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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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

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.

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	1,169,110	1,207,777	3,718,688	16	38,709	58	129
2	English	en	1,080,623	4,491,059	14,704,805	21	3,148,391	432	16,301
3	Russian	ru	624,146	1,094,302	5,199,168	5	124,117	102	33,032
4	German	de	580,871	634,302	4,431,240	17	85,158	94	6,922
5	French	fr	571,321	4,359,160	14,755,312	15	150,757	243	3,667
6	Chinese	zh	471,048	1,128,526	2,473,963	8	110,492	163	230
7	Ukrainian	uk	277,379	429,790	832,809	6	18,441	81	135
8	Hebrew	he	246,630	1,651,882	2,893,356	16	41,165	101	547
9	Italian	it	202,184	800,834	3,435,008	9	74,375	85	723
10	Spanish	es	84,499	285,711	1,496,080	9	91,422	48	231
11	Arabic	ar	84,287	240,041	513,408	9	68,667	46	4,043
12	Multilingual	www	79,550	213,408	1,093,964	12	416,008	147	979
13	Gujarati	gu	62,986	68,873	212,637	2	4,169	16	0
14	Czech	cs	59,073	87,408	306,107	3	18,859	31	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,814	47,241	137,886	4	15,302	19	362
16	Portuguese	pt	36,965	153,464	521,412	3	39,766	36	16
17	Bangla	bn	34,361	676,427	1,846,202	4	19,828	50	6,303
18	Swedish	sv	29,313	191,266	583,517	4	17,912	30	9
19	Persian	fa	27,804	69,855	262,713	3	37,752	24	0
20	Tamil	ta	26,886	590,552	1,759,216	4	15,084	56	41
21	Belarusian	be	26,450	100,461	243,191	2	4,672	22	0
22	Korean	ko	24,466	78,504	346,833	4	17,893	35	607
23	Hungarian	hu	21,751	39,037	102,843	4	11,779	15	27
24	Malayalam	ml	20,545	74,349	221,968	3	12,543	69	594
25	Telugu	te	20,321	153,177	455,838	4	6,276	24	559
26	Sanskrit	sa	20,058	161,634	405,236	2	9,318	16	64
27	Turkish	tr	19,589	30,519	168,997	2	23,871	24	121
28	Latin	la	18,480	65,956	223,342	6	28,900	36	48
29	Slovenian	sl	17,857	35,624	220,998	5	9,902	14	341
30	Dutch	nl	17,694	65,397	197,584	3	16,451	20	0
31	Armenian	hy	17,471	127,391	364,078	4	12,808	27	64
32	Vietnamese	vi	17,381	58,997	185,320	3	18,516	21	2
33	Japanese	ja	15,376	41,858	225,286	4	42,134	46	0
34	Romanian	ro	14,577	39,873	140,850	3	21,045	22	227
35	Finnish	fi	13,301	20,401	126,763	4	7,459	15	53
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,753	14,411	89,088	3	2,342	8	0
37	Greek	el	12,311	42,158	157,055	6	20,506	29	4
38	Azerbaijani	az	10,814	22,529	89,417	2	11,652	22	1
39	Catalan	ca	9,905	52,182	176,077	3	11,264	39	5
40	Breton	br	9,892	61,580	190,095	3	2,692	13	0
41	Welsh	cy	9,591	55,787	120,459	3	3,774	9	3
42	Croatian	hr	9,462	15,402	61,676	3	6,875	15	434
43	Thai	th	8,223	50,608	242,519	3	11,344	23	28
44	Norwegian	no	7,863	95,760	237,815	2	5,801	9	825
45	Indonesian	id	7,594	63,139	205,010	6	25,009	105	301
46	Kannada	kn	7,249	94,073	266,241	2	7,754	16	19
47	Esperanto	eo	6,634	29,591	100,689	2	4,957	16	27
48	Hindi	hi	5,850	174,728	618,477	5	5,260	17	3
49	Venetian	vec	5,764	19,249	80,056	2	4,462	9	0
50	Balinese	ban	5,014	33,921	115,752	1	1,337	19	0
51	Marathi	mr	4,998	103,041	210,625	2	5,490	16	15
52	Icelandic	is	4,694	5,985	29,445	1	3,368	8	9
53	Piedmontese	pms	4,367	5,240	36,001	1	1,178	5	0
54	Ligurian	lij	4,088	15,285	43,914	1	972	7	0
55	Burmese	my	3,983	5,223	17,043	1	231	8	0
56	Danish	da	3,478	32,227	79,821	1	10,614	11	6
57	Estonian	et	3,253	22,688	59,226	2	3,806	7	48
58	Assamese	as	3,172	71,269	195,607	3	3,821	25	85
59	Macedonian	mk	3,005	7,744	21,139	2	3,595	8	4
60	Yiddish	yi	2,632	5,463	20,464	1	3,166	8	1,056
61	Javanese	jv	2,450	14,881	49,174	1	1,421	14	149
62	Bulgarian	bg	2,292	3,990	18,341	3	5,833	10	7
63	Walloon	wa	2,254	5,964	33,928	2	791	9	0
64	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,367	7,246	1	2,129	8	1
65	Lithuanian	lt	1,756	3,139	12,146	2	3,589	11	1
66	Punjabi	pa	1,688	63,751	183,490	6	2,166	38	212
67	Basque	eu	1,380	6,395	26,669	1	1,298	6	0
68	Odia	or	1,289	11,718	57,583	2	2,761	9	0
69	Georgian	ka	748	932	5,620	0	332	4	0
70	Galician	gl	701	3,739	21,488	2	3,514	8	64
71	Malay	ms	691	3,975	13,688	2	722	15	0
72	Bosnian	bs	613	3,272	11,929	1	3,315	8	62
73	Yakut	sah	603	1,679	7,703	1	2,115	8	2
74	Slovak	sk	487	1,516	9,278	2	3,691	9	1
75	Sundanese	su	276	6,696	27,088	2	761	9	0
76	Minnan	zh-min-nan	153	3,526	10,957	1	2,648	12	2
77	Central Bikol	bcl	97	1,969	8,944	1	132	6	0
78	Tulu	tcy	90	2,073	11,906	1	191	22	0
79	Faroese	fo	9	554	3,540	1	2,350	10	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,263,218	20,757,475	68,791,047	316	4,980,970	2,936	79,758

Wikisources in Wikipedia

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.

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

Historical discussion

Please see the talk page.

Name, Slogan, Logo

List of Wikisources

Wikisources in Wikipedia

Historical discussion

See also