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?

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:

1. during the contest people can help proofread and validate book pages on Wikisource.
2. for each page either proofread or validated the participant gain points.
3. 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

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	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	https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/21/wikisource-proofreading-contest/
3	English Wikisource 10th Anniversary Contest	English	24 November 2013 – 7 December 2013	Wikisource Community User Group (Wikimedia UK)		Tenth_Anniversary_Contest	https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/21/wikisource-proofreading-contest/
4	Catalan Wikisource 10th Anniversary Contest	Catalan	24 November 2013 – 1 December 2013	Wikisource Community User Group (Amical Wikimedia)		Viquirepte 10è aniversari	https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/21/wikisource-proofreading-contest/
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, CIS-A2K and Wikimedia Bangladesh)	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	Défi 5000 (2019)	French	1 January 2019 – 31 December 2019	French Wikisource Community		s:fr:Wikisource:Projets communautaires/Défi 5000 (2019)	Proofread at least 5000 pages per month in selected books
23	Kompetisi Wikisource 2020	Indonesian, English	27 April 2020 - 15 May 2020	GLAM Indonesia, Wikimedia Indonesia	Wikisource Contest Tool	Kompetisi Wikisource 2020	https://glam.wikimedia.or.id/2020/10/24/wikisource-competition-2020-recap-international-museum-day-2020/
24	Book Shelf 2020	Ukrainian	15 February 2020 – 31 May 2020	Arxivist / Wikimedia Ukraine		Книжкова Шафа (2020)
25	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 Proofreadthon
26	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
27	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
28	Défi 5000 (2020)	French	1 January 2020 – 31 December 2020	French Wikisource Community		s:fr:Wikisource:Projets communautaires/Défi 5000 (2020)/Janvier 2020	Proofread at least 5000 pages per month in selected books
29	Mission 7500	French	1 January 2021 – 31 December 2021	French Wikisource Community		s:fr:Wikisource:Projets communautaires/Mission 7500 (2021)	Proofread and validate at least 7500 pages per month in selected books
30	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)
31	Kompetisi Wikisource 2021	Indonesian, English	15 April 2021 - 30 April 2021	GLAM Indonesia, Wikimedia Indonesia	Wikisource Contest Tool	Kompetisi Wikisource 2021	https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2021/Contents/Indonesia_report
32	Rabindranath months contest 1428	Bengali	9 May 2021 – 8 August 2021	West Bengal Wikimedians	Indic Wikisource Contest Tool	রবিমাস প্রতিযোগিতা ১৪২৮
33	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)

How to organize your local Wikisource proofreading contest

Organizing a Wikisource proofreading contest is very simple:

1. 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;
2. decide when you will run the contest and publish in advance the detail of the rules on your local Wikisource;
3. find some prizes to offer to the winners and/or participants, you may ask your local chapter to sponsor or finance the prizes;
4. 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;
5. 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;
6. run the contest! (see below)

How to run your local Wikisource Anniversary Proofreading Contest

Running a WPC is even simpler:

Before the contest

1. Gather the books to be validated or proofread and decide the prizes (which must be available before the contest)
2. Decide the main rules of the contest (score table / involvement or exclusion of admins / arbitration committee / awarding the winners)
3. set up the main page of the contest
4. set up complimentary gadgets (barnstars, link to help pages for newcomers, more indexes to be added during the contest if needed)
5. 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

1. 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.
2. The tool lives at wscontest on wmflabs (source code on GitHub)

After the contest

1. All proofread books should be listed as a general accomplishement in a subpage of the main page of the contest
2. 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
3. announce the winners;
4. award the prizes to the winners;

New tool

This section needs to be written.

Legacy tools

Legacy code is also on GitHub)

We have created a tool called wscontest on Wikimedia Toollabs to gather the tools needed to run a WPC.

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

During the contest:

1. 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.

• The tool lives at wscontest on wmflabs ([https://github.com/wikisource/contests source code on wikisource/contests on GitHub)

After the contest:

1. run the votecounter scripts, to count the points for each contestant;
2. run the ranking script;
3. announce the winners;
4. award the prizes to the winners;

Interested users

• CristianCantoro
• Aubrey (talk)
• εΔω
• Bodhisattwa (talk) 19:05, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
• Jayantanth (talk)
• --Manojk (talk) 16:00, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
• Sam Wilson
• Satdeep Gill (talk) 11:31, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
• Satpal Dandiwal (talk) 13:53, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
• +1. ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 02:44, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
• Balajijagadesh (talk)