Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/February 2023

Monthly Challenge

February 2023

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: 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

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Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	49	16	138	138
2	77	0	108	246
3	188	14	202	448
4	223	58	281	729
5	117	11	128	857
6	94	19	113	970
7	98	11	109	1079
8	101	37	138	1217
9	173	26	200	1417
10	151	27	179	1596
11	209	34	243	1839
12	120	35	157	1996
13	69	31	100	2096
14	107	51	158	2254
15	116	39	155	2409
16	107	39	146	2555
17	88	29	117	2672
18	71	97	184	2856
19	217	64	282	3138
20	67	31	98	3236
21	54	12	66	3302
22	84	36	120	3422
23	94	24	118	3540
24	91	18	111	3651
25	161	62	223	3874
26	137	40	177	4051
27	120	52	173	4224
28	92	77	169	4393
Avg.	117	35		157
Total	3275	990		4393

February 2023 edit

Works in current challenge: 71
Total pages in current challenge: 26175
Average processed pages per day this month: 157
Recent changes in this Challenge (only indexes, pages, authors)

Proofread works this month

Validated works this month

Guidelines edit

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

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.