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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,068,911
1,105,418
3,386,075
14
35,274
58
116
2
English
en
991,297
4,009,646
13,101,647
22
3,073,193
366
18,759
3
Russian
ru
616,106
1,085,429
4,785,294
5
112,690
91
55,769
4
German
de
534,929
586,216
4,219,936
18
78,171
103
6,921
5
French
fr
496,625
3,929,199
13,185,459
17
136,265
248
4,671
6
Chinese
zh
446,508
1,074,107
2,242,757
8
98,666
155
231
7
Hebrew
he
237,203
1,678,805
2,717,183
16
35,832
93
461
8
Italian
it
183,723
729,069
3,151,015
9
67,329
86
952
9
Ukrainian
uk
153,796
285,459
576,598
7
15,299
39
135
10
Arabic
ar
82,534
218,771
424,191
8
63,194
39
4,054
11
Spanish
es
80,868
234,436
1,312,120
9
85,313
40
233
12
Multilingual
www
65,293
179,934
964,398
17
351,458
97
855
13
Gujarati
gu
55,823
61,111
193,809
2
3,706
9
0
14
Czech
cs
55,800
81,222
287,866
4
17,259
24
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,516
46,855
135,155
5
14,166
18
362
16
Portuguese
pt
34,317
135,114
479,125
3
36,287
35
13
17
Persian
fa
26,515
54,512
195,305
5
34,090
17
1
18
Swedish
sv
25,935
162,369
521,965
4
15,180
19
18
19
Bangla
bn
24,887
748,489
1,727,298
4
17,590
28
8,252
20
Hungarian
hu
21,649
38,029
100,400
4
11,102
11
34
21
Korean
ko
21,443
57,718
264,382
3
15,993
23
615
22
Tamil
ta
20,845
455,496
1,492,798
4
12,800
101
42
23
Malayalam
ml
20,227
72,385
217,085
4
11,756
7
605
24
Sanskrit
sa
19,311
136,189
369,796
2
8,242
14
64
25
Telugu
te
18,043
130,926
410,003
5
5,626
15
514
26
Slovenian
sl
17,536
35,022
211,920
4
9,213
20
346
27
Turkish
tr
17,372
27,808
159,087
3
20,796
22
120
28
Vietnamese
vi
15,927
48,095
151,389
3
16,682
26
2
29
Armenian
hy
15,735
123,295
349,189
3
11,546
42
64
30
Latin
la
15,612
56,665
193,216
7
25,524
20
48
31
Greek
el
15,477
40,002
151,267
6
18,516
21
4
32
Japanese
ja
13,755
38,160
201,996
4
38,156
38
0
33
Romanian
ro
13,093
36,010
131,385
3
19,769
11
227
34
Finnish
fi
12,815
19,807
124,729
4
6,871
15
52
35
Dutch
nl
12,619
40,147
137,348
2
15,160
19
1
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,541
14,100
86,122
3
1,445
8
0
37
Belarusian
be
12,262
44,332
124,231
2
3,976
13
0
38
Azerbaijani
az
9,862
20,458
80,639
2
10,379
15
1
39
Catalan
ca
9,429
49,148
162,871
4
10,259
11
2
40
Croatian
hr
9,315
14,898
59,988
3
6,316
4
434
41
Breton
br
9,099
57,910
175,531
3
2,400
4
0
42
Kannada
kn
7,312
90,772
239,003
2
7,055
7
6
43
Norwegian
no
7,090
85,781
223,816
2
5,295
7
825
44
Thai
th
6,243
38,250
202,719
3
10,244
15
29
45
Indonesian
id
6,236
29,883
110,542
6
22,172
46
306
46
Hindi
hi
5,490
159,141
505,402
4
4,016
28
2
47
Esperanto
eo
5,481
18,692
69,497
2
4,488
12
30
48
Icelandic
is
4,948
7,188
16,076
2
3,007
4
9
49
Venetian
vec
4,748
14,562
72,679
3
4,148
2
1
50
Welsh
cy
4,399
26,742
55,719
3
3,421
8
3
51
Balinese
ban
4,224
30,520
106,232
1
867
10
0
52
Piedmontese
pms
4,220
5,041
24,078
1
903
3
0
53
Marathi
mr
4,089
77,572
171,039
2
4,783
14
15
54
Ligurian
lij
3,751
13,723
40,209
1
744
4
0
55
Danish
da
3,433
31,635
78,204
1
9,734
9
14
56
Estonian
et
3,251
22,676
59,113
2
3,433
3
48
57
Macedonian
mk
2,950
7,622
20,484
2
3,265
3
4
58
Assamese
as
2,863
63,711
172,831
2
3,181
18
11
59
Yiddish
yi
2,629
5,441
20,329
1
2,852
4
1,056
60
Bulgarian
bg
2,270
3,951
17,893
3
5,287
8
9
61
Javanese
jv
2,188
10,183
33,218
2
931
45
173
62
Walloon
wa
1,959
5,509
31,670
2
565
5
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,365
7,171
1
1,949
2
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,755
3,128
11,845
3
3,246
7
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,723
54,983
149,621
5
1,736
7
204
66
Basque
eu
1,222
6,203
25,808
1
1,026
4
0
67
Odia
or
1,213
11,315
54,957
1
2,368
4
0
68
Galician
gl
687
3,660
21,006
3
3,202
3
64
69
Bosnian
bs
610
3,264
11,780
1
2,996
3
62
70
Yakut
sah
594
1,645
7,520
1
1,884
3
2
71
Slovak
sk
478
1,494
8,730
2
3,429
3
1
72
Min Nan Chinese
zh-min-nan
54
3,347
9,823
1
2,387
4
2
73
Faroese
fo
8
555
3,456
1
2,126
4
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
5,657,556
18,804,315
61,545,038
322
4,700,229
2,324
107,863
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 .