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 .
71-561: [REDACTED] Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article " Mizpah ". Mizpah may refer to: Places [ edit ] Biblical [ edit ] Mizpah in Benjamin Mizpah in Gilead (disambiguation) , several places Mizpah (Moab) Mizpah (Judah) United States [ edit ] Mizpah, Minnesota Mizpah, New Jersey Mizpah Hotel ,
142-405: A PDF or DjVu file and uploaded to either Wikisource or Wikimedia Commons . This system assists editors in ensuring the accuracy of texts on Wikisource. The original page scans of completed works remain available to any user so that errors may be corrected later and readers may check texts against the originals. ProofreadPage also allows greater participation, since access to a physical copy of
213-676: A federal judge for the District Court for the District of Columbia ruled against the National Archives that the records must be preserved stating, "NARA's approval of the schedule was arbitrary and capricious on the grounds that NARA failed to evaluate the research value of the ICE records and that NARA failed to address significant and relevant public comments." In January 2020, a Washington Post reporter noticed blurred protest signs in an image of
284-531: A historic hotel in Tonopah, Nevada Mizpah Spring Hut , in the White Mountains of New Hampshire Other uses [ edit ] Mizpah, pen name of Mildred A. Bonham (1840–1907) Mizpah Congregation , a synagogue Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S. Mizpah (emotional bond) Mizpah (steamboat) , which ran on Puget Sound USS Mizpah (PY-29) , a United States Navy patrol yacht converted from
355-571: A museum in Washington, D.C., that displays the Charters of Freedom, and 15 research facilities across the country. The agency's online catalog makes available over 160 million records ranging from before the start of the republic to the modern government. However, the digitized records represent only a small fraction of the over 13 billion pages in the holdings of the National Archives. The National Archives governs federal records and information policy for
426-584: A private vessel of the same name in 1942 Mizpah play and film adaptation of work by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mizpah . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mizpah&oldid=1203900579 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
497-490: A project-specific coordination wiki, first realized at Wikisource, also took hold in another Wikimedia project, namely at Wikiversity 's Beta Wiki . Like wikisource.org, it serves Wikiversity coordination in all languages, and as a language incubator, but unlike Wikisource, its Main Page does not serve as its multilingual portal. Misplaced Pages co-founder Larry Sanger has criticised Wikisource, and sister project Wiktionary , because
568-478: A requestor's verifiable relation to a subject of interest, restricted files may be obtainable under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Since 2005, NARA has held annual Genealogy Fairs with guest speakers and research workshops. These events are free of charge and are designed for interested individuals of any skill level. Materials from past Genealogy Fairs are available on the National Archives website. In 2010,
639-451: A warrant for a search of the residence in August 2022. NARA's holdings are classed into "record groups" reflecting the governmental department or agency from which they originated. Records include paper documents, microfilm , still pictures, motion pictures, and electronic media. Archival descriptions of the permanent holdings of the federal government in the custody of NARA are stored in
710-813: Is Shakespeare, unlike our commentary on his work, which is whatever we want it to be." The project began its activity at ps.wikipedia.org. The contributors understood the "PS" subdomain to mean either "primary sources" or Project Sourceberg. However, this resulted in Project Sourceberg occupying the subdomain of the Pashto Misplaced Pages (the ISO language code of the Pashto language is "ps"). Project Sourceberg officially launched on November 24, 2003, when it received its own temporary URL, at sources.wikipedia.org, and all texts and discussions hosted on ps.wikipedia.org were moved to
781-547: Is an independent agency of the United States government within the executive branch, charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records. It is also tasked with increasing public access to those documents that make up the National Archives. NARA is officially responsible for maintaining and publishing the legally authentic and authoritative copies of acts of Congress , presidential directives , and federal regulations. NARA also transmits votes of
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#1732845298392852-436: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Wikisource 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
923-553: Is headquartered in the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. The mission of the National Archives is: We drive openness, cultivate public participation, and strengthen our nation's democracy through equitable public access to high-value government records. The work of the National Archives is dedicated to two main functions: public engagement and federal records and information management. The National Archives administers 15 Presidential Libraries and Museums ,
