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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	1004878	1040058	3108469	15	33255	70	117
2	English	English	en	948261	3804538	12349275	22	3035869	373	19494
3	Russian	Русский	ru	604813	1055711	4493214	5	106072	84	55754
4	German	Deutsch	de	512522	561495	4054317	17	74307	113	5766
5	French	Français	fr	469334	3705623	12469159	18	127108	226	4284
6	Chinese	中文	zh	395609	1047058	2108763	7	92686	143	233
7	Hebrew	עברית	he	229777	445551	1400146	15	33272	93	457
8	Italian	Italiano	it	176269	695391	2986642	8	63729	91	955
9	Spanish	Español	es	118283	258936	1231814	10	81396	57	236
10	Arabic	العربية	ar	81163	207231	397104	9	59355	35	4054
11	Ukrainian	Українська	uk	79708	199552	441037	6	13629	43	135
12	Czech	Čeština	cs	53952	78751	279145	4	16297	17	7
13	Gujarati	ગુજરાતી	gu	40607	45480	164502	2	3449	13	0
14	Serbian	Српски / Srpski	sr	36776	40820	116566	5	13611	18	378
15	Portuguese	Português	pt	33843	130076	464242	2	34354	24	14
16	Swedish	Svenska	sv	24193	149022	496097	4	13688	20	18
17	Persian	فارسی	fa	23168	44641	136804	4	32075	16	1
18	Hungarian	Magyar	hu	21546	37593	98870	4	10525	8	34
19	Korean	한국어	ko	20895	50830	247474	3	15189	30	616
20	Bengali	বাংলা	bn	20210	738569	1679018	4	16007	30	8492
21	Malayalam	മലയാളം	ml	20116	71771	214273	4	11398	14	605
22	Sanskrit	संस्कृतम्	sa	18979	123045	337917	3	7649	88	64
23	Tamil	தமிழ்	ta	18264	439252	1417940	3	11199	53	42
24	Telugu	తెలుగు	te	17407	121159	389220	5	5266	16	455
25	Slovenian	Slovenščina	sl	16798	34076	205314	4	8880	32	346
26	Turkish	Türkçe	tr	16080	26285	150732	3	19331	25	120
27	Armenian	Հայերեն	hy	15477	121960	345345	3	10939	44	64
28	Greek	Ελληνικά	el	15112	37806	145936	6	17415	28	4
29	Latin	Latina	la	14787	52350	179779	7	24024	24	47
30	Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt	vi	14026	39901	133296	3	15178	20	1
31	Japanese	日本語	ja	12577	34391	185920	4	35432	48	0
32	Romanian	Română	ro	12454	35093	127868	3	19049	11	227
33	Finnish	Suomi	fi	12365	19064	122390	4	6550	9	52
34	Neapolitan	Nnapulitano	nap	12300	13838	84249	3	1275	8	0
35	Dutch	Nederlands	nl	10362	35749	124506	3	14181	15	1
36	Azerbaijani	Azərbaycanca	az	9390	19825	77803	2	9568	19	1
37	Catalan	Català	ca	9268	48209	158893	4	9611	12	2
38	Breton	Brezhoneg	br	9023	57321	173874	3	2313	9	0
39	Kannada	ಕನ್ನಡ	kn	7260	90117	235922	2	6717	10	6
40	Croatian	Hrvatski	hr	6733	14794	59547	4	6034	6	434
41	Norwegian (Bokmål)	Norsk (Bokmål)	no	6617	81711	218612	2	5117	13	825
42	Thai	ไทย	th	5951	34119	183914	3	9796	24	30
43	Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesia	id	5903	25611	97300	5	19867	39	294
44	Belarusian	Беларуская	be	5793	18610	55763	2	3514	11	0
45	Esperanto	Esperanto	eo	5430	16848	62254	2	4264	14	33
46	Hindi	हिन्दी	hi	5378	154466	494585	4	3544	18	2
47	Icelandic	Íslenska	is	4949	7143	15848	2	2899	8	9
48	Venetian	Vèneto	vec	4705	14463	72342	3	4023	4	1
49	Piedmontese	Piemontèis	pms	4090	4836	20984	1	805	7	0
50	Balinese	Bali	ban	3781	27055	96509	1	695	43	0
51	Ligurian	Lìgure	lij	3395	12048	37697	1	656	4	0
52	Danish	Dansk	da	3372	31453	76797	2	9187	9	12
53	Estonian	Eesti	et	3246	22637	58972	2	3277	2	48
54	Marathi	मराठी	mr	2941	68326	146615	2	4395	20	15
55	Macedonian	Македонски	mk	2909	7354	19269	2	3105	4	4
56	Welsh	Cymraeg	cy	2814	14448	32755	2	3243	13	3
57	Yiddish	ייִדיש	yi	2626	5396	20161	1	2723	5	1056
58	Assamese	অসমীয়া	as	2476	57865	154729	2	2893	28	11
59	Bulgarian	Български	bg	2249	3909	17580	3	5020	6	9
60	Limburgish	Limburgs	li	1885	3358	7103	1	1877	4	1
61	Lithuanian	Lietuvių	lt	1747	3095	11586	3	3104	5	1
62	Javanese	Basa Jawa	jv	1733	6796	22094	1	706	17	167
63	Walloon	Walon	wa	1661	5063	29249	1	481	6	0
64	Punjabi	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ	pa	1539	52424	139124	6	1574	20	204
65	Basque	Euskara	eu	1219	6192	25705	1	929	5	0
66	Oriya	ଓଡ଼ିଆ	or	1193	11155	53852	2	2257	9	0
67	Galician	Galego	gl	690	3647	20888	4	3098	7	64
68	Bosnian	Bosanski	bs	610	3261	11707	1	2875	3	62
69	Sakha	Саха тыла (Saxa Tyla)	sah	594	1639	7452	1	1805	5	2
70	Slovak	Slovenčina	sk	466	1470	8504	2	3334	5	1
71	Min Nan	Bân-lâm-gú	zh-min-nan	49	3156	9294	1	2301	3	2
72	Haitian	Krèyol ayisyen	ht	12	116	2081	1	492	0	2
73	Faroese	Føroyskt	fo	10	549	3368	1	2052	4	0
74	Anglo-Saxon	Ænglisc	ang	1	40	1668	1	718	0	0

Grand Total

Articles	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Files
5,256,619	16,483,191	55,829,743	306	4,234,508	106,374

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