This is a documentation subpage for Template:Ws. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template should not be used in citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, because it includes markup that will pollute the COinS metadata they produce; see Wikipedia:COinS.

This template places a wikisource icon before text, or a link to wikisource, or another template

((ws | [[s: <wikisource link> | <wikisource article title>]])) in <work>

|ps=no to omit the trailing "."

((ws|''[[s:Ecclesiastical History of the English People|]]'')) by Bede

would look like (cf. Help:Pipe trick):

Ecclesiastical History of the English People. by Bede

((ws|''[[s:Ecclesiastical History of the English People|]]''|ps=no)) by Bede

would look like:

Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede

((ws|[[s:Chaffin v. Taylor (116 U.S. 567)|''Chaffin v. Taylor'' (116 U.S. 567)]] ([[United States Supreme Court]])))

would look like (just an example, it's better to use e.g. ((ussc)) or ((cite court))):

Chaffin v. Taylor (116 U.S. 567) (United States Supreme Court).

• ((wikisource))—to create the sidebox
• ((wikisource-inline))—to create a list of sources on Wikisource among other options
• ((cite wikisource))—to create a full citation to wikisource
• ((ws2))—to link to wikisource inline
• ((wikisourcelang))—to create the sidebox to another wikisource lanaguage
• ((Cite EB1911))—for 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica entries
• ((Cite CE1913))—for 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia entries