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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.

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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).

List of Wikisources

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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 several times a day. You might need to purge the cache to see the latest numbers.
№ Language Wiki Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
1 Polish pl 1,289,379 1,330,043 4,084,663 14 41,522 81 127
2 English en 1,134,239 4,858,158 15,893,715 19 3,255,426 835 16,622
3 French fr 665,631 4,686,678 15,746,890 17 161,968 322 4,202
4 German de 632,662 689,549 4,883,106 16 89,992 118 6,932
5 Russian ru 621,025 1,134,815 5,705,909 5 133,688 91 33,192
6 Chinese zh 506,313 1,199,652 2,674,856 8 120,203 284 230
7 Ukrainian uk 375,149 538,314 1,046,613 5 21,562 123 136
8 Hebrew he 253,915 1,666,543 3,005,368 16 45,200 154 575
9 Italian it 218,983 867,272 3,666,750 9 80,081 87 676
10 Arabic ar 93,769 286,740 607,622 5 71,893 60 4,025
11 Spanish es 89,387 336,613 1,649,809 8 95,757 100 230
12 Multilingual www 69,447 257,121 1,331,019 14 477,041 210 736
13 Gujarati gu 65,233 71,470 221,403 2 4,519 15 0
14 Czech cs 61,060 89,928 321,636 3 19,862 27 7
15 Serbian sr 43,368 48,082 142,686 4 16,216 32 361
16 Portuguese pt 38,725 164,035 550,872 1 42,573 60 32
17 Bangla bn 37,408 619,217 1,943,324 4 21,515 35 5,568
18 Armenian hy 36,006 146,474 392,718 4 13,837 27 62
19 Tamil ta 34,842 631,041 1,923,406 4 16,530 51 33
20 Swedish sv 32,237 214,933 649,158 5 18,711 28 8
21 Persian fa 29,115 76,713 283,987 3 39,548 12 0
22 Belarusian be 29,114 117,953 282,085 2 5,271 13 0
23 Korean ko 25,499 92,937 425,149 5 19,218 26 209
24 Telugu te 22,950 206,222 551,045 4 7,001 28 467
25 Hungarian hu 21,817 39,109 103,510 3 12,254 7 27
26 Dutch nl 20,628 79,427 220,178 2 17,228 17 0
27 Latin la 20,496 78,076 263,389 5 31,992 75 45
28 Sanskrit sa 20,390 162,596 415,677 2 10,400 22 64
29 Malayalam ml 20,302 77,523 232,195 3 13,233 35 602
30 Turkish tr 19,863 31,339 173,584 2 26,131 36 122
31 Vietnamese vi 19,066 66,460 204,718 3 20,047 45 2
32 Slovenian sl 18,199 36,088 223,737 5 10,523 16 340
33 Japanese ja 17,659 47,551 240,692 4 45,501 55 0
34 Welsh cy 15,727 80,660 163,497 2 4,087 11 3
35 Romanian ro 15,588 44,341 150,630 3 22,317 36 227
36 Finnish fi 13,780 21,973 129,882 3 7,966 18 46
37 Neapolitan nap 12,941 14,615 90,593 3 2,622 7 0
38 Greek el 12,666 45,503 165,642 6 22,305 29 4
39 Norwegian no 12,633 132,041 317,873 2 6,195 11 815
40 Urdu ur 12,347 12,903 31,922 2 170 17 0
41 Azerbaijani az 11,564 24,490 95,571 2 12,579 19 1
42 Breton br 10,526 65,464 207,962 3 2,948 13 0
43 Catalan ca 10,458 56,257 184,203 3 11,927 14 5
44 Thai th 9,608 63,943 289,256 3 12,234 22 28
45 Croatian hr 9,594 15,733 63,182 3 7,382 12 434
46 Indonesian id 9,103 87,811 268,103 9 26,924 56 303
47 Esperanto eo 6,890 33,261 114,924 2 5,364 20 29
48 Georgian ka 6,751 7,859 77,427 0 788 6 0
49 Hindi hi 5,994 183,513 640,469 5 5,827 18 0
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,384 80,516 2 4,726 8 0
51 Marathi mr 5,373 108,704 229,392 2 5,983 18 15
52 Balinese ban 5,186 36,441 123,397 2 1,685 5 0
53 Burmese my 4,745 6,071 21,537 1 695 8 0
54 Icelandic is 4,707 6,166 29,750 1 3,657 7 8
55 Piedmontese pms 4,414 5,308 37,684 2 1,405 3 0
56 Ligurian lij 4,382 16,762 46,811 1 1,164 15 0
57 Danish da 3,838 102,924 403,585 2 11,147 10 6
58 Assamese as 3,736 89,876 247,968 4 4,392 19 224
59 Macedonian mk 3,351 8,206 22,296 2 3,973 8 4
60 Estonian et 3,299 22,932 59,682 1 4,124 8 48
61 Javanese jv 3,114 22,775 72,585 3 1,905 12 149
62 Yiddish yi 2,638 5,461 20,546 1 3,450 8 1,056
63 Walloon wa 2,478 6,279 35,735 1 972 4 0
64 Punjabi pa 2,341 70,564 215,825 6 2,598 34 212
65 Bulgarian bg 2,306 4,009 18,651 1 6,183 7 7
66 Kannada kn 2,178 97,632 280,852 2 8,470 25 19
67 Limburgish li 1,885 3,368 7,292 1 2,282 7 1
68 Lithuanian lt 1,800 3,190 12,768 1 3,877 7 1
69 Basque eu 1,549 7,029 28,914 1 1,529 6 0
70 Odia or 1,302 12,338 59,449 1 2,994 8 0
71 Malay ms 1,102 7,911 22,859 2 1,188 12 0
72 Yakut sah 752 2,105 9,336 2 2,325 8 2
73 Minangkabau min 735 4,357 15,352 2 313 4 0
74 Galician gl 711 3,702 21,886 2 3,784 12 64
75 Bosnian bs 613 3,271 12,036 1 3,579 6 62
76 Slovak sk 492 1,538 9,472 2 3,922 6 1
77 Sundanese su 405 12,792 47,607 1 1,084 10 0
78 Tagalog tl 328 2,311 15,695 3 361 7 0
79 Madurese mad 207 1,115 4,306 2 317 8 0
80 Minnan zh-min-nan 159 3,569 11,182 1 2,857 4 2
81 Central Bikol bcl 137 2,455 10,244 0 435 5 0
82 Tulu tcy 113 4,768 21,824 1 583 22 0
83 Faroese fo 71 607 3,773 1 2,547 7 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,836,291 22,544,959 75,313,412 315 5,258,584 3,774 79,408

Wikisources in Wikipedia

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Seven Wikisources are hosted as seperate namespaces within their appropriate language's Wikipedia.

The following language Wikipedias have adopted the Text: namespace for their Wikisource projects:

The Swahili Wikipedia has adopted the Wikichanzo: namespace for its Wikisource.

Historical discussion

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Please see the talk page.

See also

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