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sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, quotes, news, definition, textbook, course, taxonomy, meta. Wikisource is an online library of free-content texts. Wikisource is maintained by a community of 757,874 registered users—329 of them have made edits in the last thirty days. If you want to join our community, just create an account and start editing.

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Community pages

Discussion: Scriptorium • Requests for comment • Administrators’ noticeboard

Requests and proposals: Bot requests • Possible copyright violations • Proposed deletions • Protection requests • Requests for assistance

Other: Administrators • News • WikiProject

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Help pages

Introduction • For Wikipedians • Sandbox

Beginner’s guide: [Reading] Navigation • Reliability [Editing] Adding texts • Sources • Copyright • Index pages • Proofreading • Typography • Validation • Transclusion • Finishing touches [Maintaining] Maintenance • Deletion

Portals: Portal classification

Reading: Searching • Reading offline • Books

Editing: Introduction to editing Wikisource • Adding texts • Adding images • Author pages • Categorization • Front matter • Interlanguage links • Layout • Maintenance tags • Namespaces • Patrolling • Proofread • Subpages

Specific issues: Disambiguation • Footnotes and endnotes • Fractions and functions • Labeled section transclusion • Match and split • Page breaks • Sidenotes • Table

Scans: Digitising texts and images for Wikisource • DjVu files

Copyright: Copyright tags • Public domain • Copyright renewals • Licensing compatibility • Official texts

Particular works: Film • Poetry • Sheet music

Multimedia: Audio

Templates: Font size templates • Sister‑project templates

Gadgets: Gadget‑BookMaker • Gadget‑HotCat • Header preloading script gadget • URL2Commons

External sites: Internet Archive • LibriVox • Wikilivres

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Policies and guidelines

Works: Copyright policy • Inclusion policy • Style guide • Featured text guidelines • Periodical guidelines

Restricted access: Restricted access policy • Blocking policy • Deletion policy • Protection policy • Administrator guidelines

Miscellaneous: Bot policy • Proxy policy • Image guidelines • Alternate account guidelines • Red link guidelines • Portal guidelines

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Essays

Wikisource essays: Author names • DjVu vs. PDF • Namespace usage proposal • Portal classification system adaptation • Serial works

User essays: Categorization and URL hierarchies

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Communication

Mailing list: wikisource-l

Chat: #wikisource on the freenode IRC network

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Proofreading statistics

The Page namespace contains:

56,993 pages without text,

481,798 non-proofread pages,

11,440 problematic pages,

190,233 proofread pages,

117,469 validated pages.

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Improve and maintain

Validate:

Small Souls (1919).djvu, An introduction to physiological and systematical botany (1st edition).djvu, Scaramouche.djvu (more...)

Proofread:

François-Millet.djvu, Zhuang Zi - translation Giles 1889.djvu, Totem and Taboo (1919).djvu (more...)

Match and split:

Critique of Pure Reason 1855 Meiklejohn tr.djvu, EB1911 - Volume 15.djvu, Lewis - Babbitt.djvu (more...)

Add images:

Discoveries in Australia/Volume 2/Chapter 2, Discoveries in Australia/Volume 2/Charts, Discoveries in Australia/Volume 2/Chapter 3 (more...)

Add tables:

The Economic Journal Volume 1.djvu/766, The Economic Journal Volume 1.djvu/762, Canada Gazette, June-December 1868.djvu/421 (more...)

Split into different works:

Niger documents, Three Sermons and Three Prayers, United States - Cuban Agreements and Treaty of 1934 (more...)

Split into sections:

Urbain Grandier, Celebrated Crimes, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, David Irving v Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt/V (more...)

Move sections to subpages:

In War Time (Whittier), Birds of Passage (Collection), Maintenance tags (more...)

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Projects

The current Community collaboration is collecting texts related to WikiProject NARA Recent collaborations: Disney, Domesday survey, Niccolò Machiavelli

The current Proofread of the Month is Natural History, Birds  (1849) by Philip Henry Gosse. Recent collaborations: A Treasury of South African Poetry, The Romance of Nature, Japanese Plays and Playfellows, Vanity Fair, The Cycle Industry, The Varieties of Religious Experience, The American Indian: Anthropology of the New World

The current Maintenance of the Month task is Categorisation Recent collaborations: Proposed policies and guidelines, Portal classification review, Sister-project link standardization