{"id":19,"date":"2017-12-07T00:53:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T00:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/?p=19"},"modified":"2017-12-07T13:06:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T13:06:49","slug":"what-is-wikisource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/what-is-wikisource\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Wikisource?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does it do?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><i>\u201c<\/i><b><i>Libraries are about <\/i><\/b><b><i>freedom<\/i><\/b><i>. <\/i><i>Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.\u201d (Neil <\/i><i>Gaiman<\/i><i>, 2013)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s not what you do\u2026it\u2019s what it does to you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><i>\u201c<\/i><b><i>Quotations or images from centuries ago can still touch or inspire, <\/i><\/b><i>and as readers share this reaction online, the interested audience grows. <\/i><i>The Wikimedia projects make it easy for people to enjoy and share out-of-copyright text, creating and satisfying a modern curiosity about past authors<\/i><i>.\u201d<\/i><i>(Martin <\/i><i>Poulter<\/i><i>, 2015)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Wikisource is a free human-curated online digital library. It hosts out-of-copyright &amp; public domain texts (also CC-Zero, CC-BY and CC-BY-SA licensed texts).<\/li>\n<li>Wikisource is a treasure trove of novels, short stories, plays, poems, songs, letters, travel writing, non-fiction texts, speeches, news articles, constitutional documents, court rulings, obituaries, eulogies and much more besides.<\/li>\n<li>Pdf or Djvu page scans are uploaded first to Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository, before being transcribed through Optical Character Recognition software (OCR) onto Wikisource in a searchable HTML format which is then proofread by 2 different Wikisource users for quality assurance.<\/li>\n<li>The result is an online text library which is free to anyone to read with the added benefits that the text is quality assured, completely searchable AND downloadable (pdf, epub &amp; mobi formats).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>TIMELINE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1971 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Project_Gutenberg\">Project Gutenberg<\/a> founded: the first <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/digital_library\">digital library<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>2001 Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, is founded.<\/li>\n<li>2003 &#8220;Old Wikisource&#8221; is founded at <a href=\"http:\/\/wikisource.org\/\">http:\/\/wikisource.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2005 Development of c.15 Wikisource language versions.<\/li>\n<li>c.2008 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\/wiki\/Extension:Proofread_Page\">Proofread Page extension<\/a> adopted.<\/li>\n<li>2012 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikidata<\/a> founded, Wikisource data items created there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/12\/Slide27.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/12\/Slide27.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/12\/Slide27.png 960w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/12\/Slide27-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/12\/Slide27-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikimedia&#8217;s family of Open Knowledge projects all link together.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Robert Louis Stevenson&#8217;s page on Wikipedia, you will find<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A link to his out of copyright texts on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Author:Robert_Louis_Stevenson\">Wikisource<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>A link to open-licensed images of Robert Louis Stevenson hosted on <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Robert_Louis_Stevenson\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Wikimedia Commons<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A link in the left hand menu to Robert Louis Stevenson&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Q1512\"><strong>Wikidata page<\/strong><\/a>, where structured linked open data is stored about him.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Click to visit <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Louis_Stevenson\">Robert Louis Stevenson&#8217;s page <\/a>on Wikipedia to have a look.<\/p>\n<h2>More reading<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:CILIP_Update_November_2015_Poulter_article_pp42-43.pdf\">Shiver-inducing contacts with the past &#8211; Martin Poulter, University of Oxford on Wikisource in CILIP Update November 2015<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEXT PAGE &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/wikisource-the-hyper-library\/\">Wikisource as a <em>hyper<\/em> library<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wiki-source\/\"><strong>HOME<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it do? \u201cLibraries are about freedom. 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