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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,130,786
1,168,485
3,580,573
14
37,618
61
129
2
English
en
1,038,016
4,287,765
14,038,498
23
3,121,455
436
16,345
3
Russian
ru
621,701
1,082,544
5,120,369
5
120,389
94
33,048
4
German
de
563,648
616,232
4,361,245
17
83,150
126
6,922
5
French
fr
533,969
4,185,082
14,209,698
17
146,211
230
3,570
6
Chinese
zh
456,292
1,098,899
2,359,587
8
106,081
137
231
7
Hebrew
he
243,066
1,687,774
2,848,548
16
39,259
89
542
8
Ukrainian
uk
222,992
367,527
715,436
7
17,373
54
135
9
Italian
it
196,974
777,921
3,332,321
9
71,978
75
964
10
Arabic
ar
84,145
231,581
496,026
9
66,891
35
4,050
11
Spanish
es
83,649
273,589
1,455,123
9
89,321
48
233
12
Multilingual
www
81,880
207,155
1,031,034
13
389,897
135
860
13
Gujarati
gu
62,210
67,881
209,511
2
3,990
9
0
14
Czech
cs
58,156
85,835
299,960
3
18,403
19
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,726
47,109
137,049
4
14,929
17
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,209
148,661
507,135
3
38,449
28
15
17
Bangla
bn
32,656
733,032
1,809,578
4
18,997
28
6,427
18
Swedish
sv
28,211
179,316
553,810
4
17,451
24
18
19
Persian
fa
27,284
59,884
207,402
3
36,593
23
1
20
Korean
ko
23,531
68,540
322,833
5
17,114
23
615
21
Tamil
ta
23,463
468,095
1,545,646
4
14,209
38
42
22
Hungarian
hu
21,723
38,697
101,674
4
11,579
5
34
23
Belarusian
be
21,425
79,738
196,869
2
4,457
15
0
24
Malayalam
ml
20,476
72,942
218,659
3
12,261
5
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
19,509
160,647
401,706
2
8,936
19
64
26
Telugu
te
19,125
143,091
433,083
4
6,012
13
545
27
Turkish
tr
18,678
29,536
166,540
2
22,808
20
121
28
Slovenian
sl
17,902
35,606
219,368
5
9,617
15
346
29
Latin
la
17,888
64,109
217,288
7
27,647
24
48
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,720
54,564
172,554
3
17,962
23
2
31
Dutch
nl
16,122
58,013
180,326
4
16,068
18
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,781
124,008
353,225
3
12,410
25
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,584
40,219
218,655
4
40,808
35
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,142
37,984
137,066
3
20,601
13
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,139
20,164
125,934
4
7,273
10
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,401
88,950
3
2,248
4
0
37
Greek
el
12,532
41,583
155,359
6
19,863
23
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,337
21,301
84,328
2
11,223
16
1
39
Breton
br
9,720
60,479
183,350
3
2,593
7
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,627
50,256
170,251
4
10,957
10
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,410
15,016
60,506
3
6,691
3
434
42
Indonesian
id
8,008
58,760
193,054
6
24,096
97
305
43
Thai
th
7,757
45,675
224,414
3
10,943
22
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,438
90,728
230,107
2
5,625
10
825
45
Kannada
kn
7,355
91,369
244,260
2
7,470
6
6
46
Welsh
cy
6,611
43,782
95,645
3
3,660
6
3
47
Esperanto
eo
6,522
27,591
93,584
2
4,802
14
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,756
172,721
606,803
5
4,810
20
2
49
Venetian
vec
5,186
16,069
74,894
3
4,365
3
1
50
Icelandic
is
4,793
6,664
23,688
2
3,250
3
9
51
Balinese
ban
4,643
33,329
114,237
1
1,223
6
0
52
Marathi
mr
4,600
100,285
205,850
2
5,274
19
15
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,293
5,149
31,043
1
1,091
4
0
54
Ligurian
lij
3,911
14,526
41,648
1
896
3
0
55
Danish
da
3,467
32,103
79,219
1
10,356
8
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,188
2
3,688
2
48
57
Assamese
as
3,131
67,398
185,313
1
3,574
16
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,980
7,698
20,694
2
3,488
0
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,460
20,401
1
3,066
2
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,326
14,385
47,636
1
1,265
32
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,976
18,234
3
5,662
3
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,213
5,868
33,213
2
722
4
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,210
1
2,074
1
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,027
2
3,489
4
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,586
58,165
164,597
6
2,019
33
204
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,377
26,249
1
1,209
2
0
67
Odia
or
1,241
11,572
56,546
1
2,583
6
0
68
Galician
gl
693
3,708
21,283
2
3,421
3
64
69
Bosnian
bs
612
3,266
11,861
1
3,206
3
62
70
Yakut
sah
595
1,652
7,571
1
2,036
3
2
71
Slovak
sk
486
1,484
9,146
2
3,603
3
1
72
Sundanese
su
254
6,172
25,812
2
650
10
0
73
Minnan
zh-min-nan
54
3,396
10,084
1
2,563
3
2
74
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,497
1
2,277
1
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,012,854
19,974,334
66,026,081
317
4,880,228
2,384
79,986
Alemannic, North Frisian, Bavarian, Rhine Franconian, Pennsylvania Dutch Wikisources[ modifica ]
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 .
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