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This table is a summary of the different policies and technical solutions used in the Wikisource subdomains. Its goal is to facilitate comparisons and to increase users' awareness of the different options. Certain cells are colored to highlight important local policies, especially those in red for more restrictive ones.
Configurations about local file uploads are available at
m:NFC#Wikisource
Wikisource language projects
Sysop term of office
Scans required with texts
Author namespace
Author namespace name
Annotated text permitted
Wikisource Translations permitted
List of all texts maintained
List of all authors maintained
Import sources
Gadgets
Contests
Portal namespace
Proofread Page
Pre-1931 works still copyrighted in source country allowed
Revision patrolling
FlaggedRevs
Ways to handle
United States non-acceptance of the rule of the shorter term
Siteinfo
ws.org
Unlimited
No
Yes
Per language, not uniform
Yes
Yes
Per language
Per language
Various subdomains
, 'meta', 'commons'
Yes
No
Yes
Yes, with a
tag
No
old api
ar:
Unlimited
No
Yes
مؤلف
Yes
Yes
ar:wp
Yes
No
n.a.
ar api
az:
No
No
ar api
be:
Unlimited
No
Yes
Аўтар
be api
bg:
Yes
bg api
bn:
Community small
Yes
Yes
লেখক
Yes
(limited)
Yes
(namespace)
No
Yes
'w', 'OldWikisource', 'b', 'commons', 'q'
Yes
No
Yes
Yes, with a
tag
Yes
No
bn api
br:
Unlimited
No
Yes
Oberour
Not yet
Yes
'meta', 'commons'
Yes
Yes
br api
bs:
bs api
ca:
Unlimited
No
Yes
Autor
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
'w', 'b'
Yes
No
Yes
Yes, with a
tag
No
No
ca api
cs:
Unlimited
No
Yes
Autor
Yes
Yes
'b', 'n', 'q', 'v', 'w', 'wikt'
Yes
Yes
No
template redirect
cs api
cy:
No
No
cy api
da:
Yes
Forfatter
Yes
Yes
da api
de:
Unlimited
Yes (
additional rules apply
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
'b', 'commons', 'en', 'fr', 'la', 'meta', 'oldwikisource', 'q', 'v', 'w', 'wikt'
Yes
Yes
No
de api
el:
No
Yes
'w', 'v'
Yes
el api
en:
1 year
No
Yes
Author
Yes
(limited)
Yes
namespace
No
Yes
'w', 'OldWikisource', 'b', 'commons', 'q', 'mw', 'd'
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes, with a
tag
Yes
No
en api
eo:
Unlimited
No
Yes
Aŭtoro
Yes, with a
tag
eo api
es:
Unlimited
No
Yes
Autor
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
None
Yes
Yes, with a
tag
es api
et:
Unlimited
Yes
Autor
'w'
Yes
No
No
et api
eu:
eu api
fa:
fa api
fi:
No
fi api
fo:
fo api
fr:
Unlimited
No
Yes
Auteur
No
Yes
No
Yes
fr:wp
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes, with a
tag
enabled but not used
fr api
gl:
Unlimited
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
gl api
he:
Unlimited
No
Yes
מחבר
Yes
(namespace)
Yes
(namespace)
No
No
None
Yes
enabled
he api
hr:
Unlimited
No
Yes
Autor
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
hr api
hu:
Unlimited
No
Yes
Szerző
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Enabled but not used
No
hu api
hy:
Yes
Հեղինակ
Yes
None
Yes
hy api
id:
id api
is:
is api
it:
Unlimited
No
Yes
Autore
No
No
Yes
Yes
'w', 'b', 'wikt', 'q', 'n', 'v'
yes
Yes
No
No
it api
ja:
Unlimited
No
No
Yes
Yes
None
No
No
10
ja api
kn:
kn api
ko:
Yes
저자
Yes
No
11
ko api
la:
Unlimited
No
12
Yes
Scriptor
12
No
12
Yes
'ca', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'it', 'pt', 'ro', 'oldwikisource', 'w', 'b'
yes
none established
Yes
Yes
12
No
No
12
la api
li:
No
No
li api
lt:
unlimited
No
No
No
lt api
mk:
No
No
mk api
ml:
ml api
mr:
mr api
nl:
Unlimited
No
Yes
Auteur
Yes
'w', 'wikt', 'q', 'b', 'n', 'nl', 'de', 'en'
? (
Index:
nl api
no:
No
Yes
Forfatter
No
No
No
Yes
'w'
No
No
Yes
No
13
No
No
no api
pa:
pa api
pl:
Unlimited
Yes (if available)
Yes
Autor
Yes
Yes (limitations)
No
Yes
'w', 'b', 'q', 'n', 'wikt', 'mul', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'it', 'pt', 'sv'
Yes
Yes
No
14
No
Yes
pl api
pt:
Unlimited
No
Yes
Autor
Yes as footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
'w', 'b'
Yes
Yes
Yes, with a
tag
enabled
pt api
ro:
Yes
Autor
Yes
No
Yes
ro api
ru:
Unlimited
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
None
Yes
No
Yes
No
15
Yes
enabled
ru api
sa:
sa api
sah:
sah api
sk:
sk api
sl:
Yes
sl api
sr:
Yes
Аутор
sr api
sv:
Unlimited
No
Yes
Författare
No
Yes
No
Yes
'w'
Yes
No
16
sv api
ta:
ta api
te:
Yes
రచయిత
te api
th:
No
Yes
ผู้สร้างสรรค์
Yes
17
Yes
namespace
Yes
None
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
th api
tr:
Unlimited
No
Yes
Kişi
Yes as footnotes
No
No
Yes
None
No
No
tr api
uk:
Unlimited
No
Yes
Автор
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
uk api
vec:
No
Yes
Autor
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
vec api
vi:
Unlimited
No
Yes
Tác gia
Yes as footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
'w', 'b', 'q'
Yes
No
Yes
No
18
No
No
vi api
yi:
yi api
zh:
Unlimited
No
Yes
Author (but shown as "作者" by local scripts)
Yes as footnotes
Yes (
namespace
19
No
Yes
'w', 'b', 'q', 'wikt', 'meta', 'commons'
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
20
template redirect