994-565: The Federal Register , Code of Federal Regulations , and United States Statutes at Large , among others. It also administers the Electoral College . The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)—the agency's grant-making arm—awards funds to state and local governments, public and private archives, colleges and universities, and other nonprofit organizations to preserve and publish historical records. Since 1964,
1065-479: The 2017 Women's March at the Archives' public exhibit. Some of the edited signs contained potentially offensive language, and some mentioned president Donald Trump . Besides censoring language, the changes altered the meaning of some protest signs. The agency defended the edits and said they were made "so as not to engage in current political controversy", but admitted it "made a mistake ... we were wrong to alter
1136-489: The Electoral College to Congress. It also examines Electoral College and constitutional amendment ratification documents for prima facie legal sufficiency and an authenticating signature. The National Archives, and its publicly exhibited Charters of Freedom , which include the original United States Declaration of Independence , United States Constitution , United States Bill of Rights , Emancipation Proclamation (starting in 2026), and many other historical documents,
1207-708: The English Wikisource passed 20,000 text-units in its third month of existence, already holding more texts than did the entire project in April (before the move to language subdomains). On May 10, 2006, the first Wikisource Portal was created. On February 14, 2008, the English Wikisource passed 100,000 text-units with Chapter LXXIV of Six Months at the White House , a memoir by painter Francis Bicknell Carpenter . In November, 2011, 250,000 text-units milestone
1278-520: The National Archives at College Park ("Archives II") was opened in 1994 near the University of Maryland, College Park . The Washington National Records Center (WNRC), also located in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, is a large warehouse facility where federal records that are still under the control of the creating agency are stored. Federal government agencies pay a yearly fee for storage at
1349-680: The National Security Archive revealed that the National Archives budget (when adjusted for inflation) has not increased since 1991 despite the exponential growth of electronic records created by the federal government. Under the first Trump Administration , the National Archives had significant difficulty maintaining historical records as the President would often rip, flush, and otherwise discard records, which would then have to be reconstructed and reclaimed by White House and NARA archivists. Additionally, according to multiple former staff,
1420-609: The University of Georgia , identified errors in the translation of the Book of Genesis as of 2008. In 2010, Wikimedia France signed an agreement with the Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France) to add scans from its own Gallica digital library to French Wikisource. Fourteen hundred public domain French texts were added to the Wikisource library as a result via upload to
1491-641: The Wikimedia Commons . The quality of the transcriptions, previously automatically generated by optical character recognition (OCR), was expected to be improved by Wikisource's human proofreaders. In 2011, the English Wikisource received many high-quality scans of documents from the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) as part of their efforts "to increase the accessibility and visibility of its holdings." Processing and upload to Commons of these documents, along with many images from
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#17328452983921562-484: The public domain , as works of the federal government are excluded from copyright protection. However, records from other sources may still be protected by copyright or donor agreements. Executive Order 13526 directs originating agencies to declassify documents if possible before shipment to NARA for long-term storage, but NARA also stores some classified documents until they can be declassified . Its Information Security Oversight Office monitors and sets policy for
1633-542: The 2023 NDAA, NARA had been given a legal deadline of 60 days, for the Archivist to "commence establishment of a collection of unidentified anomalous phenomena." According to NARA, the "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Records Collection will consist of 'copies of all Government, Government-provided, or Government-funded records relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena, technologies of unknown origin, and non-human intelligence (or equivalent subjects by any other name with
1704-450: The Archives, in a cooperative agreement with the University of Virginia Press , created Founders Online , a website for providing free public access to the papers and letters of seven of the nation's most influential founders: John Adams , Benjamin Franklin , Alexander Hamilton , John Jay , Thomas Jefferson , James Madison , and George Washington . Launched three years later, in 2013,
1775-452: The English Wikisource is the Wiki Bible project, intended to create a new, "laissez-faire translation" of The Bible . A separate Hebrew version of Wikisource ( he.wikisource.org ) was created in August 2004. The need for a language-specific Hebrew website derived from the difficulty of typing and editing Hebrew texts in a left-to-right environment (Hebrew is written right-to-left). In
1846-460: The NARA collection, was facilitated by a NARA Wikimedian in residence , Dominic McDevitt-Parks. Many of these documents have been transcribed and proofread by the Wikisource community and are featured as links in the National Archives' own online catalog. Wikisource About Wikisource National Archives and Records Administration The National Archives and Records Administration ( NARA )
