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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

Introductions

{{Wikisource:Index/table}} |- | 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. |}

Miscellaneous questions

{{Wikisource:Index/table}} |- |colspan="2"|What is Wikisource? |- |colspan="2"|What's the difference between Wikisource and Wikibooks? |- |colspan="2"|Are there user tools and scripts? |}

Advanced help

{{Wikisource:Index/table}} |- | Adminship | Documentation related to administrator access. |- | Audio | Provides technical help related to recording and listening to audio files. |- | Digitising | Provides technical help related to converting non-digital works to digital text. |- | 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. |- | 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. |- |}

See also

de:Wikisource:Hilfe es:Wikisource:Ayuda fr:Aide:Aide it:Aiuto:Aiuto pl:Wikiźródła:Pomoc pt:Ajuda:Conteúdo tr:Yardım:İçindekiler

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