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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,128,818
1,166,487
3,572,972
14
37,505
69
129
2
English
en
1,034,988
4,269,056
13,982,010
23
3,118,479
426
16,341
3
Russian
ru
621,461
1,081,846
5,117,945
5
119,937
92
33,048
4
German
de
560,381
612,795
4,350,136
17
82,913
145
6,922
5
French
fr
532,100
4,169,144
14,154,719
17
145,799
278
3,556
6
Chinese
zh
455,683
1,098,032
2,347,795
9
105,674
144
231
7
Hebrew
he
242,767
1,687,171
2,845,163
16
39,072
93
542
8
Ukrainian
uk
207,465
351,308
695,000
7
17,247
66
135
9
Italian
it
196,555
776,771
3,324,945
9
71,736
91
965
10
Arabic
ar
84,128
230,842
494,926
9
66,681
40
4,050
11
Spanish
es
83,473
270,827
1,450,063
9
89,142
58
233
12
Multilingual
www
81,271
206,101
1,027,513
18
387,298
157
860
13
Gujarati
gu
62,094
67,751
209,134
2
3,977
13
0
14
Czech
cs
58,068
85,673
299,213
3
18,344
21
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,719
47,101
136,902
4
14,877
25
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,122
148,275
506,225
3
38,333
42
14
17
Bangla
bn
32,508
736,401
1,808,137
4
18,932
35
6,489
18
Swedish
sv
28,087
178,553
552,473
4
17,373
27
18
19
Persian
fa
27,218
59,581
206,760
4
36,461
34
1
20
Korean
ko
23,491
68,435
322,363
5
17,071
29
615
21
Tamil
ta
23,373
467,278
1,542,864
4
14,185
46
42
22
Hungarian
hu
21,723
38,697
101,665
4
11,567
11
34
23
Belarusian
be
21,139
78,369
194,018
2
4,430
21
0
24
Malayalam
ml
20,476
72,940
218,606
3
12,243
10
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
19,509
160,413
401,203
2
8,895
20
64
26
Telugu
te
19,094
142,554
431,889
4
5,991
17
545
27
Turkish
tr
18,678
29,532
166,461
2
22,678
24
121
28
Slovenian
sl
17,879
35,579
219,224
5
9,590
15
346
29
Latin
la
17,836
63,122
215,658
7
27,521
34
48
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,656
53,915
171,511
3
17,904
29
2
31
Dutch
nl
15,944
54,675
176,046
4
16,026
28
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,772
124,006
353,172
3
12,368
29
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,424
40,014
217,593
4
40,704
49
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,089
37,812
136,569
3
20,553
22
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,114
20,126
125,792
4
7,251
11
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,401
88,949
3
2,235
9
0
37
Greek
el
12,457
41,353
154,926
6
19,798
19
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,315
21,256
84,074
2
11,175
25
1
39
Breton
br
9,708
60,444
183,254
3
2,584
8
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,624
50,245
170,201
4
10,932
12
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,407
15,010
60,460
3
6,670
8
434
42
Indonesian
id
7,988
53,690
174,701
6
24,046
107
305
43
Thai
th
7,695
45,052
222,423
3
10,908
24
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,433
90,708
230,058
2
5,603
11
825
45
Kannada
kn
7,355
91,367
244,251
2
7,458
19
6
46
Esperanto
eo
6,520
27,564
93,482
2
4,788
16
27
47
Welsh
cy
6,119
42,665
93,590
3
3,650
10
3
48
Hindi
hi
5,734
172,615
606,355
5
4,775
35
2
49
Venetian
vec
5,186
16,069
74,893
3
4,351
8
1
50
Icelandic
is
4,793
6,651
23,728
2
3,241
11
9
51
Balinese
ban
4,642
33,327
114,222
1
1,214
9
0
52
Marathi
mr
4,513
99,789
205,192
2
5,245
24
15
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,288
5,143
30,737
1
1,086
6
0
54
Ligurian
lij
3,828
14,235
41,254
1
888
5
0
55
Danish
da
3,467
32,103
79,171
1
10,328
15
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,187
2
3,673
6
48
57
Assamese
as
3,127
67,374
185,102
1
3,554
20
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,980
7,698
20,694
2
3,475
5
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,460
20,400
1
3,055
6
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,325
14,382
47,527
1
1,256
44
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,976
18,221
3
5,643
10
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,198
5,846
33,096
2
713
8
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,209
1
2,068
5
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,025
2
3,476
9
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,572
57,834
163,804
6
2,003
35
204
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,377
26,242
1
1,202
6
0
67
Odia
or
1,241
11,574
56,384
1
2,578
10
0
68
Galician
gl
693
3,708
21,279
2
3,408
9
64
69
Bosnian
bs
612
3,266
11,859
1
3,195
5
62
70
Yakut
sah
595
1,652
7,571
1
2,028
7
2
71
Slovak
sk
486
1,488
9,127
2
3,595
8
1
72
Sundanese
su
253
6,131
25,691
2
638
10
0
73
Minnan
zh-min-nan
54
3,396
10,081
1
2,555
7
2
74
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,496
1
2,270
5
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
5,982,250
19,894,776
65,791,581
324
4,870,117
2,847
80,030
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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