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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.
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 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
1,180,093
1,218,842
3,753,024
15
39,088
53
129
2
English
en
1,082,867
4,549,214
14,864,568
22
3,156,210
478
16,449
3
Russian
ru
625,619
1,098,666
5,242,262
5
125,267
116
33,021
4
French
fr
592,836
4,415,733
14,911,318
16
152,007
292
3,683
5
German
de
585,090
638,620
4,461,469
17
85,698
110
6,923
6
Chinese
zh
474,732
1,137,714
2,499,475
8
111,529
150
230
7
Ukrainian
uk
295,442
443,783
879,671
6
18,792
71
136
8
Hebrew
he
246,499
1,652,348
2,902,771
16
41,674
92
549
9
Italian
it
204,500
814,588
3,474,327
9
75,024
103
695
10
Spanish
es
85,031
299,820
1,534,870
9
91,914
44
231
11
Arabic
ar
84,712
243,024
520,718
9
69,099
53
4,039
12
Multilingual
www
73,851
207,898
1,102,235
12
423,439
141
975
13
Gujarati
gu
63,397
69,352
213,712
2
4,231
12
0
14
Czech
cs
59,292
87,661
307,321
3
19,014
21
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,824
47,267
138,158
4
15,409
13
361
16
Portuguese
pt
37,424
156,090
527,854
3
40,120
44
16
17
Bangla
bn
34,801
655,911
1,859,336
4
20,044
47
6,168
18
Swedish
sv
29,626
194,236
588,861
4
18,023
25
9
19
Armenian
hy
29,377
139,425
378,746
4
12,938
19
64
20
Persian
fa
27,879
70,611
270,349
3
38,057
21
0
21
Tamil
ta
27,613
595,345
1,780,111
4
15,217
70
41
22
Belarusian
be
26,839
102,911
249,899
2
4,752
20
0
23
Korean
ko
23,300
79,739
366,680
5
18,074
43
239
24
Hungarian
hu
21,757
39,056
102,904
4
11,857
10
27
25
Malayalam
ml
20,554
75,792
225,152
3
12,671
49
598
26
Telugu
te
20,440
155,818
461,210
4
6,336
22
560
27
Sanskrit
sa
20,066
161,838
407,434
2
9,486
16
64
28
Turkish
tr
19,695
30,675
169,707
2
24,175
24
120
29
Latin
la
18,821
67,367
227,992
6
29,238
29
48
30
Dutch
nl
18,210
69,223
202,904
3
16,584
18
0
31
Slovenian
sl
17,882
35,652
221,160
5
9,985
18
341
32
Vietnamese
vi
17,625
60,669
189,166
3
18,685
21
2
33
Japanese
ja
15,642
42,352
227,058
4
42,571
43
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,657
40,151
141,383
3
21,235
13
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,357
20,469
126,921
3
7,529
14
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,806
14,477
89,535
3
2,397
9
0
37
Greek
el
12,328
42,337
157,745
6
20,773
24
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,822
22,742
90,053
2
11,764
16
1
39
Welsh
cy
10,396
59,598
127,630
3
3,822
11
3
40
Catalan
ca
9,977
52,862
177,474
3
11,367
15
5
41
Breton
br
9,947
61,930
191,164
3
2,736
9
0
42
Croatian
hr
9,468
15,437
61,740
3
6,948
13
434
43
Thai
th
8,430
52,246
249,029
3
11,476
23
28
44
Norwegian
no
8,385
99,870
245,704
2
5,865
9
825
45
Indonesian
id
7,839
76,024
244,205
7
25,367
104
302
46
Kannada
kn
7,249
94,141
266,515
2
7,816
11
19
47
Esperanto
eo
6,674
30,263
103,323
2
5,014
11
27
48
Georgian
ka
6,668
7,717
76,903
0
454
7
0
49
Hindi
hi
5,860
175,080
619,863
5
5,347
26
3
50
Venetian
vec
5,764
19,250
80,062
2
4,507
6
0
51
Marathi
mr
5,115
104,659
215,615
2
5,558
23
15
52
Balinese
ban
5,058
34,007
116,082
1
1,390
20
0
53
Icelandic
is
4,701
6,129
29,628
1
3,418
7
9
54
Piedmontese
pms
4,393
5,272
36,668
1
1,208
5
0
55
Ligurian
lij
4,146
15,686
44,536
1
1,011
5
0
56
Burmese
my
3,987
5,261
17,203
1
303
7
0
57
Danish
da
3,488
32,292
80,053
1
10,696
12
6
58
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,235
2
3,858
7
48
59
Macedonian
mk
3,033
7,774
21,282
2
3,641
6
4
60
Assamese
as
2,851
71,175
199,917
3
3,915
22
86
61
Yiddish
yi
2,632
5,464
20,472
1
3,217
7
1,056
62
Javanese
jv
2,603
15,341
50,336
1
1,483
30
149
63
Bulgarian
bg
2,292
3,991
18,370
1
5,892
9
7
64
Walloon
wa
2,282
6,011
34,182
2
827
8
0
65
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,368
7,250
1
2,158
5
1
66
Lithuanian
lt
1,757
3,142
12,167
2
3,640
5
1
67
Punjabi
pa
1,708
64,430
187,635
6
2,212
25
212
68
Basque
eu
1,382
6,398
26,750
1
1,336
6
0
69
Odia
or
1,283
11,786
58,214
2
2,795
6
0
70
Malay
ms
833
5,318
15,850
2
849
18
0
71
Galician
gl
702
3,745
21,508
2
3,552
6
64
72
Bosnian
bs
613
3,270
11,937
1
3,361
8
62
73
Yakut
sah
603
1,683
7,728
1
2,146
7
2
74
Slovak
sk
488
1,532
9,319
2
3,729
7
1
75
Sundanese
su
276
6,838
27,436
2
829
9
0
76
Minnan
zh-min-nan
153
3,536
11,004
1
2,693
7
2
77
Central Bikol
bcl
97
1,976
8,965
0
206
8
0
78
Tulu
tcy
83
2,135
15,585
1
261
19
0
79
Faroese
fo
9
555
3,545
1
2,385
4
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,346,669
20,997,297
69,680,143
315
5,010,194
2,917
79,381
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