Wikisource proofreading contests

This page provides a guide to the Wikisourcians interested in organizing and running a Wikisource proofreading contest (WPC) in their local Wikisource.

What is it? edit

The Wikisource proofreading contest main idea is to offer people an incentive, in the form of a competition, to help Wikisource.

A basic Wikisource proofreading contest is organized as follows:

during the contest people can help proofread and validate book pages on Wikisource.
for each page either proofread or validated the participant gain points.
at the end of the contest, a prize is awarded to the Wikisourcian with the most points. Second and third-place prize are awarded with a random drawing from all the remaining contestants: each point that you gained during the contest is like a lottery ticket, so the more points you have gained during the contest (that is, the more pages you have proofread or validated), the more chances you have to win.

On Italian Wikisource the contest is usually held in November, to celebrate the birth on the Italian edition of Wikisource (November, 24th). So in that case it is a "Wikisource Anniversary Proofreading Contest" (WAPC), which was the original name of this concept.

History edit

The section aims to capture all the proofreading contests held on various Wikisource projects. Feel free to edit existing or add missing proofreading events to this table.


S.No.	Contest	Language	Dates	Coordinators	Tools used	Project Page	Other documentation
1	A dictionary of the Sunda language of Java (Kamus bahasa Sunda–Inggris) proofreading contest	Sundanese & English	July 2–19, 2012	Wikimedia Indonesia		Beasiswa Perjalanan Jakarta
2	Italian Wikisource 10th Anniversary Contest	Italian	24 November 2013 – 1 December 2013	Wikisource Community User Group (Wikimedia Italia)		Decimo compleanno di Wikisource	Diff blog
3	English Wikisource 10th Anniversary Contest	English	24 November 2013 – 7 December 2013	Wikisource Community User Group (Wikimedia UK)		Tenth Anniversary Contest	Diff blog
4	Catalan Wikisource 10th Anniversary Contest	Catalan	24 November 2013 – 1 December 2013	Wikisource Community User Group (Amical Wikimedia)		Viquirepte 10è aniversari	Diff blog
5	Malayalam Wikisource contest 2014	Malayalam	1 January 2014 – 31 January 2014	Manojk (CIS-A2K, Kerala Sahitya Akademi, IT@School, Free Malayalam Computing)		ഡിജിറ്റൈസേഷൻ മത്സരം 2014
6	Catalan Wikisource Jocs Florals de Barcelona Content	Catalan	14 November 2013 – 24 November 2014	Amical Wikimedia		Viquirepte Jocs Florals de Barcelona
7	Italian Wikisource 11th Anniversary Contest	Italian	24 November 2014 – 1 December 2014	Wikimedia Italia		Undicesimo compleanno di Wikisource
8	Italian Wikisource 12th Anniversary Contest	Italian	24 November 2015 – 8 December 2015	Wikimedia Italia		Dodicesimo compleanno di Wikisource
9	Wikisource Contest 2016	Spanish	10 June 2016 – 14 July 2016	Wikimedia Argentina		Concurso Wikisource 2016 (WMAR)
10	100wikidays (2nd Attempt)	French	15 September 2016 – 23 December 2016	French Wikisource Community		Wikisource:Accueil/100wikijours
11	Italian Wikisource 13th Anniversary Contest	Italian	24 November 2016 – 8 December 2016	Wikimedia Italia		Tredicesimo compleanno di Wikisource
12	Bengali Wikisource 10th Anniversary Proofreading Contest	Bengali	1 January 2017 – 31 July 2017	West Bengal Wikimedians	A SQL Quarry, along with modified version of a previously built wikisource contest tool	উইকিসংকলন ১০ প্রতিযোগিতা	West Bengal Wikimedians 2017 Annual Activities Report Case Study at Outreach Wiki
13	Wikisource Contest 2017	Spanish	7 July 2017 – 4 September 2017	Wikimedia Argentina		Convocatoria Wikisource 2017 (WMAR)
14	Italian Wikisource 14th Anniversary Contest	Italian	24 November 2017 – 8 December 2017	Wikimedia Italia		Quattordicesimo compleanno di Wikisource
