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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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

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	1,175,432	1,214,178	3,739,253	15	38,895	56	129
2	English	en	1,087,312	4,519,675	14,787,973	22	3,152,441	495	16,228
3	Russian	ru	625,193	1,097,412	5,208,369	5	124,713	99	33,048
4	French	fr	586,360	4,395,630	14,849,877	15	151,381	258	3,679
5	German	de	583,537	637,012	4,454,823	17	85,440	107	6,923
6	Chinese	zh	473,329	1,133,578	2,488,509	8	111,081	151	230
7	Ukrainian	uk	292,628	439,663	867,445	6	18,627	83	136
8	Hebrew	he	246,537	1,652,097	2,899,393	16	41,461	112	549
9	Italian	it	203,500	810,477	3,458,816	9	74,728	80	704
10	Spanish	es	84,980	297,708	1,529,527	9	91,688	56	231
11	Arabic	ar	84,410	241,762	517,374	9	68,911	59	4,039
12	Multilingual	www	79,660	213,280	1,096,980	12	419,976	140	976
13	Gujarati	gu	63,162	69,083	213,241	2	4,199	14	0
14	Czech	cs	59,238	87,600	306,757	3	18,936	26	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,822	47,257	137,934	4	15,356	10	362
16	Portuguese	pt	37,136	154,841	524,635	3	39,966	43	16
17	Bangla	bn	34,678	667,835	1,853,959	4	19,953	56	6,208
18	Swedish	sv	29,454	192,772	586,034	4	17,960	24	9
19	Persian	fa	27,860	70,224	268,880	3	37,927	24	0
20	Tamil	ta	27,498	593,493	1,772,161	4	15,134	51	41
21	Belarusian	be	26,715	101,891	247,615	2	4,707	20	0
22	Korean	ko	24,350	79,633	350,553	4	18,000	39	607
23	Hungarian	hu	21,755	39,045	102,863	4	11,819	6	27
24	Malayalam	ml	20,549	75,519	224,572	3	12,607	30	595
25	Telugu	te	20,398	154,894	459,112	4	6,303	22	559
26	Sanskrit	sa	20,065	161,835	407,116	2	9,430	64	64
27	Turkish	tr	19,639	30,599	169,447	2	24,049	28	120
28	Latin	la	18,748	66,718	225,514	6	29,089	30	48
29	Armenian	hy	18,662	128,644	366,325	4	12,865	14	64
30	Dutch	nl	17,982	67,168	200,079	3	16,515	18	0
31	Slovenian	sl	17,870	35,638	221,063	5	9,939	11	341
32	Vietnamese	vi	17,386	59,462	187,016	3	18,606	22	2
33	Japanese	ja	15,544	42,214	226,472	4	42,362	48	0
34	Romanian	ro	14,611	39,994	141,116	3	21,137	12	227
35	Finnish	fi	13,332	20,439	126,846	3	7,493	12	53
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,762	14,423	89,222	3	2,364	7	0
37	Greek	el	12,318	42,249	157,403	6	20,659	26	4
38	Azerbaijani	az	10,817	22,613	89,799	2	11,708	20	1
39	Welsh	cy	10,095	57,204	123,236	3	3,793	5	3
40	Catalan	ca	9,949	52,486	176,917	3	11,311	19	5
41	Breton	br	9,892	61,659	190,338	3	2,712	11	0
42	Croatian	hr	9,464	15,431	61,725	3	6,913	9	434
43	Thai	th	8,354	51,652	247,177	3	11,407	17	28
44	Norwegian	no	8,004	97,907	241,902	2	5,836	10	825
45	Indonesian	id	7,798	71,973	233,790	7	25,226	155	302
46	Kannada	kn	7,249	94,125	266,360	2	7,778	9	19
47	Esperanto	eo	6,664	30,048	102,299	2	4,980	8	27
48	Hindi	hi	5,859	174,877	618,838	5	5,304	18	3
49	Venetian	vec	5,764	19,249	80,057	2	4,480	3	0
50	Marathi	mr	5,049	104,379	214,296	2	5,522	15	15
51	Balinese	ban	5,015	33,934	115,783	1	1,362	6	0
52	Icelandic	is	4,699	6,093	29,576	1	3,394	4	9
53	Piedmontese	pms	4,378	5,252	36,298	1	1,190	4	0
54	Ligurian	lij	4,142	15,586	44,395	1	994	6	0
55	Burmese	my	3,987	5,238	17,097	1	262	4	0
56	Danish	da	3,482	32,266	79,978	1	10,662	10	6
57	Estonian	et	3,253	22,688	59,230	2	3,827	4	48
58	Macedonian	mk	3,031	7,771	21,242	2	3,615	6	4
59	Assamese	as	2,899	71,273	199,157	3	3,860	39	86
60	Yiddish	yi	2,632	5,462	20,464	1	3,189	4	1,056
61	Javanese	jv	2,450	14,890	49,219	1	1,445	6	149
62	Bulgarian	bg	2,292	3,989	18,359	1	5,856	9	7
63	Walloon	wa	2,261	5,980	34,033	2	805	4	0
64	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,367	7,246	1	2,139	2	1
65	Lithuanian	lt	1,757	3,141	12,160	2	3,614	6	1
66	Punjabi	pa	1,705	64,319	186,200	6	2,186	26	212
67	Basque	eu	1,380	6,395	26,709	1	1,315	4	0
68	Odia	or	1,283	11,756	58,176	2	2,777	8	0
69	Malay	ms	817	5,136	15,540	2	795	26	0
70	Georgian	ka	759	945	5,638	0	357	1	0
71	Galician	gl	701	3,738	21,493	2	3,532	6	64
72	Bosnian	bs	613	3,269	11,930	1	3,331	5	62
73	Yakut	sah	603	1,680	7,705	1	2,126	5	2
74	Slovak	sk	488	1,524	9,299	2	3,707	7	1
75	Sundanese	su	276	6,757	27,205	2	794	14	0
76	Minnan	zh-min-nan	153	3,534	10,991	1	2,665	5	2
77	Central Bikol	bcl	97	1,970	8,950	1	168	1	0
78	Tulu	tcy	83	2,122	14,336	1	224	14	0
79	Faroese	fo	9	554	3,540	1	2,363	3	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,319,500	20,900,174	69,262,957	314	4,996,241	2,891	79,598

Wikisources in Wikipedia

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.

The Swahili Wikipedia has adopted a Wikichanzo namespace for its Wikisource: Swahili Wikisource.

Historical discussion

Please see the talk page.

Name, Slogan, Logo

List of Wikisources

Wikisources in Wikipedia

Historical discussion

See also