Wikisource

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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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

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

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	1,281,308	1,321,831	4,062,433	14	41,295	77	127
2	English	en	1,136,084	4,854,252	15,795,332	19	3,244,171	589	16,639
3	French	fr	659,733	4,656,601	15,674,895	17	160,860	333	4,181
4	German	de	626,694	683,021	4,858,018	16	89,624	124	6,932
5	Russian	ru	620,594	1,131,994	5,698,714	5	132,983	84	33,082
6	Chinese	zh	494,790	1,180,086	2,644,772	8	119,423	230	230
7	Ukrainian	uk	371,569	533,461	1,033,149	5	21,291	107	136
8	Hebrew	he	253,681	1,665,447	2,996,595	16	44,890	160	570
9	Italian	it	218,091	859,343	3,646,581	9	79,596	100	677
10	Arabic	ar	93,730	286,182	606,250	5	71,674	45	4,025
11	Spanish	es	89,369	334,786	1,644,430	8	95,371	71	230
12	Multilingual	www	81,115	268,173	1,326,138	13	471,911	190	733
13	Gujarati	gu	64,907	71,127	220,564	2	4,500	9	0
14	Czech	cs	60,562	89,384	313,268	3	19,786	15	7
15	Serbian	sr	43,274	47,975	142,033	5	16,134	26	361
16	Portuguese	pt	38,733	163,870	550,167	1	42,319	48	32
17	Bangla	bn	37,296	618,168	1,939,037	4	21,383	35	5,566
18	Armenian	hy	35,907	146,366	392,443	4	13,740	33	62
19	Tamil	ta	34,331	627,474	1,913,855	4	16,479	88	32
20	Swedish	sv	31,984	212,682	645,308	5	18,648	23	8
21	Persian	fa	29,113	76,703	283,932	3	39,493	22	0
22	Belarusian	be	28,711	116,468	279,180	2	5,230	16	0
23	Korean	ko	25,421	92,864	423,300	5	19,123	31	209
24	Telugu	te	22,890	204,721	546,952	4	6,970	21	467
25	Hungarian	hu	21,817	39,109	103,505	3	12,206	4	27
26	Sanskrit	sa	20,387	162,573	415,468	2	10,333	37	64
27	Dutch	nl	20,343	78,708	218,565	2	17,161	16	0
28	Malayalam	ml	20,207	77,170	231,395	3	13,185	20	602
29	Latin	la	20,192	77,008	259,417	5	31,722	38	45
30	Turkish	tr	19,859	31,324	173,429	2	25,944	26	122
31	Vietnamese	vi	19,057	66,342	204,264	3	19,929	60	2
32	Slovenian	sl	18,181	36,061	223,629	5	10,486	25	341
33	Japanese	ja	17,239	46,682	238,407	4	45,285	58	0
34	Romanian	ro	15,548	44,202	150,283	3	22,198	29	227
35	Welsh	cy	15,520	79,112	161,217	2	4,064	3	3
36	Finnish	fi	13,739	20,964	128,163	3	7,921	14	53
37	Neapolitan	nap	12,940	14,614	90,573	2	2,603	4	0
38	Greek	el	12,652	45,418	165,409	6	22,161	27	4
39	Norwegian	no	11,553	128,218	311,068	2	6,162	6	815
40	Azerbaijani	az	11,508	24,400	95,346	2	12,496	21	1
41	Breton	br	10,514	65,425	207,766	3	2,930	7	0
42	Catalan	ca	10,434	56,111	183,680	3	11,885	5	5
43	Thai	th	9,608	63,373	286,886	3	12,178	16	28
44	Croatian	hr	9,591	15,731	63,092	3	7,339	15	434
45	Indonesian	id	8,844	87,007	266,683	9	26,827	75	303
46	Kannada	kn	7,079	94,779	271,536	2	8,430	47	19
47	Esperanto	eo	6,871	33,122	114,426	2	5,339	11	29
48	Georgian	ka	6,751	7,857	77,421	0	757	6	0
49	Hindi	hi	5,994	183,507	640,301	5	5,790	29	0
50	Venetian	vec	5,798	19,384	80,460	2	4,705	1	0
51	Marathi	mr	5,364	108,406	228,430	2	5,948	11	15
52	Balinese	ban	5,187	36,439	123,387	2	1,664	15	0
53	Icelandic	is	4,707	6,166	29,743	1	3,630	2	8
54	Burmese	my	4,607	5,924	21,306	1	660	5	0
55	Piedmontese	pms	4,411	5,300	37,619	2	1,391	6	0
56	Ligurian	lij	4,351	16,690	46,672	1	1,141	3	0
57	Danish	da	3,715	95,828	332,706	2	11,110	11	6
58	Assamese	as	3,654	85,170	237,654	4	4,361	25	198
59	Macedonian	mk	3,351	8,204	22,289	2	3,943	3	4
60	Estonian	et	3,299	22,933	59,675	1	4,097	5	48
61	Javanese	jv	3,110	22,732	72,482	3	1,871	15	149
62	Yiddish	yi	2,638	5,463	20,541	1	3,426	2	1,056
63	Walloon	wa	2,462	6,261	35,664	1	960	2	0
64	Punjabi	pa	2,335	69,544	213,533	6	2,578	16	212
65	Bulgarian	bg	2,306	4,010	18,648	1	6,159	5	7
66	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,369	7,287	1	2,273	0	1
67	Lithuanian	lt	1,800	3,189	12,748	1	3,861	2	1
68	Basque	eu	1,547	7,023	28,890	1	1,514	4	0
69	Odia	or	1,301	12,302	59,405	2	2,981	2	0
70	Malay	ms	1,091	7,853	22,300	2	1,166	9	0
71	Yakut	sah	751	2,099	9,096	1	2,309	4	2
72	Minangkabau	min	735	4,349	15,338	2	289	3	0
73	Galician	gl	711	3,706	21,825	2	3,763	4	64
74	Bosnian	bs	613	3,271	12,031	1	3,559	0	62
75	Slovak	sk	492	1,536	9,463	2	3,910	2	1
76	Sundanese	su	405	12,788	47,589	1	1,070	10	0
77	Tagalog	tl	326	2,302	15,659	3	334	0	0
78	Madurese	mad	207	1,112	4,256	2	298	18	0
79	Minnan	zh-min-nan	159	3,569	11,179	1	2,842	2	2
80	Central Bikol	bcl	137	2,454	10,240	0	415	1	0
81	Tulu	tcy	111	4,678	21,286	2	558	10	0
82	Faroese	fo	9	589	3,669	1	2,528	0	0
83	Urdu	ur	0	20	20	1	41	3	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,799,890	22,416,459	74,812,365	314	5,233,580	3,277	79,266

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.

See also

• List of Wikisources at WikiStats, an alternative version of the table above
• Another version of the table at WikiStats, presented as raw wiki markup
• Wikisource Community User Group
• Role of Wikisource
• List of language editions
• Wikisource Tenth Birthday
• Wikisource proofreading contests