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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,144,930
1,182,826
3,634,451
15
38,081
57
128
2
English
en
1,056,202
4,368,230
14,331,684
23
3,133,896
382
16,310
3
Russian
ru
622,293
1,090,047
5,153,904
5
122,149
79
33,025
4
German
de
571,139
624,134
4,390,704
17
84,083
91
6,922
5
French
fr
546,214
4,252,477
14,400,865
17
148,137
231
3,650
6
Chinese
zh
464,977
1,109,822
2,408,371
8
108,076
132
231
7
Hebrew
he
245,356
1,691,243
2,867,853
16
40,092
87
543
8
Ukrainian
uk
235,772
382,946
745,074
7
17,801
45
134
9
Italian
it
199,685
790,645
3,381,224
9
73,039
86
866
10
Arabic
ar
84,169
233,634
499,275
9
67,708
23
4,050
11
Spanish
es
84,049
277,653
1,467,822
9
90,268
31
233
12
Multilingual
www
82,095
212,042
1,044,486
13
401,424
168
973
13
Gujarati
gu
62,628
68,390
210,819
2
4,064
8
0
14
Czech
cs
58,600
86,545
301,530
3
18,621
20
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,750
47,160
137,377
4
15,107
13
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,440
149,888
511,242
3
39,026
53
16
17
Bangla
bn
33,433
728,289
1,824,869
4
19,328
31
6,418
18
Swedish
sv
28,749
184,740
564,123
4
17,634
22
9
19
Persian
fa
27,480
67,483
240,074
3
37,133
23
1
20
Korean
ko
23,975
72,875
330,096
5
17,442
49
615
21
Tamil
ta
23,605
528,302
1,634,296
4
14,443
49
42
22
Belarusian
be
23,008
86,352
212,634
2
4,538
15
0
23
Hungarian
hu
21,744
38,842
102,016
4
11,645
9
34
24
Malayalam
ml
20,484
72,962
218,771
3
12,354
7
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
20,016
161,188
403,809
2
9,091
12
64
26
Telugu
te
19,434
145,648
438,647
4
6,137
11
546
27
Turkish
tr
18,682
29,554
166,978
2
23,311
20
121
28
Latin
la
18,042
64,519
218,609
7
28,186
22
48
29
Slovenian
sl
17,942
35,707
220,044
5
9,791
17
346
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,858
55,698
176,066
3
18,185
22
2
31
Dutch
nl
16,743
60,322
183,605
4
16,215
15
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,796
124,051
353,496
3
12,589
15
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,804
40,769
221,082
4
41,372
34
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,291
38,707
138,555
4
20,802
10
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,222
20,292
126,381
4
7,339
7
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,401
89,014
3
2,280
6
0
37
Greek
el
12,580
41,744
155,732
6
20,137
16
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,478
21,925
86,846
2
11,382
11
1
39
Breton
br
9,843
61,027
185,538
3
2,628
8
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,668
50,872
171,292
3
11,071
12
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,438
15,046
60,627
3
6,763
4
434
42
Indonesian
id
8,098
60,222
197,447
6
24,435
100
305
43
Thai
th
7,887
47,139
228,913
3
11,102
19
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,552
92,125
232,748
2
5,697
10
825
45
Welsh
cy
7,488
47,740
102,970
3
3,708
7
3
46
Kannada
kn
7,355
91,711
250,773
2
7,588
18
6
47
Esperanto
eo
6,589
28,398
95,848
2
4,861
13
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,776
173,492
609,415
5
4,991
24
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,421
16,572
75,727
3
4,400
4
0
50
Icelandic
is
4,884
6,568
24,346
2
3,293
5
9
51
Marathi
mr
4,723
101,626
208,031
2
5,354
17
15
52
Balinese
ban
4,643
33,404
114,424
1
1,266
9
0
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,323
5,187
32,952
1
1,123
7
0
54
Ligurian
lij
4,078
15,148
42,657
1
918
5
0
55
Danish
da
3,470
32,124
79,436
1
10,458
7
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,200
2
3,728
2
48
57
Assamese
as
3,147
69,103
188,339
1
3,670
19
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,989
7,721
20,892
2
3,532
5
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,460
20,427
1
3,106
5
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,327
14,422
48,180
1
1,304
8
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,984
18,277
3
5,725
7
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,256
5,941
33,532
2
743
3
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,221
1
2,091
2
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,051
2
3,530
3
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,608
61,069
171,537
6
2,072
21
212
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,378
26,320
1
1,243
4
0
67
Odia
or
1,288
11,624
56,748
1
2,621
5
0
68
Georgian
ka
746
926
5,602
0
246
1
0
69
Galician
gl
693
3,709
21,296
2
3,458
5
64
70
Bosnian
bs
613
3,271
11,891
1
3,248
5
62
71
Yakut
sah
595
1,654
7,584
1
2,067
2
2
72
Slovak
sk
487
1,496
9,189
2
3,630
2
1
73
Malay
ms
453
2,783
10,993
2
584
14
0
74
Sundanese
su
259
6,304
26,090
2
697
5
0
75
Minnan
zh-min-nan
55
3,403
10,209
1
2,591
4
2
76
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,509
1
2,304
2
0
77
Burmese
my
0
7
9
0
124
1
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,103,356
20,319,453
67,074,664
320
4,924,876
2,323
80,014
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
Please see the talk page .
See also