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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 nine 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 1,258,754 1,298,818 3,997,293 14 40,737 80 127
2 English en 1,125,611 4,781,943 15,561,810 18 3,209,263 627 16,671
3 French fr 630,508 4,580,306 15,472,905 17 158,590 305 4,052
4 Russian ru 619,643 1,126,912 5,676,404 5 131,107 108 32,785
5 German de 611,715 666,950 4,671,859 17 88,592 150 6,922
6 Chinese zh 490,541 1,167,701 2,601,436 8 117,444 304 230
7 Ukrainian uk 359,357 520,287 1,008,679 5 20,666 97 136
8 Hebrew he 252,264 1,661,844 2,965,712 16 44,031 156 562
9 Italian it 213,388 845,130 3,598,015 9 78,432 80 677
10 Arabic ar 93,506 284,506 601,155 5 71,156 71 4,029
11 Spanish es 88,008 326,394 1,605,877 8 94,559 65 231
12 Multilingual www 80,465 260,701 1,251,190 13 459,277 223 734
13 Gujarati gu 64,521 70,703 219,057 2 4,457 15 0
14 Czech cs 60,196 88,901 312,306 3 19,608 26 7
15 Serbian sr 43,086 47,654 140,729 4 15,927 36 361
16 Portuguese pt 38,578 162,933 547,450 2 41,837 70 18
17 Bangla bn 36,818 623,272 1,926,131 4 21,077 51 5,604
18 Armenian hy 35,917 146,351 392,102 4 13,542 36 62
19 Tamil ta 32,561 618,520 1,884,385 4 16,196 139 32
20 Swedish sv 31,496 208,616 625,046 5 18,503 23 8
21 Persian fa 29,008 76,142 282,254 3 39,161 37 0
22 Belarusian be 27,983 112,334 269,490 2 5,110 16 0
23 Korean ko 25,011 91,750 417,264 5 18,902 38 209
24 Telugu te 22,497 199,790 534,305 4 6,814 26 469
25 Hungarian hu 21,804 39,083 103,427 3 12,142 16 27
26 Sanskrit sa 20,364 162,450 411,286 2 10,085 45 64
27 Malayalam ml 20,183 77,154 231,115 4 13,093 18 602
28 Turkish tr 19,854 31,291 172,852 2 25,522 52 122
29 Dutch nl 19,844 76,831 215,265 2 17,056 12 0
30 Latin la 19,714 72,694 249,880 5 31,173 58 45
31 Vietnamese vi 18,962 66,068 203,026 3 19,594 43 2
32 Slovenian sl 18,011 35,860 222,690 5 10,348 17 341
33 Japanese ja 16,839 45,415 235,253 4 44,664 51 0
34 Romanian ro 15,268 42,749 147,279 3 21,946 39 227
35 Welsh cy 14,458 73,915 153,592 2 4,015 9 3
36 Finnish fi 13,568 20,709 127,589 3 7,821 17 53
37 Neapolitan nap 12,880 14,553 90,403 3 2,557 6 0
38 Greek el 12,561 44,190 162,760 6 21,814 33 4
39 Azerbaijani az 11,467 24,511 94,869 2 12,345 24 1
40 Norwegian no 10,685 121,662 296,002 2 6,102 7 815
41 Breton br 10,380 64,858 204,142 3 2,876 12 0
42 Catalan ca 10,330 55,033 181,432 3 11,756 9 5
43 Croatian hr 9,514 15,639 62,569 3 7,226 12 434
44 Thai th 8,987 60,441 275,907 3 12,011 26 28
45 Indonesian id 8,798 81,703 257,925 9 26,517 88 302
46 Kannada kn 7,073 94,242 269,323 2 8,308 16 19
47 Esperanto eo 6,836 32,742 112,637 2 5,278 17 28
48 Georgian ka 6,751 7,853 77,405 1 688 3 0
49 Hindi hi 5,959 183,450 638,151 5 5,676 39 0
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,384 80,448 2 4,665 6 0
51 Marathi mr 5,348 108,094 226,955 2 5,856 11 15
52 Balinese ban 5,186 36,412 123,260 1 1,607 19 0
53 Icelandic is 4,707 6,165 29,737 1 3,581 4 8
54 Burmese my 4,543 5,844 20,923 1 575 7 0
55 Piedmontese pms 4,410 5,288 37,445 1 1,350 7 0
56 Ligurian lij 4,308 16,261 45,531 1 1,116 6 0
57 Assamese as 3,561 82,224 224,526 4 4,266 36 164
58 Danish da 3,556 51,650 125,358 2 11,022 14 6
59 Estonian et 3,297 22,854 59,472 2 4,040 10 48
60 Macedonian mk 3,238 8,090 21,832 2 3,886 5 4
61 Minangkabau min 3,209 4,058 14,825 2 213 18 0
62 Javanese jv 3,101 22,126 71,307 3 1,794 31 149
63 Yiddish yi 2,633 5,461 20,510 1 3,381 5 1,056
64 Walloon wa 2,442 6,231 35,438 1 936 5 0
65 Punjabi pa 2,306 69,066 210,030 6 2,522 43 212
66 Bulgarian bg 2,303 3,997 18,590 1 6,100 11 7
67 Limburgish li 1,885 3,370 7,283 1 2,254 4 1
68 Lithuanian lt 1,757 3,139 12,218 2 3,817 7 1
69 Basque eu 1,547 7,012 28,822 1 1,476 7 0
70 Odia or 1,297 12,204 59,297 2 2,951 7 0
71 Malay ms 1,080 7,731 21,703 2 1,115 20 0
72 Yakut sah 746 2,023 8,937 1 2,281 9 2
73 Galician gl 712 3,794 21,757 2 3,717 4 64
74 Bosnian bs 614 3,274 12,019 1 3,519 4 62
75 Slovak sk 492 1,536 9,457 2 3,877 5 1
76 Sundanese su 383 12,738 47,419 2 1,046 9 0
77 Tagalog tl 330 2,243 15,521 3 294 3 0
78 Madurese mad 207 1,079 4,132 2 252 9 0
79 Minnan zh-min-nan 159 3,568 11,173 1 2,814 4 2
80 Central Bikol bcl 120 2,434 10,186 0 383 11 0
81 Tulu tcy 111 3,964 19,914 2 520 17 0
82 Faroese fo 9 565 3,589 1 2,495 10 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,687,917 22,057,433 73,419,247 317 5,165,322 3,816 78,850

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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