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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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

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	1,280,750	1,321,270	4,060,942	14	41,281	81	127
2	English	en	1,135,779	4,852,470	15,779,503	19	3,243,302	568	16,636
3	French	fr	658,491	4,652,978	15,668,373	17	160,777	333	4,178
4	German	de	625,037	681,262	4,852,752	17	89,586	134	6,932
5	Russian	ru	620,508	1,131,801	5,698,085	5	132,942	87	33,075
6	Chinese	zh	494,211	1,175,663	2,639,814	8	119,358	230	230
7	Ukrainian	uk	371,517	533,366	1,032,870	5	21,272	101	136
8	Hebrew	he	253,669	1,665,422	2,996,303	16	44,865	154	570
9	Italian	it	217,958	858,787	3,645,147	9	79,561	103	677
10	Arabic	ar	93,730	286,113	606,106	5	71,658	43	4,025
11	Spanish	es	89,057	334,401	1,643,926	8	95,345	71	230
12	Multilingual	www	81,105	268,135	1,325,961	13	471,491	198	733
13	Gujarati	gu	64,879	71,099	220,489	2	4,500	10	0
14	Czech	cs	60,549	89,367	313,244	3	19,775	14	7
15	Serbian	sr	43,266	47,967	142,002	5	16,131	24	361
16	Portuguese	pt	38,744	163,863	550,131	1	42,304	48	32
17	Bangla	bn	37,294	618,160	1,939,006	4	21,367	34	5,566
18	Armenian	hy	35,909	146,370	392,399	4	13,731	30	62
19	Tamil	ta	34,214	627,165	1,913,039	4	16,470	88	32
20	Swedish	sv	32,028	212,566	631,285	5	18,648	25	8
21	Persian	fa	29,113	76,702	283,927	3	39,484	24	0
22	Belarusian	be	28,696	116,290	278,746	2	5,225	14	0
23	Korean	ko	25,421	92,843	423,268	5	19,115	35	209
24	Telugu	te	22,886	204,690	546,769	4	6,970	23	467
25	Hungarian	hu	21,817	39,109	103,505	3	12,203	5	27
26	Sanskrit	sa	20,387	162,569	415,453	2	10,327	39	64
27	Dutch	nl	20,311	78,642	218,439	2	17,158	15	0
28	Malayalam	ml	20,207	77,170	231,391	4	13,181	20	602
29	Latin	la	20,155	76,562	258,749	5	31,705	41	45
30	Turkish	tr	19,859	31,324	173,426	2	25,937	29	122
31	Vietnamese	vi	19,057	66,340	204,237	3	19,919	63	2
32	Slovenian	sl	18,181	36,060	223,626	5	10,483	20	341
33	Japanese	ja	17,204	46,613	238,217	4	45,266	61	0
34	Romanian	ro	15,548	44,198	150,251	3	22,188	27	227
35	Welsh	cy	15,520	79,112	161,217	2	4,064	3	3
36	Finnish	fi	13,736	20,961	128,155	3	7,921	13	53
37	Neapolitan	nap	12,939	14,613	90,570	2	2,602	3	0
38	Greek	el	12,648	45,408	165,388	6	22,153	27	4
39	Norwegian	no	11,544	128,141	310,788	2	6,159	6	815
40	Azerbaijani	az	11,508	24,397	95,339	2	12,494	21	1
41	Breton	br	10,503	65,384	207,575	3	2,929	7	0
42	Catalan	ca	10,434	56,111	183,673	3	11,883	6	5
43	Thai	th	9,601	63,355	286,833	3	12,176	16	28
44	Croatian	hr	9,590	15,730	63,052	3	7,334	16	434
45	Indonesian	id	8,839	86,977	266,592	9	26,821	78	303
46	Kannada	kn	7,079	94,756	271,500	2	8,424	43	19
47	Esperanto	eo	6,871	33,112	114,412	2	5,338	13	29
48	Georgian	ka	6,751	7,857	77,421	1	754	6	0
49	Hindi	hi	5,994	183,507	640,298	5	5,789	29	0
50	Venetian	vec	5,798	19,384	80,460	2	4,704	1	0
51	Marathi	mr	5,362	108,397	228,420	2	5,948	11	15
52	Balinese	ban	5,187	36,439	123,387	2	1,663	15	0
53	Icelandic	is	4,707	6,166	29,743	1	3,630	3	8
54	Burmese	my	4,604	5,921	21,299	1	657	5	0
55	Piedmontese	pms	4,411	5,300	37,619	2	1,391	7	0
56	Ligurian	lij	4,351	16,696	46,562	1	1,141	4	0
57	Danish	da	3,715	95,665	332,524	2	11,108	10	6
58	Assamese	as	3,648	85,034	237,281	4	4,360	24	193
59	Macedonian	mk	3,351	8,204	22,289	2	3,943	4	4
60	Estonian	et	3,299	22,933	59,675	2	4,096	5	48
61	Javanese	jv	3,108	22,725	72,459	3	1,868	17	149
62	Yiddish	yi	2,638	5,463	20,541	1	3,426	4	1,056
63	Walloon	wa	2,462	6,261	35,664	1	960	2	0
64	Punjabi	pa	2,335	69,544	213,486	6	2,578	16	212
65	Bulgarian	bg	2,306	4,010	18,648	1	6,159	4	7
66	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,369	7,287	1	2,273	0	1
67	Lithuanian	lt	1,800	3,189	12,748	2	3,860	3	1
68	Basque	eu	1,547	7,023	28,890	1	1,514	4	0
69	Odia	or	1,301	12,298	59,401	2	2,980	2	0
70	Malay	ms	1,091	7,852	22,295	2	1,165	9	0
71	Yakut	sah	751	2,099	9,093	1	2,309	5	2
72	Minangkabau	min	735	4,349	15,338	2	289	13	0
73	Galician	gl	711	3,702	21,807	2	3,759	3	64
74	Bosnian	bs	613	3,271	12,031	1	3,558	0	62
75	Slovak	sk	492	1,536	9,463	2	3,910	2	1
76	Sundanese	su	405	12,786	47,586	1	1,070	8	0
77	Tagalog	tl	326	2,302	15,659	3	334	0	0
78	Madurese	mad	207	1,112	4,256	2	298	18	0
79	Minnan	zh-min-nan	159	3,569	11,179	1	2,841	3	2
80	Central Bikol	bcl	137	2,454	10,240	0	415	1	0
81	Tulu	tcy	111	4,678	21,275	2	556	15	0
82	Faroese	fo	9	589	3,669	1	2,527	0	0
83	Urdu	ur	0	16	16	1	33	2	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,794,656	22,401,094	74,756,484	319	5,231,689	3,299	79,248

Wikisources in Wikipedia

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

Please see the talk page.

See also

• List of Wikisources at WikiStats, an alternative version of the table above
• Another version of the table at WikiStats, presented as raw wiki markup
• Wikisource Community User Group
• Role of Wikisource
• List of language editions
• Wikisource Tenth Birthday
• Wikisource proofreading contests