Wikisource is an online library of free-content texts, run by the Wikimedia Foundation and written and proofread by volunteers. It was launched in November 2003 under the name Project Sourceberg, a play on Project Gutenberg, and soon received its present name. The project collects works that are in the public domain or released under free licences, including books, historical documents, speeches, laws and treaties, and it exists in many languages. Volunteers transcribe texts by comparing them with scanned images of the original pages, a method that makes the content verifiable. It is a sister project of Wikipedia and runs on the same MediaWiki software, and it gives readers a place to find the full text of sources that Wikipedia articles cite.
Before and after
- 12 October 2003Release of Albanian Wikipedia
- 15 October 2003Launch of Shenzhou 5
- 19 October 2003Discovery of Atacama skeleton
- November 2003Release of Georgian Wikipedia
- 24 November 2003Founding of Wikisource
- December 2003Release of Persian Wikipedia
- 6 December 2003Release of Bulgarian Wikipedia
- 21 December 2003Release of Uzbek Wikipedia
- 25 December 2003Release of Thai Wikipedia
More in Society, economy & sport
- 1945Founding of International Court of Justice
- 24 October 1945Founding of United Nations Security Council
- 27 December 1945Founding of World Bank
- 15 June 1954Founding of Union of European Football Associations
- 8 December 1991Founding of Commonwealth of Independent States
- 4 February 2004Founding of Facebook
The era
This moment belongs to the Contemporary world (1945 CE to today), the world since 1945. You can also browse everything in the 21st century.