Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/November 2024

Monthly Challenge

November 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: 4513
- (150% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3126
Pages validated: 1310

December

Pages processed: ~279
- (~9% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 219
Pages validated: 53

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Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	132	64	237	237
2	143	84	229	466
3	167	41	210	676
4	133	14	147	823
5	62	23	85	908
6	223	52	276	1184
7	183	39	222	1406
8	83	17	101	1507
9	100	27	127	1634
10	86	29	123	1757
11	47	74	122	1879
12	74	64	145	2024
13	185	83	270	2294
14	70	30	101	2395
15	132	94	226	2621
16	113	52	165	2786
17	85	117	202	2988
18	50	63	119	3107
19	57	68	125	3232
20	103	63	166	3398
21	81	31	113	3511
22	109	10	119	3630
23	121	3	124	3754
24	152	20	171	3925
25	76	36	113	4038
26	70	47	117	4155
27	49	5	54	4209
28	71	19	91	4300
29	143	21	164	4464
30	26	20	49	4513
Avg.	104	44		150
Total	3126	1310		4513

November 2024

Works in current challenge: 66
Total pages in current challenge: 21209
Average processed pages per day this month: 150
Recent changes in this Challenge (only indexes, pages, authors)

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.