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Wikisource is a Wikimedia project to build a library of free texts. Initially called "Project Sourceberg" when it began in 2003 (a play on the already existing non-Wikimedia project with similar goals, Project Gutenberg ), it branched into subdivisions for individual languages by 2005. Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.
Name, Slogan, Logo
Original Wikisource logo
See the multilingual chart "Wikisource – The Free Library" , for the name of the project and its slogan in many dozens of languages.
The Wikisource Logo changed during the history of the project. It was originally a .jpg image (as seen above), but is now an .svg image of the iceberg (as seen at top of this page).
List of Wikisources
This is a list of Wikisource language subdomains. See Wikisource:Languages for a list of languages without their own subdomains; these are housed at the Multilingual Wikisource .
These statistics are updated four times a day. See commons:Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab for the date/time of last update. This page may need to be purged to see the latest numbers.
№
Language
Wiki
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
1
Polish
pl
1,137,278
1,175,074
3,611,609
14
37,878
46
128
2
English
en
1,047,951
4,332,343
14,238,497
23
3,128,288
404
16,402
3
Russian
ru
621,589
1,084,680
5,141,877
5
121,409
82
32,738
4
German
de
568,063
620,899
4,378,915
17
83,681
92
6,922
5
French
fr
541,305
4,224,823
14,318,001
17
147,330
254
3,642
6
Chinese
zh
460,656
1,104,421
2,387,151
8
107,214
124
231
7
Hebrew
he
244,996
1,690,511
2,861,317
16
39,709
97
543
8
Ukrainian
uk
227,492
374,589
729,894
7
17,620
58
134
9
Italian
it
198,377
785,121
3,361,441
9
72,591
96
964
10
Arabic
ar
84,155
233,151
498,544
9
67,340
27
4,050
11
Spanish
es
83,694
276,364
1,464,407
9
89,887
46
233
12
Multilingual
www
81,617
208,660
1,037,503
13
396,412
135
858
13
Gujarati
gu
62,535
68,264
210,384
2
4,039
12
0
14
Czech
cs
58,424
86,216
300,960
3
18,541
24
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,736
47,137
137,271
4
15,020
20
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,400
149,432
509,511
3
38,777
28
15
17
Bangla
bn
33,124
727,919
1,819,663
4
19,149
27
6,366
18
Swedish
sv
28,450
182,261
558,976
4
17,556
25
9
19
Persian
fa
27,409
63,506
218,390
3
36,925
36
1
20
Tamil
ta
23,843
473,645
1,561,645
4
14,291
36
42
21
Korean
ko
23,772
70,250
326,104
5
17,323
46
615
22
Belarusian
be
21,996
82,677
204,346
2
4,496
14
0
23
Hungarian
hu
21,735
38,765
101,786
4
11,613
10
34
24
Malayalam
ml
20,482
72,958
218,727
3
12,301
9
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
19,793
160,958
402,759
2
9,010
13
64
26
Telugu
te
19,161
143,918
434,971
4
6,074
30
545
27
Turkish
tr
18,681
29,553
166,823
2
23,114
24
121
28
Latin
la
18,003
64,394
218,009
7
27,950
23
48
29
Slovenian
sl
17,932
35,653
219,754
5
9,673
15
346
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,811
55,482
174,761
3
18,094
26
2
31
Dutch
nl
16,477
59,602
182,528
4
16,160
18
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,796
124,033
353,292
3
12,513
9
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,752
40,564
220,017
4
41,111
30
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,249
38,622
138,315
3
20,719
14
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,184
20,228
126,124
4
7,306
8
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,401
89,004
3
2,263
4
0
37
Greek
el
12,546
41,648
155,550
6
19,996
16
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,440
21,656
85,907
2
11,326
27
1
39
Breton
br
9,759
60,542
183,770
3
2,610
6
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,666
50,815
171,175
3
11,025
9
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,423
15,031
60,588
3
6,739
8
434
42
Indonesian
id
8,040
59,514
195,352
6
24,261
81
305
43
Thai
th
7,753
46,444
226,584
3
11,019
14
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,505
91,427
231,875
2
5,666
9
825
45
Kannada
kn
7,356
91,572
246,418
2
7,556
59
6
46
Welsh
cy
7,325
46,603
101,273
3
3,688
9
3
47
Esperanto
eo
6,556
27,909
94,787
2
4,832
12
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,755
173,172
608,489
5
4,896
12
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,213
16,140
75,078
3
4,387
6
1
50
Icelandic
is
4,793
6,657
23,730
2
3,270
3
9
51
Marathi
mr
4,686
101,067
206,862
2
5,319
17
15
52
Balinese
ban
4,643
33,374
114,334
1
1,242
4
0
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,309
5,170
32,003
1
1,108
5
0
54
Ligurian
lij
4,070
15,075
42,435
1
907
5
0
55
Danish
da
3,467
32,103
79,274
1
10,422
9
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,194
2
3,707
3
48
57
Assamese
as
3,134
67,533
185,815
1
3,629
12
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,987
7,717
20,749
2
3,515
4
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,460
20,418
1
3,085
5
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,326
14,392
48,093
1
1,286
8
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,977
18,253
3
5,698
5
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,237
5,906
33,362
2
734
2
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,215
1
2,083
2
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,041
2
3,513
7
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,590
59,772
167,653
6
2,046
17
204
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,378
26,304
1
1,223
5
0
67
Odia
or
1,241
11,572
56,622
1
2,601
3
0
68
Georgian
ka
779
924
5,594
0
218
3
0
69
Galician
gl
693
3,708
21,292
2
3,440
5
64
70
Bosnian
bs
613
3,271
11,882
1
3,228
7
62
71
Yakut
sah
595
1,654
7,579
1
2,052
3
2
72
Slovak
sk
487
1,496
9,182
2
3,616
4
1
73
Malay
ms
305
1,967
8,932
2
541
18
0
74
Sundanese
su
258
6,257
25,974
2
681
3
0
75
Minnan
zh-min-nan
55
3,400
10,111
1
2,579
5
2
76
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,503
1
2,293
3
0
77
Burmese
my
0
7
9
0
91
1
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,059,462
20,132,129
66,618,537
318
4,905,505
2,398
79,733
Alemannic, North Frisian, Bavarian, Rhine Franconian, Pennsylvania Dutch Wikisources
An Alemannic Wikisource has been created as separate namespace within Alemannic Wikipedia: Alemannischi Textsammlig (Wikisource) and similarly, the North Frisian Wikipedia, the Bavarian Wikipedia, the Rhine Franconian Wikipedia, and the Pennsylvania Dutch Wikipedia have also adopted Wikisource projects in the Text
namespace: Nordfriisk Bibleteek , Boarische Text , Rheifränggische Tegschdsommlung , Pennsylvanische Wikisource .
Historical discussion
Please see the talk page .
See also