Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/March 2022

Monthly Challenge

March 2022

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: 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

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Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	192	46	430	430
2	232	105	371	801
3	271	73	374	1175
4	185	66	251	1426
5	297	29	326	1752
6	135	72	210	1962
7	154	43	197	2159
8	71	46	118	2277
9	134	41	180	2457
10	185	29	214	2671
11	123	93	216	2887
12	56	98	154	3041
13	249	21	270	3311
14	184	12	221	3532
15	118	35	155	3687
16	134	12	146	3833
17	98	26	137	3970
18	118	11	129	4099
19	309	9	320	4419
20	158	30	197	4616
21	149	36	187	4803
22	95	29	125	4928
23	177	20	198	5126
24	149	57	207	5333
25	108	110	219	5552
26	134	33	169	5721
27	161	18	179	5900
28	102	32	133	6033
29	106	33	139	6172
30	74	40	114	6286
31	60	46	106	6392
Avg.	152	44		206
Total	4718	1351		6392

March 2022 edit

Works in current challenge: 83
Total pages in current challenge: 24651
Average processed pages per day this month: 206
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).
At the start of a poem, put <poem> and place a </poem> at the end. 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 oldstyle numbers use {{oldstyle}}.
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.