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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 3,182,005 5,975,664 8,226,912 9 122,738 264 230
2 Polish pl 1,317,293 1,358,443 4,157,449 14 42,131 75 127
3 English en 1,124,328 4,845,839 16,213,337 20 3,302,826 635 16,657
4 French fr 705,403 4,789,844 15,974,368 17 164,735 265 4,415
5 German de 652,081 710,899 5,011,164 16 91,174 141 6,933
6 Russian ru 623,103 1,142,413 5,736,833 5 135,494 112 33,395
7 Ukrainian uk 398,892 567,353 1,098,875 5 22,374 132 139
8 Hebrew he 260,721 1,680,813 3,071,403 16 46,081 124 582
9 Italian it 222,148 874,829 3,871,633 9 81,583 77 675
10 Arabic ar 94,146 290,257 616,964 5 72,680 63 4,024
11 Spanish es 89,730 340,513 1,671,020 8 96,869 69 231
12 Gujarati gu 65,955 72,235 224,028 2 4,614 10 0
13 Multilingual www 65,743 257,949 1,354,756 14 492,307 138 731
14 Czech cs 62,355 91,518 335,407 2 20,079 21 7
15 Serbian sr 43,908 48,722 145,387 7 16,400 14 360
16 Portuguese pt 39,023 166,687 558,370 2 43,419 77 32
17 Bangla bn 38,695 614,909 1,993,062 4 22,052 40 5,484
18 Tamil ta 37,381 641,625 1,955,815 4 16,751 57 33
19 Armenian hy 36,172 146,653 393,797 4 13,984 18 62
20 Persian fa 33,009 83,880 296,196 3 39,843 32 0
21 Swedish sv 32,596 219,720 656,820 5 18,866 23 8
22 Belarusian be 30,083 124,348 295,176 2 5,384 16 0
23 Korean ko 25,446 89,782 457,680 5 19,571 46 209
24 Telugu te 23,759 212,026 567,032 4 7,193 27 496
25 Hungarian hu 21,820 39,118 103,597 3 12,345 7 27
26 Dutch nl 21,461 81,260 224,604 2 17,370 14 0
27 Latin la 21,282 81,245 275,495 7 32,700 44 45
28 Malayalam ml 20,832 81,595 239,126 3 13,488 44 620
29 Sanskrit sa 20,427 163,907 417,997 2 10,629 26 64
30 Turkish tr 19,914 31,451 174,184 2 26,622 22 122
31 Vietnamese vi 19,099 66,721 205,837 3 20,435 23 2
32 Japanese ja 18,442 49,015 244,688 4 46,271 43 0
33 Slovenian sl 18,308 36,245 224,412 5 10,647 14 340
34 Welsh cy 16,531 84,726 170,088 2 4,193 22 3
35 Romanian ro 15,664 44,585 151,306 3 22,585 17 221
36 Norwegian no 14,721 138,909 330,355 2 6,289 7 815
37 Finnish fi 13,836 22,256 130,975 3 8,091 9 46
38 Indonesian id 13,519 103,994 311,663 9 27,427 91 303
39 Esperanto eo 13,515 40,624 126,244 3 5,445 11 29
40 Neapolitan nap 12,945 14,626 91,026 3 2,718 6 0
41 Greek el 12,864 46,024 167,001 6 22,773 40 4
42 Urdu ur 11,928 13,895 35,645 1 280 14 0
43 Azerbaijani az 11,653 24,725 96,410 2 12,749 21 1
44 Breton br 10,538 65,508 208,749 3 2,988 6 0
45 Catalan ca 10,506 56,794 185,484 3 12,033 8 5
46 Thai th 9,621 65,335 294,886 2 12,450 23 27
47 Croatian hr 9,600 15,746 63,369 3 7,482 11 433
48 Georgian ka 7,018 8,247 78,404 1 863 6 0
49 Hindi hi 6,045 186,422 646,586 5 6,080 31 0
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,381 86,735 2 4,767 4 0
51 Balinese ban 5,186 36,447 123,467 2 1,753 5 0
52 Marathi mr 5,145 109,616 235,443 2 6,132 18 15
53 Burmese my 4,879 6,213 21,864 1 835 8 0
54 Icelandic is 4,758 6,411 30,070 1 3,711 4 8
55 Piedmontese pms 4,414 5,315 38,002 2 1,445 6 0
56 Ligurian lij 4,395 16,874 47,791 1 1,218 17 0
57 Assamese as 4,156 92,294 257,181 4 4,478 16 239
58 Danish da 3,944 119,066 472,613 2 11,259 20 6
59 Macedonian mk 3,371 8,232 22,381 2 4,025 3 4
60 Estonian et 3,337 23,226 60,153 1 4,181 5 48
61 Javanese jv 3,294 26,260 82,488 3 2,002 18 149
62 Yiddish yi 2,638 5,462 20,562 1 3,479 4 1,056
63 Walloon wa 2,597 6,434 36,633 1 995 9 0
64 Punjabi pa 2,530 72,475 231,990 6 2,713 29 212
65 Bulgarian bg 2,336 4,042 18,779 1 6,265 10 7
66 Limburgish li 1,885 3,369 7,308 1 2,306 3 1
67 Lithuanian lt 1,802 3,201 12,838 1 3,939 7 1
68 Kannada kn 1,555 112,689 315,004 2 8,596 14 18
69 Basque eu 1,547 7,044 28,968 1 1,570 5 0
70 Odia or 1,308 12,480 59,616 1 3,049 7 0
71 Malay ms 1,245 8,644 24,024 2 1,327 12 0
72 Yakut sah 739 2,220 10,138 2 2,362 7 1
73 Galician gl 712 3,703 21,941 2 3,833 6 64
74 Bosnian bs 632 3,323 12,145 1 3,621 6 61
75 Slovak sk 501 1,594 9,589 1 3,962 5 1
76 Minangkabau min 414 9,227 30,789 2 389 19 0
77 Sundanese su 410 12,885 47,867 1 1,135 11 0
78 Tagalog tl 338 2,328 15,737 3 411 13 0
79 Madurese mad 207 1,164 4,471 2 368 6 0
80 Minnan zh-min-nan 159 3,592 11,224 1 2,900 3 2
81 Central Bikol bcl 137 2,469 10,264 0 477 1 0
82 Tulu tcy 113 4,773 21,870 2 618 6 0
83 Faroese fo 79 611 3,844 1 2,594 3 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 9,652,625 27,662,958 82,515,404 322 5,346,816 3,346 79,830

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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