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:
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 (7,340). If the lack of interwiki link is intentional, add |nocat=yes.
Pages using {{wikisource}} with unknown parameters are sorted into Category:Pages using Wikisource with unknown parameters (5). This is not turned off with |nocat=yes.
TemplateData
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| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language code | lang |
The ISO 639 code of the Wikisource language. “mul” indicates the Multilingual Wikisource.
|
Line | optional |
| Link target | 1 wslink wislink |
The link target, without any Wikisource: or language prefix
|
Line | suggested |
| Display text | 2 title |
The link’s display text
|
Line | optional |
| Has text replacement | has |
The text following “Wikisource has” …
|
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.
|
Line | optional |
| position | position |
If set to “left”, displays the box floats to the 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.
|
Boolean | optional |
| italics | italic italics |
If true, displays the source in italics
|
Boolean | optional |
| Run diagnostics | diagnose |
If true, displays some diagnostic information. Useful for debugging. |
Boolean | optional |