1917-499: The NHPRC has awarded some 4,500 grants. The Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) is a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) resource for the public and the government. Congress has charged NARA with reviewing FOIA policies, procedures, and compliance of federal agencies and to recommend changes to FOIA. NARA's mission also includes resolving FOIA disputes between federal agencies and requesters. Originally, each branch and agency of
1988-470: The National Archives Catalog. The archival descriptions include information on traditional paper holdings, electronic records, and artifacts. As of December 2012, the catalog consisted of about 10 billion logical data records describing 527,000 artifacts and encompassing 81% of NARA's records. There are also 922,000 digital copies of already digitized materials. Most records at NARA are in
2059-570: The National Archives announced it would make copies of its collection of Universal Newsreels from 1929 to 1967 available for purchase through CreateSpace , an Amazon.com subsidiary. During the announcement, Weinstein noted that the agreement would "... reap major benefits for the public-at-large and for the National Archives." Adding, "While the public can come to our College Park, Maryland, research room to view films and even copy them at no charge, this new program will make our holdings much more accessible to millions of people who cannot travel to
2130-598: The National Archives in accordance with the Presidential Records Act. In February 2022, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the National Archives had notified the Justice Department that it found classified documents within boxes provided to them from the former-president Donald Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago . After further investigation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation executed
2201-417: The President would ask to keep certain records that otherwise would be returned. As part of its role in receiving and authenticating Electoral College votes, the agency intercepted and rejected forged certificates of ascertainment from Trump allies in seven states who were strategizing to overturn the 2020 presidential election . Upon leaving office in 2021, Donald Trump delayed providing material to
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2272-473: The ProofreadPage extension, which ensures the reliability and accuracy of the project's texts. Some individual Wikisources, each representing a specific language, now only allow works backed up with scans. While the bulk of its collection are texts, Wikisource as a whole hosts other media, from comics to film to audiobooks . Some Wikisources allow user-generated annotations, subject to the specific policies of
2343-533: The U.S. government was responsible for maintaining its own documents, which often resulted in the loss and destruction of records. Congress created the National Archives Establishment in 1934 to centralize federal record-keeping, with the Archivist of the United States serving as chief administrator. R. D. W. Connor was chosen to be the first leader of the organization. After a recommendation by
2414-485: The U.S. government's security classification system. Most people who access records at NARA are genealogists or family historians. While many records are available online through the National Archives Catalog , individuals can also request paper copies and microfilm scans. When applicable, the catalog will indicate a document's physical location in a National Archives facility . Census records are among
2485-441: The United States, the National Archives maintains both research facilities and additional federal records centers (FRCs). In many cases, the research rooms of regional archives are located at the same site as the federal records center, which is inaccessible to the public. In April 2019 an unknown person set fire to an exterior wall of the archives building using a homemade incendiary device before firefighters were able to extinguish
2556-405: The Washington, D.C. area." The agreement also calls for CreateSpace partnership to provide the National Archives with digital reference and preservation copies of the films as part of NARA's preservation program. The National Archives currently utilizes social media and Web 2.0 technologies in an attempt to communicate better with the public. On June 18, 2009, the National Archives announced
2627-486: The Misplaced Pages portal the Wikisource slogan appears around the logo in the project's ten largest languages. Clicking on the portal's central images (the iceberg logo in the center and the "Wikisource" heading at the top of the page) links to a list of translations for Wikisource and The Free Library in 60 languages. A MediaWiki extension called ProofreadPage was developed for Wikisource by developer ThomasV to improve
2698-606: The Wikisource in question. The project has come under criticism for lack of reliability but it is also cited by organisations such as the National Archives and Records Administration . As of November 2024, there are Wikisource subdomains active for 79 languages comprising a total of 6,243,757 articles and 3,021 recently active editors. The original concept for Wikisource was as storage for useful or important historical texts. These texts were intended to support Misplaced Pages articles, by providing primary evidence and original source texts, and as an archive in its own right. The collection
