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
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Sysop term of office
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Scans required with texts
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Author namespace
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Author namespace name
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Annotated text permitted
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Wikisource Translations permitted
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List of all texts maintained
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List of all authors maintained
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Import sources
[1]
[2]
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Gadgets
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Contests
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Portal namespace
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Proofread Page
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Pre-1929 works still copyrighted in source country allowed
[3]
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Revision patrolling
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FlaggedRevs
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Ways to handle
United States non-acceptance of the rule of the shorter term
[4]
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Siteinfo
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ws.org
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Unlimited
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No
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Yes
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Per language, not uniform
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Yes
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Yes
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Per language
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Per language
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Various subdomains
, 'meta', 'commons'
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes, with a
tag
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No
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old api
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ar:
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Unlimited
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No
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Yes
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????
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Yes
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Yes
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ar:wp
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Yes
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No
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-
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n.a.
|
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ar api
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az:
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?
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No
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No
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-
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ar api
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be:
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Unlimited
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No
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Yes
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А?тар
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be api
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bg:
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?
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?
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Yes
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bg api
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bn:
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Community small
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Yes
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Yes
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????
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Yes
(limited)
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Yes
(namespace)
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No
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Yes
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'w', 'OldWikisource', 'b', 'commons', 'q'
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes, with a
tag
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Yes
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No
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bn api
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br:
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Unlimited
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No
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Yes
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Oberour
|
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Not yet
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Yes
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'meta', 'commons'
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Yes
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Yes
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br api
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bs:
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bs api
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ca:
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Unlimited
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No
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Yes
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Autor
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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'w', 'b'
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes, with a
tag
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No
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No
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ca api
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cs:
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Unlimited
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No
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Yes
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Autor
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-
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Yes
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.
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Yes
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'b', 'n', 'q', 'v', 'w', 'wikt'
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Yes
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-
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Yes
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No
[5]
(
template redirect
)
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cs api
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cy:
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No
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-
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No
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cy api
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da:
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?
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Yes
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Forfatter
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Yes
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Yes
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da api
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de:
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Unlimited
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Yes (
additional rules apply
)
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No
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-
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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'b', 'commons', 'en', 'fr', 'la', 'meta', 'oldwikisource', 'q', 'v', 'w', 'wikt'
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-
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Yes
|
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Yes
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No
[6]
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de api
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el:
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No
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-
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Yes
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'w', 'v'
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|
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Yes
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el api
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en:
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1 year
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No
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Yes
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Author
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Yes
(limited)
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Yes
(
namespace
)
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No
|
Yes
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'w', 'OldWikisource', 'b', 'commons', 'q', 'mw', 'd'
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes, with a
tag
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Yes
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No
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en api
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eo:
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Unlimited
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No
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Yes
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A?toro
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Yes, with a
tag
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eo api
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es:
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Unlimited
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No
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Yes
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Autor
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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None
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-
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-
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Yes
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Yes, with a
tag
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es api
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et:
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Unlimited
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Yes
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Autor
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'w'
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Yes
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No
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No
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et api
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eu:
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eu api
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fa:
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fa api
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fi:
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No
[7]
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fi api
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fo:
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fo api
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fr:
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Unlimited
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No
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Yes
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Auteur
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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fr:wp
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes, with a
tag
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enabled but not used
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fr api
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gl:
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Unlimited
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No
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No
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-
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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No
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-
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No
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No
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gl api
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he:
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Unlimited
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No
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Yes
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????
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Yes
(namespace)
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Yes
(namespace)
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No
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No
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None
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-
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-
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Yes
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enabled
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he api
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hr:
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Unlimited
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No
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Yes
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Autor
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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hr api
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hu:
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Unlimited
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No
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Yes
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Szerz?
|
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Enabled but not used
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No
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hu api
|
hy:
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-
|
-
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Yes
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???????
|
-
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-
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-
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Yes
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None
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-
|
-
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Yes
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hy api
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id:
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id api
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is:
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is api
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it:
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Unlimited
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No
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Yes
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Autore
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No
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No
[8]
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
'w', 'b', 'wikt', 'q', 'n', 'v'
|
yes
|
-
|
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Yes
|
No
[9]
|
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No
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it api
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ja:
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Unlimited
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No
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No
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-
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Yes
|
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Yes
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None
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No
|
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No
[10]
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ja api
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kn:
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kn api
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ko:
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Yes
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著者
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Yes
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No
[11]
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ko api
|
la:
|
Unlimited
|
No
[12]
|
Yes
|
Scriptor
|
-
[12]
|
No
[12]
|
-
|
Yes
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'ca', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'it', 'pt', 'ro', 'oldwikisource', 'w', 'b'
|
yes
|
none established
|
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Yes
|
Yes
[12]
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No
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No
|
-
[12]
|
la api
|
li:
|
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No
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-
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No
|
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li api
|
lt:
|
unlimited
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No
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No
|
-
|
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No
|
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lt api
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mk:
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No
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-
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No
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mk api
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ml:
|
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ml api
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mr:
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mr api
|
nl:
|
Unlimited
|
No
|
Yes
|
Auteur
|
|
|
|
Yes
|
'w', 'wikt', 'q', 'b', 'n', 'nl', 'de', 'en'
|
|
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? (
Index:
)
|
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nl api
|
no:
|
-
|
No
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Yes
|
Forfatter
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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'w'
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No
|
No
|
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Yes
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No
[13]
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No
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No
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no api
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pa:
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pa api
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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
|
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pt api
|
ro:
|
|
|
Yes
|
Autor
|
|
|
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Yes
|
|
|
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No
|
Yes
|
|
|
|
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ro api
|
ru:
|
Unlimited
|
No
|
No
|
-
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
None
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Yes
|
No
[15]
|
Yes
|
enabled
|
|
ru api
|
sa:
|
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sa api
|
sah:
|
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sah api
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sk:
|
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sk api
|
sl:
|
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Yes
|
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sl api
|
sr:
|
|
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Yes
|
Аутор
|
|
|
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sr api
|
sv:
|
Unlimited
|
No
|
Yes
|
Forfattare
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
'w'
|
-
|
-
|
|
Yes
|
No
[16]
|
|
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sv api
|
ta:
|
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ta api
|
te:
|
|
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Yes
|
?????
|
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|
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|
|
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|
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te api
|
th:
|
|
No
|
Yes
|
?????????????
|
Yes
[17]
|
Yes
(
namespace
)
|
|
Yes
|
None
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
|
|
|
th api
|
tr:
|
Unlimited
|
No
|
Yes
|
Ki?i
|
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
|
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uk api
|
vec:
|
|
No
|
Yes
|
Autor
|
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
|
|
Yes
|
|
|
No
|
|
vec api
|
vi:
|
Unlimited
|
No
|
Yes
|
Tac gia
|
Yes as footnotes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
'w', 'b', 'q'
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Yes
|
No
[18]
|
No
|
No
|
|
vi api
|
yi:
|
|
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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-1929 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:
- ↑
noc: InitialiseSettings.php
variable "
$wgImportSources
"
- ↑
Uploading importers have more privileges than transwiki importers. Administrators are automatically transwiki importers, not uploading importers.
- ↑
All works published before 1929 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
http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm#Footnote_12
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.
Kansainvalinen
(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?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, 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:", "?譯:" (traditional Chinese) and "??:" (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.
- ↑
noc: InitialiseSettings.php
variable "
$wgImportSources
"
- ↑
All works published before 1929 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
http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm#Footnote_12
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.