Wikisource
Wikisource is an online wiki-based digital library of free-content textual sources operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikisource is the name of the project as a whole; it is also the name for each instance of that project, one for each language. The project's aim is to host all forms of free text, in many languages, and translations. Originally conceived as an archive to store useful or important historical texts, it has expanded to become a general-content library. The project officially began on November 24, 2003, under the name Project Sourceberg, a play on Project Gutenberg. The name Wi
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Wikisource is a free online library run by the Wikimedia Foundation that collects and hosts texts in many languages, including historical documents and translations. Started in 2003, it has grown from an archive focused on important historical works into a general-purpose digital library that anyone can access and contribute to.
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Key facts
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- Wikisource
- Website.logo
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- Website.logo_caption
- The current Wikisource logo
- Website.collapsible
- yes
- Website.caption
- Detail of the Wikisource multilingual portal main page
- Website.screenshot
- 250px|Detail of the Wikisource multilingual portal main page.|class=notpageimage
- Website.commercial
- No
- Website.type
- Digital library
- Website.language
- Multilingual ( active sub-domains)
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- Optional
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- Wikimedia Foundation
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- User-generated
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13 sectionsContents
- History
- Logo and slogan
- Tools built
- Milestones
- Library contents
- Annotations and translations – the difference to Wikibooks
- Structure
- Language subdomains
- wikisource.org
- Reception
- See also
- References
- External links
Wikisource is an online wiki-based digital library of free-content textual sources operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikisource is the name of the project as a whole; it is also the name for each instance of that project, one for each language. The project's aim is to host all forms of free text, in many languages, and translations. Originally conceived as an archive to store useful or important historical texts, it has expanded to become a general-content library. The project officially began on November 24, 2003, under the name Project Sourceberg, a play on Project Gutenberg. The name Wikisource was adopted later that year and it received its own domain name.
The project holds works that are either in the public domain or freely licensed: professionally published works or historical source documents, not vanity products. Verification was initially made offline, or by trusting the reliability of other digital libraries. Now works are supported by online scans via the ProofreadPage extension, which ensures the reliability and accuracy of the project's texts.