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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 several times a day. You might need to purge the cache to see the latest numbers.
№ Language Wiki Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
1 Chinese zh 1,669,957 3,304,251 5,086,969 9 120,825 274 230
2 Polish pl 1,295,794 1,336,568 4,101,391 14 41,676 74 127
3 English en 1,103,434 4,761,978 15,957,345 19 3,267,416 777 16,640
4 French fr 669,970 4,705,732 15,792,548 17 162,659 291 4,206
5 German de 636,670 693,945 4,900,943 16 90,300 133 6,933
6 Russian ru 621,345 1,135,961 5,710,994 5 134,195 101 33,242
7 Ukrainian uk 378,120 542,377 1,054,456 5 21,761 109 136
8 Hebrew he 254,317 1,670,306 3,015,245 16 45,437 148 577
9 Italian it 219,684 867,476 3,835,913 9 80,498 84 676
10 Arabic ar 93,841 287,254 608,889 5 72,084 50 4,024
11 Spanish es 88,922 337,925 1,653,695 8 96,010 88 230
12 Multilingual www 69,559 258,131 1,333,732 14 480,911 151 736
13 Gujarati gu 65,347 71,596 221,988 2 4,532 11 0
14 Czech cs 61,427 90,327 332,961 3 19,923 25 7
15 Serbian sr 43,470 48,228 143,557 5 16,270 24 360
16 Portuguese pt 38,781 164,461 552,468 1 42,804 106 32
17 Bangla bn 37,691 619,116 1,948,426 4 21,623 44 5,527
18 Armenian hy 36,011 146,484 392,829 4 13,870 20 62
19 Tamil ta 35,286 633,603 1,932,256 4 16,565 46 33
20 Swedish sv 32,295 216,269 651,160 5 18,750 26 8
21 Belarusian be 29,434 120,209 286,368 2 5,294 13 0
22 Persian fa 29,115 76,715 284,000 3 39,581 9 0
23 Korean ko 25,541 88,218 427,418 5 19,304 31 209
24 Telugu te 23,007 206,991 553,353 4 7,040 26 468
25 Hungarian hu 21,819 39,111 103,525 3 12,283 10 27
26 Dutch nl 20,899 79,898 221,246 2 17,255 16 0
27 Latin la 20,685 78,920 266,444 5 32,184 63 45
28 Sanskrit sa 20,390 162,614 415,862 2 10,451 28 64
29 Malayalam ml 20,308 77,631 232,918 3 13,272 42 603
30 Turkish tr 19,869 31,377 173,815 2 26,257 35 122
31 Vietnamese vi 19,080 66,593 205,358 3 20,144 56 2
32 Slovenian sl 18,218 36,113 223,968 5 10,551 16 340
33 Japanese ja 18,086 48,361 242,499 4 45,682 52 0
34 Welsh cy 15,833 81,785 165,106 2 4,115 16 3
35 Romanian ro 15,611 44,393 150,775 3 22,398 34 227
36 Finnish fi 13,789 22,041 130,489 3 7,997 20 46
37 Neapolitan nap 12,941 14,615 90,639 3 2,633 7 0
38 Norwegian no 12,880 133,678 321,543 2 6,215 9 815
39 Greek el 12,668 45,730 166,007 6 22,418 25 4
40 Urdu ur 11,929 13,176 32,632 2 196 18 0
41 Azerbaijani az 11,605 24,566 95,765 2 12,620 18 1
42 Breton br 10,534 65,487 208,516 3 2,955 7 0
43 Catalan ca 10,466 56,278 184,372 3 11,954 10 5
44 Indonesian id 10,026 96,319 296,114 9 27,095 192 303
45 Croatian hr 9,595 15,736 63,205 3 7,404 11 434
46 Thai th 9,544 64,277 290,223 2 12,275 24 28
47 Esperanto eo 8,443 34,861 117,046 2 5,382 9 29
48 Georgian ka 6,798 7,925 77,540 0 803 8 0
49 Hindi hi 5,994 183,515 640,496 5 5,855 10 0
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,376 86,701 2 4,735 7 0
51 Marathi mr 5,393 108,902 230,073 2 6,000 12 15
52 Balinese ban 5,186 36,443 123,413 2 1,707 12 0
53 Burmese my 4,748 6,073 21,573 1 718 7 0
54 Icelandic is 4,711 6,212 29,808 1 3,671 6 8
55 Piedmontese pms 4,414 5,310 37,806 2 1,418 6 0
56 Ligurian lij 4,392 16,844 46,931 1 1,170 7 0
57 Danish da 3,850 102,940 406,490 2 11,177 11 6
58 Assamese as 3,791 90,199 250,295 4 4,406 19 225
59 Macedonian mk 3,351 8,207 22,304 2 3,989 8 4
60 Estonian et 3,299 22,932 59,694 1 4,139 9 48
61 Javanese jv 3,123 24,825 78,634 3 1,931 16 149
62 Yiddish yi 2,638 5,461 20,549 1 3,453 3 1,056
63 Walloon wa 2,500 6,318 36,007 1 976 6 0
64 Punjabi pa 2,351 71,393 218,316 6 2,620 41 212
65 Bulgarian bg 2,310 4,013 18,664 1 6,197 6 7
66 Limburgish li 1,885 3,368 7,295 1 2,286 3 1
67 Lithuanian lt 1,800 3,191 12,779 1 3,894 11 1
68 Basque eu 1,547 7,031 28,931 1 1,537 6 0
69 Kannada kn 1,532 112,382 310,264 2 8,495 33 18
70 Odia or 1,304 12,384 59,504 1 3,004 9 0
71 Malay ms 1,109 7,963 22,996 2 1,217 14 0
72 Yakut sah 752 2,111 9,349 2 2,332 6 2
73 Galician gl 712 3,704 21,902 2 3,796 6 64
74 Bosnian bs 613 3,271 12,039 1 3,585 4 62
75 Slovak sk 492 1,539 9,477 2 3,929 4 1
76 Sundanese su 407 12,797 47,629 1 1,094 11 0
77 Minangkabau min 375 4,500 15,702 2 329 15 0
78 Tagalog tl 328 2,311 15,699 3 370 4 0
79 Madurese mad 207 1,145 4,385 2 342 28 0
80 Minnan zh-min-nan 159 3,569 11,187 1 2,865 4 2
81 Central Bikol bcl 137 2,462 10,253 0 443 3 0
82 Tulu tcy 113 4,768 21,842 2 590 16 0
83 Faroese fo 79 610 3,827 1 2,557 9 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 7,992,434 24,633,675 78,207,325 317 5,280,694 3,759 79,442

Wikisources in Wikipedia

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Seven Wikisources are hosted as seperate namespaces within their appropriate language's Wikipedia.

The following language Wikipedias have adopted the Text: namespace for their Wikisource projects:

The Swahili Wikipedia has adopted the Wikichanzo: namespace for its Wikisource.

Historical discussion

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Please see the talk page.

See also

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