Wikisource

Wikisource, The Free Library, is a Wikimedia project to build a free wiki library of primary source texts, along with translations of source-texts into any language and other supporting materials.

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Wikisource was originally called "Project Sourceberg" during its planning stages (a play on words for "Project Gutenberg)."

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The project began its activity at a mistaken location, when source texts were placed at ps.wikipedia.org. "PS" was taken to mean either "primary sources" or "Project Sourceberg" by the contributors, who erroneously took over the subdomain of the Pashto language's Wikipedia.

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