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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 1,152,883 1,191,130 3,667,355 16 38,296 56 128
2 English en 1,064,360 4,405,446 14,445,788 23 3,139,160 381 16,216
3 Russian ru 623,019 1,091,291 5,162,174 5 122,843 78 33,018
4 German de 574,569 627,682 4,404,314 17 84,455 110 6,922
5 French fr 550,276 4,281,394 14,480,949 16 148,950 228 3,658
6 Chinese zh 467,362 1,113,981 2,422,719 8 108,918 123 231
7 Ukrainian uk 246,869 394,340 765,940 7 18,003 47 134
8 Hebrew he 245,718 1,649,895 2,876,871 16 40,485 88 549
9 Italian it 200,729 793,683 3,395,341 9 73,431 76 760
10 Arabic ar 84,205 235,631 505,931 9 68,057 39 4,043
11 Spanish es 84,192 278,795 1,471,256 9 90,652 43 232
12 Multilingual www 82,894 220,028 1,061,242 13 406,423 168 980
13 Gujarati gu 62,714 68,521 211,292 2 4,102 9 0
14 Czech cs 58,704 86,697 304,262 3 18,696 20 7
15 Serbian sr 42,785 47,204 137,480 4 15,179 10 362
16 Portuguese pt 36,563 150,914 514,953 3 39,272 51 17
17 Bangla bn 33,753 696,206 1,831,314 4 19,476 31 6,319
18 Swedish sv 28,892 186,559 568,278 4 17,720 24 9
19 Persian fa 27,727 68,917 246,639 3 37,369 28 0
20 Tamil ta 25,071 541,560 1,662,327 4 14,711 49 42
21 Korean ko 24,231 75,755 338,382 5 17,556 47 614
22 Belarusian be 24,037 92,160 226,809 2 4,586 15 0
23 Hungarian hu 21,746 38,860 102,182 4 11,695 13 27
24 Malayalam ml 20,489 72,964 218,887 3 12,410 15 591
25 Sanskrit sa 20,030 161,239 404,170 2 9,177 20 64
26 Telugu te 19,792 147,025 442,636 4 6,189 19 547
27 Turkish tr 18,694 29,582 167,168 2 23,531 22 121
28 Latin la 18,218 65,004 220,315 7 28,431 27 48
29 Slovenian sl 17,973 35,739 220,408 5 9,830 16 343
30 Vietnamese vi 17,036 56,841 178,390 3 18,285 21 2
31 Dutch nl 16,958 62,388 188,397 4 16,269 19 0
32 Armenian hy 15,967 124,271 354,179 3 12,665 18 64
33 Japanese ja 15,016 41,102 222,394 4 41,637 31 0
34 Romanian ro 14,338 38,812 138,789 2 20,867 17 227
35 Finnish fi 13,269 20,370 126,594 4 7,388 17 53
36 Neapolitan nap 12,752 14,405 89,027 3 2,307 8 0
37 Greek el 12,306 41,959 156,120 6 20,275 17 4
38 Azerbaijani az 10,673 22,240 87,767 2 11,502 54 1
39 Breton br 9,878 61,182 185,978 3 2,653 9 0
40 Catalan ca 9,759 51,167 171,793 3 11,121 12 5
41 Croatian hr 9,450 15,122 60,878 3 6,806 9 434
42 Welsh cy 8,234 49,920 107,986 3 3,729 7 3
43 Thai th 7,973 47,870 231,564 3 11,189 20 28
44 Norwegian no 7,650 93,751 235,013 2 5,737 10 825
45 Indonesian id 7,461 60,992 199,258 6 24,585 43 305
46 Kannada kn 7,241 93,388 260,274 2 7,663 55 6
47 Esperanto eo 6,621 29,349 97,783 2 4,898 16 27
48 Hindi hi 5,819 173,843 615,107 5 5,070 31 3
49 Venetian vec 5,630 17,522 77,402 3 4,426 7 0
50 Balinese ban 4,951 33,735 115,274 1 1,295 12 0
51 Icelandic is 4,835 6,364 24,500 2 3,317 8 9
52 Marathi mr 4,823 102,451 209,385 2 5,400 18 15
53 Piedmontese pms 4,325 5,192 33,645 1 1,140 6 0
54 Ligurian lij 4,080 15,159 42,859 1 938 4 0
55 Danish da 3,476 32,195 79,652 1 10,513 9 6
56 Estonian et 3,253 22,689 59,206 2 3,753 6 48
57 Assamese as 3,155 69,668 190,000 2 3,706 21 78
58 Macedonian mk 2,990 7,725 20,909 2 3,551 5 4
59 Yiddish yi 2,632 5,462 20,441 1 3,130 6 1,056
60 Javanese jv 2,337 14,513 48,445 1 1,351 10 149
61 Bulgarian bg 2,287 3,985 18,294 3 5,767 8 7
62 Walloon wa 2,241 5,927 33,722 2 764 5 0
63 Limburgish li 1,885 3,366 7,227 1 2,105 4 1
64 Lithuanian lt 1,756 3,136 12,061 2 3,554 6 1
65 Punjabi pa 1,620 61,594 174,101 6 2,104 28 212
66 Basque eu 1,367 6,378 26,360 1 1,266 4 0
67 Odia or 1,287 11,630 56,826 1 2,648 6 0
68 Georgian ka 746 927 5,606 0 282 4 0
69 Galician gl 694 3,719 21,339 2 3,481 5 64
70 Bosnian bs 613 3,272 11,902 1 3,275 5 62
71 Malay ms 607 3,422 12,521 2 645 17 0
72 Yakut sah 600 1,659 7,627 1 2,089 7 2
73 Slovak sk 487 1,496 9,196 2 3,658 6 1
74 Sundanese su 264 6,397 26,271 2 725 4 0
75 Minnan zh-min-nan 55 3,403 10,221 1 2,611 8 2
76 Faroese fo 9 554 3,517 1 2,325 5 0
77 Burmese my 0 8 12 0 161 2 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,149,901 20,400,722 67,543,194 319 4,944,229 2,503 79,686

Alemannic, North Frisian, Bavarian, Rhine Franconian, Pennsylvania Dutch Wikisources

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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.

Historical discussion

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Please see the talk page.

See also

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