the list is more than a little daunting. I agree that it would be great to add a few more to Wikisource, and will happily run some in the MC. TeysaKarlov (talk) 04:39, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Any specific names? — Alien333 (what I did & why I did it wrong) 05:23, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Alien333 Not sure exactly who you were asking, but after some perusal, Katherine Chandler's "In the reign of Coyote: folklore from the Pacific coast" took my fancy for an isolated text, while if I were aiming to knock off some of the (intentional) duplicates on the list, i.e. those that cover multiple folklores, then either Hubert Marshall Skinner's "Readings in Folk-lore; Short Studies in the Mythology of America, Great Britain, the Norse countries, Germany, India, Syria, Egypt, and Persia" or Katharine Berry Judson's "Myths and legends of the Pacific Northwest: especially of Washington and Oregon". Regards, TeysaKarlov (talk) 01:56, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's not a field I'm familiar with, but it is an extensive list covering many cultures. Any listed work should be examined before being selected, since I doubt the list was vetted for ease of editing. But if even one work is picked per month (or every other month) it should add a lot of value to Wikisource. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:30, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Dark Frigate

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The Dark Frigate (1923), by Charles Boardman Hawes (external scan) is a Newberry Medal winner. We have no works by this author. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:53, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see this was selected for Oct 2024. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:27, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@EncycloPetey My apologies if I should not have included this in October (I am not sure what the "I see" is getting at). Also sorry if I dealt with the Frontispiece incorrectly on Commons. It did not cross my mind to deal with/license tag separately (and yes, I now realise there is a tickbox on commons about cover images etc., that was probably supposed to prompt me). Regards, TeysaKarlov (talk) 20:52, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Just noting the fact was observed, since it had not been marked here as selected. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:54, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The book text is PD in the EU; the only part still under copyright in the EU is the frontispiece. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:55, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The History of Trade Unionism

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At Index:The History of Trade Unionism - Sidney and Beatrice Webb (1920).djvu. The version we have in mainspace is a basically unedited dump of the text layer, so it might as well not exist. It's long (~750 pages, about 70 done by me so far) but has a mostly clean text layer so it shouldn't be too hard. Arcorann (talk) 00:24, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Selected for Oct 2024; I've cleaned up the existing page structure and headers. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:27, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

European elegies

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European elegies: one hundred poems chosen and translated from European literatures in fifty languages, by Author:Watson Kirkconnell, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3287779&seq=1. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 21:14, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Index page created at Index:European Elegies.pdf. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 21:38, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jan.Kamenicek Thanks for creating the index, and noting that it has been added for October (I figure it is closer to the start of the month than the end of it, after all). Regards, TeysaKarlov (talk) 06:53, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Unfortunately, I did not notice that 2 pages were missing. I have replaced the file for a better now, but 1 page (no. 13) is still missing. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 15:07, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
File fixed. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 14:08, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A Child of Sorrow

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1921 novel by Zoilo Galang, said to be the first Filipino novel in English. We also don't have any works by this author. Commons file can be found here: (Commons file) Ciridae (talk) 14:23, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Index created: Index:A Child of Sorrow.pdf Ciridae (talk) 18:32, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Ciridae Thanks for creating the index; added for November. TeysaKarlov (talk) 19:47, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Naval War of 1812

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US President Theodore Roosevelt's first book that established his reputation as a historian and popular writer. The first edition of the book published as a single volume is available here: (Commons file) Ciridae (talk) 18:06, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tussock Land

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2025 nominations

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All Quiet on the Western Front

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This well-known book will enter the public domain in January; I am scanning it at the moment, but would be happy to let you guys take over the transcription work. I will upload it come Public Domain Day in any case. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:04, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@TE(æ)A,ea. Many thanks, would be happy to include next year. Regards, TeysaKarlov (talk) 19:29, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tramps in the Far North

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Tramps in the Far North: The Record of a Tour in Whangarei, Russell and Whangaroa (1919) by Author:Hector Bolitho (external scan). PD in the US already, but still copyright in NZ. It enters the public domain in NZ on 1 January 2025, so kiwis can finally work on it.--IdiotSavant (talk) 05:06, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds interesting, and short works are always good. Cremastra (talk) 14:44, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

