![]() ![]() Perhaps Project Sourceberg can mainly work as an interface for easily linking from Wikipedia to a Project Gutenberg file, and as an interface for people to easily submit new work to PG." Initial comments were sceptical, with Larry Sanger questioning 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. In describing the proposed project, user The Cunctator said, "It would be to Project Gutenberg what Wikipedia 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. Project Sourceberg was suggested as a solution to this. In 2001, there was a dispute on Wikipedia regarding the addition of primary source material, leading to edit wars over their inclusion or deletion. ![]() The project was originally called Project Sourceberg during its planning stages (a play on words for Project Gutenberg). The only original works allowed on Wikisource are translations and annotations. While the bulk of its collection are texts, Wikisource hosts other media, from comics to film to audio books. Some Wikisources now only allow works backed up with scans. ![]() Now works are supported by online scans via the ProofReadPage extension, which ensures the reliability and accuracy of the project's texts. Verification was initially made offline, or by trusting the reliability of other digital libraries. The project holds works that are either in the public domain or freely licenced professionally published works or historical source documents, not vanity products and are verifiable. 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. The name Wikisource was adopted later that year and it received its own domain name seven months later. The project officially began in Novemunder the name Project Sourceberg. Originally conceived as an archive to store useful or important historical texts, it has expanded to become a general-content library. Its aims are to host all forms of free text, in many languages, and translations. ![]() Wikisource is an online digital library of free content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. ![]()
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