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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 Polish pl 1,287,294 1,327,921 4,079,241 14 41,450 82 127
2 English en 1,139,618 4,873,725 15,859,117 19 3,252,386 767 16,611
3 French fr 663,760 4,678,180 15,728,787 17 161,695 317 4,200
4 German de 631,259 687,954 4,877,545 16 89,884 110 6,932
5 Russian ru 620,882 1,133,972 5,703,672 5 133,491 95 33,166
6 Chinese zh 496,243 1,189,373 2,663,131 8 120,005 275 230
7 Ukrainian uk 374,897 537,718 1,044,792 5 21,477 113 136
8 Hebrew he 253,974 1,666,319 3,002,646 16 45,124 153 575
9 Italian it 218,790 862,399 3,658,063 9 79,957 92 676
10 Arabic ar 93,767 286,659 607,445 5 71,831 60 4,025
11 Spanish es 89,315 336,282 1,647,995 8 95,645 87 230
12 Multilingual www 69,383 256,799 1,329,804 13 475,592 181 736
13 Gujarati gu 65,064 71,299 221,092 2 4,516 12 0
14 Czech cs 60,886 89,737 313,950 3 19,851 27 7
15 Serbian sr 43,334 48,044 142,480 5 16,196 27 361
16 Portuguese pt 38,726 164,017 550,806 1 42,512 67 32
17 Bangla bn 37,371 618,787 1,942,064 4 21,480 38 5,568
18 Armenian hy 36,002 146,470 392,690 4 13,820 41 62
19 Tamil ta 34,747 630,190 1,920,901 4 16,518 78 33
20 Swedish sv 32,178 214,213 647,970 5 18,697 30 8
21 Persian fa 29,115 76,713 283,985 3 39,536 14 0
22 Belarusian be 29,067 117,626 281,544 2 5,262 17 0
23 Korean ko 25,494 92,853 424,847 5 19,198 31 209
24 Telugu te 22,932 205,977 549,850 4 6,996 25 467
25 Hungarian hu 21,817 39,109 103,508 3 12,243 7 27
26 Dutch nl 20,601 79,361 219,896 2 17,212 23 0
27 Latin la 20,410 77,846 262,433 5 31,931 72 45
28 Sanskrit sa 20,389 162,589 415,627 2 10,384 29 64
29 Malayalam ml 20,207 77,169 231,429 3 13,208 13 602
30 Turkish tr 19,862 31,336 173,551 2 26,073 36 122
31 Vietnamese vi 19,064 66,421 204,578 3 20,009 30 2
32 Slovenian sl 18,198 36,087 223,721 5 10,516 24 340
33 Japanese ja 17,527 47,249 239,923 4 45,429 48 0
34 Welsh cy 15,687 80,193 162,720 2 4,085 10 3
35 Romanian ro 15,581 44,324 150,584 3 22,284 42 227
36 Finnish fi 13,771 21,971 129,637 3 7,951 19 53
37 Neapolitan nap 12,941 14,615 90,593 3 2,620 9 0
38 Greek el 12,662 45,482 165,581 6 22,266 32 4
39 Norwegian no 12,596 131,191 316,525 1 6,182 11 815
40 Urdu ur 12,468 12,893 31,864 1 151 17 0
41 Azerbaijani az 11,533 24,446 95,480 2 12,562 17 1
42 Breton br 10,521 65,446 207,899 3 2,945 9 0
43 Catalan ca 10,458 56,247 184,071 3 11,914 12 5
44 Thai th 9,618 63,790 288,721 3 12,222 21 28
45 Croatian hr 9,594 15,733 63,140 3 7,371 11 434
46 Indonesian id 8,871 87,453 267,357 9 26,891 45 303
47 Kannada kn 7,214 95,003 272,794 2 8,460 24 19
48 Esperanto eo 6,890 33,236 114,792 2 5,360 13 29
49 Georgian ka 6,751 7,859 77,427 0 783 6 0
50 Hindi hi 5,994 183,512 640,455 5 5,820 15 0
51 Venetian vec 5,798 19,384 80,469 2 4,723 5 0
52 Marathi mr 5,373 108,628 229,107 2 5,975 18 15
53 Balinese ban 5,186 36,440 123,396 2 1,680 5 0
54 Icelandic is 4,707 6,165 29,748 1 3,654 6 8
55 Burmese my 4,677 5,999 21,427 1 687 8 0
56 Piedmontese pms 4,414 5,306 37,650 2 1,402 4 0
57 Ligurian lij 4,352 16,721 46,741 1 1,156 13 0
58 Danish da 3,831 101,732 396,479 2 11,143 10 6
59 Assamese as 3,734 89,707 247,283 4 4,385 23 224
60 Macedonian mk 3,351 8,205 22,293 2 3,967 7 4
61 Estonian et 3,299 22,932 59,681 1 4,123 7 48
62 Javanese jv 3,114 22,752 72,550 3 1,896 12 149
63 Yiddish yi 2,638 5,461 20,545 1 3,447 9 1,056
64 Walloon wa 2,478 6,279 35,734 1 970 4 0
65 Punjabi pa 2,341 70,260 215,373 6 2,593 29 212
66 Bulgarian bg 2,306 4,009 18,650 1 6,180 8 7
67 Limburgish li 1,885 3,368 7,291 1 2,282 6 1
68 Lithuanian lt 1,800 3,189 12,756 1 3,875 7 1
69 Basque eu 1,549 7,028 28,904 1 1,528 5 0
70 Odia or 1,302 12,329 59,439 2 2,993 7 0
71 Malay ms 1,098 7,875 22,374 2 1,184 12 0
72 Yakut sah 752 2,080 9,224 2 2,323 8 2
73 Minangkabau min 735 4,357 15,352 2 309 4 0
74 Galician gl 711 3,702 21,831 2 3,780 8 64
75 Bosnian bs 613 3,271 12,033 1 3,576 4 62
76 Slovak sk 492 1,538 9,470 2 3,920 4 1
77 Sundanese su 405 12,789 47,600 1 1,083 10 0
78 Tagalog tl 328 2,309 15,688 3 356 7 0
79 Madurese mad 207 1,115 4,282 2 313 8 0
80 Minnan zh-min-nan 159 3,569 11,181 1 2,854 4 2
81 Central Bikol bcl 137 2,455 10,244 0 433 5 0
82 Tulu tcy 113 4,763 21,770 2 580 22 0
83 Faroese fo 9 589 3,671 1 2,543 5 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,829,217 22,520,094 75,178,959 315 5,251,904 3,628 79,376

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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