Editing Wikisource (section)

==Reception==
[[File:The Impact of Wikipedia - Andrea Zanni.webm|thumb|right|Personal explanation of Wikisource from a project participant]]

Wikipedia co-founder [[Larry Sanger]] criticised Wikisource and sister project [[Wiktionary]] in 2011, after he left the project, saying that their collaborative nature and technology means that there is no oversight by experts, and alleging that their content is therefore not reliable.<ref>{{cite book|title=Wikipedia: The Company and Its Founders|first=Jennifer Joline|last=Anderson|publisher=ABDO|year=2011|isbn=978-1-61714-812-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/wikipediacompany0000ande/page/92 92–93]|url=https://archive.org/details/wikipediacompany0000ande/page/92}}</ref>

[[Bart D. Ehrman]], a New Testament scholar and professor of religious studies at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]], has criticised the English Wikisource's project to create a user-generated translation of the Bible saying "Democratization isn't necessarily good for scholarship."<ref name=newsweek /> [[Richard Elliott Friedman]], an Old Testament scholar and professor of Jewish studies at the [[University of Georgia]], identified errors in the translation of the [[Book of Genesis]] as of 2008.<ref name=newsweek />

In 2010, Wikimedia France signed an agreement with the {{Lang|fr|[[Bibliothèque nationale de France]]|italic=no}} (National Library of France) to add scans from its own ''Gallica'' digital library to French Wikisource. Fourteen hundred public domain French texts were added to the Wikisource library as a result via upload to the [[Commons:|Wikimedia Commons]]. The quality of the transcriptions, previously automatically generated by [[optical character recognition]] (OCR), was expected to be improved by Wikisource's human proofreaders.<ref>{{cite web|title=La BNF prend un virage collaboratif avec Wikisource|trans-title=BNF takes a collaborative turn with Wikisource|language=fr|date=April 8, 2010|access-date=2011-09-29|work=ITespresso|publisher=NetMediaEurope|url=http://www.itespresso.fr/la-bnf-prend-un-virage-collaboratif-avec-wikisource-34562.html|archive-date=2011-10-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008064444/http://www.itespresso.fr/la-bnf-prend-un-virage-collaboratif-avec-wikisource-34562.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Wikimédia France signe un partenariat avec la BnF|trans-title=Wikimedia France sign a partnership with the BnF|language=fr|date=April 7, 2010|work=Wikimédia France|url=http://www.wikimedia.fr/wikim%25C3%25A9dia-france-signe-un-partenariat-avec-la-bnf|access-date=2011-09-29|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929162757/http://www.wikimedia.fr/wikim%C3%A9dia-france-signe-un-partenariat-avec-la-bnf|archive-date=September 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-04-12/News and notes#French National Library to cooperate with Wikisource|"French National Library to cooperate with Wikisource"]], ''[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|Wikipedia Signpost]]''. 2010-04-12.</ref>
{{wikisource portal|National Archives and Records Administration Collection}}
In 2011, the English Wikisource received many high-quality scans of documents from the US [[National Archives and Records Administration]] (NARA) as part of their efforts "to increase the accessibility and visibility of its holdings." Processing and upload to Commons of these documents, along with many images from the NARA collection, was facilitated by a NARA [[Wikimedian in residence]], Dominic McDevitt-Parks. Many of these documents have been transcribed and proofread by the Wikisource community and are featured as links in the National Archives' own online catalog.<ref>{{cite web|title=Wikimedia and the new collaborative digital archives|first1=Dominic|last1=McDevitt-Parks|first2=Robin|last2=Waldman|work=The Text Message|publisher=[[National Archives and Records Administration]]|url=http://blogs.archives.gov/TextMessage/2011/07/25/wikimedia-and-the-new-collaborative-digital-archives/|access-date=2011-09-29|date=July 25, 2011|archive-date=2011-09-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110913015100/http://blogs.archives.gov/TextMessage/2011/07/25/wikimedia-and-the-new-collaborative-digital-archives/|url-status=live}}</ref>