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early days of Wikisource
was the first user to register here on 24 November 2003, when Wikisource was called
"Project Sourceberg"
and had just moved from the
Pashto language Wikipedia
where it had been
squatting
for a while. The first days of the project were spent
moving pages
from the old Pashto wiki and discussing
new policies
which
developed
over the following months. At the start of December 2003, I began the
first vote
where the small community here chose the name of the project; "Wikisource". Luckily,
mav
had bought the
Wikisource domain name
, although it wasn't until July 2004 that
Tim Starling
moved the wiki
there. December also saw
Yann
beginning the
discussions about copyright
on this wiki. On January 4 2004, I welcomed the project's
100th registered user
and created an
article
at Wikipedia to commemorate Wikisource's first milestone.
separate language domains
Walter
was the first person to
ask
whether Wikisource would include multiple languages, though an anonymous
edit on meta
in January 2003 had implied that each language would have its own language subdomain. Even in the project's first two days, there was
no agreement
on this point. However, for the time being, people seemed content to keep all languages together, and I
moved the Main Page
to
Main Page:English
, created the
first international Main Page
, and added a
multi-lingual introduction
to the
Scriptorium
. The issue of having separate domain names was discussed for over 18 months, with the first vote on the matter being
announced
by Tim in October 2004. The vote was inconclusive, but many users, particularly
Dovi
and
ThomasV
, pushed for a
new, more defined vote
, with weighting for active users. This was launched in April 2005 and a vast majority of users voted in support of the proposal. Finally, the community had made the decision to split Wikisource into separate language versions, allowing users to view the site in their own language and build subcommunities for those who speak each language, without needing to log in, and without needing to change their
preferences
the future
sun logo
support
the move towards separate language domains, and see this as the new beginning for Wikisource; a project which has huge potential that has largely remained in the background of
Wikimedia
projects since it was
first discussed
in 2001. I hope the revived interest in the project from all the contributors who have waited so long for their own language version will lead to improvements across the project. For the future, I hope that translations of source texts will happen more frequently. This should be much easier once the new language wikis are set up next month, and it would be great if the multi-lingual community here could turn Wikisource into something much more than a traditional repository of texts. I hope to see more collaboration with external parties, such as
Project Gutenberg
, which I first contacted in January 2004. I remain open to the idea that Wikisource could one day merge with the
Wikimedia Commons
, but I agree with
Erik's point
that now is not the time to do this. Maybe we'll finally get a
new logo
too.
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