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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,179,204
1,217,941
3,750,298
15
39,048
55
129
2
English
en
1,081,649
4,543,782
14,850,404
22
3,155,500
480
16,442
3
Russian
ru
625,480
1,098,164
5,221,078
5
125,154
115
33,038
4
French
fr
592,341
4,411,992
14,894,682
16
151,864
290
3,683
5
German
de
584,851
638,375
4,460,310
17
85,627
110
6,923
6
Chinese
zh
474,391
1,137,274
2,497,711
8
111,407
146
230
7
Ukrainian
uk
294,725
442,782
876,679
6
18,746
72
136
8
Hebrew
he
246,587
1,652,383
2,902,064
16
41,610
91
549
9
Italian
it
204,161
813,365
3,470,820
9
74,963
99
695
10
Spanish
es
85,099
299,613
1,534,231
9
91,847
54
231
11
Arabic
ar
84,698
242,903
520,238
9
69,064
52
4,039
12
Multilingual
www
73,902
207,904
1,101,908
12
422,740
153
977
13
Gujarati
gu
63,353
69,292
213,627
2
4,215
12
0
14
Czech
cs
59,346
87,728
307,121
3
18,988
19
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,825
47,268
138,151
4
15,394
12
362
16
Portuguese
pt
37,386
155,870
527,245
3
40,090
42
16
17
Bangla
bn
34,781
655,752
1,858,709
4
20,018
43
6,168
18
Swedish
sv
29,580
193,979
588,295
4
18,005
25
9
19
Persian
fa
27,877
70,602
270,306
3
38,020
18
0
20
Tamil
ta
27,588
594,970
1,778,960
4
15,189
66
41
21
Belarusian
be
26,816
102,693
249,425
2
4,734
21
0
22
Armenian
hy
25,719
135,753
374,881
4
12,907
19
64
23
Korean
ko
23,321
80,105
365,803
4
18,045
41
603
24
Hungarian
hu
21,757
39,056
102,903
4
11,841
10
27
25
Malayalam
ml
20,554
75,767
225,078
3
12,655
50
598
26
Telugu
te
20,431
155,725
460,898
4
6,324
22
560
27
Sanskrit
sa
20,066
161,838
407,395
2
9,469
15
64
28
Turkish
tr
19,686
30,666
169,659
2
24,134
28
120
29
Latin
la
18,813
67,229
227,409
6
29,202
29
48
30
Dutch
nl
18,188
69,060
202,642
3
16,566
19
0
31
Slovenian
sl
17,882
35,652
221,154
5
9,969
21
341
32
Vietnamese
vi
17,523
60,199
188,573
3
18,655
22
2
33
Japanese
ja
15,621
42,328
226,959
4
42,516
42
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,650
40,133
141,350
3
21,211
14
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,353
20,465
126,912
3
7,515
15
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,802
14,473
89,500
3
2,379
8
0
37
Greek
el
12,325
42,315
157,701
6
20,743
22
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,821
22,680
89,952
2
11,739
15
1
39
Welsh
cy
10,339
59,296
127,124
3
3,810
11
3
40
Catalan
ca
9,972
52,847
177,444
3
11,349
20
5
41
Breton
br
9,947
61,930
191,163
3
2,724
10
0
42
Croatian
hr
9,468
15,437
61,738
3
6,932
11
434
43
Thai
th
8,425
52,077
248,764
3
11,456
22
28
44
Norwegian
no
8,333
99,135
244,575
2
5,852
8
825
45
Indonesian
id
7,833
75,969
244,088
7
25,332
126
302
46
Kannada
kn
7,249
94,139
266,509
2
7,800
12
19
47
Esperanto
eo
6,672
30,213
103,123
2
4,997
11
27
48
Georgian
ka
6,664
7,704
69,068
0
437
2
0
49
Hindi
hi
5,860
175,080
619,259
5
5,328
23
3
50
Venetian
vec
5,764
19,250
80,062
2
4,495
7
0
51
Marathi
mr
5,115
104,618
215,197
2
5,545
22
15
52
Balinese
ban
5,058
34,001
115,997
1
1,376
19
0
53
Icelandic
is
4,701
6,129
29,628
1
3,407
7
9
54
Piedmontese
pms
4,391
5,270
36,602
1
1,196
5
0
55
Ligurian
lij
4,146
15,644
44,465
1
1,000
5
0
56
Burmese
my
3,987
5,260
17,202
1
287
9
0
57
Danish
da
3,488
32,291
80,050
1
10,683
12
6
58
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,235
2
3,847
7
48
59
Macedonian
mk
3,032
7,773
21,280
2
3,628
7
4
60
Assamese
as
2,851
71,175
199,897
3
3,901
28
86
61
Yiddish
yi
2,632
5,464
20,472
1
3,203
6
1,056
62
Javanese
jv
2,583
15,215
50,036
1
1,471
29
149
63
Bulgarian
bg
2,292
3,991
18,370
1
5,877
10
7
64
Walloon
wa
2,280
6,001
34,134
2
817
7
0
65
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,368
7,250
1
2,148
5
1
66
Lithuanian
lt
1,757
3,142
12,167
2
3,627
6
1
67
Punjabi
pa
1,708
64,412
187,347
6
2,196
22
212
68
Basque
eu
1,381
6,397
26,735
1
1,324
5
0
69
Odia
or
1,283
11,780
58,208
2
2,783
8
0
70
Malay
ms
833
5,315
15,840
2
825
18
0
71
Galician
gl
702
3,745
21,508
2
3,540
6
64
72
Bosnian
bs
613
3,270
11,936
1
3,343
8
62
73
Yakut
sah
603
1,683
7,728
1
2,135
7
2
74
Slovak
sk
488
1,531
9,317
2
3,718
7
1
75
Sundanese
su
276
6,814
27,375
2
814
18
0
76
Minnan
zh-min-nan
153
3,535
11,003
1
2,677
6
2
77
Central Bikol
bcl
97
1,976
8,959
0
192
7
0
78
Tulu
tcy
82
2,124
15,530
2
247
13
0
79
Faroese
fo
9
555
3,545
1
2,373
4
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,338,357
20,976,321
69,590,961
315
5,006,785
2,943
79,758
Wikisources in Wikipedia[ 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 .
The Swahili Wikipedia has adopted a Wikichanzo namespace for its Wikisource: Swahili Wikisource .
Please see the talk page .