Wikisource
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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 Novels, books, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and documents are all included, so long as they are in the public domain or released under the open content CC-BY-SA license. The English Wikisource is the largest Wikisource to date, with over 133,000 texts as of November 13, 2009.
Name and Slogan
See the multilingual chart «Wikisource — The Free Library», for the name of the project and its slogan in many dozens of languages.
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.
List of Wikisources
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.