15	Book Shelf 2018	Ukrainian	20 July 2018 – 20 December 2018	Arxivist / Wikimedia Ukraine		Книжкова Шафа 2018
16	Wikisource Contest 2018	Spanish	6 September 2018 – 19 October 2018	Wikimedia Argentina		Convocatoria Wikisource 2018 (WMAR)
17	Italian Wikisource 15th Anniversary Contest	Italian	24 November 2018 – 8 December 2018	Wikimedia Italia		Quindicesimo compleanno di Wikisource
18	Punjabi Wikisource Contest	Punjabi	21 December 2018 – 31 January 2019	Wikilover90	Wikisource Contest Tool	ਵਿਕੀਸਰੋਤ ਮੁਕਾਬਲਾ
19	Rabindranath months contest 1426	Bengali	9 May 2019 – 8 August 2019	West Bengal Wikimedians	Wikisource Contest Tool	রবিমাস প্রতিযোগিতা ১৪২৬	West Bengal Wikimedians 2019 Annual Activities Report
20	Catalan Wikisource 16th Anniversary Contest	Catalan	20 November 2019 – 5 December 2019	Amical Wikimedia		Viquirepte 16è aniversari
21	Italian Wikisource 16th Anniversary Contest	Italian	24 November 2019 – 8 December 2019	Wikimedia Italia		Sedicesimo compleanno di Wikisource
22	ਵਿਕੀਸਰੋਤ ਮਹਾਂ ਮੁਕਾਬਲਾ 2019-20	Punjabi	1 December 2019 – 29 February 2020	Punjabi Wikimedians		ਵਿਕੀਸਰੋਤ:ਵਿਕੀਸਰੋਤ ਮਹਾਂ ਮੁਕਾਬਲਾ 2019-20
23	Défi 5000 (2019)	French	1 January 2019 – 31 December 2019	French Wikisource Community		Projets communautaires/Défi 5000 (2019)	Proofread at least 5000 pages per month in selected books
24	Kompetisi Wikisource 2020	Indonesian, English	27 April 2020 - 15 May 2020	GLAM Indonesia, Wikimedia Indonesia	Wikisource Contest Tool	Kompetisi Wikisource 2020	Wikimedia Indonesia blog
25	Book Shelf 2020	Ukrainian	15 February 2020 – 31 May 2020	Arxivist / Wikimedia Ukraine		Книжкова Шафа 2020
26	ਵਿਕੀਸਰੋਤ ਮਾਸਿਕ ਵੈਲੀਡੇਸ਼ਨ ਮੁਕਾਬਲਾ	Punjabi	20 April 2020 - 20 June 2020	Punjabi Wikimedians	Indic Wikisource Contest Tool	ਵਿਕੀਸਰੋਤ:ਵਿਕੀਸਰੋਤ ਮਾਸਿਕ ਵੈਲੀਡੇਸ਼ਨ ਮੁਕਾਬਲਾ
27	Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon	10 Indic Wikisources	1 May 2020 - 10 May 2020	User:Jayanta (CIS-A2K)	Wikisource Contest Tool, Indic Wikisource Contest Tool	Indic Wikisource Proofreadathon May 2020
28	Rabindranath months contest 1427	Bengali	8 May 2020 – 7 August 2020	West Bengal Wikimedians	Indic Wikisource Contest Tool	রবিমাস প্রতিযোগিতা ১৪২৭	West Bengal Wikimedians 2020 Annual Activities Report
29	Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 200th birth anniversary	Bengali	26 August 2020 – 26 September 2020	West Bengal Wikimedians	Indic Wikisource Contest Tool	ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগর দ্বিশতজন্মবার্ষিকী প্রতিযোগিতা	West Bengal Wikimedians 2020 Annual Activities Report
30	Mahatma Gandhi 2020 edit-a-thon		2 October 2020 - 3 October 2020	CIS-A2K		Mahatma Gandhi 2020 edit-a-thon
31	Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon 2020	Indic	1 November 2020 - 15 November 2020	CIS-A2K	Wikisource Contest Tool, Indic Wikisource Contest Tool	Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon 2020
32	Défi 5000 (2020)	French	1 January 2020 – 31 December 2020	French Wikisource Community		Projets communautaires/Défi 5000 (2020)	Proofread at least 5000 pages per month in selected books
33	Mission 7500	French	1 January 2021 – 31 December 2021	French Wikisource Community		Projets communautaires/Mission 7500 (2021)	Proofread and validate at least 7500 pages per month in selected books
34	British Library - Two Centuries of Indian Print	Bengali	15 March 2021 – 14 April 2021	West Bengal Wikimedians	Indic Wikisource Contest Tool	ব্রিটিশ লাইব্রেরি - ভারতীয় মুদ্রণের দুই শতক প্রতিযোগিতা ২০২১ (মার্চ-এপ্রিল)	West Bengal Wikimedians 2021 Annual Activities Report
35	Kompetisi Wikisource 2021	Indonesian, English	15 April 2021 - 30 April 2021	GLAM Indonesia, Wikimedia Indonesia	Wikisource Contest Tool	Kompetisi Wikisource 2021	Outreach Wiki
