Help:Contents
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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.
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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.
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[edit] Introductions
| Link | Description |
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| General introduction | Explains what Wikisource is, and briefly introduces the basic tools available to editors. |
| Reading and using Wikisource | Introduces various tools useful to finding works and tracking changes. |
| Editing Wikisource | Introduces formatting code (see m:Help:Editing for advanced help). |
| Side by side image view for proofreading | Introduction to side-by-side image/text view for proofreading. |
| Adding new texts | Introduces the formatting and inclusion guidelines. |
| Adding images | Explains the image upload process (to Wikimedia Commons) and describes how to include images on pages. |
| Adding PDFs | Explains how to turn PDFs into DjVus and the upload process (to Wikimedia Commons) and describes how to include on pages. |
| 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 depository |
| Proofreading status | How the proofreading status of a page is marked. |
| Header preloading script gadget | Help adding headers to subpages. |
[edit] Miscellaneous questions
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| What is Wikisource? | |
| Are there user tools and scripts? | |
[edit] Advanced help
[edit] Files
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| 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. |
[edit] Other
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| Adminship | Documentation related to administrator access. |
| Copyright | Helps users determine copyright status of works. |
| 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 | Policy and procedures for annotating original source texts on Wikisource, and when to use Wikibooks for this purpose. |
| Meta help pages | Provides very comprehensive technical and practical documentation. This is the official documentation used by the Wikimedia Foundation. |
| Poetry | Provides guidelines for format of poems. |
| Public domain | Explains applicable public domain criteria. |
| 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 |
| Category:Formatting templates | Templates for all sorts of formatting |
| Category:Typography templates | Typography specific templates |
