“ The wikisource project was cited in Crowdsourcing and Open Access: Collaborative Techniques for Disseminating Legal Materials and Scholarship by Timothy K. Armstrong (Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal & University of Cincinnati Public Law Research Paper No. 10-07) "The essay concludes by offering a few illustrations meant to show the potential for using Wikisource as an open-access repository for primary source materials and scholarship, and considers some possible drawbacks of the crowdsourced approach." ”

“ The wikisource edition of Thomas Jefferson's Letter to John Jay - August 23, 1785 was cited in The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce by Deirdre N. McCloskey (University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226556635) A quote from the wikisource edition of the Magna Carta was used as an epigraph for chapter six ("Portability") of Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective by Diomidis Spinellis (Adobe Press, ISBN 9780321166074) Quote: "No village or individual shall be compelled to make bridges at river banks, except those who from of old were legally bound to do so." ”

“ But this has an crucial disadvantage. Every library has to build its own community, so the critical mass of people for a community that works will be harder to reach. It would be better to allow the reuse of the own material. ”