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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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

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	Polish	pl	1,287,381	1,328,009	4,079,684	14	41,455	82	127
2	English	en	1,139,758	4,874,581	15,861,759	19	3,252,695	767	16,612
3	French	fr	663,856	4,679,304	15,731,151	17	161,728	317	4,200
4	German	de	631,425	688,153	4,878,250	16	89,895	110	6,932
5	Russian	ru	620,897	1,134,052	5,703,868	5	133,513	93	33,169
6	Chinese	zh	496,301	1,189,494	2,663,523	8	120,026	271	230
7	Ukrainian	uk	374,906	537,740	1,045,001	5	21,481	114	136
8	Hebrew	he	253,974	1,666,319	3,002,648	16	45,126	153	575
9	Italian	it	218,798	862,436	3,658,267	9	79,966	92	676
10	Arabic	ar	93,767	286,663	607,465	5	71,835	60	4,025
11	Spanish	es	89,318	336,337	1,648,169	8	95,652	87	230
12	Multilingual	www	69,396	256,943	1,330,188	13	475,734	192	736
13	Gujarati	gu	65,064	71,299	221,092	2	4,516	12	0
14	Czech	cs	60,912	89,766	314,043	3	19,852	27	7
15	Serbian	sr	43,345	48,054	142,519	5	16,199	29	361
16	Portuguese	pt	38,726	164,017	550,806	1	42,520	67	32
17	Bangla	bn	37,372	618,880	1,942,296	4	21,484	38	5,568
18	Armenian	hy	36,004	146,472	392,700	4	13,822	41	62
19	Tamil	ta	34,747	630,218	1,921,078	4	16,522	54	33
20	Swedish	sv	32,179	214,241	648,034	5	18,700	30	8
21	Persian	fa	29,115	76,713	283,985	3	39,537	14	0
22	Belarusian	be	29,067	117,645	281,577	2	5,263	17	0
23	Korean	ko	25,494	92,853	424,870	5	19,199	31	209
24	Telugu	te	22,935	205,980	549,922	4	6,997	26	467
25	Hungarian	hu	21,817	39,109	103,508	3	12,244	7	27
26	Dutch	nl	20,601	79,361	219,909	2	17,213	23	0
27	Latin	la	20,423	77,865	262,521	5	31,938	72	45
28	Sanskrit	sa	20,389	162,589	415,628	2	10,384	27	64
29	Malayalam	ml	20,207	77,169	231,431	3	13,210	13	602
30	Turkish	tr	19,862	31,337	173,557	2	26,085	36	122
31	Vietnamese	vi	19,064	66,421	204,584	3	20,013	32	2
32	Slovenian	sl	18,198	36,087	223,722	5	10,516	22	340
33	Japanese	ja	17,538	47,276	239,974	4	45,435	48	0
34	Welsh	cy	15,687	80,193	162,720	2	4,085	10	3
35	Romanian	ro	15,586	44,329	150,593	3	22,285	42	227
36	Finnish	fi	13,772	21,972	129,640	3	7,952	19	53
37	Neapolitan	nap	12,941	14,615	90,593	3	2,621	9	0
38	Greek	el	12,662	45,482	165,582	6	22,272	32	4
39	Norwegian	no	12,600	131,252	316,616	1	6,183	11	815
40	Urdu	ur	12,468	12,898	31,876	1	152	17	0
41	Azerbaijani	az	11,536	24,449	95,485	2	12,565	17	1
42	Breton	br	10,526	65,463	207,919	3	2,945	9	0
43	Catalan	ca	10,458	56,247	184,071	3	11,918	12	5
44	Thai	th	9,617	63,811	288,826	3	12,223	21	28
45	Croatian	hr	9,594	15,733	63,140	3	7,373	11	434
46	Indonesian	id	9,077	87,479	267,413	9	26,895	45	303
47	Kannada	kn	7,216	95,003	272,820	2	8,460	24	19
48	Esperanto	eo	6,890	33,236	114,811	2	5,360	13	29
49	Georgian	ka	6,751	7,859	77,427	0	784	6	0
50	Hindi	hi	5,994	183,512	640,455	5	5,821	15	0
51	Venetian	vec	5,798	19,384	80,469	2	4,723	5	0
52	Marathi	mr	5,373	108,628	229,131	2	5,976	18	15
53	Balinese	ban	5,186	36,440	123,396	2	1,680	5	0
54	Icelandic	is	4,707	6,165	29,748	1	3,654	6	8
55	Burmese	my	4,678	6,002	21,436	1	687	8	0
56	Piedmontese	pms	4,414	5,306	37,650	2	1,402	4	0
57	Ligurian	lij	4,352	16,721	46,741	1	1,156	13	0
58	Danish	da	3,831	101,732	397,195	2	11,143	10	6
59	Assamese	as	3,734	89,717	247,411	4	4,385	23	224
60	Macedonian	mk	3,351	8,206	22,294	2	3,967	7	4
61	Estonian	et	3,299	22,932	59,681	1	4,123	7	48
62	Javanese	jv	3,114	22,753	72,552	3	1,899	12	149
63	Yiddish	yi	2,638	5,461	20,545	1	3,448	8	1,056
64	Walloon	wa	2,478	6,279	35,734	1	970	4	0
65	Punjabi	pa	2,341	70,303	215,441	6	2,593	29	212
66	Bulgarian	bg	2,306	4,009	18,650	1	6,180	8	7
67	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,368	7,291	1	2,282	6	1
68	Lithuanian	lt	1,800	3,189	12,756	1	3,875	7	1
69	Basque	eu	1,549	7,028	28,904	1	1,528	5	0
70	Odia	or	1,302	12,330	59,440	2	2,993	7	0
71	Malay	ms	1,098	7,875	22,374	2	1,184	12	0
72	Yakut	sah	752	2,079	9,213	2	2,323	8	2
73	Minangkabau	min	735	4,357	15,352	2	309	4	0
74	Galician	gl	711	3,702	21,831	2	3,780	8	64
75	Bosnian	bs	613	3,271	12,033	1	3,576	4	62
76	Slovak	sk	492	1,538	9,470	2	3,920	4	1
77	Sundanese	su	405	12,789	47,600	1	1,083	10	0
78	Tagalog	tl	328	2,309	15,688	3	356	7	0
79	Madurese	mad	207	1,115	4,282	2	313	8	0
80	Minnan	zh-min-nan	159	3,569	11,181	1	2,855	4	2
81	Central Bikol	bcl	137	2,455	10,244	0	433	5	0
82	Tulu	tcy	113	4,763	21,781	2	580	22	0
83	Faroese	fo	9	589	3,671	1	2,543	5	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,830,106	22,523,280	75,188,901	315	5,252,568	3,610	79,380

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

• List of Wikisources at WikiStats, an alternative version of the table above
• Another version of the table at WikiStats, presented as raw wiki markup
• Wikisource Community User Group
• Role of Wikisource
• List of language editions
• Wikisource Tenth Birthday
• Wikisource proofreading contests