Wikisource is a sister project to Wikipedia that aims to create a free wiki 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.

History

The project was launched on November 24 2003 under the temporary URL http://sources.wikipedia.org and later got its own domain name: http://wikisource.org.

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. By 31 March 2005, there were 2325 registered users (including 18 administrators) and almost 15,000 articles. The project passed its 80,000th edit on the same day.

External links

• Wikisource site (English Main Page)
• Early discussions about the project