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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 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	1,109,778	1,147,006	3,510,949	14	36,784	60	115
2	English	en	1,021,098	4,175,061	13,681,045	22	3,102,251	412	16,248
3	Russian	ru	620,246	1,088,822	5,075,399	5	117,583	106	45,915
4	German	de	551,154	603,299	4,309,293	18	81,545	136	6,922
5	French	fr	517,669	4,067,012	13,754,801	17	143,096	255	3,670
6	Chinese	zh	453,052	1,089,105	2,307,337	8	103,556	129	231
7	Hebrew	he	241,218	1,683,816	2,821,200	16	38,047	92	541
8	Ukrainian	uk	196,546	333,639	653,061	7	16,638	57	135
9	Italian	it	192,081	766,755	3,274,960	9	70,312	92	968
10	Arabic	ar	84,033	227,141	487,348	9	65,684	31	4,051
11	Spanish	es	81,375	255,365	1,401,425	9	88,052	51	233
12	Multilingual	www	78,233	200,673	1,012,729	18	372,601	144	861
13	Gujarati	gu	59,582	65,146	205,011	2	3,900	8	0
14	Czech	cs	57,291	84,610	295,460	4	18,045	22	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,668	47,045	136,186	4	14,640	16	362
16	Portuguese	pt	35,375	143,999	497,048	3	37,792	22	4
17	Bangla	bn	31,550	738,949	1,790,116	4	18,534	18	7,126
18	Swedish	sv	27,309	173,010	542,484	4	17,033	20	18
19	Persian	fa	26,914	56,604	198,879	4	35,708	20	1
20	Korean	ko	23,295	63,185	300,239	4	16,774	37	615
21	Tamil	ta	21,743	464,398	1,531,336	4	13,897	38	42
22	Hungarian	hu	21,680	38,467	101,159	4	11,460	6	34
23	Malayalam	ml	20,456	72,818	218,273	4	12,112	11	605
24	Sanskrit	sa	19,499	160,297	399,663	2	8,682	19	64
25	Telugu	te	18,773	140,182	425,836	4	5,891	12	541
26	Belarusian	be	18,578	67,471	173,303	2	4,305	18	0
27	Turkish	tr	18,322	28,919	163,930	3	22,070	18	121
28	Slovenian	sl	17,890	35,512	218,440	5	9,491	12	346
29	Latin	la	16,900	60,343	208,953	7	26,851	26	48
30	Vietnamese	vi	16,368	52,136	166,845	3	17,560	22	2
31	Armenian	hy	15,755	123,865	352,271	3	12,075	20	64
32	Dutch	nl	15,127	49,530	165,026	4	15,814	24	0
33	Greek	el	14,702	40,544	152,728	6	19,353	20	4
34	Japanese	ja	14,227	39,542	214,383	4	40,036	45	0
35	Romanian	ro	13,811	37,230	135,122	3	20,279	11	227
36	Finnish	fi	13,031	20,025	125,470	4	7,148	12	53
37	Neapolitan	nap	12,742	14,386	88,832	3	2,161	15	0
38	Azerbaijani	az	10,152	20,941	82,731	2	10,930	22	1
39	Catalan	ca	9,560	49,907	168,171	4	10,773	40	5
40	Breton	br	9,437	59,761	180,742	3	2,529	6	0
41	Croatian	hr	9,375	14,975	60,318	3	6,555	6	434
42	Indonesian	id	7,821	44,342	148,891	6	23,596	53	305
43	Thai	th	7,371	42,778	214,438	3	10,712	16	29
44	Norwegian	no	7,359	89,700	228,662	2	5,501	13	825
45	Kannada	kn	7,350	91,302	243,187	3	7,350	11	6
46	Hindi	hi	5,631	167,063	596,631	5	4,613	42	2
47	Welsh	cy	5,345	35,978	78,296	3	3,591	6	3
48	Venetian	vec	5,187	16,066	74,865	3	4,293	4	1
49	Esperanto	eo	5,044	24,668	88,252	2	4,716	17	27
50	Icelandic	is	4,949	7,230	16,179	1	3,157	3	9
51	Marathi	mr	4,444	97,401	199,301	2	5,108	21	15
52	Balinese	ban	4,277	33,208	113,879	1	1,154	23	0
53	Piedmontese	pms	4,259	5,100	28,320	1	1,036	7	0
54	Ligurian	lij	3,813	14,085	40,904	1	841	4	0
55	Danish	da	3,465	32,048	78,981	1	10,183	7	14
56	Estonian	et	3,253	22,688	59,160	2	3,605	2	48
57	Assamese	as	3,104	66,333	181,460	2	3,452	13	78
58	Macedonian	mk	2,980	7,697	20,681	2	3,421	4	4
59	Yiddish	yi	2,631	5,446	20,362	1	2,992	5	1,056
60	Bulgarian	bg	2,274	3,962	18,125	3	5,539	11	9
61	Javanese	jv	2,159	10,787	36,284	2	1,155	37	149
62	Walloon	wa	2,106	5,710	32,524	1	672	3	0
63	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,367	7,192	1	2,037	3	1
64	Lithuanian	lt	1,755	3,131	11,953	2	3,400	3	1
65	Punjabi	pa	1,449	57,783	160,237	6	1,921	13	204
66	Odia	or	1,301	11,560	55,956	1	2,513	5	0
67	Basque	eu	1,227	6,231	25,905	1	1,149	4	0
68	Galician	gl	692	3,688	21,170	3	3,344	5	64
69	Bosnian	bs	611	3,266	11,816	1	3,144	2	62
70	Yakut	sah	595	1,649	7,552	1	1,984	4	2
71	Slovak	sk	481	1,502	8,990	2	3,553	3	1
72	Sundanese	su	201	4,604	21,084	2	564	8	0
73	Min Nan Chinese	zh-min-nan	54	3,391	10,047	1	2,507	4	2
74	Faroese	fo	9	558	3,479	1	2,235	4	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	5,883,677	19,525,813	64,453,265	327	4,813,585	2,491	93,531

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

• 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