Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/July 2024

Monthly Challenge

July 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: ~1904
- (~63% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 1368
Pages validated: 480

December

Not started.

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Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	125	51	197	197
2	131	9	140	337
3	57	43	100	437
4	94	19	113	550
5	91	8	99	649
6	339	21	376	1025
7	87	26	113	1138
8	88	1	89	1227
9	31	17	67	1294
10	47	6	53	1347
11	32	17	49	1396
12	60	6	66	1462
13	79	44	123	1585
14	74	28	107	1692
15	109	13	142	1834
16	67	16	92	1926
17	74	26	111	2037
18	61	13	74	2111
19	62	6	68	2179
20	29	29	58	2237
21	109	27	136	2373
22	174	11	185	2558
23	157	11	168	2726
24	32	17	49	2775
25	20	23	43	2818
26	128	20	148	2966
27	122	26	148	3114
28	35	31	66	3180
29	17	8	25	3205
30	29	9	38	3243
31	18	4	22	3265
Avg.	83	19		105
Total	2578	586		3265

July 2024

Works in current challenge: 81
Total pages in current challenge: 31014
Average processed pages per day this month: 105
Recent changes in this Challenge (only indexes, pages, authors)

Proofread works this month

Validated works this month

Slavery, a poem

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.