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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.
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).
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
1,136,342
1,174,131
3,608,874
14
37,858
49
130
2
English
en
1,046,675
4,326,616
14,223,399
23
3,127,561
412
16,398
3
Russian
ru
621,549
1,084,051
5,139,820
5
121,296
90
32,728
4
German
de
567,758
620,584
4,377,570
17
83,622
91
6,922
5
French
fr
540,455
4,220,802
14,308,509
17
147,205
256
3,641
6
Chinese
zh
460,131
1,103,809
2,384,746
8
107,101
136
231
7
Hebrew
he
244,966
1,690,427
2,860,024
16
39,669
102
543
8
Ukrainian
uk
227,219
374,213
729,003
7
17,597
58
135
9
Italian
it
198,237
784,569
3,359,352
9
72,524
100
964
10
Arabic
ar
84,154
233,055
498,416
9
67,289
25
4,050
11
Spanish
es
83,760
276,085
1,463,568
9
89,834
43
233
12
Multilingual
www
81,590
208,343
1,036,981
13
395,679
133
858
13
Gujarati
gu
62,535
68,262
210,354
2
4,038
11
0
14
Czech
cs
58,389
86,176
300,882
3
18,527
27
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,736
47,136
137,255
4
15,015
20
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,398
149,387
509,374
3
38,700
25
15
17
Bangla
bn
33,102
727,554
1,819,169
4
19,139
26
6,366
18
Swedish
sv
28,426
182,104
558,624
4
17,547
23
9
19
Persian
fa
27,386
63,429
217,390
3
36,900
48
1
20
Korean
ko
23,761
70,024
325,688
5
17,303
44
615
21
Tamil
ta
23,739
470,537
1,556,906
4
14,280
32
42
22
Belarusian
be
21,974
82,392
203,451
2
4,493
15
0
23
Hungarian
hu
21,724
38,718
101,712
4
11,613
9
34
24
Malayalam
ml
20,482
72,957
218,712
3
12,295
7
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
19,746
160,910
402,660
2
9,000
11
64
26
Telugu
te
19,152
143,847
434,820
4
6,068
28
545
27
Turkish
tr
18,680
29,552
166,768
2
23,084
29
121
28
Slovenian
sl
17,932
35,650
219,724
5
9,666
16
346
29
Latin
la
17,909
64,295
217,783
7
27,926
20
48
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,804
55,474
174,587
3
18,080
23
2
31
Dutch
nl
16,438
59,447
182,342
4
16,151
20
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,796
124,030
353,285
3
12,506
12
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,741
40,540
219,856
4
41,080
28
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,234
38,564
138,212
3
20,711
14
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,180
20,224
126,113
4
7,300
7
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,401
89,004
3
2,263
5
0
37
Greek
el
12,548
41,646
155,530
6
19,978
13
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,442
21,631
85,802
2
11,318
27
1
39
Breton
br
9,757
60,539
183,759
3
2,609
5
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,665
50,807
171,157
3
11,022
11
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,423
15,031
60,587
3
6,734
8
434
42
Indonesian
id
8,037
59,487
195,200
6
24,247
80
305
43
Thai
th
7,781
46,349
226,325
3
11,010
17
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,487
91,071
231,228
2
5,663
11
825
45
Kannada
kn
7,356
91,570
246,404
2
7,548
55
6
46
Welsh
cy
7,244
46,417
100,801
3
3,685
9
3
47
Esperanto
eo
6,554
27,855
94,360
2
4,830
10
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,755
173,128
608,315
5
4,858
14
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,190
16,084
74,987
3
4,385
5
1
50
Icelandic
is
4,793
6,664
23,694
2
3,270
3
9
51
Marathi
mr
4,686
100,988
206,766
2
5,317
18
15
52
Balinese
ban
4,643
33,374
114,334
1
1,241
6
0
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,306
5,164
31,852
1
1,107
6
0
54
Ligurian
lij
4,068
15,073
42,429
1
907
4
0
55
Danish
da
3,467
32,103
79,271
1
10,413
7
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,194
2
3,707
3
48
57
Assamese
as
3,132
67,521
185,717
1
3,624
20
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,987
7,717
20,749
2
3,511
3
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,460
20,418
1
3,084
4
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,326
14,389
48,087
1
1,285
8
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,977
18,245
3
5,693
3
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,228
5,894
33,320
2
734
2
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,215
1
2,082
1
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,040
2
3,511
6
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,589
59,617
167,147
6
2,043
15
204
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,378
26,300
1
1,223
6
0
67
Odia
or
1,241
11,572
56,615
1
2,598
4
0
68
Georgian
ka
779
924
5,594
0
212
3
0
69
Galician
gl
693
3,708
21,292
2
3,437
4
64
70
Bosnian
bs
613
3,270
11,881
1
3,227
6
62
71
Yakut
sah
595
1,654
7,579
1
2,050
2
2
72
Slovak
sk
487
1,496
9,182
2
3,615
6
1
73
Malay
ms
289
1,855
8,349
0
535
20
0
74
Sundanese
su
257
6,249
25,956
2
680
5
0
75
Minnan
zh-min-nan
55
3,400
10,109
1
2,578
4
2
76
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,503
1
2,293
4
0
77
Burmese
my
0
7
9
0
84
1
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,054,512
20,112,109
66,566,235
316
4,902,868
2,434
79,721
Alemannic, North Frisian, Bavarian, Rhine Franconian, Pennsylvania Dutch Wikisources[ edit ]
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 .
Please see the talk page .