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This is a Wikibooks policy page about annotated texts. Discussion of these policies belongs on the talk page. For lists of annotated texts, please see the Annotated texts bookshelf and its template (which appears on the Main Page).

What is an annotated text?

An annotated text contains two elements:

  1. An original primary source text
  2. Annotations: Various kinds of study aids for reading, understanding, and teaching the text. These may include explanatory notes, introductions, summaries, questions and answers, charts, lists, indices, references, wikilinks, pictures, audio...

In an annotated text, the annotations are interwoven with the primary source text, in order to make the book more reader-friendly.

The goal of an annotated text is to facilitate reading and comprehension of the source text, especially in a classroom environment, or even for private study, but especially in preparation for formal examinations. (For instance, the classic Cliff's Notes on Shakespeare are meant to help students prepare for examinations on literature that they read at home.) As such, an annotated text is a kind of instructional material, and is suitable for Wikibooks. This is despite the fact that most primary source texts normally belong at Wikisource.

Policy statements

Because annotated texts are instructional materials, it has been declared Wikibooks policy to include them since early in the project's history (see the talk page for discussion of this dating from late 2003). Several texts have been added to Wikibooks with the express intention that they will be annotated, and a few have actually been annotated to one degree or another.

Statements of policy on "official" pages:

Source texts without annotations belong at Wikisource. Even some texts with annotations may reasonably be kept at Wikisource, provided that the primary focus is on the source text, not on classroom instruction or test preparation.

For guidelines on how to distinguish which texts belong on which project, please see Wikisource's article on this: Wikisource and Wikibooks. There are no absolute rules for texts of this kind, and any reasonable decision by the contributor(s) should be respected.

How to list an annotated text

When you start a Wikibooks project to annotated a text, please list the main title page in the following three places:

  • Annotated texts bookshelf - This is the full list of annotated texts at Wikibooks. Please list your book there by author, title, and subject (whichever are relevant).
  • template - This is the list of annotated texts that appears on the Main Page. Please do not list your book here until you have written some minimal annotation (at the very least a good introduction).
  • Category:Annotated texts - Please add this category tag to the title page of your book alone (not to each section or passage).

How to organize an annotated text

For now, please see discussion of this question on the talk page.

In general: Break your text into user-friendly sections (e.g. chapters), each of which must be linked to and from the title page (often by using "/" for subpages).

Texts without annotations

A number of original source texts have been contributed to Wikibooks over the course of time, with the goal and expectation that they would be annotated. However, little or no annotation has been written for the majority of these texts.

In general, the good-faith intentions and work of a contributor who added an important source text to Wikibooks should be honored. This is true even if its takes a very long time until annotations are written (after all, on a wiki people contribute what they want, when they want too...).

Nevertheless, these texts are really more appropriate for Wikisource than for Wikibooks. Therefore, they may become candidates for deletion if and when the following criteria are met:

  • The source text also exists in the same format at Wikisource.
  • The source text is not a text widely used in classrooms for which there will clearly be a need for future annotations and interest in writing them.
    • Example: The works of Shakespeare. These are central classroom texts and cultural icons. Thus there is a clear demand for annotations of them, and there are clearly people who will be interested in writing them at some point. Therefore, the copies of these texts might as well be left at Wikibooks, even though they also exist at Wikisource.
  • The source text has absolutely no annotations, or the annotation is so minimal that its erasure constitutes no loss of an instructional material.

When all of the above criteria are met, a book may become a candidate for deletion.

Suggestion: If you want to start annotating a large text, there is no need to add the entire source text immediately at the beginning. Instead, start by copying and annotating a limited initial portion of the text. Later sections can be added to Wikibooks later, when the annotation is already substantial. By implementing this suggestion, you can maintain a reasonable balance between the source text and your annotations at all stages of the project, from beginning to end.

Other languages: It should also be noted that Wikibooks is a multilingual project (not just English). A text here at English Wikibooks may also be part of a larger multilingual annotation project. If annotations to a book are proceeding in another language, and the passages are linked, then the English version should be kept even if it has no annotations.

Example: If Shakespeare is being annotated in German, then the German contributors should be able to simply put an "en:" link to connect to the original English version of each unit of text. They should not be forced to link to the Wikisource version just because there is very little annotation yet in English.

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