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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	Polish	Polski	pl	830306	862668	2582640	16	28511	61	65
2	English	English	en	809899	3157484	10389541	27	2957284	413	20348
3	Russian	Русский	ru	519805	878265	3979085	5	93938	101	873
4	German	Deutsch	de	456993	502163	3666486	18	64248	115	5123
5	French	Français	fr	390777	3210189	10644392	17	108955	203	6089
6	Chinese	中文	zh	355852	995670	1934513	7	80953	147	234
7	Hebrew	עברית	he	185005	362813	977338	17	27207	82	383
8	Italian	Italiano	it	149091	611485	2665104	7	53868	80	976
9	Spanish	Español	es	114838	240409	1114569	9	72419	39	381
10	Arabic	العربية	ar	79369	161215	299744	8	50456	24	4061
11	Ukrainian	Українська	uk	57279	108797	220998	4	10578	26	0
12	Czech	Čeština	cs	48990	69449	250755	3	13017	23	5
13	Portuguese	Português	pt	31864	107006	417928	3	29637	23	34
14	Gujarati	ગુજરાતી	gu	30394	34319	132622	3	2674	10	0
15	Serbian	Српски / Srpski	sr	24389	28188	90734	4	12232	12	378
16	Persian	فارسی	fa	24048	37649	108300	3	27934	32	1
17	Hungarian	Magyar	hu	21256	36860	95772	4	8726	15	37
18	Swedish	Svenska	sv	19390	114538	425350	4	10638	20	18
19	Malayalam	മലയാളം	ml	19140	69735	205817	5	10400	18	603
20	Korean	한국어	ko	18309	38670	210250	3	13184	25	616
21	Bengali	বাংলা	bn	18291	747979	1449590	4	12597	40	8762
22	Sanskrit	संस्कृतम्	sa	17051	103746	269344	3	6049	84	63
23	Armenian	Հայերեն	hy	15351	116485	332605	3	9368	67	64
24	Slovenian	Slovenščina	sl	15298	31953	189645	5	7981	22	346
25	Telugu	తెలుగు	te	15093	85744	306491	5	4486	17	380
26	Greek	Ελληνικά	el	14183	34250	135515	6	14885	19	4
27	Tamil	தமிழ்	ta	13937	428417	1153466	4	7860	61	42
28	Romanian	Română	ro	11899	33896	122037	2	17399	13	227
29	Finnish	Suomi	fi	11774	18388	119244	4	5778	9	52
30	Japanese	日本語	ja	11598	29640	161563	5	28916	45	0
31	Thai	ไทย	th	11295	33071	131596	3	8853	13	54
32	Neapolitan	Nnapulitano	nap	11193	12589	78871	3	949	8	0
33	Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt	vi	10908	25737	85238	3	12011	17	1
34	Azerbaijani	Azərbaycanca	az	9320	19572	75058	3	7492	11	1
35	Turkish	Türkçe	tr	8712	16106	89027	3	16555	27	7
36	Breton	Brezhoneg	br	8324	54460	163646	3	2058	4	0
37	Latin	Latina	la	8267	38376	139259	8	20743	21	47
38	Catalan	Català	ca	7789	42290	137002	3	7606	13	2
39	Dutch	Nederlands	nl	7500	25517	97060	3	11512	18	1
40	Kannada	ಕನ್ನಡ	kn	7072	86699	223622	2	6010	13	2
41	Croatian	Hrvatski	hr	6404	14494	58447	5	5457	8	434
42	Esperanto	Esperanto	eo	5366	13763	44213	1	3635	8	37
43	Norwegian (Bokmål)	Norsk (Bokmål)	no	5265	68260	188648	2	4668	8	825
44	Icelandic	Íslenska	is	4932	6950	15126	2	2600	5	9
45	Venetian	Vèneto	vec	4386	13409	70106	3	3196	11	1
46	Piedmontese	Piemontèis	pms	3852	4568	19514	1	530	2	0
47	Estonian	Eesti	et	3229	22547	58146	2	2927	8	48
48	Belarusian	Беларуская	be	3208	10671	33394	2	2679	8	1
49	Danish	Dansk	da	2994	26255	67942	2	6844	13	12
50	Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesia	id	2886	12751	59174	5	14870	13	269
51	Ligurian	Líguru	lij	2878	9172	31410	1	433	24	0
52	Macedonian	Македонски	mk	2852	6998	17727	2	2734	4	4
53	Yiddish	ייִדיש	yi	2625	5383	19835	1	2450	7	1056
54	Hindi	हिन्दी	hi	2262	117996	383513	3	2220	36	0
55	Marathi	मराठी	mr	2213	58676	104143	3	3561	12	15
56	Bulgarian	Български	bg	2205	3793	16409	1	4405	5	9
57	Assamese	অসমীয়া	as	2055	40411	81319	3	2142	29	7
58	Limburgish	Limburgs	li	1885	3351	6976	1	1733	3	1
59	Lithuanian	Lietuvių	lt	1651	2962	11076	3	2799	5	3
60	Basque	Euskara	eu	968	4127	15776	2	626	6	0
61	Oriya	ଓଡ଼ିଆ	or	904	10778	47061	2	1948	7	0
62	Punjabi	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ	pa	819	43883	113154	4	1229	21	198
63	Galician	Galego	gl	672	3573	20324	4	2819	7	64
64	Bosnian	Bosanski	bs	606	3232	11484	1	2590	5	62
65	Sakha	Саха тыла (Saxa Tyla)	sah	587	1604	7237	1	1613	2	2
66	Slovak	Slovenčina	sk	447	1414	8121	3	3084	5	1
67	Welsh	Cymraeg	cy	300	2234	7809	2	2576	5	3
68	Min Nan	Bân-lâm-gú	zh-min-nan	46	3082	9044	1	2034	3	2
69	Haitian	Krèyol ayisyen	ht	12	116	2081	1	489	0	2
70	Faroese	Føroyskt	fo	10	544	3214	1	1866	3	0
71	Anglo-Saxon	Englisc	ang	1	40	1668	1	713	0	0

Grand Total

Articles	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Files
4,490,369	14,129,524	47,405,908	308	3,977,437	53,345

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