Wikisource:List of works that every Wikisource should have
So far suggestion of sources for establishing this list include:
- the top 1000 Wikipedia articles about works per page view.
- The 500 most important German literary works
- Where most important is defined as number of Wiki sitelinks. Can be adapted for other languages by modifying change the Q188 and the language code.
- Canon of Dutch Literature
- Wikisource:Canone delle opere della letteratura italiana
- Viquitexts:Els 50 essencials de la llengua catalana
- Translationum created by UNESCO
- List of notable writers, as queried from Wikidata
However, some subdomains forbid Wikisource translations. Other subdomains may allow such translations.
Full list edit
Religious literature edit
- The Bible
- Lord's Prayer--very commonly-translated passage from the Bible
- The Qu'ran
- The Vedas
- Dhammapada and Tipitaka
- Dao De Jing
Novels and literary works edit
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- Œuvres complètes de Molière
- Les Essais de Michel de Montaigne
- Gargantua de François Rabelais
- Les Misérables de Victor Hugo
- Journey to the West 文言 of 吳承恩
- Don Quijote of Miguel de Cervantes
- War and Peace Война и мир of Leo Tolstoy
- The Idiot Идиот of Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Political documents edit
- UN Declaration of Human Rights
- US Declaration of Independence
- US Constitution
Philosophical works edit
- Dialogues of Plato, especially the Republic and the trial and death of Socrates
- Analects of Confucius
- Ramayana
- भगवद्गीता, Bhagavad-Gītā, a passage from the above