Wikisource

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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.

Name, Slogan, Logo

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

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.

№	Language	Language (local)	Wiki	Good	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Active Users	Files
1	Polish	Polski	pl	910889	944733	2798491	15	30968	71	101
2	English	English	en	879820	3517447	11404339	24	2997018	450	19570
3	Russian	Русский	ru	529593	896510	4071818	5	100003	103	1061
4	German	Deutsch	de	473244	520117	3797531	17	69132	112	5532
5	French	Français	fr	431187	3462518	11488028	17	117479	221	6282
6	Chinese	中文	zh	368430	1017427	2017546	7	86304	146	234
7	Hebrew	עברית	he	197512	385336	1098991	15	30408	98	402
8	Italian	Italiano	it	162426	652424	2796645	7	59019	105	952
9	Spanish	Español	es	114234	247869	1161700	9	76835	60	258
10	Arabic	العربية	ar	79847	166925	312781	8	55254	30	4057
11	Ukrainian	Українська	uk	78501	174947	365901	6	12069	39	133
12	Czech	Čeština	cs	51255	74579	268295	4	14676	21	5
13	Gujarati	ગુજરાતી	gu	36098	40657	150669	3	3191	12	0
14	Portuguese	Português	pt	33452	127355	457711	3	31892	32	14
15	Serbian	Српски / Srpski	sr	30366	34245	101956	5	12944	12	378
16	Persian	فارسی	fa	22862	40842	125507	4	30139	22	1
17	Hungarian	Magyar	hu	21468	37336	97543	4	9458	12	34
18	Swedish	Svenska	sv	21228	128372	450627	4	12055	23	18
19	Korean	한국어	ko	19537	40566	220756	3	14167	25	616
20	Malayalam	മലയാളം	ml	19490	70420	210087	4	10924	16	605
21	Bengali	বাংলা	bn	18466	737804	1549984	4	14527	42	8652
22	Sanskrit	संस्कृतम्	sa	18091	116374	312734	3	6823	24	64
23	Telugu	తెలుగు	te	16561	106511	356187	5	4893	19	419
24	Tamil	தமிழ்	ta	16517	433902	1321770	4	9387	185	42
25	Slovenian	Slovenščina	sl	16155	33220	200792	4	8467	19	346
26	Armenian	Հայերեն	hy	15330	119455	339039	3	10233	47	64
27	Greek	Ελληνικά	el	14674	35913	140646	6	16142	20	4
28	Turkish	Türkçe	tr	12750	21923	116403	3	18021	30	65
29	Romanian	Română	ro	12238	34546	125480	3	18279	12	227
30	Finnish	Suomi	fi	12100	18772	120847	4	6174	20	52
31	Japanese	日本語	ja	11893	32088	174203	4	32131	47	0
32	Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt	vi	11686	28532	95088	3	13208	16	1
33	Neapolitan	Nnapulitano	nap	11644	13105	81042	3	1099	6	0
34	Azerbaijani	Azərbaycanca	az	9345	19684	76722	2	8546	14	1
35	Latin	Latina	la	9201	43747	151830	8	22274	34	47
36	Catalan	Català	ca	9035	46300	151213	4	8356	24	2
37	Breton	Brezhoneg	br	8804	56606	170278	3	2195	9	0
38	Dutch	Nederlands	nl	8658	31018	112906	3	12582	25	1
39	Kannada	ಕನ್ನಡ	kn	7244	89618	234030	2	6316	6	6
40	Croatian	Hrvatski	hr	6457	14564	58969	4	5769	7	434
41	Thai	ไทย	th	6261	29996	158065	3	9355	19	32
42	Norwegian (Bokmål)	Norsk (Bokmål)	no	5858	73369	208636	2	4903	9	825
43	Esperanto	Esperanto	eo	5476	14096	45569	2	3961	13	37
44	Icelandic	Íslenska	is	4941	7048	15384	2	2760	7	9
45	Venetian	Vèneto	vec	4634	14299	71549	3	3772	6	1
46	Piedmontese	Piemontèis	pms	3981	4720	20358	1	663	6	0
47	Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesia	id	3948	20446	80330	5	16749	29	264
48	Hindi	हिन्दी	hi	3757	147100	456051	4	3030	57	0
49	Belarusian	Беларуская	be	3631	11683	36805	2	3003	9	1
50	Estonian	Eesti	et	3246	22633	58806	2	3102	11	48
51	Ligurian	Lìgure	lij	3246	10964	36135	1	577	2	0
52	Danish	Dansk	da	3212	28247	71474	2	7797	10	12
53	Macedonian	Македонски	mk	2900	7254	18707	2	2925	3	4
54	Yiddish	ייִדיש	yi	2625	5479	20052	1	2594	6	1056
55	Assamese	অসমীয়া	as	2288	51008	120206	2	2489	22	8
56	Marathi	मराठी	mr	2245	65255	125825	2	3964	13	15
57	Bulgarian	Български	bg	2228	3870	17163	4	4718	9	9
58	Limburgish	Limburgs	li	1885	3354	7052	1	1807	4	1
59	Lithuanian	Lietuvių	lt	1738	3068	11388	3	2960	7	1
60	Walloon	Walon	wa	1224	3468	20341	1	354	4	0
61	Basque	Euskara	eu	1143	6126	24374	1	807	9	0
62	Oriya	ଓଡ଼ିଆ	or	1046	10975	52717	2	2121	10	0
63	Punjabi	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ	pa	946	48877	129081	4	1429	29	198
64	Welsh	Cymraeg	cy	728	3485	10069	2	2767	7	3
65	Galician	Galego	gl	681	3637	20824	4	2954	6	64
66	Bosnian	Bosanski	bs	610	3256	11646	1	2734	4	62
67	Sakha	Саха тыла (Saxa Tyla)	sah	594	1635	7381	1	1710	3	2
68	Slovak	Slovenčina	sk	455	1425	8291	3	3205	6	1
69	Min Nan	Bân-lâm-gú	zh-min-nan	48	3144	9206	1	2169	6	2
70	Haitian	Krèyol ayisyen	ht	12	116	2081	1	491	1	2
71	Faroese	Føroyskt	fo	10	545	3310	1	1967	5	0
72	Anglo-Saxon	Englisc	ang	1	40	1668	1	717	1	0

Grand Total

Articles	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Files
4,803,886	15,224,925	51,167,629	306	4,103,911	53,337

Alemannic, North Frisian, Bavarian and Rhine Franconian Wikisources

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.

Historical discussion

Please see the talk page.

See also

• Wikisource Community User Group
• Role of Wikisource
• d:Wikidata:Wikisource/Lists/language editions
• oldwikisource:Wikisource:Tenth Birthday