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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.
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).
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 .
These statistics are updated four times a day. See commons:Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab for the date/time of last update.
№
Language
Wiki
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
1
Polish
pl
1,067,589
1,104,079
3,381,504
14
35,224
62
118
2
English
en
990,359
4,005,596
13,090,445
22
3,072,322
373
18,758
3
Russian
ru
615,948
1,084,961
4,782,526
5
112,527
89
55,769
4
German
de
534,322
585,593
4,217,504
18
78,074
105
6,921
5
French
fr
495,626
3,924,575
13,162,205
17
135,964
259
4,734
6
Chinese
zh
446,413
1,073,854
2,241,492
8
98,518
146
231
7
Hebrew
he
237,102
1,678,172
2,713,014
16
35,781
88
461
8
Italian
it
183,510
728,405
3,147,789
9
67,236
88
952
9
Ukrainian
uk
150,725
281,863
572,204
7
15,262
39
135
10
Arabic
ar
82,524
218,691
423,996
8
63,102
42
4,054
11
Spanish
es
81,912
235,263
1,309,180
9
85,218
37
233
12
Multilingual
www
64,446
178,788
962,858
17
350,921
102
855
13
Czech
cs
55,788
81,199
287,692
4
17,243
23
7
14
Gujarati
gu
55,685
60,967
193,524
2
3,700
11
0
15
Serbian
sr
42,515
46,853
135,095
5
14,151
19
362
16
Portuguese
pt
34,302
135,020
478,744
3
36,232
33
14
17
Persian
fa
26,513
54,449
195,064
5
34,049
19
1
18
Swedish
sv
25,901
162,088
521,541
4
15,130
17
18
19
Bangla
bn
24,856
748,607
1,726,579
4
17,566
21
8,382
20
Hungarian
hu
21,649
38,029
100,396
4
11,076
11
34
21
Korean
ko
21,381
57,634
264,100
3
15,973
22
616
22
Tamil
ta
20,804
455,360
1,489,933
4
12,736
66
42
23
Malayalam
ml
20,227
72,385
217,078
4
11,745
9
605
24
Sanskrit
sa
19,310
136,174
369,533
3
8,231
16
64
25
Telugu
te
18,033
130,752
409,476
6
5,624
18
514
26
Slovenian
sl
17,475
34,945
211,756
4
9,210
20
346
27
Turkish
tr
17,359
27,792
158,986
3
20,757
20
120
28
Vietnamese
vi
15,895
47,727
150,625
3
16,542
22
2
29
Armenian
hy
15,733
123,189
349,025
3
11,530
45
64
30
Latin
la
15,612
56,650
193,074
7
25,493
20
48
31
Greek
el
15,480
39,995
151,240
6
18,497
21
4
32
Japanese
ja
13,753
38,136
201,933
4
38,040
42
0
33
Romanian
ro
13,079
35,996
131,349
3
19,758
12
227
34
Finnish
fi
12,808
19,797
124,697
4
6,863
17
52
35
Dutch
nl
12,561
40,079
137,079
2
15,124
20
1
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,540
14,098
86,105
3
1,441
8
0
37
Belarusian
be
12,174
44,085
123,629
2
3,966
13
0
38
Azerbaijani
az
9,853
20,437
80,550
2
10,366
16
1
39
Catalan
ca
9,429
49,148
162,809
4
10,224
9
2
40
Croatian
hr
9,313
14,896
59,984
3
6,309
5
434
41
Breton
br
9,088
57,899
175,469
3
2,400
3
0
42
Kannada
kn
7,310
90,765
238,951
2
7,050
6
6
43
Norwegian
no
7,089
85,768
223,798
2
5,293
6
825
44
Indonesian
id
6,218
29,801
110,234
6
22,073
47
306
45
Thai
th
6,228
38,160
202,549
3
10,234
15
29
46
Hindi
hi
5,463
159,033
505,046
4
4,004
25
2
47
Esperanto
eo
5,430
18,597
69,168
2
4,481
12
33
48
Icelandic
is
4,948
7,188
16,075
2
3,005
4
9
49
Venetian
vec
4,748
14,562
72,678
3
4,144
3
1
50
Welsh
cy
4,390
26,467
55,298
3
3,416
8
3
51
Balinese
ban
4,224
30,520
106,230
1
865
11
0
52
Piedmontese
pms
4,220
5,041
23,994
1
902
3
0
53
Marathi
mr
4,077
76,880
170,299
2
4,779
14
15
54
Ligurian
lij
3,750
13,691
40,168
1
744
4
0
55
Danish
da
3,433
31,635
78,203
1
9,702
11
14
56
Estonian
et
3,251
22,676
59,112
2
3,430
4
48
57
Macedonian
mk
2,946
7,612
20,467
2
3,263
3
4
58
Assamese
as
2,857
63,641
172,668
2
3,176
17
11
59
Yiddish
yi
2,628
5,438
20,323
1
2,851
3
1,056
60
Bulgarian
bg
2,265
3,943
17,833
3
5,283
7
9
61
Javanese
jv
2,189
10,182
33,147
2
928
46
172
62
Walloon
wa
1,955
5,502
31,597
2
563
5
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,365
7,170
1
1,949
2
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,755
3,128
11,842
3
3,245
7
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,722
54,951
149,531
5
1,733
10
204
66
Basque
eu
1,221
6,202
25,801
1
1,024
3
0
67
Odia
or
1,213
11,309
54,881
1
2,365
5
0
68
Galician
gl
687
3,658
20,996
3
3,202
3
64
69
Bosnian
bs
610
3,264
11,779
1
2,991
3
62
70
Yakut
sah
594
1,645
7,519
1
1,882
3
2
71
Slovak
sk
478
1,494
8,722
2
3,426
3
1
72
Chinese (Min Nan)
zh-min-nan
54
3,347
9,821
1
2,386
4
2
73
Faroese
fo
8
555
3,455
1
2,123
3
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
5,649,438
18,784,246
61,471,137
324
4,696,637
2,308
108,061
Alemannic, North Frisian, Bavarian and Rhine Franconian Wikisources[ edit ]
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 .
Please see the talk page .