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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,127,920
1,165,528
3,569,795
14
37,461
65
129
2
English
en
1,033,839
4,263,439
13,970,126
23
3,117,515
424
16,339
3
Russian
ru
621,498
1,081,880
5,115,356
5
119,805
96
33,059
4
German
de
559,840
612,236
4,347,906
17
82,848
148
6,922
5
French
fr
531,807
4,163,472
14,137,889
17
145,612
282
3,561
6
Chinese
zh
455,479
1,097,642
2,345,248
9
105,550
145
231
7
Hebrew
he
242,673
1,686,963
2,843,356
16
38,998
90
542
8
Ukrainian
uk
205,463
348,791
690,892
7
17,216
60
135
9
Italian
it
196,347
773,954
3,320,436
9
71,644
94
965
10
Arabic
ar
84,118
230,176
494,012
9
66,628
37
4,050
11
Spanish
es
82,881
265,570
1,444,187
9
89,093
59
233
12
Multilingual
www
81,018
205,744
1,026,785
18
386,545
164
860
13
Gujarati
gu
62,024
67,674
208,983
2
3,972
12
0
14
Czech
cs
58,032
85,634
298,861
3
18,321
22
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,717
47,097
136,795
4
14,862
23
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,042
148,106
505,778
3
38,308
42
14
17
Bangla
bn
32,430
736,619
1,807,427
4
18,901
31
6,532
18
Swedish
sv
28,068
178,343
552,097
4
17,367
28
18
19
Persian
fa
27,210
59,492
206,607
4
36,426
35
1
20
Korean
ko
23,491
68,426
322,283
5
17,055
28
615
21
Tamil
ta
23,359
467,168
1,542,278
4
14,173
41
42
22
Hungarian
hu
21,723
38,697
101,664
4
11,560
14
34
23
Belarusian
be
20,862
77,665
192,441
2
4,421
21
0
24
Malayalam
ml
20,476
72,939
218,602
3
12,234
10
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
19,509
160,411
401,127
2
8,887
20
64
26
Telugu
te
19,083
142,186
431,182
4
5,984
19
545
27
Turkish
tr
18,677
29,371
166,217
2
22,642
22
121
28
Slovenian
sl
17,879
35,579
219,069
5
9,585
15
346
29
Latin
la
17,798
62,626
214,808
7
27,485
35
48
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,649
53,864
171,335
3
17,886
27
2
31
Dutch
nl
15,868
53,589
174,407
4
16,011
30
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,772
123,970
352,960
3
12,350
22
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,420
40,001
217,528
4
40,670
49
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,084
37,756
136,495
3
20,529
21
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,109
20,117
125,761
4
7,243
11
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,401
88,948
3
2,230
10
0
37
Greek
el
12,456
41,298
154,828
6
19,771
22
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,307
21,240
84,016
2
11,163
26
1
39
Breton
br
9,698
60,428
183,210
3
2,580
9
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,618
50,199
170,150
4
10,921
12
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,407
15,010
60,459
3
6,663
8
434
42
Indonesian
id
7,994
48,288
159,544
6
24,019
98
305
43
Thai
th
7,690
44,941
222,197
3
10,896
22
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,433
90,705
230,036
2
5,594
12
825
45
Kannada
kn
7,355
91,367
244,249
2
7,454
22
6
46
Esperanto
eo
6,520
27,530
93,431
2
4,782
15
27
47
Welsh
cy
6,097
42,597
93,387
3
3,645
10
3
48
Hindi
hi
5,732
172,607
606,223
5
4,770
38
2
49
Venetian
vec
5,186
16,069
74,891
3
4,345
7
1
50
Icelandic
is
4,794
6,690
23,597
2
3,237
12
9
51
Balinese
ban
4,642
33,326
114,219
1
1,210
9
0
52
Marathi
mr
4,501
99,706
205,089
2
5,239
26
15
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,286
5,141
30,635
1
1,081
6
0
54
Ligurian
lij
3,789
14,156
41,128
1
885
6
0
55
Danish
da
3,467
32,104
79,117
1
10,320
14
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,186
2
3,668
6
48
57
Assamese
as
3,124
67,362
184,968
1
3,546
19
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,980
7,698
20,693
2
3,471
5
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,460
20,399
1
3,049
6
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,315
13,362
44,323
1
1,250
43
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,976
18,218
3
5,635
10
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,195
5,842
33,074
2
710
9
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,208
1
2,065
5
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,024
2
3,470
9
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,539
58,045
163,221
6
1,997
28
204
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,377
26,241
1
1,199
6
0
67
Odia
or
1,241
11,574
56,372
1
2,573
10
0
68
Galician
gl
693
3,708
21,279
2
3,403
8
64
69
Bosnian
bs
612
3,266
11,858
1
3,190
6
62
70
Yakut
sah
595
1,652
7,570
1
2,025
7
2
71
Slovak
sk
483
1,488
9,114
2
3,592
8
1
72
Sundanese
su
251
6,129
25,689
2
634
9
0
73
Minnan
zh-min-nan
54
3,397
10,079
1
2,551
6
2
74
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,495
1
2,266
5
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
5,975,158
19,859,609
65,705,058
324
4,866,886
2,831
80,087
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 .