List of texts every Wikisource should have

Note : this list is not an official guideline and does not reflect the editorial policies of every Wikisource.

To begin with this list will be limited to 100 texts, so that translations can be found for all existing Wikisource projects.

List

Language specific

• The official language copyright acts (s:Portal:Copyright law)
• National Anthems

Anthems

• s:The Internationale

Religious texts

• s:Rigveda
• s:Koran (oldwikisource:Qur'an)
• s:Bible
• s:The Lord's Prayer (oldwikisource:The Lord's Prayer)
• s:Hail Mary (oldwikisource:Hail Mary)

Philosophy

• The Analects
• Plato's Republic
• Das Kapital von s:de:Karl Marx

Science

• en:Euclid's Elements
• s:fr:Traité élémentaire de chimie
• s:On the Origin of Species
• s:la:Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

Arts

• Greek literature
  • the Iliad and Odyssey poems by Homer
  • plays by Aeschylus, such as Agamemnon; by Sophocles, such as Antigone; by Euripides, such as The Bacchantes
• Latin
  • Livy, Pliny, Cicero, Suetonius, and Tacitus works
• The Ramayana
• a few of the most influential from the The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (s:First Folio)
• s:A Doll's House (s:no:Et Dukkehjem) by Henrik Ibsen

Laws and rights

• Magna Carta
• 95 Theses
• s:United States Declaration of Independence
• s:Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (vo: Déclaration des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen)
• s:United States Bill of Rights
• s:Universal Declaration of Human Rights [1] (Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
• s:Geneva Convention

Treaties

• s:Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works

Links

Other lists

• The Telegraph: 100 novels everyone should read
• Goodreads: Books that everyone should read at least once
• 100 Public Domain Classics Every Student of Humanity Should Read
• Classic Poems Everyone Should Know

See also

• List of articles every Wikipedia should have