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'''[[w:Wikisource|Wikisource]]''' is a Wikimedia project created for the purpose of amassing a library of free texts. It first began in 2003, under the name of ''Project Sourceberg'', and branched into multilingual subdivisions by 2005. Novels, books, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and documents are all included, so long as they are in the [[:w:en:Public domain|public domain]] or released under the open content [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC-BY-SA] license. The English Wikisource is the largest Wikisource to date, with over 162,000 texts as of October 4, 2010.
'''[[w:Wikisource|Wikisource]]''' is a Wikimedia project to build a library of free texts. Initially called "Project Sourceberg" when it began in 2003, it later branched into subdivisions for individual languages by 2005. Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC-BY-SA] open content license.


==Name and Slogan==
==Name, Slogan, Logo==
'''See the multilingual chart [[:oldwikisource:Wikisource|''«Wikisource — The Free Library»'']]''', for the name of the project and its slogan in many dozens of languages.
*'''See the multilingual chart [[:oldwikisource:Wikisource|''«Wikisource — The Free Library»'']]''', for the name of the project and its slogan in many dozens of languages.
 
*The Wikisource Logo changed during the history of the project. It was originally a .jpg image (as seen to the right), but is now an .svg image of the iceberg (as seen above).
Logo has changed throughout the history of the project - was originally a .jpg image, as seen to the right, but is now the .svg image of the iceberg, as seen above.
 
==Milestones and news==
See [[oldwikisource:Wikisource:News|Wikisource:News]].
 
==Other information==
See the global Wikisource: [[oldwikisource:Wikisource:Scriptorium|Wikisource:Scriptorium]].


== List of Wikisources ==
== List of Wikisources ==
 
This is a list of Wikisource language subdomains. See '''[[:oldwikisource:Wikisource:Languages|Wikisource:Languages]]''' for a list of languages without their own subdomains; these are housed at the '''[[:oldwikisource:|Multilingual Wikisource]]'''.
This is a list of Wikisource subdomains (one per language). See '''[[:oldwikisource:Wikisource:Languages|Wikisource:Languages]]''' for a list of languages without their own subdomains, which are housed at the [[:oldwikisource:|Multilingual Wikisource]].


[http://s23.org/wikistats/wikisources_html.php <b>External Source</b>], dynamically  
[http://s23.org/wikistats/wikisources_html.php <b>External Source</b>], dynamically  

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Wikisource logo
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Original Wikisource logo

Languages: Template:Wikisource/Languages

Wikisource is a Wikimedia project to build a library of free texts. Initially called "Project Sourceberg" when it began in 2003, it later branched into subdivisions for individual languages by 2005. Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.

  • See the multilingual chart «Wikisource — The Free Library», for the name of the project and its slogan in many dozens of languages.
  • The Wikisource Logo changed during the history of the project. It was originally a .jpg image (as seen to the right), but is now an .svg image of the iceberg (as seen above).

List of Wikisources

This is a list of Wikisource language subdomains. See Wikisource:Languages for a list of languages without their own subdomains; these are housed at the Multilingual Wikisource.

External Source, dynamically sortable to any criteria, self-updating every six hours by cronjob.

External Source, generated wikisyntax, which manually is being pasted in this page.

Alemannic Wikisource

An Alemannic Wikisource has been created as separate namespace within Alemannic Wikipedia: Alemannischi Textsammlig (Wikisource).

Historical discussion

Please see the talk page.