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ウィキソースはウィキペディアの兄弟プロジェクトです。 全ての言語でフリーの主要なソーステキストの大要やこれらのソーステキストの翻訳のウィキの作る事を目的としています。 このプロジェクトの計画段階の間、しばしばプロジェクトソースバーグ(Project Sourceberg)として参照され、投票によって2003年12月6日にウィキソースと公式に名付けられました。
The project was launched on November 24 2003 under the temporary URL sources.wikipedia.org. The URL wikisource.org, which as of January 2004, redirects to this temporary URL, is intended to become the project's real address.
Prior to this, source texts were placed at ps.wikipedia.org, which was mistakenly used to mean Project Sourceberg, but is actually the Pashto language Wikipedia. All texts which had been temporarily placed there were moved to the official site on the day of the launch.
Within two weeks of the project's official start, over 1000 pages had been created, with approximately 200 of these being designated as actual articles. At the start of 2004, the site had 100 registered users.
Wikisource's logo is an iceberg, a play on the term sourceberg which the project was previously called.