English Wikisource

Wikisource—the free library—is a @Wikimedia project maintained by volunteers to create a free content library of source texts. Visit to read or help contribute!

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The Irish Land Acts: a short sketch of their history and development (1917)
by William Frederick Bailey
https://t.co/UQV6A8KsDy
#HistoryOfIreland #LandReform

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Women's Votes in New Zealand and Australia (1907) by Nellie Alma Martel
https://t.co/JTRAVETwRU
#WomensSuffrage #Australia #NewZealand #womenpower @wikisource_en

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The Medical School of the Melbourne University: an address delivered on the twenty fifth anniversary of the opening of the Medical School, in the Wilson Hall, March 23, 1887 by James Edward Neild
https://t.co/Oi4eWZu3Vp
#UniversityOfMelbourne

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February 2021 @wikisource_en 55 works created

19thC x 13
20thC x 35
21stC x 7

#silentmovies #leagueofnations #pamphlets #poetry #legislation

[WikiCite @Wikicite]

We’re thrilled to share a proposal to extend the work of the #WikiCite community, to support Wikimedia Projects and make citations:
• easier for the editor,
• more useful for the reader,
• and more efficient for our architecture.
#SharedCitations
https://t.co/pqVwQLApNa
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@wikisource_en produced 64 proofread works in #january2021

F Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gadsby" arrived in public domain
https://t.co/mAvbEVxtEb

21stC x 4
20thC x 35
19thC x 24
18thC x1

also seeing Biden Administration works appearing.

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@wikisource_en November 2020
24 works
* 2x 17thC
* 14x 19thC
* 8x 20thC
#Kipling #spooner #Verne #Tagore +++

https://t.co/VrkfMWJ7OO

inlcuding "Waylaid by Wireless" an 1909 mystery novel by Edwin Balmer

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''Thom's Irish Who's Who'' (1923) by publisher Alexander Thom & Co
https://t.co/Qis7lxxkzK

@wikisource_en
2350 biographical entries (approx.) from 266 pages
15 months of plodding
#Ireland #Biographies #1923

All entries put into @wikidata

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@Wikimedia @wm_au @wikimediauk @WikimediaEdu wondering if there is a need/appetite for @wikisource_en ppl to run online sessions about transcribing. #wikisource

We're notorious for just doing our transcriptions, being welcoming and not having blow-ups 🤷‍♂️ https://t.co/WPbPeHznHf

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English Wikisource (September 2020)—23 works transcribed from 1705 to 2018
https://t.co/JH8MmVOEMD
3x 18thC
7x 19thC
12x 20thC
1x 21stC
@wikisource_en
#poetry #skis #stories #lectures #Czech #homerule

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (1910)
by Emma Orczy

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English Wikisource (August 2020)—35 works transcribed from 1626 through 1958
https://t.co/Cr2RcSn1Gr
@wikisource_en @wikisource
2x 17thC
1x 18thC
16x 19thC
16x 20thC

An Appeal to England against the Execution of the Condemned Fenians (1867)
by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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@wikisource_en
25 works completed presented to the community in May 2020
https://t.co/MD50cUrux5

Not to mention all the chapbooks contributed by the @natlibscot and transcribed by their staff
https://t.co/fRxqSxaQSQ

[English Wikisource @wikisource_en]

@natlibscot Great to have some of your people transcribing works from your collection. I can see some 500+ indexes at this time.

Hope that we are getting the right assistance to your team, and can get some analytics and some good display of the works. #KeptBusy

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@wikisource_en March saw English Wikisource complete 47 works
https://t.co/saLgxTmnNP

earliest 1675, latest 2020 covering #COVID19 #Ireland #CuckooEggs #Santa #WoodEngraving +++

Quirky collection again

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@wikisource_en 33 works proofread and published in December, to a total of 339 works noted for the year. https://t.co/Y66CaMF5on

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New works proofread at English Wikisource (November 2019)
https://t.co/wsVOOrlSE3
@wikisource_en 40 works between 1817 and 1921

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Mrs. Caroline Norton (British author and early advocate for women's rights)

The Maclise Portrait-Gallery of "Illustrious Literary Characters" with memoirs (1883) by William Bates, illustrated by Daniel Maclise
https://t.co/4zJLX3HtBZ

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@wikisource_en English Wikisource's October 2019 completed works
https://t.co/H5ojzBwM56
#enwikisource No author's repeated

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English Wikisource has just reached the milestone of 50% of works' pages being backed by scans (rather than being directly typed in with no fixed relationship with a scanned image).

https://t.co/dNbqcIKSMQ

#WikipediaDay