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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.


Wikisource is a growing collection of primary-source English texts in any language, as well as translations of source texts. 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 the GNU Free Documentation License.

Contents

[edit] Introductions

Link Description
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).
Adding new texts Introduces the formatting and inclusion guidelines.
Adding images Explains the image upload process and describes how to include images on pages.
Categorization Helps the user select which categories a work belongs in.

[edit] Miscellaneous questions

Link Description
What is Wikisource?
Are there user tools and scripts?

[edit] Advanced help

[edit] 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.
ProofreadPage extension The "Proofread page" extension, which allows a side-by-side image/text view for proofreading.

[edit] Other

Link Description
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.
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.

[edit] See also

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