36	Book Shelf 2021	Ukrainian	1 May 2021 – 31 August 2021	Wikimedia Ukraine		Книжкова Шафа 2021
37	Rabindranath months contest 1428	Bengali	9 May 2021 – 8 August 2021	West Bengal Wikimedians	Indic Wikisource Contest Tool	রবিমাস প্রতিযোগিতা ১৪২৮	West Bengal Wikimedians 2021 Annual Activities Report
38	Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon August 2021	Indic	15 August 2021 - 31 August 2021	CIS-A2K		Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon August 2021
39	British Library - Two Centuries of Indian Print	Bengali	1 September 2021 - 30 November 2021	West Bengal Wikimedians	Indic Wikisource Contest Tool	উইকিসংকলন:ব্রিটিশ লাইব্রেরি - ভারতীয় মুদ্রণের দুই শতক প্রতিযোগিতা ২০২১ (সেপ্টেম্বর-নভেম্বর)	West Bengal Wikimedians 2021 Annual Activities Report
40	Kompetisi Ulang Tahun Wikisource 2021	Indonesian	24 November 2021 – 5 December 2022	GLAM Indonesia, Wikimedia Indonesia, Komunitas Wikisource Indonesia	Wikisource Contest Tool	Kompetisi Ulang Tahun Wikisource 2021
41	Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon March 2022	Indic	1 March 2022 - 16 March 2022	CIS-A2K		Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon March 2022
42	Kompetisi Wikisource 2022	Indonesian, Javanese, Balinese	09 April 2022 - 23 April 2022	GLAM Indonesia, Wikimedia Indonesia	Wikisource Contest Tool	Kompetisi Wikisource 2022
43	Kompetisi WikiPustaka 2022	Balinese	11 July 2022 - 25 July 2022	GLAM Indonesia, Wikimedia Indonesia, Komunitas Wikimedia Denpasar	Wikisource Contest Tool	Kompetisi Wikipustaka 2022	Outreach Wiki
44	Rabindranath months contest 1429	Bengali	9 May 2022 – 8 August 2022	West Bengal Wikimedians	Wikisource Contest Tool	রবিমাস প্রতিযোগিতা ১৪২৯
45	ਕਿਤਾਬ ਸੋਧ ਮੁਹਿੰਮ	Punjabi	15 August 2022 - 15 September 2022	Punjabi Wikimedians		ਵਿਕੀਸਰੋਤ:ਕਿਤਾਬ ਸੋਧ ਮੁਹਿੰਮ
46	Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon November 2022	Indic	14 November 2022 - 30 November 2022	CIS-A2K	Wikisource Contest Tool, Indic Wikisource Contest Tool	Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon November 2022
47	Bangladesh Liberation War proofread contest 2022	Bengali	1 December 2022 - 31 December 2022	বাংলা উইকিমৈত্রী	Wikisource Contest Tool	বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ মুদ্রণ সংশোধন প্রতিযোগিতা ২০২২
48	Wikisource for World Heritage	Arabic	1 December 2022 - 31 December 2022	Wiki World Heritage		مسابقة ويكي مصدر والتراث العالمي	Project WikiSourceForWH on Meta
49	Wikisource in Uganda 2022	English	03 - 31 December 2022	Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda	WikiSource Contest Tool/ WikiSource Uganda Contest
50	Kompetisi Wikipabukon	Sundanese	1-14 Februari 2023	Wikimedia Indonesia, Komunitas Wikisource Indonesia		Wikipabukon
51	Kompetisi Wikisumber 2023	Javanese	6-20 March 2023	GLAM Indonesia, Wikimedia Indonesia, Komunitas Wikimedia Yogyakarta	Wikisource Contest Tool	Kompetisi Wikisumber 2023	Diff blog
52	Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon April 2023	Indic	1 April 2023 - 15 April 2023	CIS-A2K	Wikisource Contest Tool	Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon April 2023
53	Kompetisi Wikisource Indonesia 2023	Indonesian	16-31 May 2023	GLAM Indonesia, Wikimedia Indonesia, Komunitas Wikisource Indonesia	Wikisource Contest Tool	Kompetisi Wikisource 2023
54	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿਕੀਸਰੋਤ ਪਰੂਫਰੀਡ-ਏ-ਥਾਨ ਸਮਾਗਮ 2023	Punjabi	15 June 2023 - 30 June 2023	Punjabi Wikimedians	Wikisource Contest Tool, Outreach Dashboard	ਵਿਕੀਸਰੋਤ:ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿਕੀਸਰੋਤ ਪਰੂਫਰੀਡ-ਏ-ਥਾਨ ਸਮਾਗਮ 2023
55	WILMA Proofread-a-thon 2023	Javanese script, Balinese script, Jawi script	September-October 2023	Wikisource Loves Manuscripts	WILMA Proofread-a-thon 2023/Hasil

