Template:Wikisource

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This is a versatile template which links to a source at one of our sister projects, Wikisource.

The default behaviour of this template is to present a string "English Wikisource has original text related to this article:" with a link to a page on Wikisource with the same name as the Wikipedia page. Its behavior can be modified in the following ways:

• Modifying the link target
• Modifying how the display text for the link
• Linking to another language's Wikisource (including Multiple language Wikisource)
• Linking to the source attached to the article via the interwiki link at Wikidata
• Modifying the introductory text
• Indicating that the source is by or about the article topic
• Disabling categorisation (via |nocat=yes)
• Displaying the source in italics (via |italics=yes)
• Doing a combination of the above

Full example:

{{Wikisource|<link target>|<link display>|lang=<lang code>|has=<text to introduce the link>|nocat=yes to disable categorization|italics=yes to display the source in italics}}

Modifying the link target

To modify the link target, include the name of the document at Wikisource as the first parameter, or as |wslink=:

{{Wikisource|Magna Carta}} and {{Wikisource|wslink=Magna Carta}}

both produce:

Modifying the display text

The second parameter is the display text:

{{Wikisource|The Velveteen Rabbit#9|Name for The Velveteen Rabbit}}

produces:

You can alternatively use |title=, which has the same effect. This can be handy if you only want to alter the display text, not the link target.

Linking to another language's Wikisource

To link to another language's Wikisource, you can either use the |lang= parameter, or you can put the language before the source links.

{{Wikisource|la|Magna Carta|Magna Carta in Latin}}

and

{{Wikisource|Magna Carta|Magna Carta in Latin|lang=la}}

both produce:

Modifying the introductory text

The |has= parameter overrides the text following the word "has" introductory text text: {{Wikisource|Magna Carta|has=the full text of the Magna Carta}}

produces:

Works by or about something

The |works= parameter has four values, all of which indicate that the source at Wikisource is by or about the subject matter. It can be set to any case-insensitive version of:

• by
• about
• both (or equivalently and)
• or (discouraged; please be specific about what text is present at Wikisource)

If given anything else, the parameter is ignored. The parameter has no viable effect if |has= is provided (see § Modifying the introductory text), but will change the link target to include an Author prefix (or the equivalent namespace used in the language version, according to {{Wikisource/Author}}).

For example, {{Wikisource|Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero|Cicero|works=both}} produces:

Wikidata

If the template is not given a link target, it will attempt to find an interwiki link from Wikidata. If no Wikidata link is found, it will search Wikisource for the Wikipedia article's title.

Categorisation

If no Wikidata link is found, the template will populate Category:Wikisource templates with missing id (7,343). If the lack of interwiki link is intentional, add |nocat=yes.

The following error categories are not turned off with |nocat=yes:

• Pages with unknown parameters are sorted into Category:Pages using Wikisource with unknown parameters (4)
• Pages with invalid |works= parameters are sorted into Category:Pages using Wikisource with an invalid works parameter (0)

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Wikisource in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Wikisource

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Template parameters[Edit template data]

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Language code	lang	The ISO 639 code of the Wikisource language. "mul" indicates the Multilingual Wikisource. Suggested values mul es la fr de Default en Example es	Line	optional
Link target	1 wslink wislink	The link target, without any Wikisource: or language prefix Example Magna Carta	Line	suggested
Display text	2 title	The link's display text Default The link target Example Full text of the Magna Carta	Line	optional
Has text replacement	has	The text following "Wikisource has" ... Default text related to this article Example the full text of the Magna Carta	Line	optional
Works by	works	This parameter indicates that the content at Wikisource is by/about the subject, rather than a copy of the subject. Can be set to "by", "about", or "both", or "or", depending on what type of content is present at Wikisource. Other values are ignored. Suggested values by about both or and	Line	optional
position	position	If set to "left", displays the box floats to the left Suggested values left	Line	optional
nocat	nocat	If true, disables categorisation in [[Category:Wikisource templates with missing id]]. This is useful if the omission of a sitelink at Wikidata is intentional. Default false	Boolean	optional
italics	italic italics	If true, displays the source in italics Default false	Boolean	optional
Run diagnostics	diagnose	If true, displays some diagnostic information. Useful for debugging.	Boolean	optional

See also

• {{Wikisource-inline}} – inline version
• {{Wikisource-multi}} – for linking to multiple pages on Wikisource
• {{Cite wikisource}} – used to cite sources in Wikipedia
• {{Ws}} – for a less complicated interface than {{Cite wikisource}}
• {{Wikisource redirect}} – a specialized template for redirecting to Wikisource

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• Wikipedia:Sister projects for background and full usage information
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Sister projects#Wikisource for full usage information

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• {{Copy to Wikisource}}

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