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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,129,413
1,167,096
3,575,181
14
37,531
67
129
2
English
en
1,035,625
4,273,170
13,993,314
23
3,119,340
449
16,342
3
Russian
ru
621,546
1,081,954
5,118,440
5
120,058
96
33,050
4
German
de
560,826
613,275
4,351,912
17
82,967
143
6,922
5
French
fr
532,354
4,172,833
14,170,789
17
145,915
266
3,559
6
Chinese
zh
455,869
1,098,320
2,351,113
9
105,795
148
231
7
Hebrew
he
242,816
1,687,294
2,845,940
16
39,122
88
542
8
Ukrainian
uk
208,632
352,372
697,385
7
17,270
65
135
9
Italian
it
196,695
777,030
3,326,578
9
71,799
85
965
10
Arabic
ar
84,131
231,028
495,169
9
66,730
34
4,050
11
Spanish
es
83,525
272,640
1,453,057
9
89,192
61
233
12
Multilingual
www
81,438
206,372
1,028,040
18
387,997
149
860
13
Gujarati
gu
62,148
67,806
209,242
2
3,978
14
0
14
Czech
cs
58,120
85,759
299,641
3
18,359
24
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,720
47,103
136,969
4
14,891
24
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,166
148,420
506,647
3
38,356
35
14
17
Bangla
bn
32,508
736,422
1,808,289
4
18,946
36
6,489
18
Swedish
sv
28,108
178,799
552,922
4
17,399
26
18
19
Persian
fa
27,220
59,732
206,991
4
36,496
35
1
20
Korean
ko
23,498
68,443
322,456
5
17,078
30
615
21
Tamil
ta
23,390
467,482
1,543,546
4
14,190
47
42
22
Hungarian
hu
21,723
38,697
101,667
4
11,568
11
34
23
Belarusian
be
21,255
78,764
194,888
2
4,435
21
0
24
Malayalam
ml
20,476
72,941
218,610
3
12,245
10
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
19,509
160,414
401,302
2
8,901
18
64
26
Telugu
te
19,113
142,641
432,273
4
5,994
16
545
27
Turkish
tr
18,678
29,532
166,477
2
22,714
23
121
28
Slovenian
sl
17,879
35,579
219,262
5
9,602
18
346
29
Latin
la
17,864
63,534
216,229
7
27,547
31
48
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,685
54,188
171,861
3
17,918
27
2
31
Dutch
nl
15,997
55,738
177,493
4
16,039
24
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,772
124,005
353,173
3
12,378
31
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,561
40,180
218,148
4
40,737
42
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,101
37,845
136,649
3
20,560
23
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,118
20,130
125,811
4
7,257
12
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,401
88,950
3
2,236
7
0
37
Greek
el
12,526
41,434
155,157
6
19,811
24
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,324
21,268
84,177
2
11,193
26
1
39
Breton
br
9,708
60,444
183,255
3
2,585
7
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,624
50,245
170,205
4
10,935
12
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,407
15,010
60,461
3
6,677
8
434
42
Indonesian
id
8,011
57,040
187,071
6
24,062
106
305
43
Thai
th
7,721
45,199
223,069
3
10,921
24
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,433
90,712
230,063
2
5,606
12
825
45
Kannada
kn
7,355
91,367
244,256
2
7,462
12
6
46
Esperanto
eo
6,520
27,564
93,503
2
4,789
15
27
47
Welsh
cy
6,331
43,046
94,252
3
3,652
9
3
48
Hindi
hi
5,734
172,615
606,415
5
4,784
32
2
49
Venetian
vec
5,186
16,069
74,894
3
4,355
8
1
50
Icelandic
is
4,793
6,651
23,648
1
3,242
9
9
51
Balinese
ban
4,642
33,327
114,224
1
1,215
8
0
52
Marathi
mr
4,533
99,997
205,445
2
5,253
22
15
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,289
5,144
30,857
1
1,086
7
0
54
Ligurian
lij
3,839
14,305
41,348
1
888
6
0
55
Danish
da
3,467
32,103
79,192
1
10,331
10
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,188
2
3,677
6
48
57
Assamese
as
3,127
67,377
185,168
1
3,557
21
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,980
7,698
20,694
2
3,478
5
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,460
20,401
1
3,057
6
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,325
14,382
47,533
1
1,259
43
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,976
18,224
3
5,647
10
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,209
5,863
33,178
2
717
8
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,210
1
2,068
5
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,027
2
3,477
9
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,585
57,875
163,998
6
2,006
34
204
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,377
26,243
1
1,202
5
0
67
Odia
or
1,241
11,574
56,390
1
2,578
10
0
68
Galician
gl
693
3,708
21,281
2
3,410
9
64
69
Bosnian
bs
612
3,266
11,861
1
3,196
6
62
70
Yakut
sah
595
1,652
7,571
1
2,028
6
2
71
Slovak
sk
486
1,486
9,134
2
3,595
8
1
72
Sundanese
su
255
6,133
25,707
2
640
10
0
73
Minnan
zh-min-nan
54
3,396
10,082
1
2,556
7
2
74
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,497
1
2,270
5
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
5,987,023
19,915,447
65,857,293
323
4,872,805
2,806
80,036
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 .