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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[1][2] Gadgets Contests Portal namespace Proofread Page Pre-1929 works still copyrighted in source country allowed[3] Revision patrolling FlaggedRevs Ways to handle United States non-acceptance of the rule of the shorter term [4] 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[5] (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 [6] 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[7] 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[8] Yes Yes 'w', 'b', 'wikt', 'q', 'n', 'v' yes - Yes No[9] 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-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

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Footnotes[edit]

  1. noc: InitialiseSettings.php variable "$wgImportSources"
  2. Uploading importers have more privileges than transwiki importers. Administrators are automatically transwiki importers, not uploading importers.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. copyright remains until 70 years after author's death, see here
  7. 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.
  8. Limited exceptions apply.
  9. life + 70 years
  10. 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.
  11. 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. 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 no policy
  13. Norwegian law is life + 70 years. The question hasn't been discussed yet. So far following Norwegian law.
  14. Polish law is life + 70 years
  15. per Russia's law (The policy); however, pre-1918 works are accepted as PD-RusEmpire.
  16. Swedish & Finnish law provide life + 70 years
  17. E.g.th:Boar's Head Carol
  18. Vietnamese law provides life + 50 years.
  19. Typing "Translation:", "翻譯:" (traditional Chinese) and "翻译:" (simplified Chinese) will work. See also phab:T66127.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. noc: InitialiseSettings.php variable "$wgImportSources"
  23. 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.
  24. 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.

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