Wikisource Reader

The App

The Wikisource Reader App is a community-maintained app that lets you download and read freely-licensed works from Wikisource.

The Community

Join Wikimedia—one of the largest open knownledge communities in the world. Wikisource is not only a digital library of the Wikimedia world containing innumerable number of scans of copyright free books, newspapers, periodicals, manuscripts etc., but it is a unique transcription platform to make these materials freely and openly available, searchable and accesible over internet.

Features

Search books New

Search books in different languages from Wikisource which are ready to be read.

Filter languages New

Filter books in different languages to search them easily.

Download selected books New

Download your selected books in Epub format, so that you can read them in your free time.

Store books in your library New

Store all your selected books which you want to read in your library, so that you can select and read them as you like. You can also delete books too.

Read books New

Read your selected books from the Wikisource app! You can resume reading from the page where you have left last time.

Annotate texts New

Search for chapters listed in the book and directly navigate to specific chapters as you need.

Select texts from the book to highlight, underline and take notes, which you can save and store in the app to access later and delete as necessary. You can also copy and search from web. New

The app shows all the uploads you have made to Commons. This is a great way to easily view your contributions. Further, you could get to know about ongoing campaigns from within the app. You can tap on the campaign banner in the app to learn more about it.

Installation & Usage

Installing and using the app is easy:

1. Download Wikimedia Commons from the Google Play Store.
2. Take a picture of something interesting.
3. In your camera app, click to view the picture you just took.
4. Press "Share".
5. Select "Upload to Commons".
6. You will have to log in for the first time (if you don't have an account, create one for free).
7. Enter a caption and description for the picture.
8. Enter relevant depictions and categories.
9. Choose a license for the image being uploaded.
10. Finish the upload.

Photo Guidelines

The following guidelines will help you to understand what photos the community is looking for. There is flexibility in these guidelines and they don't cover all cases. If you are unsure, just upload your photo and discuss it with the community.

• ✓ Photos that document the world around you
• ✓ Photos of notable objects that you find in the Nearby List in the app.
• ✖ Photos of you or your friends. But if you are documenting an event it doesn't matter if they are in the picture.
• ✖ Photos of poor quality. Make sure the things you are trying to document are visible in the picture.