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 differing opinions about whether the Wikipedia biographies of Presidents Barack Obama or George W. Bush adhere to the stated standard of neutrality; it is less easy to imagine users reasonably adhering to different views about whether the text reproduced at Wikisource matches the content of the published source.

Like Distributed Proofreaders, Wikisource now draws most new content from users who proofread and correct the text extracted from scanned page images of a published source. Unlike Distributed Proofreaders, however, Wikisource was not originally engineered with proofreading of page scans in mind. This functionality has been in place only during the last two to three years of the project’s existence. Nevertheless, the site now offers a clean and well-organized user interface that at least rivals, and perhaps exceeds, the usefulness and intuitive functionality of Distributed Proofreaders.

First, each scanned volume image accessible at Wikisource (which typically, although not always, correspond to a separately bound hard copy volume of a work as originally published) has a so-called “Index page” that reproduces identifying information about that