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Shortcut: WS:HELP 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. 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 the GNU Free Documentation License.

Contents 1 Introductions 2 Miscellaneous questions 3 Advanced help 3.1 Files 3.2 Other 4 See also

[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.
Interlanguage links	Helps the user link a work to other languages.
Header preloading script gadget	Help adding headers to subpages.

[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.
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.

[edit] See also

• Requests for assistance
• Wikipedia's help pages