Wikisource th birthday!

Wikisource tenth birthday!

Wikisource went live on sources.wikipedia.org November 24, 2003. Six months later, it moved here to wikisource.org. In 10 years, a lot of things have happened to make Wikisource what it is today, a free library split in 64 language subdomains. In celebration of this tenth birthday we have created this page to present the Wikisource history, we made a proofreading contest organized by some Wikisources and interviews of some community members.

Important moments of the Wikisource history

Composite photograph showing an iceberg both above and below the waterline. — The original Wikisource logo

November 24, 2003: official launch at sources.wikipedia.org
December 6, 2003: "Wikisource" is chosen as name for the new project
July 23, 2004: Wikisource moves to its current URL, wikisource.org
August 23, 2005: The creation of subdomain Wikisources is enacted, with the initial 14 subdomains
August 2008: Deployment of the Proofread Page extension, written by ThomasV that gives Wikisource a powerful editing tool

Interviews

We interviewed four long time Wikisource contributors, Yann, Inductiveload, Aubrey and Tpt about their thoughts on Wikisource. Read the interview

Proofreading contests

Five Wikisources organize a proofreading contest:

English Wikisource
Italian Wikisource
Catalan Wikisource
Malayalam Wikisource
Bengali Wikisource (January 1 to July 1, 2017)

The Italian Wikisource contest was linked for a week from a small Italian Wikipedia sitenotice; active editors in November jumped +217 %.

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