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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	English	English	en	757205	2787991	9652199	28	2915700	366	22895
2	Polish	Polski	pl	742227	772098	2347390	13	25901	69	59
3	Russian	Русский	ru	510018	857221	3860882	6	86746	97	692
4	German	Deutsch	de	441310	485727	3567127	19	58596	129	5131
5	French	Français	fr	362585	2978696	9963964	18	97998	277	7404
6	Chinese	中文	zh	318477	952812	1721623	8	74165	137	240
7	Hebrew	עברית	he	181070	353772	923300	18	23881	67	360
8	Italian	Italiano	it	139603	553583	2364465	7	48397	82	990
9	Spanish	Español	es	113688	229434	1008218	8	66650	79	907
10	Arabic	العربية	ar	79075	154292	288008	8	44929	33	4065
11	Czech	Čeština	cs	47783	65913	211617	4	11720	26	5
12	Portuguese	Português	pt	30817	99694	395519	2	27726	32	31
13	Gujarati	ગુજરાતી	gu	23185	26617	111447	3	2373	20	0
14	Persian	فارسی	fa	23140	34548	99868	3	24550	28	1
15	Hungarian	Magyar	hu	21074	36562	94755	4	8197	15	57
16	Malayalam	മലയാളം	ml	19077	69134	204299	5	9654	18	603
17	Swedish	Svenska	sv	18322	106548	409360	4	9735	14	18
18	Korean	한국어	ko	17812	37358	202054	3	12062	35	619
19	Bengali	বাংলা	bn	16597	745332	1423571	5	10638	41	8758
20	Serbian	Српски / Srpski	sr	16101	19709	75689	4	11433	19	378
21	Sanskrit	संस्कृतम्	sa	15890	88003	215644	4	5209	108	60
22	Ukrainian	Українська	uk	15425	51389	138986	5	9029	39	0
23	Armenian	Հայերեն	hy	14969	101318	298704	3	8450	300	143
24	Slovenian	Slovenščina	sl	14500	30732	180620	6	7437	53	346
25	Telugu	తెలుగు	te	13909	74642	281006	5	4065	25	354
26	Greek	Ελληνικά	el	12864	31219	128364	6	13587	22	4
27	Romanian	Română	ro	11674	33364	118820	2	16300	27	228
28	Finnish	Suomi	fi	11424	17475	116499	4	5355	16	48
29	Japanese	日本語	ja	10534	26307	145670	5	25293	38	0
30	Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt	vi	10343	23768	76694	3	11071	17	1
31	Neapolitan	Nnapulitano	nap	10085	11198	73020	4	741	14	0
32	Tamil	தமிழ்	ta	9601	423813	1033345	3	6355	37	36
33	Azerbaijani	Azərbaycanca	az	9132	19117	72789	3	6672	17	1
34	Thai	ไทย	th	7806	30456	100763	2	8069	28	74
35	Catalan	Català	ca	7400	39485	129262	3	7044	19	2
36	Breton	Brezhoneg	br	7242	50262	154786	3	1953	12	0
37	Dutch	Nederlands	nl	7037	22678	85985	3	10217	32	1
38	Kannada	ಕನ್ನಡ	kn	6932	75881	181033	2	5544	35	5
39	Croatian	Hrvatski	hr	6318	14361	57898	5	5044	11	434
40	Latin	Latina	la	5537	30624	113246	8	19170	26	47
41	Norwegian (Bokmål)	Norsk (Bokmål)	no	5200	67433	187349	2	4441	15	825
42	Icelandic	Íslenska	is	4928	6905	14973	2	2461	10	9
43	Esperanto	Esperanto	eo	4341	9835	34306	1	3363	13	37
44	Venetian	Vèneto	vec	4125	12295	66497	3	2820	8	1
45	Turkish	Türkçe	tr	3705	12854	74129	1	14833	20	2
46	Piedmontese	Piemontèis	pms	3627	4300	18647	1	408	5	0
47	Belarusian	Беларуская	be	3171	10466	32618	4	2371	12	1
48	Estonian	Eesti	et	3145	22284	57138	2	2724	11	48
49	Danish	Dansk	da	2857	25586	64770	2	6348	14	305
50	Macedonian	Македонски	mk	2852	6973	17539	2	2550	8	4
51	Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesia	id	2728	11006	53241	5	12771	25	269
52	Yiddish	ייִדיש	yi	2602	5336	19700	1	2302	8	1056
53	Bulgarian	Български	bg	2159	3717	16047	2	4060	15	9
54	Limburgish	Limburgs	li	1885	3341	6937	1	1677	6	1
55	Assamese	অসমীয়া	as	1832	19695	42294	2	1785	21	7
56	Marathi	मराठी	mr	1694	31581	54672	2	3047	15	15
57	Oriya	ଓଡ଼ିଆ	or	792	10373	42132	2	1735	18	0
58	Galician	Galego	gl	649	3460	19875	4	2673	10	65
59	Bosnian	Bosanski	bs	606	3201	11383	1	2446	8	62
60	Sakha	Саха тыла (Saxa Tyla)	sah	585	1585	7125	1	1514	8	2
61	Punjabi	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ	pa	571	32559	83961	5	947	51	132
62	Lithuanian	Lietuvių	lt	553	1815	9166	3	2622	9	3
63	Basque	Euskara	eu	522	3531	14128	1	483	12	0
64	Slovak	Slovenčina	sk	448	1401	8057	3	2972	6	1
65	Hindi	हिन्दी	hi	414	36020	195444	2	1352	27	0
66	Welsh	Cymraeg	cy	215	1541	6688	2	2418	8	4
67	Min Nan	Bân-lâm-gú	zh-min-nan	45	2997	8887	1	1939	8	2
68	Haitian	Krèyol ayisyen	ht	12	118	2078	1	424	0	5
69	Faroese	Føroyskt	fo	10	539	3182	1	1792	6	0
70	Anglo-Saxon	Englisc	ang	1	39	1667	1	622	0	0

Grand Total

Articles	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Files
4,144,062	12,915,919	43,803,119	310	3,839,556	57,862

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