2769-794: The archive's collections. Responsibility for non-law enforcement recovery activities has since been transferred to the NARA Office of the Chief Operating Officer. In 2023, the 118th United States Congress and President of the United States Joe Biden passed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 , which included provisions of the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act . With enactment of
2840-530: The capacity for annotated editions of texts. On Wikisource, the annotations are supplementary to the original text, which remains the primary objective of the project. By contrast, on Wikibooks the annotations are primary, with the original text as only a reference or supplement, if present at all. Annotated editions are more popular on the German Wikisource. The project also accommodates translations of texts provided by its users. A significant translation on
2911-422: The closed sites have 13 articles. There are 4,976,793 registered users of which 3,021 are recently active. The top ten Wikisource language projects by mainspace article count: For a complete list with totals see Wikimedia Statistics: During the move to language subdomains, the community requested that the main wikisource.org website remain a functioning wiki, in order to serve three purposes: The idea of
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2982-577: The collaborative nature and technology of these projects means there is no oversight by experts and therefore their content is not reliable. Bart D. Ehrman , a New Testament scholar and professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , has criticised the English Wikisource's project to create a user-generated translation of the Bible saying "Democratization isn't necessarily good for scholarship." Richard Elliott Friedman , an Old Testament scholar and professor of Jewish studies at
3053-563: The detailed records and materials of non-human intelligence origins, "which shall be transmitted to the National Archives in accordance with section 2107 of title 44, United States Code." The most well-known facility of the National Archives and Records Administration is the National Archives Building (informally known as "Archives I"), located north of the National Mall on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C. A sister facility, known as
3124-822: The education team. The site features 3,000 documents, images, and recordings from the holdings of the Archives. It also features lesson plans and tools for creating new classroom activities and lessons. In 2011, the National Archives initiated a WikiProject on the English Misplaced Pages to expand collaboration in making its holdings widely available through Wikimedia. In December 2019, the National Archives approved record schedules for federal records created by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) which documented detainee sexual abuse and assault, death review files, detention monitoring reports, detainee escape reports, detainee segregation files, and Detention Information Reporting Line records. The schedules permitted ICE to destroy
3195-410: The ensuing months, contributors in other languages including German requested their own wikis, but a December vote on the creation of separate language domains was inconclusive. Finally, a second vote that ended May 12, 2005, supported the adoption of separate language subdomains at Wikisource by a large margin, allowing each language to host its texts on its own wiki. An initial wave of 14 languages
3266-501: The executive branch and preserves and makes available the records of the judicial and legislative branches. Agencies in the executive branch are required by the Federal Records Act to follow approved records schedules. All records maintained by the executive branch must be properly identified by NARA and authorized for eventual destruction or appraised to be of permanent historical or legal value to be preserved and made available to
3337-414: The facility. In accordance with federal records schedules, documents at WNRC are transferred to the legal custody of the National Archives after a certain time; this usually involves a relocation of the records to College Park. Temporary records at WNRC are either retained for a fee or destroyed after retention times have elapsed. WNRC also offers research services and maintains a small research room. Across
3408-820: The first Hoover Commission in 1949, the National Archives was placed within the newly formed General Services Administration (GSA). NARA was officially given its independence from the GSA with the passing of the Records Administration Act of 1984, thus giving birth to the institution that exists today. In December 1978, millions of feet of newsreels were destroyed in a fire at an offsite location in Suitland, Maryland . The reels, made of exceptionally flammable nitrate material, had been donated previously by Universal Pictures and were stored in special vaults intended to protect against fires. In total over 12.6 million feet of film
3479-486: The flames. In an effort to make its holdings more widely available and more easily accessible, the National Archives began entering into public–private partnerships in 2006. A joint venture with Google will digitize and offer NARA video online. When announcing the agreement, Archivist Allen Weinstein said that this pilot program is ... an important step for the National Archives to achieve its goal of becoming an archive without walls. Our new strategic plan emphasizes
