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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	1,068,911	1,105,418	3,386,075	14	35,274	58	116
2	English	en	991,297	4,009,646	13,101,647	22	3,073,193	366	18,759
3	Russian	ru	616,106	1,085,429	4,785,294	5	112,690	91	55,769
4	German	de	534,929	586,216	4,219,936	18	78,171	103	6,921
5	French	fr	496,625	3,929,199	13,185,459	17	136,265	248	4,671
6	Chinese	zh	446,508	1,074,107	2,242,757	8	98,666	155	231
7	Hebrew	he	237,203	1,678,805	2,717,183	16	35,832	93	461
8	Italian	it	183,723	729,069	3,151,015	9	67,329	86	952
9	Ukrainian	uk	153,796	285,459	576,598	7	15,299	39	135
10	Arabic	ar	82,534	218,771	424,191	8	63,194	39	4,054
11	Spanish	es	80,868	234,436	1,312,120	9	85,313	40	233
12	Multilingual	www	65,293	179,934	964,398	17	351,458	97	855
13	Gujarati	gu	55,823	61,111	193,809	2	3,706	9	0
14	Czech	cs	55,800	81,222	287,866	4	17,259	24	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,516	46,855	135,155	5	14,166	18	362
16	Portuguese	pt	34,317	135,114	479,125	3	36,287	35	13
17	Persian	fa	26,515	54,512	195,305	5	34,090	17	1
18	Swedish	sv	25,935	162,369	521,965	4	15,180	19	18
19	Bangla	bn	24,887	748,489	1,727,298	4	17,590	28	8,252
20	Hungarian	hu	21,649	38,029	100,400	4	11,102	11	34
21	Korean	ko	21,443	57,718	264,382	3	15,993	23	615
22	Tamil	ta	20,845	455,496	1,492,798	4	12,800	101	42
23	Malayalam	ml	20,227	72,385	217,085	4	11,756	7	605
24	Sanskrit	sa	19,311	136,189	369,796	2	8,242	14	64
25	Telugu	te	18,043	130,926	410,003	5	5,626	15	514
26	Slovenian	sl	17,536	35,022	211,920	4	9,213	20	346
27	Turkish	tr	17,372	27,808	159,087	3	20,796	22	120
28	Vietnamese	vi	15,927	48,095	151,389	3	16,682	26	2
29	Armenian	hy	15,735	123,295	349,189	3	11,546	42	64
30	Latin	la	15,612	56,665	193,216	7	25,524	20	48
31	Greek	el	15,477	40,002	151,267	6	18,516	21	4
32	Japanese	ja	13,755	38,160	201,996	4	38,156	38	0
33	Romanian	ro	13,093	36,010	131,385	3	19,769	11	227
34	Finnish	fi	12,815	19,807	124,729	4	6,871	15	52
35	Dutch	nl	12,619	40,147	137,348	2	15,160	19	1
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,541	14,100	86,122	3	1,445	8	0
37	Belarusian	be	12,262	44,332	124,231	2	3,976	13	0
38	Azerbaijani	az	9,862	20,458	80,639	2	10,379	15	1
39	Catalan	ca	9,429	49,148	162,871	4	10,259	11	2
40	Croatian	hr	9,315	14,898	59,988	3	6,316	4	434
41	Breton	br	9,099	57,910	175,531	3	2,400	4	0
42	Kannada	kn	7,312	90,772	239,003	2	7,055	7	6
43	Norwegian	no	7,090	85,781	223,816	2	5,295	7	825
44	Thai	th	6,243	38,250	202,719	3	10,244	15	29
45	Indonesian	id	6,236	29,883	110,542	6	22,172	46	306
46	Hindi	hi	5,490	159,141	505,402	4	4,016	28	2
47	Esperanto	eo	5,481	18,692	69,497	2	4,488	12	30
48	Icelandic	is	4,948	7,188	16,076	2	3,007	4	9
49	Venetian	vec	4,748	14,562	72,679	3	4,148	2	1
50	Welsh	cy	4,399	26,742	55,719	3	3,421	8	3
51	Balinese	ban	4,224	30,520	106,232	1	867	10	0
52	Piedmontese	pms	4,220	5,041	24,078	1	903	3	0
53	Marathi	mr	4,089	77,572	171,039	2	4,783	14	15
54	Ligurian	lij	3,751	13,723	40,209	1	744	4	0
55	Danish	da	3,433	31,635	78,204	1	9,734	9	14
56	Estonian	et	3,251	22,676	59,113	2	3,433	3	48
57	Macedonian	mk	2,950	7,622	20,484	2	3,265	3	4
58	Assamese	as	2,863	63,711	172,831	2	3,181	18	11
59	Yiddish	yi	2,629	5,441	20,329	1	2,852	4	1,056
60	Bulgarian	bg	2,270	3,951	17,893	3	5,287	8	9
61	Javanese	jv	2,188	10,183	33,218	2	931	45	173
62	Walloon	wa	1,959	5,509	31,670	2	565	5	0
63	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,365	7,171	1	1,949	2	1
64	Lithuanian	lt	1,755	3,128	11,845	3	3,246	7	1
65	Punjabi	pa	1,723	54,983	149,621	5	1,736	7	204
66	Basque	eu	1,222	6,203	25,808	1	1,026	4	0
67	Odia	or	1,213	11,315	54,957	1	2,368	4	0
68	Galician	gl	687	3,660	21,006	3	3,202	3	64
69	Bosnian	bs	610	3,264	11,780	1	2,996	3	62
70	Yakut	sah	594	1,645	7,520	1	1,884	3	2
71	Slovak	sk	478	1,494	8,730	2	3,429	3	1
72	Min Nan Chinese	zh-min-nan	54	3,347	9,823	1	2,387	4	2
73	Faroese	fo	8	555	3,456	1	2,126	4	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	5,657,556	18,804,315	61,545,038	322	4,700,229	2,324	107,863

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