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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,158,101
1,196,489
3,682,131
16
38,419
54
128
2
English
en
1,068,905
4,432,773
14,523,244
23
3,142,155
468
16,224
3
Russian
ru
623,442
1,092,195
5,182,359
5
123,223
92
33,026
4
German
de
576,356
629,630
4,412,837
17
84,658
99
6,922
5
French
fr
553,221
4,297,832
14,598,973
16
149,440
226
3,629
6
Chinese
zh
467,911
1,115,217
2,428,448
8
109,433
124
231
7
Ukrainian
uk
254,326
404,203
781,280
6
18,137
77
135
8
Hebrew
he
246,397
1,651,078
2,886,194
16
40,707
99
547
9
Italian
it
201,540
795,171
3,405,103
9
73,741
90
761
10
Arabic
ar
84,217
237,675
508,512
9
68,246
42
4,043
11
Spanish
es
84,135
279,687
1,476,389
9
90,869
42
232
12
Multilingual
www
82,775
216,173
1,074,559
13
409,489
178
981
13
Gujarati
gu
62,748
68,581
211,636
2
4,120
11
0
14
Czech
cs
58,774
86,913
304,825
3
18,741
26
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,783
47,203
137,540
4
15,217
15
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,659
151,755
517,700
3
39,375
46
17
17
Bangla
bn
33,813
694,548
1,833,690
4
19,629
68
6,374
18
Swedish
sv
29,009
187,764
573,361
4
17,771
22
9
19
Persian
fa
27,734
69,294
247,469
3
37,474
26
0
20
Tamil
ta
25,573
554,539
1,691,502
4
14,904
156
41
21
Belarusian
be
24,998
95,025
232,916
2
4,608
22
0
22
Korean
ko
24,365
76,461
341,568
5
17,615
36
612
23
Hungarian
hu
21,746
39,017
102,579
4
11,717
12
27
24
Malayalam
ml
20,515
73,088
219,096
3
12,439
22
591
25
Sanskrit
sa
20,058
161,273
404,430
2
9,234
18
64
26
Telugu
te
19,957
149,174
446,194
4
6,210
15
551
27
Turkish
tr
18,814
29,726
167,748
2
23,620
21
121
28
Latin
la
18,458
65,857
222,370
7
28,607
24
48
29
Slovenian
sl
17,983
35,750
220,558
5
9,849
17
342
30
Vietnamese
vi
17,183
57,385
179,841
3
18,360
20
2
31
Dutch
nl
17,158
64,389
193,572
3
16,312
19
0
32
Armenian
hy
16,468
125,527
358,276
3
12,701
31
64
33
Japanese
ja
15,095
41,291
222,863
4
41,779
31
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,438
39,053
139,277
3
20,911
15
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,284
20,387
126,647
4
7,410
12
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,405
89,039
3
2,312
7
0
37
Greek
el
12,309
42,009
156,265
6
20,352
24
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,800
22,398
88,822
2
11,541
19
1
39
Breton
br
9,882
61,279
186,650
3
2,664
11
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,791
51,462
172,994
3
11,155
16
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,486
15,387
61,438
3
6,822
10
434
42
Welsh
cy
8,375
52,186
113,185
3
3,736
9
3
43
Thai
th
8,026
49,180
235,627
3
11,234
21
28
44
Norwegian
no
7,671
93,914
235,405
2
5,758
11
825
45
Indonesian
id
7,513
61,725
201,003
6
24,739
134
301
46
Kannada
kn
7,246
93,763
265,375
2
7,693
33
18
47
Esperanto
eo
6,628
29,491
98,891
2
4,912
14
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,841
174,023
617,407
5
5,188
81
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,691
18,054
78,422
2
4,434
8
0
50
Balinese
ban
5,000
33,818
115,551
1
1,304
18
0
51
Marathi
mr
4,830
102,565
209,565
2
5,430
13
15
52
Icelandic
is
4,690
5,948
29,377
2
3,327
9
9
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,328
5,195
34,378
1
1,152
8
0
54
Ligurian
lij
4,081
15,162
42,887
1
942
5
0
55
Danish
da
3,477
32,208
79,755
1
10,537
9
6
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,212
2
3,767
5
48
57
Assamese
as
3,158
70,018
191,204
3
3,749
29
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,990
7,725
21,069
2
3,561
6
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,632
5,463
20,450
1
3,136
7
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,343
14,552
48,521
1
1,363
9
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,292
3,990
18,314
3
5,782
9
7
62
Walloon
wa
2,242
5,928
33,736
2
766
5
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,233
1
2,109
5
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,065
2
3,558
5
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,647
63,112
177,923
6
2,121
26
212
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,378
26,427
1
1,273
7
0
67
Odia
or
1,289
11,659
56,870
1
2,662
8
0
68
Georgian
ka
746
927
5,606
0
290
0
0
69
Galician
gl
694
3,719
21,348
2
3,486
8
64
70
Malay
ms
628
3,563
12,869
2
666
20
0
71
Bosnian
bs
613
3,272
11,910
1
3,283
6
62
72
Yakut
sah
600
1,661
7,637
1
2,093
8
2
73
Slovak
sk
487
1,505
9,225
2
3,666
6
1
74
Sundanese
su
275
6,573
26,824
2
731
8
0
75
Minnan
zh-min-nan
55
3,403
10,227
1
2,618
6
2
76
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,524
1
2,329
7
0
77
Burmese
my
0
8
12
0
170
0
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,178,317
20,499,496
67,949,929
318
4,955,531
2,926
79,737
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 .