Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/June 2025

Monthly Challenge

June 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.

Pages processed: 5726
- (190% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3888
Pages validated: 1642

February

Pages processed: 4208
- (140% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2743
Pages validated: 1353

March

Pages processed: 2999
- (99% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2301
Pages validated: 581

April

Pages processed: 4273
- (142% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2222
Pages validated: 1957

May

Pages processed: 3772
- (125% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 1885
Pages validated: 1687

June

Pages processed: ~2312
- (~77% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 1291
Pages validated: 928

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Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	184	87	349	349
2	62	80	142	491
3	59	58	117	608
4	86	50	137	745
5	65	17	82	827
6	61	48	109	936
7	66	67	133	1069
8	129	84	224	1293
9	33	32	67	1360
10	50	46	96	1456
11	50	57	107	1563
12	56	30	86	1649
13	96	53	149	1798
14	75	48	124	1922
15	72	84	156	2078
16	79	56	135	2213
17	68	31	99	2312
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Avg.	76	56		138
Total	1291	928		2312

June 2025

Works in current challenge: 49
Total pages in current challenge: 13323
Average processed pages per day this month: 138
Recent changes in this Challenge (only indexes, pages, authors)

Proofread works this month

Validated works this month

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.