No
No
Yes
de
facto
negative allowable
21
zh api
Sysop term of office
Scans required with texts
Author namespace
Author namespace name
Annotated text permitted
Wikisource Translations permitted
List of all texts maintained
List of all authors maintained
Import sources
22
Gadgets
Contests
Portal namespace
Proofread Page
Pre-1931 works still copyrighted at home permitted
23
Revision patrolling
FlaggedRevs
Ways to handle
United States non-acceptance of the rule of the shorter term
24
Siteinfo
For information, closed Wikisource:
ang:
ht:
Main Page/Kreyòl Ayisyen
Footnotes
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$wgImportSources
Uploading importers have more privileges than transwiki importers. Administrators are automatically transwiki importers, not uploading importers.
All works published before 1931 worldwide are in the public domain in the USA even if still copyright-restricted in their home countries. Exceptions may apply in the
9th Circuit
for some non-American works published since 1 July 1909 per
by Peter Hirtle. This column indicates whether such works are allowed on a Wikisource subdomain when considering
wmf:Resolution:Licensing_policy
with respect to the laws of any countries where any project content is predominantly accessed. If not allowed, ws.org
hosts
these works until transferring them to the subdomains when appropriate, while footnotes of this column also show the general
copyright lengths
of restrictive countries and areas.
Certain non-US works, usually still
copyrighted
in 1996 in source countries, may be in the public domain there now but still be copyrighted in the USA. See also
m:Legal/Wikimedia Server Location and Free Knowledge
for possible limited tolerance.
Czech law is life + 70 years. This has not been discussed, so we use the unclear but very strong practice on the cs.wiki in the moment.
copyright remains until 70 years after author's death, see
here
Finnish law is life + 70 years.
Kansainvälinen
(The Internationale in Finnish) dated in 1905, whose last surviving author died in 1964, was deleted; suggesting the
de facto
policy is to prohibit such works.
Limited exceptions apply.
life + 70 years
Japanese law is life + 50 years. Locally
deleting
インターナショナル
(The Internationale in Japanese) dated in 1922 whose author died in 1978 suggests the
de facto
policy. Note that the jawikisource has
template
that is about this situation, but for now it's only used by an Author page and a Portal page.
Per
this Meta-Wiki talk page
, South Korea has a pma term of 70 years, while in North Korea their term is 50 years, but as South Korea accepts rule of the shorter term, it's currently assumed that texts that are PD in North Korea but not in South are de facto allowed.
12.0
12.1
12.2
12.3
12.4
no policy
Norwegian law is life + 70 years. The question hasn't been discussed yet. So far following Norwegian law.
Polish law is life + 70 years
per Russia's law (
The policy
); however, pre-1918 works are accepted as PD-RusEmpire.
Swedish & Finnish law provide life + 70 years
E.g.
th:Boar's Head Carol
Vietnamese law provides life + 50 years.
Typing "Translation:", "翻譯:" (traditional Chinese) and "翻译:" (simplified Chinese) will work. See also
phab:T66127
Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Malaysia, and Taiwan all copyright for life + 50 years. Works in the public domain in these places but
not Singapore
(life + 70 years) are in collapsible pages so Singaporeans will see the copyright warning before opening the texts.
Following
discussions
about
zh:內務部長黃叔沆敬告國民同胞書
, to continue avoiding
copyright paranoia
and to protect new comers, the community decided to negatively allow such texts as of 3 April 2018, until any official DMCA takedowns to Wikimedia Foundation staffs. In such cases, they probably will email
James Alexander
or other staffs, give temporary sysop access to delete as
office actions
. Wikilivres no longer properly functioning further makes Chinese Wikisource distrusts it.
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$wgImportSources
All works published before 1931 worldwide are in the public domain in the USA even if still copyrighted in their home countries. Exceptions may apply in the
9th Circuit
for non-American works published since 1 July 1909 per
by Peter Hirtle. This column indicates whether such works are allowed on a Wikisource subdomain when considering
wmf:Resolution:Licensing_policy
with respect to the laws of any countries where any project content is predominantly accessed. If not, ws.org hosts these works and will transfer them to the subdomains when appropriate, while this column also shows the general
copyright lengths
of restrictive countries.
Certain works, usually still
copyrighted
in 1996 at home, may still be copyrighted in the USA even if in the public domain at home now.
See also
edit
User:Nemo_bis/wgNamespaceAliases
(namespaces ids on all Wikisources)
Wikisource:Best Practices
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