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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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).
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
1,145,738
1,183,671
3,638,958
15
38,102
56
128
2
English
en
1,057,037
4,371,893
14,345,374
23
3,134,540
394
16,316
3
Russian
ru
622,376
1,090,183
5,156,114
5
122,235
85
33,016
4
German
de
571,483
624,496
4,391,930
17
84,127
98
6,922
5
French
fr
546,578
4,254,648
14,407,602
17
148,245
241
3,650
6
Chinese
zh
465,349
1,110,308
2,410,355
8
108,189
133
231
7
Hebrew
he
245,377
1,691,308
2,868,264
16
40,137
86
543
8
Ukrainian
uk
237,046
384,339
747,128
7
17,819
48
134
9
Italian
it
199,907
790,417
3,383,951
9
73,094
86
831
10
Arabic
ar
84,160
233,710
499,412
9
67,748
25
4,050
11
Spanish
es
84,066
277,698
1,468,336
9
90,310
33
233
12
Multilingual
www
82,141
213,275
1,047,339
13
402,053
177
976
13
Gujarati
gu
62,667
68,434
210,878
2
4,068
8
0
14
Czech
cs
58,616
86,585
301,674
3
18,628
22
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,782
47,200
137,436
4
15,117
14
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,440
149,903
511,310
3
39,053
54
16
17
Bangla
bn
33,464
728,340
1,825,482
4
19,340
32
6,418
18
Swedish
sv
28,790
185,136
564,861
4
17,639
21
9
19
Persian
fa
27,512
67,781
240,573
3
37,165
24
1
20
Tamil
ta
24,121
528,336
1,636,236
4
14,483
55
42
21
Korean
ko
23,997
73,959
331,444
5
17,456
50
615
22
Belarusian
be
23,055
86,640
213,308
2
4,542
16
0
23
Hungarian
hu
21,744
38,842
102,025
4
11,653
10
34
24
Malayalam
ml
20,484
72,962
218,773
3
12,361
8
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
20,026
161,209
403,910
2
9,106
13
64
26
Telugu
te
19,465
145,772
439,009
4
6,145
11
546
27
Turkish
tr
18,682
29,555
166,989
2
23,343
24
121
28
Latin
la
18,081
64,561
218,977
7
28,208
21
48
29
Slovenian
sl
17,942
35,707
220,062
5
9,796
16
346
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,860
55,745
176,257
3
18,198
24
2
31
Dutch
nl
16,791
60,409
183,726
4
16,222
14
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,796
124,051
353,507
3
12,599
15
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,821
40,820
221,267
4
41,417
33
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,296
38,714
138,573
3
20,809
10
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,223
20,293
126,385
4
7,344
7
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,403
89,017
3
2,284
8
0
37
Greek
el
12,580
41,752
155,742
6
20,154
16
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,475
21,948
86,947
2
11,398
12
1
39
Breton
br
9,845
61,041
185,651
3
2,633
9
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,668
50,872
171,316
3
11,073
12
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,440
15,049
60,634
3
6,770
4
434
42
Indonesian
id
8,107
60,319
197,749
6
24,448
95
305
43
Thai
th
7,886
47,232
229,124
3
11,113
18
29
44
Welsh
cy
7,553
48,033
103,441
3
3,710
6
3
45
Norwegian
no
7,552
92,128
232,752
2
5,699
10
825
46
Kannada
kn
7,355
91,716
250,810
2
7,592
18
6
47
Esperanto
eo
6,589
28,398
95,895
2
4,865
13
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,792
173,554
609,578
5
5,002
24
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,444
16,628
75,829
3
4,402
4
0
50
Icelandic
is
4,885
6,585
24,415
2
3,298
5
9
51
Marathi
mr
4,728
101,666
208,077
2
5,359
17
15
52
Balinese
ban
4,644
33,405
114,528
1
1,271
10
0
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,323
5,188
33,021
1
1,125
7
0
54
Ligurian
lij
4,078
15,148
42,658
1
921
5
0
55
Danish
da
3,470
32,124
79,453
1
10,466
6
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,201
2
3,730
3
48
57
Assamese
as
3,147
69,194
188,546
2
3,675
19
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,990
7,725
20,906
2
3,535
5
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,461
20,429
1
3,109
5
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,332
14,430
48,225
1
1,309
10
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,984
18,278
3
5,731
7
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,258
5,943
33,548
2
746
3
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,222
1
2,093
2
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,052
2
3,535
3
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,608
61,118
171,872
6
2,079
19
212
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,378
26,321
1
1,248
4
0
67
Odia
or
1,287
11,624
56,756
1
2,624
5
0
68
Georgian
ka
746
926
5,602
0
250
1
0
69
Galician
gl
693
3,709
21,297
2
3,461
6
64
70
Bosnian
bs
613
3,272
11,896
1
3,251
5
62
71
Yakut
sah
595
1,654
7,585
1
2,069
2
2
72
Slovak
sk
487
1,496
9,190
2
3,632
2
1
73
Malay
ms
476
2,874
11,251
2
593
12
0
74
Sundanese
su
259
6,308
26,111
2
702
6
0
75
Minnan
zh-min-nan
55
3,403
10,210
1
2,594
3
2
76
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,510
1
2,306
2
0
77
Burmese
my
0
7
9
0
129
1
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,108,812
20,333,340
67,124,079
320
4,927,275
2,388
79,979
Alemannic, North Frisian, Bavarian, Rhine Franconian, Pennsylvania Dutch Wikisources[ modifica ]
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 .
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