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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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

These statistics are updated four times a day. See commons:Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab for the date/time of last update.

№	Language	Wiki	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
1	Polish	pl	1,067,589	1,104,079	3,381,504	14	35,224	62	118
2	English	en	990,359	4,005,596	13,090,445	22	3,072,322	373	18,758
3	Russian	ru	615,948	1,084,961	4,782,526	5	112,527	89	55,769
4	German	de	534,322	585,593	4,217,504	18	78,074	105	6,921
5	French	fr	495,626	3,924,575	13,162,205	17	135,964	259	4,734
6	Chinese	zh	446,413	1,073,854	2,241,492	8	98,518	146	231
7	Hebrew	he	237,102	1,678,172	2,713,014	16	35,781	88	461
8	Italian	it	183,510	728,405	3,147,789	9	67,236	88	952
9	Ukrainian	uk	150,725	281,863	572,204	7	15,262	39	135
10	Arabic	ar	82,524	218,691	423,996	8	63,102	42	4,054
11	Spanish	es	81,912	235,263	1,309,180	9	85,218	37	233
12	Multilingual	www	64,446	178,788	962,858	17	350,921	102	855
13	Czech	cs	55,788	81,199	287,692	4	17,243	23	7
14	Gujarati	gu	55,685	60,967	193,524	2	3,700	11	0
15	Serbian	sr	42,515	46,853	135,095	5	14,151	19	362
16	Portuguese	pt	34,302	135,020	478,744	3	36,232	33	14
17	Persian	fa	26,513	54,449	195,064	5	34,049	19	1
18	Swedish	sv	25,901	162,088	521,541	4	15,130	17	18
19	Bangla	bn	24,856	748,607	1,726,579	4	17,566	21	8,382
20	Hungarian	hu	21,649	38,029	100,396	4	11,076	11	34
21	Korean	ko	21,381	57,634	264,100	3	15,973	22	616
22	Tamil	ta	20,804	455,360	1,489,933	4	12,736	66	42
23	Malayalam	ml	20,227	72,385	217,078	4	11,745	9	605
24	Sanskrit	sa	19,310	136,174	369,533	3	8,231	16	64
25	Telugu	te	18,033	130,752	409,476	6	5,624	18	514
26	Slovenian	sl	17,475	34,945	211,756	4	9,210	20	346
27	Turkish	tr	17,359	27,792	158,986	3	20,757	20	120
28	Vietnamese	vi	15,895	47,727	150,625	3	16,542	22	2
29	Armenian	hy	15,733	123,189	349,025	3	11,530	45	64
30	Latin	la	15,612	56,650	193,074	7	25,493	20	48
31	Greek	el	15,480	39,995	151,240	6	18,497	21	4
32	Japanese	ja	13,753	38,136	201,933	4	38,040	42	0
33	Romanian	ro	13,079	35,996	131,349	3	19,758	12	227
34	Finnish	fi	12,808	19,797	124,697	4	6,863	17	52
35	Dutch	nl	12,561	40,079	137,079	2	15,124	20	1
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,540	14,098	86,105	3	1,441	8	0
37	Belarusian	be	12,174	44,085	123,629	2	3,966	13	0
38	Azerbaijani	az	9,853	20,437	80,550	2	10,366	16	1
39	Catalan	ca	9,429	49,148	162,809	4	10,224	9	2
40	Croatian	hr	9,313	14,896	59,984	3	6,309	5	434
41	Breton	br	9,088	57,899	175,469	3	2,400	3	0
42	Kannada	kn	7,310	90,765	238,951	2	7,050	6	6
43	Norwegian	no	7,089	85,768	223,798	2	5,293	6	825
44	Indonesian	id	6,218	29,801	110,234	6	22,073	47	306
45	Thai	th	6,228	38,160	202,549	3	10,234	15	29
46	Hindi	hi	5,463	159,033	505,046	4	4,004	25	2
47	Esperanto	eo	5,430	18,597	69,168	2	4,481	12	33
48	Icelandic	is	4,948	7,188	16,075	2	3,005	4	9
49	Venetian	vec	4,748	14,562	72,678	3	4,144	3	1
50	Welsh	cy	4,390	26,467	55,298	3	3,416	8	3
51	Balinese	ban	4,224	30,520	106,230	1	865	11	0
52	Piedmontese	pms	4,220	5,041	23,994	1	902	3	0
53	Marathi	mr	4,077	76,880	170,299	2	4,779	14	15
54	Ligurian	lij	3,750	13,691	40,168	1	744	4	0
55	Danish	da	3,433	31,635	78,203	1	9,702	11	14
56	Estonian	et	3,251	22,676	59,112	2	3,430	4	48
57	Macedonian	mk	2,946	7,612	20,467	2	3,263	3	4
58	Assamese	as	2,857	63,641	172,668	2	3,176	17	11
59	Yiddish	yi	2,628	5,438	20,323	1	2,851	3	1,056
60	Bulgarian	bg	2,265	3,943	17,833	3	5,283	7	9
61	Javanese	jv	2,189	10,182	33,147	2	928	46	172
62	Walloon	wa	1,955	5,502	31,597	2	563	5	0
63	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,365	7,170	1	1,949	2	1
64	Lithuanian	lt	1,755	3,128	11,842	3	3,245	7	1
65	Punjabi	pa	1,722	54,951	149,531	5	1,733	10	204
66	Basque	eu	1,221	6,202	25,801	1	1,024	3	0
67	Odia	or	1,213	11,309	54,881	1	2,365	5	0
68	Galician	gl	687	3,658	20,996	3	3,202	3	64
69	Bosnian	bs	610	3,264	11,779	1	2,991	3	62
70	Yakut	sah	594	1,645	7,519	1	1,882	3	2
71	Slovak	sk	478	1,494	8,722	2	3,426	3	1
72	Chinese (Min Nan)	zh-min-nan	54	3,347	9,821	1	2,386	4	2
73	Faroese	fo	8	555	3,455	1	2,123	3	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	5,649,438	18,784,246	61,471,137	324	4,696,637	2,308	108,061

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
• List of language editions
• Wikisource Tenth Birthday