3550-792: The importance of providing access to records anytime, anywhere. This is one of many initiatives that we are launching to make our goal a reality. For the first time, the public will be able to view this collection of rare and unusual films on the Internet. On January 10, 2007, the National Archives and Fold3.com (formerly Footnote) launched a pilot project to digitize historic documents from the National Archives holdings. Allen Weinstein explained that this partnership would "allow much greater access to approximately 4.5 million pages of important documents that are currently available only in their original format or on microfilm" and "would also enhance NARA's efforts to preserve its original records." In July 2007,
3621-402: The launching of a YouTube channel "to showcase popular archived films, inform the public about upcoming events around the country, and bring National Archives exhibits to the people." Also in 2009, the National Archives launched a Flickr photostream to share portions of its photographic holdings with the general public. A new teaching-with-documents Web site premiered in 2010 and was developed by
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#17328452983923692-665: The most frequently requested at NARA, with the oldest entries from 1790. These records often contain information such as addresses and names of family members. However, all pieces of personal data are restricted for 72 years after collection; prior to then, federal agencies can only access statistical data. The newest unrestricted census is from 1950 and was released to the general public in April 2022. The subsequent census from 1960 will be released in April 2032. NARA has also collaborated with Ancestry.com , Fold3.com , and Familysearch.org to scan microfilms and documents of genealogical interest. These digitization partners have expanded
3763-430: The need for the project, writing "The hard question, I guess, is why we are reinventing the wheel, when Project Gutenberg already exists? We'd want to complement Project Gutenberg—how, exactly?", and Jimmy Wales adding "like Larry, I'm interested that we think it over to see what we can add to Project Gutenberg. It seems unlikely that primary sources should in general be editable by anyone — I mean, Shakespeare
3834-439: The number of genealogical sources on their respective websites, such as ship passenger lists and military records. NARA will eventually offer free access to all digitized sources through the National Archives Catalog. However, many file collections are not available for public viewing either through NARA or affiliate websites. This includes naturalization records and vital records that reveal extensive personal data. Depending on
3905-463: The operation of the National Archives and Records Administration. The Archivist not only maintains the official documentation of the passage of amendments to the U.S. Constitution by state legislatures, but has the authority to declare when the constitutional threshold for passage has been reached, and therefore when an act has become an amendment. The Office of the Federal Register publishes
3976-643: The original work is not necessary to be able to contribute to the project once images have been uploaded. Within two weeks of the project's official start at sources.wikipedia.org, over 1,000 pages had been created, with approximately 200 of these being designated as actual articles. On January 4, 2004, Wikisource welcomed its 100th registered user. In early July, 2004 the number of articles exceeded 2,400, and more than 500 users had registered. On April 30, 2005, there were 2667 registered users (including 18 administrators) and almost 19,000 articles. The project passed its 96,000th edit that same day. On November 27, 2005,
4047-433: The picture's license was inappropriate for a Wikimedia Foundation logo and because a photo cannot scale properly—a stylized vector iceberg inspired by the original picture was mandated to serve as the project's logo. The first prominent use of Wikisource's slogan— The Free Library —was at the project's multilingual portal , when it was redesigned based upon the Misplaced Pages portal on August 27, 2005, (historical version). As in
4118-667: The project does not host " vanity press " books or documents produced by its contributors. A scanned source is preferred on many Wikisources and required on some. Most Wikisources will, however, accept works transcribed from offline sources or acquired from other digital libraries . The requirement for prior publication can also be waived in a small number of cases if the work is a source document of notable historical importance. The legal requirement for works to be licensed or free of copyright remains constant. The only original pieces accepted by Wikisource are annotations and translations. Wikisource, and its sister project Wikibooks , has
4189-465: The public. Only two to three percent of records created by the federal government are deemed to be of permanent value. The Presidential Records Act mandates that all records created by the Executive Office of the President are to be preserved and transferred to the National Archives at the end of a president's administration. The Archivist of the United States is the chief official overseeing
4260-559: The records when they were no longer needed for business use. The schedules were approved without changes despite public outcry when they were first proposed in the Federal Register . A lawsuit was brought against the National Archives by several plaintiffs, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington , the American Historical Association , and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations . In March 2021,
