Timeline of events for the context of Wikisource:
- 1971 Project Gutenberg founded: the first digital library
- 1995: the Dutch Project Laurens Jansz Coster started
- 2001 Wikipedia is founded
- 2003 "Old Wikisource" is founded at http://wikisource.org
- 2005 Development of c.15 Wikisource language versions
- c.2008 Proofread Page extension by ThomasV adopted
- 2012 Wikidata founded, Wikisource data items created there