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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 Chinese zh 3,764,981 7,107,681 9,429,623 9 123,345 263 230
2 Polish pl 1,326,255 1,367,498 4,176,527 14 42,292 78 127
3 English en 1,128,421 4,865,342 16,280,385 20 3,308,942 600 16,667
4 French fr 710,553 4,811,922 16,026,123 17 165,636 283 4,448
5 German de 653,956 712,821 5,040,318 16 91,478 135 6,933
6 Russian ru 623,658 1,143,279 5,745,154 5 135,960 102 33,421
7 Ukrainian uk 401,353 570,530 1,106,225 5 22,603 128 139
8 Hebrew he 261,267 1,681,723 3,079,913 16 46,315 124 594
9 Italian it 224,852 879,170 3,896,194 9 81,990 81 675
10 Arabic ar 94,350 290,976 618,945 5 72,895 57 4,023
11 Spanish es 89,894 343,737 1,675,960 8 97,223 100 231
12 Gujarati gu 66,077 72,374 224,468 2 4,647 16 0
13 Multilingual www 65,818 260,210 1,358,950 14 496,562 180 730
14 Czech cs 62,516 92,227 336,993 2 20,125 30 7
15 Serbian sr 43,918 48,767 145,736 7 16,452 17 360
16 Portuguese pt 39,290 168,353 561,779 2 43,625 74 50
17 Bangla bn 39,012 614,604 1,997,607 4 22,256 45 5,477
18 Tamil ta 37,822 643,408 1,960,071 4 16,888 141 33
19 Armenian hy 36,803 147,343 394,805 4 14,026 21 62
20 Persian fa 33,964 85,524 299,196 3 39,918 19 0
21 Swedish sv 32,731 220,436 657,961 5 18,916 24 8
22 Belarusian be 30,484 125,255 297,022 2 5,415 24 0
23 Korean ko 25,501 90,292 459,244 5 19,648 41 209
24 Telugu te 24,023 217,280 574,667 4 7,234 27 496
25 Hungarian hu 21,822 39,120 103,606 3 12,360 8 27
26 Dutch nl 21,712 82,539 226,540 2 17,400 18 0
27 Latin la 21,386 82,393 280,520 7 32,873 46 45
28 Malayalam ml 20,833 81,640 239,646 3 13,545 47 620
29 Sanskrit sa 20,431 164,317 418,537 2 10,701 22 64
30 Turkish tr 20,025 31,585 174,441 2 26,739 30 122
31 Vietnamese vi 19,104 66,784 206,083 3 20,541 57 2
32 Japanese ja 18,672 49,473 245,710 4 46,468 70 0
33 Slovenian sl 18,340 36,276 224,487 5 10,672 15 340
34 Welsh cy 16,608 85,154 170,917 2 4,216 22 3
35 Romanian ro 15,739 44,990 152,055 3 22,642 23 221
36 Norwegian no 14,844 139,823 332,746 2 6,311 10 815
37 Indonesian id 14,040 106,220 317,466 9 27,584 76 306
38 Finnish fi 13,857 22,309 131,116 3 8,119 14 46
39 Esperanto eo 13,517 40,669 126,529 3 5,467 19 29
40 Neapolitan nap 12,945 14,626 91,027 3 2,723 4 0
41 Greek el 12,875 46,201 167,498 6 22,876 33 4
42 Urdu ur 11,921 13,927 35,863 1 301 14 0
43 Azerbaijani az 11,852 24,977 96,943 2 12,797 36 1
44 Breton br 10,567 65,609 209,047 3 3,001 6 0
45 Catalan ca 10,508 56,819 185,573 3 12,057 10 5
46 Thai th 9,636 65,490 295,229 2 12,513 23 22
47 Croatian hr 9,624 15,776 63,545 3 7,506 8 433
48 Georgian ka 7,018 8,247 78,404 1 879 3 0
49 Hindi hi 6,049 188,157 653,460 5 6,155 55 0
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,381 86,735 2 4,774 3 0
51 Balinese ban 5,242 36,510 123,537 2 1,773 9 0
52 Burmese my 4,879 6,215 21,886 1 881 10 0
53 Icelandic is 4,758 6,412 30,071 1 3,724 4 8
54 Marathi mr 4,735 109,774 236,669 2 6,191 16 15
55 Piedmontese pms 4,414 5,314 38,003 2 1,452 5 0
56 Ligurian lij 4,397 16,880 47,898 1 1,234 15 0
57 Assamese as 4,292 92,515 258,707 4 4,511 14 240
58 Danish da 3,977 121,954 481,476 2 11,281 10 6
59 Macedonian mk 3,371 8,235 22,386 2 4,038 8 4
60 Estonian et 3,340 23,250 60,186 1 4,192 7 48
61 Javanese jv 3,295 26,333 82,643 3 2,018 22 149
62 Yiddish yi 2,639 5,463 20,564 1 3,487 4 1,056
63 Walloon wa 2,621 6,461 36,736 1 1,005 8 0
64 Punjabi pa 2,529 72,849 234,175 6 2,737 31 212
65 Bulgarian bg 2,337 4,045 18,792 1 6,284 12 7
66 Limburgish li 1,885 3,370 7,314 1 2,313 4 1
67 Lithuanian lt 1,802 3,220 12,897 1 3,959 5 1
68 Kannada kn 1,555 112,706 315,097 2 8,622 17 18
69 Basque eu 1,547 7,047 28,976 1 1,576 5 0
70 Odia or 1,313 12,510 59,653 1 3,069 10 0
71 Malay ms 1,286 8,966 24,495 2 1,361 12 0
72 Galician gl 712 3,704 21,948 2 3,847 5 64
73 Yakut sah 701 2,202 10,332 2 2,373 5 3
74 Bosnian bs 646 3,342 12,179 1 3,632 5 61
75 Slovak sk 501 1,594 9,590 1 3,970 4 1
76 Minangkabau min 415 9,242 30,818 2 410 25 0
77 Sundanese su 410 12,887 47,879 1 1,148 6 0
78 Tagalog tl 338 2,328 15,750 3 433 7 0
79 Madurese mad 207 1,169 4,483 2 382 6 0
80 Minnan zh-min-nan 160 3,594 11,226 1 2,912 5 2
81 Central Bikol bcl 137 2,480 10,317 0 488 6 0
82 Tulu tcy 113 4,773 21,876 2 629 6 0
83 Faroese fo 79 611 3,845 1 2,602 4 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 10,267,855 28,891,209 84,019,993 322 5,364,145 3,594 79,921

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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