4331-450: The specific and sole exclusion of temporarily non-attributed objects).'" NARA specified that the only allowed reasons for non-compliance by any party in the Federal government was per section 1843 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 or Executive Order 13526 , signed by President Barack Obama in 2009. The law continued in its mandate for the Archivist and NARA, of
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#17328452983924402-487: The temporary address. A vote on the project's name changed it to Wikisource on December 6, 2003. Despite the change in name, the project did not move to its permanent URL ( http://wikisource.org/ ) until July 23, 2004. Since Wikisource was initially called "Project Sourceberg", its first logo was a picture of an iceberg . Two votes conducted to choose a successor were inconclusive, and the original logo remained until 2006. Finally, for both legal and technical reasons—because
4473-446: The vetting of transcriptions by the project. This displays pages of scanned works side by side with the text relating to that page, allowing the text to be proofread and its accuracy later verified independently by any other editor. Once a book, or other text, has been scanned, the raw images can be modified with image processing software to correct for page rotations and other problems. The retouched images can then be converted into
4544-645: The website currently provides access to a database of 185,000 digitized documents that have been annotated through founding fathers papers projects at five university presses over the past 50 years. In addition to the University of Virginia's, the presses include those at Columbia , Harvard , Princeton , and Yale . In 2006, the NARA's Office of the Inspector General created the Archival Recovery Team to investigate thefts and recover records stolen from
4615-547: Was destroyed. In March 2006, it was revealed by the Archivist of the United States in a public hearing that a memorandum of understanding between NARA and various government agencies existed to "reclassify", i.e., withdraw from public access, certain documents in the name of national security, and to do so in a manner such that researchers would not be likely to discover the process (the U.S. reclassification program ). An audit indicated that more than one third withdrawn since 1999 did not contain sensitive information. The program
4686-435: Was initially focused on important historical and cultural material, distinguishing it from other digital archives like Project Gutenberg. The project was originally called Project Sourceberg during its planning stages (a play on words for Project Gutenberg). In 2001, there was a dispute on Misplaced Pages regarding the addition of primary-source materials, leading to edit wars over their inclusion or deletion. Project Sourceberg
4757-605: Was originally scheduled to end in 2007. In 2008 the NARA announced that they would not be archiving government websites during transition , after carrying out such crawls in 2000 and 2004. The End of Term Web Archive was established in response to this. In 2010, Executive Order 13526 created the National Declassification Center to coordinate declassification practices across agencies, provide secure document services to other agencies, and review records in NARA custody for declassification. A 2022 report by
4828-676: Was passed. Wikisource collects and stores in digital format previously published texts; including novels, non-fiction works, letters, speeches, constitutional and historical documents, laws and a range of other documents. All texts collected are either free of copyright or released under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License . Texts in all languages are welcomed, as are translations. In addition to texts, Wikisource hosts material such as comics , films , recordings and spoken-word works. All texts held by Wikisource must have been previously published;
4899-599: Was reconfigured to enable the English version , along with 8 other languages that were created early that morning and late the night before. Three more languages were created on March 29, 2006, and then another large wave of 14 language domains was created on June 2, 2006. Languages without subdomains are locally incubated. As of September 2020 , 182 languages are hosted locally . As of November 2024, there are Wikisource subdomains for 81 languages of which 79 are active and 2 are closed. The active sites have 6,243,757 articles and
4970-399: Was set up on August 23, 2005. The new languages did not include English, but the code en: was temporarily set to redirect to the main website ( wikisource.org ). At this point the Wikisource community, through a mass project of manually sorting thousands of pages and categories by language, prepared for a second wave of page imports to local wikis. On September 11, 2005, the wikisource.org wiki
5041-553: Was suggested as a solution to this. In describing the proposed project, user The Cunctator said, "It would be to Project Gutenberg what Misplaced Pages is to Nupedia ", soon clarifying the statement with "we don't want to try to duplicate Project Gutenberg's efforts; rather, we want to complement them. Perhaps Project Sourceberg can mainly work as an interface for easily linking from Misplaced Pages to a Project Gutenberg file, and as an interface for people to easily submit new work to PG." Initial comments were skeptical, with Larry Sanger questioning
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