Wikisource:WikiProject Chinese

Introduction
While texts completely in Chinese are in zh.wikisource.org, there are many English texts related to China which include a large number of Chinese terms, or sometimes whole extracts in Chinese. This project aims to coordinate the efforts on these texts, and list the solutions to some of the specific issues related to Chinese (transcription, characters variants, etc.).

Participants

 * Koxinga (talk) 13:11, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Wylve (talk) 08:31, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Suzukaze-c (talk) 17:19, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Assassas77 (talk) 18:55, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Reboot01 (talk) 05:20, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

Other partially completed texts, without source scans

 * The situation of the texts of Author:James Legge seems quite messy. Some are completed, most are not, some are with scans, others are not, some seem to be redundant. Not all of them use Chinese characters and require Chinese understanding, but some do, for example Index:Ch'un Ts'ew Pt I.pdf

Character variants

 * For some characters, there are many variants. Due to Han unification in Unicode, the exact display may not be the same for different users. If possible, use the correct character when they have not been unified. For example, it is possible to choose either 靑 or 青, 淸 or 清, but 情 is unified so both variants have to been considered as equivalent. If the distinction is especially relevant, but can not be represented by Unicode, use the template sinogram (see section below).
 * Checking GlyphWiki may be useful for determining how a character is included in Unicode.

Characters not present in Unicode
When a character in a page cannot be represented using Unicode, the template sinogram can be used. This allows to represent it using an image uploaded in Commons, or to use the Ideographic Description Characters to describe the character. Additional information can be provided and will be visible in a tooltip (if the character is a variant of a more common character for example).

Transcription
The current standard transcription of Mandarin is Pinyin, but most texts in Wikisource use Wade-Giles or another transcription system.

The Wade-Giles transcription makes use of the following diacritics: ĭ, ŭ, ê, ü.

Sinograms

 * chinese missing and the corresponding category Pages with missing Chinese characters
 * sinogram (see section above)

Links

 * Legge Chinese Title (shortcut lzht) to link titles to Chinese Wikisource entries
 * Legge Chinese (shortcut lzh) to link characters or words to Wiktionary entries.

Format

 * WG for Wade-Giles transcription
 * Chinese to add an explicit Chinese tag.
 * Chinese rtl to display right-to-left and link to Wiktionary (used in Swatow entry)
 * Chinese vertical block to display vertical block of texts

Specific article templates

 * Swatow entry for the dictionary of the Swatow dialect
 * Synopt entry, Synopt see, Synopt character for the Synoptical studies in the Chinese character