Adding a text to Wikisource

A guide to importing openly licensed books to Wikisource from free sources, like Internet Archive and the University's own open books repository.

The stages in a project are:

1. Check that the version of the document does not exist already in Wikisource.
2. Check that copyright conditions are fulfilled
3. Upload images of the pages to Wikimedia Commons
4. Upload text of the pages
5. Create the page in the main namespace
6. As chapters are loaded, transclude the pages to the main namespace
7. Add the appropriate copyright, category and incompleteness tags
8. Start proofreading
9. Add entries into the appropriate Portal
10. Add entry to the Author page, creating it if necessary.
11. When the document is verified, remove the incompleteness tags.

Help:Beginner's guide to adding texts - Wikisource, the free online library

How to import a book into Wikisource from Internet Archive

How to import a text from Internet Archive to Wikisource.

Uploading a book to Wikisource from Open Books

An example of uploading a text to Wikisource from the University's Collections on Open Books.