Editing Wikisource (section)

===wikisource.org===
During the move to language subdomains, the community requested that the main [[oldwikisource:|wikisource.org]] website remain a functioning wiki, in order to serve three purposes:

# ''To be a multilingual coordination site for the entire Wikisource project in all languages.'' In practice, use of the website for multilingual coordination has not been heavy since the conversion to language domains. Nevertheless, there is some policy activity at the [[:oldwikisource:Wikisource:Scriptorium|Scriptorium]], and multilingual updates for news and language milestones at pages such as [[:oldwikisource:Wikisource:2007|Wikisource:2007]].
# ''To be a home for texts in languages without their own subdomains, each with its own local main page for self-organization.''<ref>For an automatic list of local main pages, see [[:oldwikisource:Category:Main Pages|Category:Main Pages]]; for a formatted list, see the '''wikisource.org''' section of the [[:oldwikisource:|Wikisource portal]].</ref> As a language incubator, the wiki currently provides a home for over 30 languages that do not yet have their own language subdomains. Some of these are very active, and have built libraries with hundreds of texts (such as [[Volapük]]).
# ''To provide direct, ongoing support by a local wiki community for a dynamic multilingual portal at its Main Page, for users who go to [[:oldwikisource:|http://wikisource.org]].'' The current [[:oldwikisource:|Main Page portal]] was created on August 26, 2005, by [[:oldwikisource:User:ThomasV|ThomasV]], who based it upon the Wikipedia portal.

The idea of a project-specific coordination wiki, first realized at Wikisource, also took hold in another Wikimedia project, namely at [[Wikiversity]]'s [[:v:Beta:Main Page|Beta Wiki]]. Like wikisource.org, it serves Wikiversity coordination in all languages, and as a language incubator, but unlike Wikisource, its [[:v:Beta:Main Page|Main Page]] does not serve as its multilingual portal.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wikiversity.org/ |title=Wikiversity.org |publisher=Wikiversity.org |access-date=2011-07-05 |archive-date=2010-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100812152016/http://www.wikiversity.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>