Sites like Wikisource

01 · Entity

About Wikisource

Wikisource wikisource.org

Wikisource

Wikidata: online multilingual library that collects open-content source material

Top 10K · #2,315 English 1 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

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Summary by Claude

A volunteer-edited wiki digital library of free-content and public-domain source texts, including historical documents, literature and translations, with separate editions for many languages. This multilingual portal hosts works in languages without their own subdomain and links the language-specific projects.

Who it’s for

Readers, researchers, students and volunteer transcribers

Business model

Donations (nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation)

• digital library
• public domain texts
• historical documents
• free e-books
• text transcription and proofreading
• multilingual literature
• source text translations
• scanned book transcriptions

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Wikisource’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

1. 01
   Wikibooks wikibooks.org Top 10K English

   Wikibooks

   free multilingual online collection of textbooks

   • Google Search Console

   0 say Wikibooks is a good alternative to Wikisource 0 say Wikibooks isn’t a real alternative to Wikisource

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.946
2. 02
   Wikimedia movement wikimedia.org Top 1K English

   Wikimedia Error

   global social movement for free educational knowledge

   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Microsoft 365
   • Miro

   0 say Wikimedia movement is a good alternative to Wikisource 0 say Wikimedia movement isn’t a real alternative to Wikisource

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.935
3. 03
   Wikipedia wikipedia.org Top 100 English

   Wikipedia

   Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

   • Google Search Console
   • Yandex Webmaster

   0 say Wikipedia is a good alternative to Wikisource 0 say Wikipedia isn’t a real alternative to Wikisource

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.933
4. 04
   Wikiquote wikiquote.org Top 10K English

   Wikiquote

   free multilingual online collection of quotes

   • Google Search Console

   0 say Wikiquote is a good alternative to Wikisource 0 say Wikiquote isn’t a real alternative to Wikisource

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.930
5. 05
   Wikidata wikidata.org Top 10K English

   Wikidata

   free multilingual online knowledge graph

   • Google Search Console

   0 say Wikidata is a good alternative to Wikisource 0 say Wikidata isn’t a real alternative to Wikisource

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.928
6. 06
   Wiktionary wiktionary.org Top 10K English

   Wiktionary

   free online multilingual dictionary

   • Google Search Console

   0 say Wiktionary is a good alternative to Wikisource 0 say Wiktionary isn’t a real alternative to Wikisource

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.925
7. 07
   Project Gutenberg gutenberg.org Top 10K English

   Free eBooks | Project Gutenberg

   Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks. Choose from ebook formats or read online. No fees, no registration, no ads.

   • Google Search Console
   • Apache HTTP Server
   • Google Workspace

   0 say Project Gutenberg is a good alternative to Wikisource 0 say Project Gutenberg isn’t a real alternative to Wikisource

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.921
8. 08
   Internet Archive archive.org Top 1K English

   Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

   U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive

   • Google Search Console
   • Atlassian
   • Google Workspace
   • Microsoft 365
   • nginx
   • Salesforce

   0 say Internet Archive is a good alternative to Wikisource 0 say Internet Archive isn’t a real alternative to Wikisource

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.915
9. 09
   JSTOR jstor.org Top 10K English

   Client Challenge

   distributor of eBooks and other digital media

   • Google Search Console
   • Fastly
   • GlobalSign
   • Meta Business Suite
   • Microsoft 365
   • OpenAI

   0 say JSTOR is a good alternative to Wikisource 0 say JSTOR isn’t a real alternative to Wikisource

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.908
10. 10
    MediaWiki mediawiki.org Top 10K English

    MediaWiki

    free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation

    • Google Search Console

    0 say MediaWiki is a good alternative to Wikisource 0 say MediaWiki isn’t a real alternative to Wikisource

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.904
11. 11
    Open Library openlibrary.org Top 10K English

    Welcome to Open Library | Open Library

    Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.

    • Google Search Console
    • Bing Webmaster Tools
    • Matomo
    • nginx

    0 say Open Library is a good alternative to Wikisource 0 say Open Library isn’t a real alternative to Wikisource

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.904
12. 12
    Scribd scribd.com Top 1K English

    Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.

    Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.

    • Google Search Console
    • Apple Business
    • Atlassian
    • DocuSign
    • Envoy
    • Fastly

    0 say Scribd is a good alternative to Wikisource 0 say Scribd isn’t a real alternative to Wikisource

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.903
13. 13
    Wikidot wikidot.com Top 10K English

    Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting

    Polish wiki hosting corporation

    • Google Search Console
    • Bootstrap
    • Font Awesome
    • Google Workspace
    • Amazon Route 53
    • SendGrid

    0 say Wikidot is a good alternative to Wikisource 0 say Wikidot isn’t a real alternative to Wikisource

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.900
14. 14
    Glosbe glosbe.com Top 10K English

    Glosbe Dictionary - All Languages of the World in One Place

    Glosbe dictionary - one place, all languages! Translations, example sentences, pronunciation recordings and grammar references. Check it out!

    • Google Search Console
    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Cloudflare Web Analytics
    • Google Ad Manager
    • Google Analytics

    0 say Glosbe is a good alternative to Wikisource 0 say Glosbe isn’t a real alternative to Wikisource

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.899
15. 15
    doxygen.org Top 10K English

    Doxygen homepage

    Source code documentation and analysis tool

    • Bootstrap
    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Cloudflare Web Analytics
    • Google AdSense

    0 say doxygen.org is a good alternative to Wikisource 0 say doxygen.org isn’t a real alternative to Wikisource

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.895
16. 16
    Archive of Our Own archiveofourown.org Top 10K English

    Request temporarily denied. | Archive of Our Own

    nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works

    • Google Search Console
    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS

    0 say Archive of Our Own is a good alternative to Wikisource 0 say Archive of Our Own isn’t a real alternative to Wikisource

    Comment
    Close cos 0.892
17. 17
    Namuwiki namu.wiki Top 10K English

    Paraguay-based Korean wiki website

    • Google Search Console
    • Amazon SES
    • Cloudflare
    • Freshworks
    • Google Workspace
    • Amazon Route 53

    0 say Namuwiki is a good alternative to Wikisource 0 say Namuwiki isn’t a real alternative to Wikisource

    Comment
    Close cos 0.891
18. 18
    Reverso reverso.net Top 10K English

    online translation and linguistic tools

    • Google Search Console
    • Brevo
    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Mailjet
    • Meta Business Suite

    0 say Reverso is a good alternative to Wikisource 0 say Reverso isn’t a real alternative to Wikisource

    Comment
    Close cos 0.887
19. 19
    MedlinePlus medlineplus.gov Top 10K English

    MedlinePlus - Health Information from the National Library of Medicine

    Find information on health conditions, wellness issues, and more in easy-to-read language on MedlinePlus, the up-to-date, trusted health information site from the NIH and the National Library of Medicine.

    • Google Search Console
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Bing Webmaster Tools
    • Amazon CloudFront
    • Google Tag Manager
    • jQuery

    0 say MedlinePlus is a good alternative to Wikisource 0 say MedlinePlus isn’t a real alternative to Wikisource

    Comment
    Close cos 0.887
20. 20
    Codeberg e.V. codeberg.org Top 10K English

    Codeberg.org

    Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

    0 say Codeberg e.V. is a good alternative to Wikisource 0 say Codeberg e.V. isn’t a real alternative to Wikisource

    Comment
    Close cos 0.884

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to wikisource.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Wikisource uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Wikisource is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.