Template talk:Wikisource/Archive 1

Can we have variants of this?
"has original text from the King James Version of the Bible" is a bit strange when it's really the entire text (should read "has the complete text"). And "has original text from the Iliad" is sadly misleading, since it's not the original text at all (should read "has an English translation of") dab 21:35, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * Thank you! A rather lively discussion on just that subject has been taking place in Wikipedia talk:Sister projects between me and User:Netoholic (who hasn't replied in several days; I'll drop him a note), and yours might be the vote that breaks the deadlock (in my favor). Try to read through the discussion (which is a bit long, I admit) to get a fill of things. -- Itai 21:52, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * Regarding List of templates see Wikipedia talk:List of lists. Gangleri 04:24, 2004 Nov 10 (UTC)

templates in chinese
Hi, I have no ideas of where are Chinese version of templates and how it works. But what's sure is that they should be adapted because they display some things in italics and that not nice. Check http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%92%B2%E6%9D%BE%E9%BE%84 for example. The title of the book in wikisource box should not be italicised, but like this : 《聊斋志异》, as shown in the article itself. I know that touching templates is not a good idea for the one who don't know well how it works, so I ask for a little help to check this out. gbog July 2, 2005 02:58 (UTC)

Linking to something other than article title
Hi, i wonder if it's possible to link to a Wikisource article which does not have the same title as the Wikipedia article. For example, The Boy Who Cried Wolf is listed under Aesop's Fables in Wikisource (as The Shepherd's Boy and the Wolf). So is it possible to link directly to it using a modification of the Wikisource template? --Plastictv 3 July 2005 06:23 (UTC)
 * Yes -- use Template:Wikisource3 which allows two arguments: display name and link. Cleduc 18:58, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

subdomain split
how to link to other subdomains? The split broke lots of my links, such as the one on 3227a. dab (&#5839;) 15:48, 10 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Apparently, using de:article_title as the argument of this template works (there is a redirection that is internal to the server, I assume). - Liberatore(T) 14:48, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Yet another...
has three optional arguments for linking to a page different to the article title, and to specify what this page is about and what it relates to. The third argument can be useful when the wikisource page is related to something more specific that the whole wikipedia article. - Liberatore(T) 14:23, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Other language links
There needs to be a template that will let you link to a specific language edition of Wikisource, so you can specific the language, and the title of the file, and the name of the article, and it will create the link. &mdash; 0918BRIAN &bull; 2006-03-24 22:10
 * gives


 * Lesgles (talk) 23:47, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

New logo
Just making everyone aware: there is a new Wikisource logo, Image:Wikisource-nt.png. Very stylish, I think! Anyway, I've updated the template. - Ta bu shi da yu 15:17, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

interwiki image
I'm sorry if I'm at the wrong place, but I've tried elsewhere. Is there any way to insert an image here (the english wikipedia) from wikisource when their's already an image on the english wikipedia of the same name. Using this template creates a link to the correct image, but doesn't actually insert it. Vicarious 08:30, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Extra parameter
I propose adding an extra parameter to allow a comment to be displayed under the link, using the following syntax (right at the end of the outermost  ): This would make tidier and more explicit. Any thoughts or objections? HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 21:21, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

template image broken?
Is it just my browser? I just added a wikisource template to Stylidium calcaratum and the svg image disappeared from the template. Tried purging, checking links, etc. Anyone else having this problem? --Rkitko (talk) 03:30, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Alright, nevermind. It's back, but I'm still perplexed. Ah well. --Rkitko (talk) 03:32, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Is there a way to put multiple works in one template?
Specifically for the links at the bottom of California State Route 120. --NE2 06:37, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

mk Wikisource
Can somebody please add the interwiki to the template for the Macedonian language Wikisource mk:Шаблон:Викиизвор. Thank you. --B. Jankuloski (talk) 23:47, 29 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Another missing iw link: fi:Malline:Wikiaineisto. –neurovelho 20:11, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Linking to three pages on wikisource
If I understand this right, the wikisource template can take 2 parameters and link to two pages on wikisource that relate to an article here on wikipedia. But what if you need to link to three wikisource pages? This is the puzzle over at Nootka Convention. There were three Nootka Convention treaties, each with a page at wikisource. I just used the wikisource template three times, but this seems less than ideal. Is there a better way? Thanks. Pfly (talk) 04:56, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikisource boxes on Christianity
There is something wrong the with the two wikisource boxes in the Christianity article. Maybe somebody here could help? Str1977 (talk) 22:33, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Please fix the :ro interwiki
Since november 2006, the :ro correct page is ro:Format:Wikisursă – please update that. Ark25 (talk) 22:29, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. John Vandenberg (chat) 23:43, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Clickable image
Please make it so when the wikisource logo is clicked, instead of going to the image description page, it goes to the corresponding wikisource page. It can be done as follows (you can just copy paste this code): which produces: Wikisource has original text related to this article:  -- penubag  (talk) 07:24, 11 November 2008 (UTC)


