#title How to add a new text
#lang en
#pubdate 2021-01-11T06:55:49
See a text that ought be on the library? As we are anarchists, we practice direct action — you can add texts yourself!
Start adding texts with the [[https://sea.theanarchistlibrary.org/action/text/new][**=Add New Text=**]] button. It’s also the [[https://sea.theanarchistlibrary.org/action/text/new][**=+=**]] button on the top of this website.
*** What text can be added?
The Southeast Asian Anarchist Library is specifically for Southeast Asian anarchism, so the texts do have to have some relevance to Southeast Asian anarchism. In practice, this means that the text has to be from Southeast Asia or in a Southeast Asian language.
*** What do I put in the metadata fields?
In the [[https://sea.theanarchistlibrary.org/action/text/new][**=Add New Text=**]] page you will see the following fields:
- =Title= — Put in the title of the text
- =Subtitle= — Optional field in case the text has a substitle
- =Title for sorting= — Repeat the title but remove “a,” “an,” “the” if in English or equivalents like “ang” in Tagalog or equivalents in other languages.
- =Author (for display)= — You can put the author’s pen name here.
- =Authors for indexing= — You can put the author’s real name here. If there are minor co-authors like authors of the preface, introduction, and the like, add their names here. Separate authors by commas (=,=).
- =Topics= — What is the article about? Try not to make new topics, but if the topic does not currently exist, you can make one. Separate topics by commas (=,=).
- =Languages= - What languages does this text use? Write it in full here. This can accommodate multiple entries, i.e. =Tagalog, English=. Separate topics by commas (=,=).
- =Publication= - Which publication does this text come from? Write the name of the distro, whether that be Bandilang Itim, Mèo Mun, or CrimethInc.
- =Date of the original publication= — When was this first published?
- =Source= — Where is this text from? If it came from a website do add a retrieval date along with the HTML; example: =Retrieved on 2020-12-15 from https://anarchy.gov=.
- =Unique ID for the text= — Also called UID. If this text is a translation or if this text has translations, put in a title here to mark it as having an equivalent translation elsewhere on the library. Example, texts with the UID =Are You An Anarchist= are grouped together at the bottom of the each page with this UID.
- =Language= — This is the =#lang= field in the header. If the language of the text is neither English nor Bahasa Indonesia, refer to the [[https://bookshelf.theanarchistlibrary.org/library/southeast-asian-anarchist-librarian-special-metadata-on-the-sea-anarchist-library-en#toc1][**guide on additional metadata**]].
- =Main text= — Copy-paste the text here. Copy-pasting works best with HTML, LibreOffice text, or MS Office text. Copy-pasting from PDFs is very poor. Try converting the PDF into =HMTL=, =DOCX=, or =ODT= first.
- =Notes= — Place notes on who translated this, where it was first published, who published it, et cetera.
- =Desired URI= — You don’t really need to touch this. However, you can assign custom URLs if you like. Follow this format: =author-name-the-text-title-languagecode=. Example: =adam-weaver-especifismo-tl=.
- =Publication date on this site= — You don’t really need to touch this. But if you want the text published on a specific future date you can specify when.
There are also additional metadata fields =#language= and =#publication=. You can add these after you press =create= at the bottom of the [[https://sea.theanarchistlibrary.org/action/text/new][**=Add New Text=**]] page.
Please refer to the [[https://bookshelf.theanarchistlibrary.org/library/southeast-asian-anarchist-librarian-special-metadata-on-the-sea-anarchist-library-en][**Special metadata guide**]].
To summarize the contents of that guide, add =#language= and =#publication= to the header of your text in the editing mode usually after =#pubdate= like so: