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Help pages

The help pages provide documentation, instructions, and information related to Wikisource, divided into the sections below. If you are new to wiki projects, the sheer amount of information may be daunting. Help:Introduction introduces users to Wikisource, and explains how to explore, edit, use features, and add new texts.  Help  Wikisource  Template

Wikisource is a growing collection of primary-source English texts in any language, as well as translations of source texts. All texts appearing in this, the English Wikisource, must be in the English language. If they are in another language, they can be added to one of our other Wikisource projects. Most of the texts on Wikisource are in the public domain and not protected by any copyright or license. However, some are copyrighted and available under license compatible with Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike. All images, PDFs and other files should be uploaded to Wiki commons.

Introductions

Link	Description
Administrators' noticeboard	Report vandalism, ask for help with logins, etc.
Introduction	Explains what Wikisource is, and briefly introduces the basic tools available to editors.
Reading	Introduces various methods of navigating to works and authors.
Searching	Help with searching Wikisource with internal and external tools.
Namespaces	Overview of the namespaces used at Wikisource.
Editing Wikisource	Introduces formatting code (see m:Help:Editing for advanced help).
Proofread	Introduction to scan-based transcriptions, and help with using the side-by-side image/text view for proofreading.
Help:Proofreading example	Example of the proofreading of a page, to explain the process and steps involved.
Adding texts	Introduces the formatting and inclusion guidelines and conventions.
Adding images	Explains the image upload process (to Wikimedia Commons) and describes how to include images on pages.
DjVu files	How to include on these on pages. Also explains when to turn PDF documents into DjVus.
Categorization	Helps the user select which categories a work belongs in.
Interlanguage links	Helps the user link a work to other languages.
Patrolling	Help maintain the integrity of our works
Page Status	How the proofreading status of a page is marked.
Header preloading script gadget	Help adding headers to subpages.
Portals	[proposal] Help creating portals.
Disambiguation and versions	Help for different disambiguating works and separating multiple versions of the same work.

Miscellaneous questions

Link	Description
What is Wikisource?	Essay on scope and history of site.
Tools and scripts	Are there user tools and scripts?

Advanced help

Files

Link	Description
Audio	Recording and listening to audio files.
Digitising	Converting non-digital works to digital text.
DjVu files	Creating, using, and uploading DjVu files.
Wikisource:ProofreadPage extension admin	is the multi-domain page concerning this extension. It is used for announcements and help to admins. The discussion page is used to post bug reports, request features, etc.

Other

Link	Description
Adminship	Documentation related to administrator access.
Copyright tags	Provides a list of license tags in order of preference.
Official texts	Provides a list of license tags usable for official texts.
Footnotes and endnotes	[proposal] Provides technical help related to footnotes.
Annotations	[proposal] User-generated content and other forms of self-publication.
Meta help pages	Provides very comprehensive technical and practical documentation. This is the official documentation used by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Page breaks	Provides ways to solve common problems caused by page breaks in transcluded works.
Poetry	Provides guidelines for format of poems.
Public domain	Explains applicable public domain criteria.
Copyright renewals	Information and help regarding copyright renewal in the United States.
Mathematics and Wikisource: fractions and functions	Provides instructions and examples for formatting mathematical functions and other difficult characters.
Match and Split	Use a bot to match text in a work in main namespace to pages in the Page: namespace.
Templates	Provides examples of the most commonly used formatting, navigation and typography templates.
URL2Commons	Explains how to use the URL2Commons tool to make an automated upload to Wikimedia Commons from a file elsewhere on the internet.
Portal classification	Provides guidelines for the classification of portals in the Portal: namespace.
Category:Formatting templates	Templates for all sorts of formatting.
Category:Typography templates	Typography specific templates.

See also

• Requests for assistance
• Wikipedia's help pages