Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/November 2021

Monthly Challenge

November 2021

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.

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Pages processed: 3122
- (156% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 1521
Pages validated: 1145

June

Pages processed: 2051
- (102% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 1013
Pages validated: 936

July

Pages processed: 1964
- (98% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 1236
Pages validated: 648

August

Pages processed: 1701
- (85% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 1136
Pages validated: 507

September

Pages processed: 2606
- (130% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 1564
Pages validated: 891

October

Pages processed: 3672
- (183% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2374
Pages validated: 1129

November

Pages processed: 6079
- (303% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3607
Pages validated: 2275

December

Pages processed: 7056
- (352% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3970
Pages validated: 2864

2022 →

Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	286	115	416	416
2	201	205	414	830
3	183	46	244	1074
4	104	71	175	1249
5	136	113	249	1498
6	174	142	353	1851
7	100	74	178	2029
8	109	65	174	2203
9	157	75	233	2436
10	94	59	169	2605
11	121	42	176	2781
12	27	85	149	2930
13	116	116	248	3178
14	86	98	184	3362
15	140	79	219	3581
16	210	46	265	3846
17	205	79	284	4130
18	112	111	229	4359
19	77	103	185	4544
20	76	53	129	4673
21	82	61	143	4816
22	69	86	155	4971
23	78	38	116	5087
24	106	37	143	5230
25	55	77	147	5377
26	163	23	186	5563
27	112	41	153	5716
28	76	78	154	5870
29	72	26	98	5968
30	80	31	111	6079
Avg.	120	76		203
Total	3607	2275		6079

November 2021[edit]

Works in current challenge: 56
Total pages in current challenge: 20652
Average processed pages per day this month: 203
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.