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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.
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 .
External Source , dynamically sortable to any criteria, self-updating every six hours by cronjob.
External Source , generated wikisyntax, which manually is being pasted in this page .
These statistics are updated four times a day. See commons:Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab for the date/time of last update.
№
Language
Wiki
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
1
Polish
pl
1,076,259
1,112,798
3,411,755
14
35,621
63
116
2
English
en
997,438
4,042,972
13,224,384
22
3,079,800
400
17,104
3
Russian
ru
616,898
1,088,871
4,836,360
5
113,823
82
55,789
4
German
de
539,819
591,280
4,242,137
18
79,110
110
6,921
5
French
fr
501,702
3,963,844
13,302,529
17
138,175
219
3,687
6
Chinese
zh
450,153
1,078,717
2,262,851
8
99,794
151
231
7
Hebrew
he
238,074
1,677,041
2,759,328
16
36,309
91
461
8
Italian
it
185,619
736,031
3,175,439
9
67,993
107
952
9
Ukrainian
uk
171,878
304,932
602,231
7
15,611
45
135
10
Arabic
ar
82,893
220,551
430,678
9
63,906
43
4,053
11
Spanish
es
80,763
235,262
1,325,887
9
85,938
47
233
12
Multilingual
www
68,725
186,382
975,439
17
355,625
104
858
13
Gujarati
gu
56,728
62,071
196,262
2
3,741
12
0
14
Czech
cs
56,143
81,736
289,032
4
17,454
21
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,557
46,898
135,419
4
14,268
14
362
16
Portuguese
pt
34,442
135,747
481,471
3
36,619
30
3
17
Bangla
bn
29,571
754,511
1,751,639
4
17,814
24
7,744
18
Persian
fa
26,735
54,907
195,947
4
34,472
14
1
19
Swedish
sv
26,108
164,171
524,577
4
15,711
21
18
20
Korean
ko
23,004
58,734
269,503
3
16,201
32
615
21
Hungarian
hu
21,649
38,028
100,434
4
11,204
10
34
22
Tamil
ta
21,077
459,793
1,507,654
4
12,996
99
42
23
Malayalam
ml
20,424
72,720
217,605
4
11,827
12
605
24
Sanskrit
sa
19,358
136,585
371,941
2
8,314
16
64
25
Telugu
te
18,187
134,201
415,320
5
5,685
18
521
26
Slovenian
sl
17,678
35,244
214,509
4
9,292
38
346
27
Turkish
tr
17,528
27,999
159,925
3
21,139
19
121
28
Vietnamese
vi
16,028
48,855
153,797
3
16,883
20
2
29
Armenian
hy
15,740
123,568
349,984
3
11,676
39
64
30
Latin
la
15,661
56,870
194,203
7
25,836
22
48
31
Greek
el
14,610
40,121
151,710
6
18,697
22
4
32
Japanese
ja
13,779
38,326
204,030
4
38,652
38
0
33
Romanian
ro
13,320
36,331
132,397
3
19,884
17
227
34
Belarusian
be
13,163
47,355
131,659
2
4,044
15
0
35
Dutch
nl
13,042
41,149
139,981
2
15,303
19
1
36
Finnish
fi
12,851
19,849
124,913
4
6,942
15
52
37
Neapolitan
nap
12,636
14,206
87,303
3
1,473
7
0
38
Azerbaijani
az
9,960
20,593
81,213
2
10,527
21
1
39
Catalan
ca
9,466
49,385
163,484
4
10,377
6
2
40
Croatian
hr
9,350
14,938
60,138
3
6,380
4
434
41
Breton
br
9,142
58,147
176,453
3
2,426
6
0
42
Kannada
kn
7,350
91,050
242,336
3
7,132
15
6
43
Norwegian
no
7,120
85,864
224,000
2
5,337
8
825
44
Indonesian
id
6,479
34,056
121,994
6
22,501
88
307
45
Thai
th
6,342
39,218
205,167
3
10,338
16
29
46
Hindi
hi
5,547
165,117
515,751
4
4,113
30
2
47
Esperanto
eo
5,312
21,676
79,361
2
4,546
25
29
48
Icelandic
is
4,948
7,188
16,082
2
3,038
1
9
49
Venetian
vec
4,748
14,562
72,685
3
4,175
1
1
50
Welsh
cy
4,519
28,593
58,927
3
3,460
4
3
51
Balinese
ban
4,228
30,648
106,589
1
936
29
0
52
Piedmontese
pms
4,224
5,047
24,839
1
934
2
0
53
Marathi
mr
4,183
83,231
180,767
2
4,842
19
15
54
Ligurian
lij
3,799
14,038
40,672
1
764
4
0
55
Danish
da
3,434
31,639
78,311
1
9,840
9
14
56
Estonian
et
3,251
22,676
59,119
2
3,472
1
48
57
Macedonian
mk
2,965
7,667
20,581
2
3,296
2
4
58
Assamese
as
2,962
64,693
175,587
2
3,265
22
11
59
Yiddish
yi
2,629
5,441
20,333
1
2,887
2
1,056
60
Bulgarian
bg
2,270
3,952
17,907
3
5,337
4
9
61
Javanese
jv
2,188
10,215
33,391
2
959
5
173
62
Walloon
wa
1,965
5,520
31,750
2
586
2
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,365
7,175
1
1,967
1
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,755
3,131
11,924
3
3,275
7
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,726
55,639
151,754
5
1,772
22
204
66
Odia
or
1,244
11,373
55,357
1
2,399
5
0
67
Basque
eu
1,222
6,203
25,815
1
1,059
1
0
68
Galician
gl
687
3,660
21,011
3
3,228
3
64
69
Bosnian
bs
611
3,265
11,794
1
3,029
6
62
70
Yakut
sah
594
1,646
7,536
1
1,906
4
2
71
Slovak
sk
482
1,500
8,798
2
3,457
7
1
72
Min Nan Chinese
zh-min-nan
55
3,351
9,844
1
2,413
2
2
73
Faroese
fo
9
555
3,463
1
2,151
2
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
5,720,891
18,977,498
62,172,141
322
4,725,956
2,442
104,736
Alemannic, North Frisian, Bavarian and Rhine Franconian 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 and the Rhine Franconian Wikipedia have also adopted Wikisource projects in the Text
namespace: Nordfriisk Bibleteek , Boarische Text , Rheifränggische Tegschdsommlung .
Please see the talk page .