How to organize your local Wikisource proofreading contest edit

Organizing a Wikisource proofreading contest is very simple:

put together an organizing team on your local Wikisource. We have tools that will help you with running the contest, but you will need at least 3 or 4 fellow Wikisourcian to effectively organize a WPC. These people should ideally be experienced Wikisourcians who know well the policies and customs of your local Wikisource, having local sysops or patrollers is of great help;
decide when you will run the contest and publish in advance the detail of the rules on your local Wikisource;
find some prizes to offer to the winners and/or participants, you may ask your local chapter to sponsor or finance the prizes;
choose a set of books that need to be proofread and validated from you local Wikisource. Since the contest is centered around proofreading and validation you should choose books were almost all pages just need proofreading and validation;
advertise the contest with your local community, you may ask to the sister projects' communities in your language and/or set up a CentralNotice banner;
run the contest! (see below)

How to run your local Wikisource Anniversary Proofreading Contest edit

Running a WPC is even simpler:

Before the contest

Gather the books to be validated or proofread and decide the prizes (which must be available before the contest)
Decide the main rules of the contest (score table / involvement or exclusion of admins / arbitration committee / awarding the winners)
set up the main page of the contest
set up complimentary gadgets (barnstars, link to help pages for newcomers, more indexes to be added during the contest if needed)
advertise the contest on other projects in the local vilage pumps, asking to put a link to the contest in the SiteNotice.

During the contest

You should check that pages are proofread and validated correctly, that is participants are not cheating by marking pages as proofread or validate without reading them. Your local patrollers and sysops should be able to recognize this behavior on sight. The system takes into account the possibility that pages are "demoted", i. e. they go from a higher completion status (like "proofread" or "validated") to a lower one.
The tool lives at https://wscontest.toolforge.org/

After the contest

All proofread books should be listed as a general accomplishment in a subpage of the main page of the contest
All participants should be listed with their number of edited pages according to the rules
1. The arbitration committee and a tech-savvy external user select the winner and the runner-ups
announce the winners;
award the prizes to the winners;

Modern tool edit

Anyone can create a contest on the Wikisource Contests tool. First log in, and then go to https://wscontest.toolforge.org Enter the details of your contest, and save it. It will check the index page URLs you enter and remove any invalid ones (typos etc.), so make sure to check the list after you've saved to confirm that it's what you want.

The tool runs the scoring process every 15 minutes while a contest is underway, and then again just after it's finished.

Legacy tools edit

Legacy code is also on GitHub)

They will consist of three main parts:

the votecounter scripts, to count the points for each contestant;
the ranking script, to designate the winner (who has the most points) and to draw the second and third-place winners;
a simple page (see wscontest/website @ github);

How to run a contest using the legacy tools edit

During the contest:

during the contest, you should check that pages are proofread and validated correctly, that is participants are not cheating by marking pages as proofread or validate without reading them. Your local patrollers and sysops should be able to recongnize this behavior on sight. The system takes into account the possibility that pages are "demoted", i. e. they go from a higher completion status (like "proofread" or "validated") to a lower one.

After the contest:

run the votecounter scripts, to count the points for each contestant;
run the ranking script;
announce the winners;
award the prizes to the winners;