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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,132,120
1,169,838
3,586,013
14
37,703
59
129
2
English
en
1,040,178
4,299,924
14,132,922
23
3,123,524
398
16,348
3
Russian
ru
621,094
1,081,848
5,123,515
5
120,704
83
32,833
4
German
de
565,527
618,297
4,368,691
17
83,321
121
6,922
5
French
fr
536,128
4,196,553
14,241,111
17
146,544
249
3,576
6
Chinese
zh
457,541
1,100,821
2,370,934
8
106,433
128
231
7
Hebrew
he
243,480
1,688,431
2,852,217
16
39,392
95
542
8
Ukrainian
uk
225,170
369,916
719,329
7
17,453
52
135
9
Italian
it
197,464
779,127
3,341,253
9
72,158
84
964
10
Arabic
ar
84,164
231,788
496,447
9
67,051
37
4,050
11
Spanish
es
83,709
274,052
1,456,997
9
89,479
54
233
12
Multilingual
www
82,171
207,750
1,032,406
13
391,818
123
861
13
Gujarati
gu
62,393
68,077
209,922
2
4,003
9
0
14
Czech
cs
58,176
85,878
300,127
3
18,443
22
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,729
47,120
137,107
4
14,954
17
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,323
149,160
507,840
3
38,532
39
15
17
Bangla
bn
32,672
729,845
1,811,472
4
19,040
25
6,421
18
Swedish
sv
28,310
180,167
555,166
4
17,479
23
14
19
Persian
fa
27,291
60,209
208,123
3
36,692
25
1
20
Korean
ko
23,683
68,765
323,641
5
17,159
20
615
21
Tamil
ta
23,524
468,683
1,548,206
4
14,230
31
42
22
Hungarian
hu
21,723
38,697
101,677
4
11,590
4
34
23
Belarusian
be
21,592
80,683
198,713
2
4,470
12
0
24
Malayalam
ml
20,476
72,944
218,671
3
12,270
7
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
19,571
160,714
402,026
2
8,965
21
64
26
Telugu
te
19,140
143,412
433,843
4
6,020
12
545
27
Turkish
tr
18,680
29,546
166,615
2
22,911
27
121
28
Slovenian
sl
17,906
35,617
219,495
5
9,635
14
346
29
Latin
la
17,897
64,152
217,431
7
27,741
26
48
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,741
54,708
172,996
3
18,004
21
2
31
Dutch
nl
16,217
58,457
180,943
4
16,095
17
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,795
124,023
353,257
3
12,441
19
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,647
40,343
219,132
4
40,893
35
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,161
38,087
137,318
3
20,645
13
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,156
20,187
126,005
4
7,286
7
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,401
88,956
3
2,254
3
0
37
Greek
el
12,551
41,605
155,418
6
19,906
18
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,348
21,373
84,805
2
11,257
22
1
39
Breton
br
9,731
60,495
183,410
3
2,600
7
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,655
50,549
170,717
4
10,975
11
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,410
15,016
60,515
3
6,703
6
434
42
Indonesian
id
8,030
58,996
193,661
6
24,136
63
305
43
Thai
th
7,779
46,073
225,359
3
10,965
20
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,438
90,736
230,124
2
5,640
11
825
45
Kannada
kn
7,354
91,373
244,296
1
7,480
13
6
46
Welsh
cy
6,825
44,734
97,194
3
3,666
4
3
47
Esperanto
eo
6,523
27,665
93,722
2
4,812
9
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,755
172,993
607,183
5
4,825
20
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,186
16,069
74,897
3
4,369
2
1
50
Icelandic
is
4,793
6,664
23,691
2
3,257
2
9
51
Marathi
mr
4,662
100,559
206,182
2
5,286
11
15
52
Balinese
ban
4,643
33,330
114,242
1
1,227
4
0
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,303
5,161
31,435
1
1,098
3
0
54
Ligurian
lij
3,958
14,735
41,940
1
901
1
0
55
Danish
da
3,467
32,103
79,247
1
10,374
8
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,190
2
3,698
1
48
57
Assamese
as
3,131
67,412
185,472
1
3,587
13
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,980
7,698
20,695
2
3,494
1
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,460
20,403
1
3,071
1
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,326
14,385
47,647
1
1,268
9
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,976
18,236
3
5,674
1
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,218
5,883
33,275
2
725
2
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,212
1
2,076
1
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,028
2
3,494
2
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,587
59,152
165,698
6
2,024
18
204
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,377
26,266
1
1,214
2
0
67
Odia
or
1,241
11,572
56,568
1
2,589
5
0
68
Galician
gl
693
3,708
21,285
2
3,425
2
64
69
Bosnian
bs
612
3,268
11,865
1
3,211
3
62
70
Yakut
sah
595
1,654
7,575
1
2,042
2
2
71
Slovak
sk
487
1,494
9,173
2
3,605
3
1
72
Sundanese
su
257
6,196
25,872
2
664
11
0
73
Minnan
zh-min-nan
54
3,396
10,087
1
2,570
2
2
74
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,499
1
2,279
1
0
75
Georgian
ka
0
7
7
0
30
4
0
76
Malay
ms
0
7
7
0
36
4
0
77
Burmese
my
0
7
7
0
26
4
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,026,080
20,013,846
66,220,622
316
4,887,611
2,259
79,772
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 .