Wikisource is an online digital library of free-content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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10 Facts About Wikisource
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The name Wikisource was adopted later that year and it received its own domain name.
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Original concept for Wikisource was as storage for useful or important historical texts.
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Since Wikisource was initially called "Project Sourceberg", its first logo was a picture of an iceberg.
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On November 27, 2005, 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.
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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.
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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digital format previously published texts; including novels, non-fiction works, letters, speeches, constitutional and historical documents, laws and a range of other documents.
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All texts held by Wikisource must have been previously published; the project does not host "vanity press" books or documents produced by its contributors.
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Idea of a project-specific coordination wiki, first realized at Wikisource, took hold in another Wikimedia project, namely at Wikiversity's Beta Wiki.
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In 2011, the English Wikisource received many high-quality scans of documents from the National Archives and Records Administration as part of their efforts "to increase the accessibility and visibility of its holdings.
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