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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.

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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

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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 four times a day. See commons:Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab for the date/time of last update. This page may need to be purged to see the latest numbers.
№ Language Wiki Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
1 Polish pl 1,193,535 1,232,459 3,792,179 15 39,462 84 129
2 English en 1,077,688 4,603,641 15,013,054 22 3,164,075 486 16,612
3 Russian ru 626,479 1,101,482 5,517,071 5 126,539 95 32,977
4 French fr 604,160 4,455,059 15,055,397 16 153,399 249 3,703
5 German de 589,600 643,238 4,475,228 17 86,299 90 6,923
6 Chinese zh 476,837 1,147,019 2,523,295 8 112,642 153 230
7 Ukrainian uk 309,946 461,300 905,736 6 19,180 69 136
8 Hebrew he 246,961 1,653,602 2,915,782 16 42,160 93 559
9 Italian it 206,736 823,340 3,507,720 9 75,750 109 686
10 Spanish es 85,280 307,296 1,551,157 8 92,456 51 231
11 Arabic ar 84,901 245,961 528,674 9 69,580 54 4,036
12 Multilingual www 74,249 210,776 1,115,395 13 430,775 154 970
13 Gujarati gu 64,240 70,253 215,084 2 4,298 9 0
14 Czech cs 59,596 88,083 308,213 3 19,153 24 7
15 Serbian sr 42,861 47,306 138,867 4 15,535 15 361
16 Portuguese pt 37,787 158,259 534,319 3 40,462 38 16
17 Bangla bn 36,040 656,573 1,876,009 4 20,268 44 6,058
18 Armenian hy 35,863 146,203 388,976 4 13,123 16 62
19 Swedish sv 30,153 197,057 594,449 5 18,125 23 8
20 Tamil ta 28,358 602,242 1,799,239 4 15,372 45 35
21 Persian fa 28,017 73,249 275,786 3 38,329 19 0
22 Belarusian be 27,061 105,330 255,033 2 4,830 17 0
23 Korean ko 23,245 81,290 387,219 5 18,265 25 209
24 Hungarian hu 21,771 39,086 103,035 3 11,920 9 27
25 Telugu te 20,773 162,639 473,699 4 6,528 118 547
26 Malayalam ml 20,570 76,486 226,789 3 12,816 28 599
27 Sanskrit sa 20,104 161,872 408,316 2 9,600 14 64
28 Turkish tr 19,742 30,970 170,846 2 24,488 19 122
29 Latin la 18,934 67,679 231,185 5 29,638 34 48
30 Dutch nl 18,554 71,902 206,598 3 16,696 15 0
31 Vietnamese vi 17,932 61,732 192,509 3 18,882 20 2
32 Slovenian sl 17,892 35,654 221,348 5 10,056 14 341
33 Japanese ja 15,887 42,983 228,630 4 42,961 32 0
34 Romanian ro 14,782 40,567 142,489 3 21,413 18 227
35 Finnish fi 13,406 20,527 127,084 3 7,598 9 53
36 Neapolitan nap 12,828 14,500 89,895 3 2,442 4 0
37 Greek el 12,391 42,552 158,383 6 21,001 15 4
38 Welsh cy 11,495 62,746 133,085 2 3,865 5 3
39 Azerbaijani az 10,823 23,529 92,256 2 11,883 14 1
40 Breton br 10,104 62,855 194,868 3 2,770 6 0
41 Catalan ca 10,059 53,332 178,229 3 11,461 11 5
42 Croatian hr 9,476 15,432 61,774 3 7,006 5 434
43 Norwegian no 8,735 102,862 253,626 2 5,923 7 824
44 Thai th 8,521 53,181 253,258 3 11,583 12 28
45 Indonesian id 8,202 76,938 246,959 7 25,628 49 302
46 Kannada kn 7,047 94,141 268,431 2 7,945 8 19
47 Georgian ka 6,729 7,788 77,194 0 542 3 0
48 Esperanto eo 6,691 31,097 106,128 2 5,079 11 27
49 Hindi hi 5,864 175,113 620,859 5 5,422 11 3
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,382 80,291 2 4,561 3 0
51 Marathi mr 5,153 105,607 218,995 2 5,632 17 15
52 Balinese ban 5,092 34,056 116,221 1 1,434 4 0
53 Icelandic is 4,705 6,149 29,690 1 3,464 2 9
54 Piedmontese pms 4,405 5,289 37,346 1 1,249 3 0
55 Ligurian lij 4,185 15,828 44,780 1 1,040 5 0
56 Burmese my 4,139 5,421 17,839 1 365 2 0
57 Danish da 3,493 32,369 80,459 2 10,775 10 6
58 Estonian et 3,253 22,681 59,247 2 3,904 1 48
59 Macedonian mk 3,036 7,776 21,301 2 3,687 3 4
60 Assamese as 2,838 71,757 201,860 3 4,019 19 87
61 Javanese jv 2,671 19,016 65,897 3 1,553 37 148
62 Yiddish yi 2,633 5,460 20,487 1 3,261 5 1,056
63 Walloon wa 2,315 6,048 34,439 1 860 4 0
64 Bulgarian bg 2,292 3,989 18,424 1 5,934 4 7
65 Limburgish li 1,885 3,368 7,257 1 2,189 2 1
66 Lithuanian lt 1,757 3,142 12,189 2 3,681 3 1
67 Punjabi pa 1,753 64,901 191,576 6 2,262 28 212
68 Basque eu 1,381 6,447 26,961 1 1,375 3 0
69 Odia or 1,287 11,995 58,723 2 2,839 8 0
70 Malay ms 901 5,844 16,941 2 931 11 0
71 Galician gl 709 3,768 21,599 2 3,589 4 64
72 Bosnian bs 613 3,271 11,948 1 3,394 4 62
73 Yakut sah 603 1,688 7,745 1 2,183 2 2
74 Slovak sk 488 1,534 9,332 2 3,772 2 1
75 Sundanese su 307 12,418 46,491 2 909 34 0
76 Minnan zh-min-nan 153 3,539 11,013 1 2,733 3 2
77 Central Bikol bcl 119 2,170 9,269 1 271 5 0
78 Tulu tcy 109 3,505 18,471 2 354 10 0
79 Faroese fo 9 555 3,553 1 2,412 2 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,406,987 21,228,154 70,641,699 317 5,039,855 2,693 79,353

Wikisources in Wikipedia

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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

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Please see the talk page.

See also

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