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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 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 1,218,261 1,257,461 3,867,984 14 39,850 65 127
2 English en 1,103,070 4,660,676 15,181,562 20 3,173,302 437 16,627
3 French fr 617,752 4,499,452 15,208,355 16 154,936 235 3,819
4 Russian ru 616,640 1,116,150 5,574,701 5 127,928 93 32,963
5 German de 594,686 648,952 4,585,195 17 87,043 120 6,922
6 Chinese zh 479,313 1,154,144 2,546,770 8 114,040 168 230
7 Ukrainian uk 331,212 486,694 945,704 6 19,659 83 136
8 Hebrew he 251,345 1,659,224 2,946,088 16 42,722 74 554
9 Italian it 209,352 832,562 3,543,314 9 76,634 85 686
10 Spanish es 85,841 310,117 1,561,602 8 93,101 57 231
11 Arabic ar 85,000 246,941 531,409 9 70,108 38 4,036
12 Multilingual www 74,676 230,463 1,179,245 12 439,368 196 971
13 Gujarati gu 64,396 70,446 216,233 2 4,330 6 0
14 Czech cs 60,000 88,545 308,966 3 19,301 15 7
15 Serbian sr 42,981 47,458 139,787 4 15,642 10 361
16 Portuguese pt 38,020 159,922 538,257 4 40,845 34 16
17 Bangla bn 36,594 636,892 1,892,465 4 20,502 33 5,707
18 Armenian hy 35,879 146,238 390,686 4 13,238 12 62
19 Swedish sv 30,663 200,871 601,381 5 18,264 17 8
20 Tamil ta 30,025 610,654 1,837,896 4 15,502 41 32
21 Persian fa 28,151 74,547 278,691 3 38,610 12 0
22 Belarusian be 27,363 107,654 259,866 2 4,896 12 0
23 Korean ko 23,658 84,512 394,689 5 18,493 50 209
24 Hungarian hu 21,777 39,114 103,246 3 11,972 6 27
25 Telugu te 21,736 183,924 505,518 4 6,615 26 576
26 Sanskrit sa 20,264 162,180 409,518 2 9,700 17 64
27 Malayalam ml 20,086 76,762 230,277 4 12,887 16 599
28 Turkish tr 19,780 31,074 171,436 2 24,817 23 122
29 Latin la 19,191 68,520 236,631 5 30,102 33 48
30 Dutch nl 18,966 73,869 209,758 3 16,802 14 0
31 Vietnamese vi 18,263 63,551 196,923 3 19,088 28 2
32 Slovenian sl 17,980 35,749 222,130 5 10,127 11 341
33 Japanese ja 16,099 43,425 230,371 4 43,555 40 0
34 Romanian ro 14,954 41,626 144,621 3 21,558 11 227
35 Finnish fi 13,464 20,599 127,262 3 7,645 7 53
36 Welsh cy 13,223 67,775 142,973 2 3,912 5 3
37 Neapolitan nap 12,849 14,522 90,040 3 2,473 5 0
38 Greek el 12,418 43,617 161,194 6 21,261 18 4
39 Azerbaijani az 11,186 24,051 93,766 2 12,048 22 1
40 Catalan ca 10,183 53,784 179,079 3 11,539 7 5
41 Breton br 10,152 63,345 197,011 3 2,798 4 0
42 Croatian hr 9,488 15,437 61,879 3 7,076 8 434
43 Norwegian no 9,176 107,967 264,943 2 5,966 6 815
44 Thai th 9,043 55,253 262,662 3 11,700 17 28
45 Indonesian id 8,642 78,852 251,250 7 25,907 43 302
46 Kannada kn 7,047 94,153 268,512 2 7,997 7 19
47 Esperanto eo 6,779 32,065 109,608 2 5,144 14 28
48 Georgian ka 6,740 7,807 77,245 0 591 1 0
49 Hindi hi 5,866 175,357 621,220 5 5,488 12 3
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,382 80,309 2 4,586 1 0
51 Marathi mr 5,263 106,652 222,597 2 5,687 9 15
52 Balinese ban 5,168 34,214 116,784 1 1,467 14 0
53 Icelandic is 4,705 6,150 29,705 1 3,497 3 9
54 Piedmontese pms 4,406 5,290 37,418 1 1,273 4 0
55 Burmese my 4,347 5,646 18,671 1 423 5 0
56 Ligurian lij 4,213 15,896 44,885 1 1,055 5 0
57 Danish da 3,493 32,370 80,493 2 10,840 7 6
58 Estonian et 3,253 22,682 59,257 2 3,936 2 48
59 Macedonian mk 3,040 7,782 21,326 2 3,710 2 4
60 Assamese as 2,926 73,497 205,737 4 4,102 18 98
61 Javanese jv 2,848 19,698 67,137 3 1,593 8 148
62 Yiddish yi 2,633 5,461 20,498 1 3,291 3 1,056
63 Walloon wa 2,358 6,104 34,713 1 874 4 0
64 Bulgarian bg 2,294 3,995 18,460 1 5,979 6 7
65 Punjabi pa 2,105 65,942 197,294 6 2,321 27 212
66 Limburgish li 1,885 3,368 7,271 1 2,199 1 1
67 Lithuanian lt 1,757 3,142 12,202 2 3,711 2 1
68 Basque eu 1,395 6,736 27,983 1 1,399 6 0
69 Odia or 1,295 12,043 59,019 2 2,864 6 0
70 Malay ms 1,036 7,160 19,828 2 987 9 0
71 Galician gl 710 3,768 21,614 2 3,610 4 64
72 Bosnian bs 613 3,269 11,968 1 3,422 4 62
73 Yakut sah 605 1,689 7,759 1 2,200 3 2
74 Slovak sk 489 1,534 9,343 2 3,796 1 1
75 Sundanese su 374 12,674 47,169 2 964 35 0
76 Minnan zh-min-nan 153 3,550 11,036 1 2,746 1 2
77 Central Bikol bcl 119 2,185 9,355 1 293 3 0
78 Tulu tcy 109 3,555 18,605 2 377 6 0
79 Faroese fo 9 556 3,562 1 2,430 1 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,509,629 21,500,943 71,621,917 316 5,072,714 2,494 79,141

Wikisources in Wikipedia

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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

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Please see the talk page.

See also

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