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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 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 1,155,195 1,193,516 3,674,175 16 38,358 58 128
2 English en 1,066,511 4,418,851 14,482,622 23 3,140,828 431 16,208
3 Russian ru 623,261 1,091,905 5,180,693 5 123,019 91 33,027
4 German de 575,664 628,862 4,409,178 17 84,547 105 6,922
5 French fr 551,227 4,289,893 14,558,997 16 149,184 211 3,663
6 Chinese zh 467,663 1,114,556 2,425,620 8 109,193 125 231
7 Ukrainian uk 250,942 398,572 773,078 6 18,071 57 135
8 Hebrew he 245,741 1,650,018 2,878,781 16 40,591 100 549
9 Italian it 201,152 794,213 3,399,961 9 73,574 88 760
10 Arabic ar 84,210 235,870 506,503 9 68,157 38 4,043
11 Spanish es 84,115 279,535 1,473,135 9 90,771 46 232
12 Multilingual www 83,387 221,003 1,064,429 13 408,018 154 981
13 Gujarati gu 62,747 68,568 211,497 2 4,111 10 0
14 Czech cs 58,742 86,800 304,534 3 18,709 25 7
15 Serbian sr 42,783 47,201 137,500 4 15,195 14 362
16 Portuguese pt 36,590 151,030 515,817 3 39,326 56 17
17 Bangla bn 33,771 696,397 1,832,278 4 19,553 35 6,349
18 Swedish sv 28,920 187,300 572,143 4 17,751 22 9
19 Persian fa 27,731 68,972 246,918 3 37,417 27 0
20 Tamil ta 25,351 547,002 1,679,147 4 14,858 146 41
21 Belarusian be 24,465 93,741 230,456 2 4,592 20 0
22 Korean ko 24,235 76,118 340,350 5 17,589 51 613
23 Hungarian hu 21,746 38,933 102,378 4 11,705 15 27
24 Malayalam ml 20,491 72,980 218,946 3 12,429 15 591
25 Sanskrit sa 20,031 161,245 404,281 2 9,196 19 64
26 Telugu te 19,869 147,884 444,054 4 6,200 17 551
27 Turkish tr 18,722 29,616 167,258 2 23,571 20 121
28 Latin la 18,230 65,188 221,128 7 28,513 28 48
29 Slovenian sl 17,981 35,747 220,520 5 9,840 18 342
30 Vietnamese vi 17,111 57,163 179,220 3 18,314 21 2
31 Dutch nl 17,081 63,635 190,228 3 16,292 17 0
32 Armenian hy 16,175 124,835 356,830 3 12,683 30 64
33 Japanese ja 15,047 41,194 222,614 4 41,714 36 0
34 Romanian ro 14,364 38,900 138,942 3 20,882 18 227
35 Finnish fi 13,278 20,379 126,620 4 7,401 11 53
36 Neapolitan nap 12,752 14,405 89,031 3 2,308 8 0
37 Greek el 12,307 41,990 156,202 6 20,315 20 4
38 Azerbaijani az 10,796 22,378 88,453 2 11,520 15 1
39 Breton br 9,879 61,190 185,992 3 2,657 9 0
40 Catalan ca 9,769 51,411 172,335 3 11,137 13 5
41 Croatian hr 9,464 15,137 60,927 3 6,812 9 434
42 Welsh cy 8,162 50,920 110,359 3 3,732 8 3
43 Thai th 7,970 48,743 234,130 3 11,219 23 28
44 Norwegian no 7,650 93,752 235,044 2 5,747 11 825
45 Indonesian id 7,495 61,375 200,177 6 24,687 100 301
46 Kannada kn 7,247 93,739 263,746 2 7,682 56 18
47 Esperanto eo 6,624 29,411 98,224 2 4,902 15 27
48 Hindi hi 5,843 173,929 616,961 5 5,170 75 3
49 Venetian vec 5,644 17,639 77,805 3 4,430 6 0
50 Balinese ban 4,988 33,804 115,502 1 1,303 20 0
51 Marathi mr 4,827 102,507 209,479 2 5,420 18 15
52 Icelandic is 4,690 5,954 29,371 2 3,322 10 9
53 Piedmontese pms 4,326 5,193 33,858 1 1,147 8 0
54 Ligurian lij 4,080 15,159 42,861 1 939 5 0
55 Danish da 3,477 32,208 79,749 1 10,526 9 6
56 Estonian et 3,253 22,689 59,208 2 3,761 5 48
57 Assamese as 3,155 69,681 190,252 2 3,726 22 78
58 Macedonian mk 2,990 7,725 20,909 2 3,556 6 4
59 Yiddish yi 2,632 5,462 20,443 1 3,132 6 1,056
60 Javanese jv 2,338 14,536 48,485 1 1,358 7 149
61 Bulgarian bg 2,287 3,985 18,296 3 5,773 7 7
62 Walloon wa 2,241 5,927 33,731 2 766 6 0
63 Limburgish li 1,885 3,366 7,229 1 2,108 4 1
64 Lithuanian lt 1,756 3,136 12,063 2 3,555 6 1
65 Punjabi pa 1,641 62,512 176,244 6 2,111 32 212
66 Basque eu 1,367 6,378 26,384 1 1,268 6 0
67 Odia or 1,288 11,644 56,844 1 2,657 7 0
68 Georgian ka 746 927 5,606 0 285 1 0
69 Galician gl 694 3,719 21,344 2 3,484 8 64
70 Malay ms 616 3,504 12,726 2 660 23 0
71 Bosnian bs 613 3,272 11,906 1 3,279 6 62
72 Yakut sah 600 1,661 7,632 1 2,091 8 2
73 Slovak sk 487 1,501 9,212 2 3,660 6 1
74 Sundanese su 275 6,549 26,701 2 728 7 0
75 Minnan zh-min-nan 55 3,403 10,223 1 2,614 8 2
76 Faroese fo 9 554 3,520 1 2,328 7 0
77 Burmese my 0 8 12 0 164 1 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,163,447 20,450,605 67,770,007 318 4,950,191 2,802 79,733

Alemannic, North Frisian, Bavarian, Rhine Franconian, Pennsylvania Dutch Wikisources

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.

Historical discussion

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See also

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