1959 Annual Typhoon Report

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1959 Annual Typhoon Report by Charles E. Tilden. (index here) First freely available work of the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, which is an American governmental agency. Would be a great start to help expand Wikisource's coverage of weather-related books. IAmMrE (talk) 21:28, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Toad of Toad Hall

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This is a play adaptation of The Wind in the Willows by A. A. Milne. I did a scan of it that is up over on Archive.org and can be transferred for use here in a week! I would love to help transcribe this. SDudley (talk) 03:28, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Staging for future months

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This is the staging area for the next challenge. Works are added to this list based on nominations, current long-term series or filling in missing topics. This list is not "official", it's just designed to make it easier to set up the data table for the next challenge more easily. Nominate works above. Remove works from this list if the nomination fails.

Long-Term Series

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This space is reserved for nominations of a long-term series consisting of multiple volumes of an author's work usually referred to with titles such as "The Complete Works of X" or an encyclopedic work. Such nominations require serious consideration because they will require many years of work. Therefore, the edition proposed should be a definitive edition that does not constitute mere reprints and would make a substantial contribution to Wikisource.

Current Long-Term Series

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 (current: Index:The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 (Volume 11).djvu): 17.9% complete
January 6 interviews (current: Index:CTRL0000034610 - Deposition of Keith Kellogg, Jr., (Dec. 14, 2021).pdf): 4.1% complete
Japan and China, Their History, Arts, and Literature (current: Index:Brinkley - China - Volume 2.djvu): 75% complete
The Works of H. G. Wells (Atlantic Edition) (current: Index:The Works of H G Wells Volume 11.pdf): 32.1% complete
Works of Jules Verne (current: Index:Works of Jules Verne - Parke - Vol 3.djvu): 40% complete
Ancient Classics for English Readers (current: Index:Horace (IA horacetheo00martrich).pdf): 71.4% complete
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books (current: Index:The Orange Fairy Book.djvu): 75% complete
The Collected Edition of Fyodor Dostoevsky (current: Index:Dostoyevsky - The Eternal Husband and Other Stories, Collected Edition, 1917.djvu): 14.3% complete
Titles in the Oz series by Ruth Plumly Thompson (current: Index:Ozma of Oz.djvu): 5.3% complete
Early Western Travels (next: Index:Early western travels, 1748-1846 (1907 Volume 2).djvu): 3.2% complete

Completed Long-Term Series

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Queued Long-Term Series

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The Works of Thomas Carlyle (next: Index:Works of Thomas Carlyle - Volume 05.djvu): 16.7% complete
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (next: File:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire vol 2 (1896).djvu): 14.3% complete
The Works of Voltaire (next: Index:Works of Voltaire Volume 01.djvu): 0% complete
A Complete Course in Dressmaking (next: Index:A complete course in dressmaking, (Vol. 7, Coats) (IA completecoursein07cono).pdf): 58.3% complete
The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (next: Index:Chaucer - Complete works (Skeat Volume 1).djvu): 0% complete
The World's Famous Orations (next: Index:The World's Famous Orations Volume 3.pdf): 30% complete
The Works of John Ruskin (next: Index:The works of John Ruskin (IA worksofjohnruski01rusk).pdf): 0% complete
The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy (next: Index:Complete Works of Count Tolstoy - 09.djvu): 3.6% complete
The History of Rome (next: Index:The history of Rome. Translated with the author's sanction and additions.djvu): 0% complete
Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (next: Index:Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Volume 1 (1791).djvu): 0% complete
The Cambridge Modern History (next: Index:Cambridge Modern History Volume 1.djvu): 0% complete
The Cambridge History of English Literature (next: File:The Cambridge history of English literature (IA cambridgehistory01wardrich).pdf): 0% complete
The Cambridge History of American Literature (next: Index:The Cambridge History of American Literature, v1.djvu): 0% complete
Foreign Classics for English Readers (next: Index:Dante (Oliphant).djvu): 5.6% complete
The Mahabharata (current: Index:The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa (1884).djvu): 0% complete
The Works of John Locke (1823) (next: Index:The Works of John Locke - 1823 - vol 01.djvu): 0% complete
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