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Digital library |
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| Created by | User-generated |
| Slogan(s) | The Free Library |
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| Alexa rank |
 4,983 (February 2017[update]) |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | November 24, 2003 |
| Current status | Online |
The project holds works that are either in the public domain or freely licensed; professionally published works or historical source documents, not vanity products; and are verifiable. Verification was initially made offline, or by trusting the reliability of other digital libraries. Now works are supported by online scans via the ProofreadPage extension, which ensures the reliability and accuracy of the project's texts.
The project was originally called Project Sourceberg during its planning stages (a play on words for Project Gutenberg).
ThomasV built other tools as well: when the choice of whether publishing annotations or not was discussed, he made a gadget to offer the choice between texts alone or annotated texts. When the choice of modernizing or not the texts was discussed, he made another gadget to modernize the original text only when it was wished, so that it could be decided then that the texts themselves would be the original ones.
On May 10, 2006, the was created.
An initial wave of 14 languages was set up by Brion Vibber on August 23, 2005. The new languages did not include English, but the code en: was temporarily set to redirect to the main website ().
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