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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.
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).
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
1,218,261
1,257,461
3,867,984
14
39,850
65
127
2
English
en
1,103,070
4,660,676
15,181,562
20
3,173,302
437
16,627
3
French
fr
617,752
4,499,452
15,208,355
16
154,936
235
3,819
4
Russian
ru
616,640
1,116,150
5,574,701
5
127,928
93
32,963
5
German
de
594,686
648,952
4,585,195
17
87,043
120
6,922
6
Chinese
zh
479,313
1,154,144
2,546,770
8
114,040
168
230
7
Ukrainian
uk
331,212
486,694
945,704
6
19,659
83
136
8
Hebrew
he
251,345
1,659,224
2,946,088
16
42,722
74
554
9
Italian
it
209,352
832,562
3,543,314
9
76,634
85
686
10
Spanish
es
85,841
310,117
1,561,602
8
93,101
57
231
11
Arabic
ar
85,000
246,941
531,409
9
70,108
38
4,036
12
Multilingual
www
74,676
230,463
1,179,245
12
439,368
196
971
13
Gujarati
gu
64,396
70,446
216,233
2
4,330
6
0
14
Czech
cs
60,000
88,545
308,966
3
19,301
15
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,981
47,458
139,787
4
15,642
10
361
16
Portuguese
pt
38,020
159,922
538,257
4
40,845
34
16
17
Bangla
bn
36,594
636,892
1,892,465
4
20,502
33
5,707
18
Armenian
hy
35,879
146,238
390,686
4
13,238
12
62
19
Swedish
sv
30,663
200,871
601,381
5
18,264
17
8
20
Tamil
ta
30,025
610,654
1,837,896
4
15,502
41
32
21
Persian
fa
28,151
74,547
278,691
3
38,610
12
0
22
Belarusian
be
27,363
107,654
259,866
2
4,896
12
0
23
Korean
ko
23,658
84,512
394,689
5
18,493
50
209
24
Hungarian
hu
21,777
39,114
103,246
3
11,972
6
27
25
Telugu
te
21,736
183,924
505,518
4
6,615
26
576
26
Sanskrit
sa
20,264
162,180
409,518
2
9,700
17
64
27
Malayalam
ml
20,086
76,762
230,277
4
12,887
16
599
28
Turkish
tr
19,780
31,074
171,436
2
24,817
23
122
29
Latin
la
19,191
68,520
236,631
5
30,102
33
48
30
Dutch
nl
18,966
73,869
209,758
3
16,802
14
0
31
Vietnamese
vi
18,263
63,551
196,923
3
19,088
28
2
32
Slovenian
sl
17,980
35,749
222,130
5
10,127
11
341
33
Japanese
ja
16,099
43,425
230,371
4
43,555
40
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,954
41,626
144,621
3
21,558
11
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,464
20,599
127,262
3
7,645
7
53
36
Welsh
cy
13,223
67,775
142,973
2
3,912
5
3
37
Neapolitan
nap
12,849
14,522
90,040
3
2,473
5
0
38
Greek
el
12,418
43,617
161,194
6
21,261
18
4
39
Azerbaijani
az
11,186
24,051
93,766
2
12,048
22
1
40
Catalan
ca
10,183
53,784
179,079
3
11,539
7
5
41
Breton
br
10,152
63,345
197,011
3
2,798
4
0
42
Croatian
hr
9,488
15,437
61,879
3
7,076
8
434
43
Norwegian
no
9,176
107,967
264,943
2
5,966
6
815
44
Thai
th
9,043
55,253
262,662
3
11,700
17
28
45
Indonesian
id
8,642
78,852
251,250
7
25,907
43
302
46
Kannada
kn
7,047
94,153
268,512
2
7,997
7
19
47
Esperanto
eo
6,779
32,065
109,608
2
5,144
14
28
48
Georgian
ka
6,740
7,807
77,245
0
591
1
0
49
Hindi
hi
5,866
175,357
621,220
5
5,488
12
3
50
Venetian
vec
5,798
19,382
80,309
2
4,586
1
0
51
Marathi
mr
5,263
106,652
222,597
2
5,687
9
15
52
Balinese
ban
5,168
34,214
116,784
1
1,467
14
0
53
Icelandic
is
4,705
6,150
29,705
1
3,497
3
9
54
Piedmontese
pms
4,406
5,290
37,418
1
1,273
4
0
55
Burmese
my
4,347
5,646
18,671
1
423
5
0
56
Ligurian
lij
4,213
15,896
44,885
1
1,055
5
0
57
Danish
da
3,493
32,370
80,493
2
10,840
7
6
58
Estonian
et
3,253
22,682
59,257
2
3,936
2
48
59
Macedonian
mk
3,040
7,782
21,326
2
3,710
2
4
60
Assamese
as
2,926
73,497
205,737
4
4,102
18
98
61
Javanese
jv
2,848
19,698
67,137
3
1,593
8
148
62
Yiddish
yi
2,633
5,461
20,498
1
3,291
3
1,056
63
Walloon
wa
2,358
6,104
34,713
1
874
4
0
64
Bulgarian
bg
2,294
3,995
18,460
1
5,979
6
7
65
Punjabi
pa
2,105
65,942
197,294
6
2,321
27
212
66
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,368
7,271
1
2,199
1
1
67
Lithuanian
lt
1,757
3,142
12,202
2
3,711
2
1
68
Basque
eu
1,395
6,736
27,983
1
1,399
6
0
69
Odia
or
1,295
12,043
59,019
2
2,864
6
0
70
Malay
ms
1,036
7,160
19,828
2
987
9
0
71
Galician
gl
710
3,768
21,614
2
3,610
4
64
72
Bosnian
bs
613
3,269
11,968
1
3,422
4
62
73
Yakut
sah
605
1,689
7,759
1
2,200
3
2
74
Slovak
sk
489
1,534
9,343
2
3,796
1
1
75
Sundanese
su
374
12,674
47,169
2
964
35
0
76
Minnan
zh-min-nan
153
3,550
11,036
1
2,746
1
2
77
Central Bikol
bcl
119
2,185
9,355
1
293
3
0
78
Tulu
tcy
109
3,555
18,605
2
377
6
0
79
Faroese
fo
9
556
3,562
1
2,430
1
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,509,629
21,500,943
71,621,917
316
5,072,714
2,494
79,141
Wikisources in Wikipedia[ edit ]
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 .
Please see the talk page .