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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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

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 nine 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 1,267,085 1,307,280 4,024,364 14 40,947 65 127
2 English en 1,129,504 4,805,719 15,636,154 18 3,223,487 590 16,712
3 French fr 639,754 4,605,880 15,538,348 17 159,355 268 4,062
4 Russian ru 619,908 1,128,328 5,683,227 5 131,722 94 32,908
5 German de 616,186 671,715 4,805,441 17 88,910 124 6,922
6 Chinese zh 491,655 1,169,960 2,612,496 8 118,186 292 230
7 Ukrainian uk 363,761 525,755 1,018,982 5 20,900 87 136
8 Hebrew he 252,673 1,662,724 2,973,931 16 44,327 142 565
9 Italian it 215,141 850,702 3,615,340 9 78,840 86 677
10 Arabic ar 93,590 285,101 602,995 5 71,353 39 4,029
11 Spanish es 88,432 330,645 1,618,944 8 94,836 75 230
12 Multilingual www 80,597 261,413 1,312,672 13 463,616 160 735
13 Gujarati gu 64,593 70,785 219,498 2 4,468 7 0
14 Czech cs 60,432 89,178 312,851 3 19,662 26 7
15 Serbian sr 43,154 47,787 141,208 4 15,998 20 361
16 Portuguese pt 38,668 163,217 548,546 2 41,992 42 31
17 Bangla bn 37,115 619,356 1,930,922 4 21,182 27 5,460
18 Armenian hy 35,907 146,358 392,252 4 13,597 25 62
19 Tamil ta 32,727 620,141 1,891,232 4 16,253 51 32
20 Swedish sv 31,647 210,144 627,273 5 18,550 20 8
21 Persian fa 29,062 76,521 283,157 3 39,287 16 0
22 Belarusian be 28,151 113,634 272,082 2 5,144 12 0
23 Korean ko 25,293 92,483 419,422 5 18,980 25 209
24 Telugu te 22,772 201,612 539,899 4 6,861 26 466
25 Hungarian hu 21,813 39,095 103,460 3 12,162 7 27
26 Sanskrit sa 20,378 162,492 413,951 2 10,206 101 64
27 Malayalam ml 20,204 77,156 231,249 4 13,128 22 602
28 Dutch nl 19,941 77,768 216,785 2 17,087 16 0
29 Latin la 19,866 74,815 253,830 5 31,359 41 45
30 Turkish tr 19,864 31,336 173,156 2 25,692 42 122
31 Vietnamese vi 19,001 66,127 203,371 3 19,697 38 2
32 Slovenian sl 18,021 35,875 222,806 5 10,388 18 341
33 Japanese ja 16,940 46,072 236,314 4 44,894 49 0
34 Romanian ro 15,430 43,349 148,516 3 22,028 24 227
35 Welsh cy 14,697 75,801 156,275 2 4,034 8 3
36 Finnish fi 13,595 20,745 127,659 3 7,863 9 53
37 Neapolitan nap 12,927 14,602 90,523 3 2,571 5 0
38 Greek el 12,567 44,519 163,392 6 21,950 28 4
39 Azerbaijani az 11,471 24,298 94,981 2 12,381 20 1
40 Norwegian no 10,973 123,906 301,844 2 6,124 6 815
41 Breton br 10,410 64,998 205,294 3 2,896 8 0
42 Catalan ca 10,395 55,671 182,586 3 11,810 12 5
43 Croatian hr 9,526 15,705 62,724 3 7,262 8 434
44 Thai th 9,334 61,673 281,551 3 12,080 27 28
45 Indonesian id 9,033 82,201 259,185 9 26,628 55 303
46 Kannada kn 7,073 94,245 269,339 2 8,338 8 19
47 Esperanto eo 6,846 32,759 113,196 2 5,300 13 28
48 Georgian ka 6,751 7,854 77,407 1 704 2 0
49 Hindi hi 5,960 183,455 638,336 5 5,707 15 0
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,384 80,449 2 4,676 2 0
51 Marathi mr 5,350 108,203 227,410 2 5,881 13 15
52 Balinese ban 5,186 36,420 123,343 2 1,626 10 0
53 Icelandic is 4,707 6,165 29,737 1 3,596 1 8
54 Burmese my 4,603 5,914 21,254 1 605 5 0
55 Piedmontese pms 4,410 5,290 37,474 1 1,367 10 0
56 Ligurian lij 4,311 16,267 45,596 1 1,124 5 0
57 Assamese as 3,604 83,430 231,446 4 4,304 37 169
58 Danish da 3,579 54,822 154,398 2 11,055 10 6
59 Estonian et 3,298 22,920 59,553 2 4,052 2 48
60 Macedonian mk 3,252 8,107 22,053 2 3,908 6 4
61 Javanese jv 3,106 22,607 72,241 3 1,827 30 149
62 Yiddish yi 2,633 5,461 20,510 1 3,403 1 1,056
63 Walloon wa 2,457 6,254 35,554 1 945 8 0
64 Punjabi pa 2,326 69,268 211,333 6 2,545 33 212
65 Bulgarian bg 2,305 4,008 18,636 1 6,121 6 7
66 Limburgish li 1,885 3,369 7,285 1 2,261 4 1
67 Minangkabau min 1,805 4,078 14,918 2 238 9 0
68 Lithuanian lt 1,793 3,177 12,458 2 3,829 6 1
69 Basque eu 1,547 7,013 28,841 1 1,487 5 0
70 Odia or 1,297 12,238 59,335 2 2,963 4 0
71 Malay ms 1,088 7,821 22,128 2 1,133 9 0
72 Yakut sah 746 2,039 8,974 1 2,292 6 2
73 Galician gl 712 3,796 21,782 2 3,731 6 64
74 Bosnian bs 613 3,274 12,023 1 3,530 4 62
75 Slovak sk 492 1,536 9,460 2 3,889 3 1
76 Sundanese su 385 12,757 47,455 2 1,054 5 0
77 Tagalog tl 328 2,291 15,616 3 314 6 0
78 Madurese mad 207 1,086 4,166 2 269 5 0
79 Minnan zh-min-nan 159 3,569 11,175 1 2,823 3 2
80 Central Bikol bcl 137 2,454 10,240 0 397 1 0
81 Tulu tcy 111 4,028 20,035 2 532 5 0
82 Faroese fo 9 589 3,667 1 2,505 5 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,725,062 22,162,590 73,949,511 318 5,191,024 3,166 78,899

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.

See also

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