 * [[Image:Yes check.svg|20px]] Done — though I didn't use the copy/paste as I'm going through all your related suggested changes; let me know if I've missed anything. { { Nihiltres | talk | log } } 23:36, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Why don't mention Template:Wikisourcehas in See Also?
Why don't mention in See Also? It is useful when more than one page have to be added to an article. --Quest for Truth (talk) 23:15, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Yes check.svg|20px]] Done. 84user (talk) 00:37, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Documentation needed
editprotected The template page does not explain any of the parameters. Under See also it has "Sister projects for full usage information", but there is actually nothing there about the template Wikisource. Instead the user needs to go to Template messages/Sister projects. Could an admin add that direct link to the see also section? So, my request is to change this: to this: 84user (talk) 18:18, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Sister projects for full usage information
 * Template messages/Sister projects for full usage information
 * Sister projects for background
 * Template:Wikisourcelang for linking to a foreign language wikisource page
 * I have moved the documentation to a documentation subpage (see Template:Wikisource/doc). You should be able to make your changes by editing that page. - Rjd0060 (talk) 19:17, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Done. Thank you, Rjd0060, I have added the above links as well as that was requested just above. 84user (talk) 00:36, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Left side option
Would it be possible to have an option to display the template on the left side instead of default to right? Green Cardamom (talk) 00:43, 15 May 2009 (UTC)


 * To answer my own question 3 years later.. this feature is found in template:sister. Green Cardamom (talk) 02:18, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

This template generates odd links?
Howdy. I've noticed a number of odd red links appearing in articles and believe this template may be responsible. Template code makes me cross-eyed, so I'm solicitng someone with more experience than me to look into this. The problem is perhaps best demonstrated with a quick example;

User:Topbanana/Clipboard contains the template reference: " ". The resulting box looks good, smells good, and attempts to take me to the requested page in wikisource as expected. However, if you check what links here now on the wikipedia article Some wikisource article, lo and behold, it is linked. I'm pretty sure this is not by design. Alas, my very best attempts at debugging this myself have failed - I just can't fathom where and why the link originates.

Anyone pretty please? - TB (talk) 17:51, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Another example I've just come across in WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Unlikely/long: Special:WhatLinksHere/The Justice Department statement on the U.S. District Court decision ordering release of the Uighurs detained at Guantanamo Bay -- 2008-10-07 —Paul A (talk) 08:58, 17 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I can see the problem, however I dont see how this template is causing it. I have tried to replicate the problem using commons and wikibooks without success, and have updated this templates code to use sister and the problem didnt disappear.
 * My only guess is that it has something to do with the recent changes to the internal search engine, or some other recent changes to the MediaWiki software. As a result, I think this needs to be raised at WP:VPT.
 * John Vandenberg (chat) 10:13, 17 July 2009 (UTC)


 * It can't be anything too recent, because the Red Link Recovery list is two months old.
 * It's odd that Commons doesn't have the problem, since its code is essentially the same as Wikisource's is (now).
 * —hang on, I've had an idea. Let me check the two examples examples again...
 * Aha! Actually, you updating the code to use Sister has fixed it. It's just that when a template is edited to no longer link to somewhere, all the pages that link through it hang about on WhatLinksHere for a while, so the problem didn't appear to immediately vanish when it was fixed.
 * What's more, I think I can see where the problem was now, looking at the diff: there was a link in the first line that isn't there any more, which I reckon was the culprit. —Paul A (talk) 16:24, 17 July 2009 (UTC)


 * All that verbiage, and did I remember to thank you for fixing it?
 * Thank you for fixing it. —Paul A (talk) 16:55, 17 July 2009 (UTC)


 * After much digging, this turned out to be a bug in the MediaWiki software related to the parsing of image tags containing interwiki links - Bug 19814. Is fixed now, the updated software will reach this corner of the wikiworld in it's own good time.  Many thanks for all who spent time helping puzzle this one out.  -  TB (talk) 09:17, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Using secure links
Could you update this with the sandbox to ensure that secure links are used when necessary. This formatting is also used within several other sister project templates. Thanks, --The Evil IP address (talk) 21:53, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 08:31, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

square brackets problem
Is there a way to get the template to handle square brackets? To the documentation I have added examples that show the problem, together with this advice to the user: -84user (talk) 13:33, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Do not use square brackets ("[" and "]") in the first parameter


 * I don't see a particular need to include this topic. Square brackets are invalid in MediaWiki titles. --TadejM my talk 00:03, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Cross post from Wikimedia sister projects
Please see Wikipedia_talk:Wikimedia_sister_projects--Doug.(talk • contribs) 12:17, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Nominated for deletion
Templates_for_discussion/Log/2012_March_16. ASCIIn2Bme (talk) 14:50, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Edit request on 8 December 2012
Please change Frietjes (talk) 00:40, 8 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Declined. I simply copied and pasted your text, and when I went to extreme poverty to check its appearance, I found a box with the text of"The Despouy Report on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty"This is worse than the normal version,"Wikisource has original text related to this article: The Despouy Report on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty"Obviously I didn't understand what you wanted.  Please supply the entire code of the template (e.g. in a sandbox or a talk subpage) and then reactivate this request.  Nyttend (talk) 13:12, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't want to change any existing uses of this template, just merge template:wikisourceold with this one. clearly, I would never change an existing wikisource like to a wikisourceold link. I will just wait until the TfD for template:wikisourceold ends, and let the admin who closes that discussion merge it. Frietjes (talk) 15:51, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Not sure why I didn't understand you earlier; it's perfectly simple to understand now. I've edited the template again, and this time everything's working properly; it seems that I accidentally added a line break earlier.  Nyttend (talk) 23:52, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Link to Wikisource category
How do I link to a Wikisource category? I want to link to the subject of a group of texts, not an author. Subject pages are deleted in Wikisource. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 02:08, 20 May 2015 (UTC)