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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,132,965
1,170,708
3,596,474
14
37,740
57
130
2
English
en
1,041,424
4,305,650
14,162,491
23
3,124,486
408
16,348
3
Russian
ru
621,200
1,082,050
5,125,212
5
120,834
95
32,830
4
German
de
565,982
618,758
4,370,723
17
83,390
111
6,922
5
French
fr
536,809
4,201,777
14,255,829
17
146,691
237
3,580
6
Chinese
zh
458,037
1,101,476
2,373,803
8
106,588
136
231
7
Hebrew
he
243,761
1,688,806
2,853,402
16
39,438
98
542
8
Ukrainian
uk
225,755
372,054
722,897
7
17,500
54
135
9
Italian
it
197,583
780,078
3,344,777
9
72,242
92
964
10
Arabic
ar
84,163
231,862
496,610
9
67,100
36
4,050
11
Spanish
es
83,731
274,423
1,457,675
9
89,558
53
233
12
Multilingual
www
81,433
206,345
1,032,823
13
392,704
130
860
13
Gujarati
gu
62,516
68,206
210,133
2
4,009
10
0
14
Czech
cs
58,204
85,908
300,203
3
18,460
25
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,729
47,121
137,122
4
14,969
17
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,329
149,218
507,927
3
38,576
38
15
17
Bangla
bn
32,746
729,981
1,812,165
4
19,066
25
6,419
18
Swedish
sv
28,348
180,783
556,303
4
17,485
21
9
19
Persian
fa
27,334
60,371
208,772
2
36,736
39
1
20
Korean
ko
23,683
69,018
324,125
5
17,186
19
615
21
Tamil
ta
23,535
469,055
1,549,147
4
14,238
27
42
22
Belarusian
be
21,826
81,397
200,194
2
4,476
14
0
23
Hungarian
hu
21,723
38,697
101,681
4
11,594
5
34
24
Malayalam
ml
20,482
72,953
218,693
3
12,276
8
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
19,577
160,732
402,149
2
8,974
20
64
26
Telugu
te
19,142
143,500
434,088
4
6,029
8
545
27
Turkish
tr
18,680
29,547
166,649
2
22,947
32
121
28
Slovenian
sl
17,912
35,624
219,555
5
9,642
14
346
29
Latin
la
17,902
64,166
217,473
7
27,773
26
48
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,750
54,796
173,301
3
18,019
19
2
31
Dutch
nl
16,231
58,673
181,215
4
16,102
19
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,797
124,027
353,264
3
12,462
15
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,684
40,389
219,259
4
40,936
36
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,177
38,154
137,440
3
20,661
13
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,161
20,192
126,021
4
7,291
7
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,401
88,966
3
2,257
3
0
37
Greek
el
12,542
41,610
155,433
6
19,920
15
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,350
21,388
84,920
2
11,270
26
1
39
Breton
br
9,731
60,495
183,473
3
2,603
7
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,663
50,692
170,922
4
10,979
12
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,410
15,016
60,516
3
6,710
5
434
42
Indonesian
id
8,031
59,111
193,973
6
24,167
67
305
43
Thai
th
7,779
46,097
225,426
3
10,976
23
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,438
90,740
230,129
2
5,648
12
825
45
Kannada
kn
7,355
91,502
244,463
2
7,487
16
6
46
Welsh
cy
6,944
45,126
97,934
3
3,669
6
3
47
Esperanto
eo
6,527
27,721
93,803
2
4,816
10
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,753
173,294
607,659
5
4,833
16
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,186
16,069
74,898
3
4,372
3
1
50
Icelandic
is
4,793
6,664
23,691
2
3,258
2
9
51
Marathi
mr
4,664
100,643
206,282
2
5,293
11
15
52
Balinese
ban
4,643
33,372
114,318
1
1,229
5
0
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,304
5,162
31,571
1
1,099
3
0
54
Ligurian
lij
4,010
14,890
42,161
1
902
2
0
55
Danish
da
3,467
32,103
79,253
1
10,377
8
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,191
2
3,700
2
48
57
Assamese
as
3,131
67,477
185,623
1
3,612
23
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,980
7,698
20,695
2
3,498
1
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,460
20,415
1
3,075
1
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,326
14,385
47,649
1
1,271
7
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,977
18,237
3
5,678
1
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,219
5,884
33,281
2
727
2
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,212
1
2,077
1
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,028
2
3,496
1
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,587
59,256
165,844
6
2,027
19
204
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,377
26,271
1
1,216
3
0
67
Odia
or
1,241
11,572
56,580
1
2,592
4
0
68
Georgian
ka
4
924
5,590
0
180
5
0
69
Galician
gl
693
3,708
21,285
2
3,427
2
64
70
Bosnian
bs
612
3,268
11,866
1
3,214
4
62
71
Yakut
sah
595
1,654
7,575
1
2,045
2
2
72
Slovak
sk
487
1,495
9,176
2
3,607
5
1
73
Sundanese
su
257
6,196
25,875
2
671
11
0
74
Malay
ms
1
1,240
6,589
0
481
10
0
75
Minnan
zh-min-nan
54
3,396
10,087
1
2,571
2
2
76
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,499
1
2,282
2
0
77
Burmese
my
0
7
7
0
51
4
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,031,027
20,036,310
66,313,961
316
4,891,541
2,328
79,766
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 .