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Wikisource is an online library of free-content texts. Wikisource is maintained by a community of 2,886,944 registered users—345 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 help • Requests for comment • Administrators’ noticeboard

Requests and proposals:⁠Requested texts • Bot requests • Copyright discussions • Proposed deletions • Protection requests

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 • Portal review

Reading:⁠Searching • Reading offline • Books

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

Specific issues:⁠Disambiguation • Footnotes and endnotes • Fractions and functions • Labeled section transclusion • Logging in • 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 • Maintenance tags • Sister‑project templates

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

External sites:⁠Internet Archive • LibriVox • Bibliowiki

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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 • Handwriting • Namespace usage proposal • Portal classification system adaptation • Serial works

User essays:⁠Categorization and URL hierarchies

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Communication

Mailing list:⁠wikisource-l • wikitech-l

Chat:⁠#wikisource on the freenode IRC network

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Proofreading statistics

Page Status	Count
Validated	389,202
Proofread	590,989
Problematic	29,400
Not proofread	619,945
Without text	145,398

This table shows the total numbers of pages currently in the five categories of the Page namespace.

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Improve and maintain

Validate:

NCGLE v Minister of Home Affairs.djvu, Die Grundhypothesen der Elektronentheorie.djvu, A simplified grammar of the Danish language.djvu (more...)

Proofread:

Rudyard Kipling's verse - Inclusive Edition 1885-1918.djvu, 1888 Cicero's Tusculan Disputations.djvu, The ancient interpretation of Leviticus XVIII. 18 - Marriage with a deceased wife's sister is lawful.djvu (more...)

Match and split:

The Collected Works of Theodore Parker Slavery part 2 volume 6.djvu, The collected works of Theodore Parker volume 8.djvu, Catalog of Copyright Entries 1977 Books and Pamphlets Jan-June.pdf (more...)

Add images:

Discoveries in Australia/Volume 2/Charts, ITWAMOL-image, Steam Heating and Ventilation/Chapter II (more...)

Add tables:

The Economic Journal Volume 1.djvu/766, Canada Gazette, June-December 1868.djvu/421, Canada Gazette, June-December 1868.djvu/218 (more...)

Split into different works:

United States - Cuban Agreements and Treaty of 1934, The German Surrender Documents of World War II, Better Eyesight Magazine/July 1919 (more...)

Split into sections:

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

Move sections to subpages:

Maintenance tags, Poems (Botta) (more...)

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Projects

The current Community collaboration is proofreading the text of Leaves of Grass (1860) Recent collaborations: The Sikh Religion, Eminent Women Series, Edward VII of the United Kingdom, Henry David Thoreau, WikiProject NARA

The current Proofread of the Month is One of Ours  (1922) by Willa Cather. Recent collaborations: The Theory and Practice of Handwriting, Japanese Wood Engravings, The Examination and Confession of certain Witches at Chelmsford in the County of Essex, Old Castles, Principles Involved in the Preservation of Fish by Salt, Violin Varnish and How to Make It, The History of Ink, In Bad Company and other stories, Tales of To-day and Other Days, Mr. Punch's History of the Great War, The war and the future, Weird Tales Volume 31 Issue 2, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1831 edition), Natural History, Fishes

The current Maintenance of the Month task is Work index revision Recent collaborations: Orphans, Proposed policies and guidelines, Author page connection with Wikidata items, Help page improvement, Undated works