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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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

External Source, dynamically sortable to any criteria, self-updating every six hours by cronjob.

External Source, generated wikisyntax, which manually is being pasted in this page.

№	Language	Language (local)	Wiki	Good	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Active Users	Files
1	Polish	Polski	pl	869824	902826	2689602	16	29532	60	96
2	English	English	en	832327	3298803	10841910	25	2976395	429	19768
3	Russian	Русский	ru	525850	888695	4027644	5	96867	105	948
4	German	Deutsch	de	462383	508250	3729615	17	66548	131	5328
5	French	Français	fr	415640	3342877	11031191	18	113081	281	6205
6	Chinese	中文	zh	359126	1001439	1987370	7	83549	134	234
7	Hebrew	עברית	he	187117	370197	1035088	18	28714	101	397
8	Italian	Italiano	it	157053	633156	2734090	7	56077	90	965
9	Spanish	Español	es	113916	244238	1134623	9	74560	53	266
10	Arabic	العربية	ar	79539	163211	304506	8	52302	32	4057
11	Ukrainian	Українська	uk	69138	129184	262673	5	11265	35	134
12	Czech	Čeština	cs	49491	71585	259547	3	13775	27	5
13	Gujarati	ગુજરાતી	gu	34507	38682	144334	3	2877	14	0
14	Portuguese	Português	pt	33041	124577	451587	3	30678	28	14
15	Serbian	Српски / Srpski	sr	29531	33381	99481	5	12520	16	378
16	Persian	فارسی	fa	22611	36966	113412	4	28992	23	1
17	Hungarian	Magyar	hu	21439	37297	97300	4	9146	9	35
18	Swedish	Svenska	sv	20318	120526	433869	4	11405	27	18
19	Malayalam	മലയാളം	ml	19427	70324	208817	5	10683	17	605
20	Korean	한국어	ko	19260	39744	217462	3	13673	27	616
21	Bengali	বাংলা	bn	18600	744924	1520216	4	13521	35	8773
22	Sanskrit	संस्कृतम्	sa	17667	114499	300377	3	6545	32	64
23	Telugu	తెలుగు	te	16016	98599	340243	5	4692	22	413
24	Slovenian	Slovenščina	sl	15739	32467	195512	4	8234	53	346
25	Armenian	Հայերեն	hy	15346	118079	335893	3	9779	47	64
26	Tamil	தமிழ்	ta	15335	430489	1248617	4	8617	164	42
27	Greek	Ελληνικά	el	14395	34865	138084	7	15478	23	4
28	Romanian	Română	ro	12054	34184	123733	3	17801	23	227
29	Finnish	Suomi	fi	11965	18623	120018	4	5953	17	52
30	Japanese	日本語	ja	11889	30881	166851	4	30501	45	0
31	Thai	ไทย	th	11503	35281	144191	3	9097	13	50
32	Neapolitan	Nnapulitano	nap	11383	12824	79867	3	1007	3	0
33	Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt	vi	11180	26431	88235	3	12541	19	1
34	Turkish	Türkçe	tr	10248	18193	98671	3	17239	26	17
35	Azerbaijani	Azərbaycanca	az	9322	19639	76207	3	7947	19	1
36	Catalan	Català	ca	8903	45504	143691	4	7915	18	2
37	Breton	Brezhoneg	br	8717	56205	167066	3	2119	8	0
38	Latin	Latina	la	8430	40322	143880	8	21462	25	47
39	Dutch	Nederlands	nl	8099	28324	106036	3	11994	26	1
40	Kannada	ಕನ್ನಡ	kn	7213	89208	232377	2	6168	15	6
41	Croatian	Hrvatski	hr	6448	14550	58760	4	5607	12	434
42	Esperanto	Esperanto	eo	5427	13889	44917	2	3781	15	37
43	Norwegian (Bokmål)	Norsk (Bokmål)	no	5318	68900	189420	2	4761	7	825
44	Icelandic	Íslenska	is	4932	6951	15143	2	2673	5	9
45	Venetian	Vèneto	vec	4391	13436	70222	4	3462	9	1
46	Piedmontese	Piemontèis	pms	3924	4649	19939	1	594	3	0
47	Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesia	id	3532	15885	66233	5	15774	27	269
48	Belarusian	Беларуская	be	3243	10841	34052	2	2826	9	1
49	Estonian	Eesti	et	3225	22549	58495	2	3012	5	48
50	Danish	Dansk	da	3091	26936	68981	2	7314	14	12
51	Hindi	हिन्दी	hi	3091	142974	437780	4	2765	27	0
52	Ligurian	Líguru	lij	2920	10337	34890	2	515	2	0
53	Macedonian	Македонски	mk	2875	7173	18286	2	2814	5	4
54	Yiddish	ייִדיש	yi	2625	5386	19889	1	2526	5	1056
55	Marathi	मराठी	mr	2231	64934	122832	3	3769	14	15
56	Assamese	অসমীয়া	as	2214	50217	114257	3	2330	27	8
57	Bulgarian	Български	bg	2208	3834	16851	4	4543	24	9
58	Limburgish	Limburgs	li	1885	3353	6994	1	1767	4	1
59	Lithuanian	Lietuvių	lt	1731	3044	11254	3	2853	6	1
60	Basque	Euskara	eu	1063	5916	23401	1	716	12	0
61	Oriya	ଓଡ଼ିଆ	or	935	10847	51211	2	2024	5	0
62	Punjabi	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ	pa	885	47287	123412	4	1319	15	198
63	Walloon	Walon	wa	867	2537	15850	1	275	15	0
64	Galician	Galego	gl	672	3584	20398	4	2876	7	64
65	Welsh	Cymraeg	cy	668	3021	9122	2	2684	8	3
66	Bosnian	Bosanski	bs	607	3237	11529	1	2654	4	62
67	Sakha	Саха тыла (Saxa Tyla)	sah	590	1619	7319	1	1661	6	2
68	Slovak	Slovenčina	sk	448	1419	8188	3	3136	5	1
69	Min Nan	Bân-lâm-gú	zh-min-nan	47	3143	9150	1	2096	6	2
70	Haitian	Krèyol ayisyen	ht	12	116	2081	1	490	0	2
71	Faroese	Føroyskt	fo	10	544	3249	1	1910	4	0
72	Anglo-Saxon	Englisc	ang	1	40	1668	1	716	0	0

Grand Total

Articles	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Files
4,637,658	14,658,647	49,269,659	317	4,037,492	53,244

Alemannic, North Frisian, Bavarian and Rhine Franconian Wikisources

An Alemannic Wikisource has been created as separate namespace within Alemannic Wikipedia: Alemannischi Textsammlig (Wikisource) and similarly, the North Frisian Wikipedia, the Bavarian Wikipedia and the Rhine Franconian Wikipedia have also adopted Wikisource projects in the Text namespace: Nordfriisk Bibleteek, Boarische Text, Rheifränggische Tegschdsommlung.

Historical discussion

Please see the talk page.

See also

• Wikisource Community User Group
• Role of Wikisource
• d:Wikidata:Wikisource/Lists/language editions
• oldwikisource:Wikisource:Tenth Birthday