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Wikisource

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Wikisource is a sister project to Wikipedia that aims to create a free wikiwiki compendium of primary source texts in any language, as well as translations of source texts. Originally called Project Sourceberg (after Project Gutenberg) during the planning stages for the project, the site was officially named Wikisource on December 6 2003 following a vote.

The logo shown, based on a picture of an iceberg, was used for Project Sourceberg, but has not attracted much enthusiasm since the change of name.

Project Sourceberg logo
Wikisource logo

The project was launched on November 24 2003 under the temporary URL sources.wikipedia.org. It is hoped the the URL wikisource.org, will someday become the project's home.

Prior to this, source texts were placed at ps.wikipedia.org, which was mistakenly used to mean Project Sourceberg, but is actually the Pashto language Wikipedia. All texts which had been placed there were moved to the official site on the day of the launch.

Within two weeks of the project's official start, over 1000 pages had been created, with approximately 200 of these being designated as actual articles. At the start of 2004, the site had 100 registered users. In early July, 2004 the number of articles exceeds 2400, and more than 500 users have registered.

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