Wikisource

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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.

Name, Slogan, 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).

List of Wikisources

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	1,194,600	1,233,535	3,794,280	15	39,480	85	129
2	English	en	1,078,376	4,606,087	15,020,628	22	3,164,421	494	16,612
3	Russian	ru	626,522	1,101,668	5,518,576	5	126,598	97	32,973
4	French	fr	604,387	4,456,710	15,060,908	16	153,451	247	3,703
5	German	de	589,733	643,360	4,475,675	17	86,323	93	6,923
6	Chinese	zh	476,917	1,147,337	2,524,300	8	112,705	158	230
7	Ukrainian	uk	310,212	461,675	906,324	6	19,196	67	136
8	Hebrew	he	246,978	1,653,642	2,916,231	16	42,178	93	559
9	Italian	it	206,802	823,510	3,508,342	9	75,783	116	686
10	Spanish	es	85,323	307,442	1,551,448	8	92,482	53	231
11	Arabic	ar	84,966	246,025	529,105	9	69,603	55	4,036
12	Multilingual	www	74,272	210,871	1,115,823	13	431,110	157	970
13	Gujarati	gu	64,240	70,255	215,112	2	4,300	10	0
14	Czech	cs	59,599	88,086	308,219	3	19,161	24	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,868	47,313	138,899	4	15,540	17	361
16	Portuguese	pt	37,793	158,317	534,403	3	40,476	39	16
17	Bangla	bn	36,061	656,717	1,876,327	4	20,280	44	6,059
18	Armenian	hy	35,863	146,203	388,986	4	13,127	16	62
19	Swedish	sv	30,173	197,204	594,760	5	18,131	21	8
20	Tamil	ta	28,406	602,408	1,799,979	4	15,376	47	35
21	Persian	fa	28,021	73,576	276,166	3	38,337	19	0
22	Belarusian	be	27,118	105,473	255,258	2	4,832	13	0
23	Korean	ko	23,267	81,342	387,389	5	18,274	29	209
24	Hungarian	hu	21,771	39,086	103,054	3	11,921	9	27
25	Telugu	te	20,797	163,704	474,987	4	6,529	115	543
26	Sanskrit	sa	20,104	161,869	408,344	2	9,604	15	64
27	Malayalam	ml	20,074	76,560	229,556	4	12,820	33	599
28	Turkish	tr	19,744	30,974	170,867	2	24,507	19	122
29	Latin	la	18,941	67,687	231,236	5	29,662	37	48
30	Dutch	nl	18,560	72,026	206,766	3	16,697	16	0
31	Vietnamese	vi	17,937	61,895	192,726	3	18,888	19	2
32	Slovenian	sl	17,892	35,654	221,350	5	10,057	13	341
33	Japanese	ja	15,901	43,002	228,679	4	42,986	32	0
34	Romanian	ro	14,786	40,588	142,526	3	21,417	16	227
35	Finnish	fi	13,408	20,529	127,091	3	7,598	10	53
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,828	14,500	89,895	3	2,443	4	0
37	Greek	el	12,391	42,555	158,386	6	21,011	19	4
38	Welsh	cy	11,539	62,980	133,455	2	3,865	6	3
39	Azerbaijani	az	10,823	23,543	92,285	2	11,891	14	1
40	Catalan	ca	10,105	53,424	178,423	3	11,463	11	5
41	Breton	br	10,104	62,873	194,889	3	2,770	6	0
42	Croatian	hr	9,477	15,433	61,780	3	7,008	8	434
43	Norwegian	no	8,775	103,126	254,234	2	5,924	5	824
44	Thai	th	8,540	53,238	253,592	3	11,583	13	28
45	Indonesian	id	8,253	77,022	247,194	7	25,634	47	302
46	Kannada	kn	7,047	94,141	268,432	2	7,948	9	19
47	Georgian	ka	6,729	7,788	77,194	0	544	3	0
48	Esperanto	eo	6,692	31,106	106,181	2	5,082	11	27
49	Hindi	hi	5,864	175,115	620,870	5	5,424	13	3
50	Venetian	vec	5,798	19,382	80,291	2	4,561	4	0
51	Marathi	mr	5,155	105,609	219,029	2	5,632	17	15
52	Balinese	ban	5,092	34,056	116,221	1	1,436	3	0
53	Icelandic	is	4,705	6,149	29,690	1	3,464	3	9
54	Piedmontese	pms	4,405	5,289	37,352	1	1,250	3	0
55	Ligurian	lij	4,185	15,843	44,801	1	1,040	4	0
56	Burmese	my	4,139	5,418	17,840	1	365	2	0
57	Danish	da	3,493	32,369	80,469	2	10,776	10	6
58	Estonian	et	3,253	22,681	59,247	2	3,905	2	48
59	Macedonian	mk	3,036	7,776	21,301	2	3,688	3	4
60	Assamese	as	2,838	71,756	201,877	3	4,021	21	87
61	Javanese	jv	2,700	19,069	65,959	3	1,556	35	148
62	Yiddish	yi	2,633	5,460	20,487	1	3,262	4	1,056
63	Walloon	wa	2,315	6,048	34,441	1	861	4	0
64	Bulgarian	bg	2,292	3,989	18,424	1	5,934	4	7
65	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,368	7,257	1	2,189	2	1
66	Punjabi	pa	1,758	64,914	191,896	6	2,264	26	212
67	Lithuanian	lt	1,757	3,142	12,189	2	3,681	3	1
68	Basque	eu	1,381	6,447	26,961	1	1,375	3	0
69	Odia	or	1,287	11,998	58,726	2	2,839	8	0
70	Malay	ms	916	5,971	17,182	2	933	11	0
71	Galician	gl	709	3,765	21,602	2	3,589	4	64
72	Bosnian	bs	613	3,271	11,948	1	3,394	4	62
73	Yakut	sah	604	1,688	7,746	1	2,183	2	2
74	Slovak	sk	488	1,534	9,332	2	3,772	1	1
75	Sundanese	su	307	12,425	46,501	2	910	30	0
76	Minnan	zh-min-nan	153	3,539	11,013	1	2,733	3	2
77	Central Bikol	bcl	120	2,171	9,281	1	273	4	0
78	Tulu	tcy	109	3,512	18,492	2	356	15	0
79	Faroese	fo	9	555	3,553	1	2,412	3	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,409,714	21,238,368	70,672,238	318	5,041,094	2,735	79,346

Wikisources in Wikipedia

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.

Historical discussion

Please see the talk page.

Name, Slogan, Logo

List of Wikisources

Wikisources in Wikipedia

Historical discussion

See also