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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 several times a day . You might need to purge the cache to see the latest numbers.
№
Language
Wiki
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
1
Chinese
zh
3,009,370
5,643,916
7,873,459
9
121,494
256
230
2
Polish
pl
1,302,985
1,343,959
4,124,150
14
41,856
68
127
3
English
en
1,107,341
4,786,967
16,025,904
19
3,287,380
721
16,653
4
French
fr
695,501
4,751,736
15,873,076
17
163,404
307
4,258
5
German
de
641,175
698,983
4,923,841
16
90,624
142
6,933
6
Russian
ru
622,239
1,138,115
5,722,375
5
134,678
87
33,297
7
Ukrainian
uk
381,043
546,725
1,064,334
5
21,984
122
139
8
Hebrew
he
257,025
1,670,873
3,019,124
16
45,693
139
577
9
Italian
it
220,733
869,789
3,848,810
9
80,920
76
675
10
Arabic
ar
93,934
287,795
610,501
5
72,276
34
4,024
11
Spanish
es
88,988
338,737
1,664,597
8
96,310
80
231
12
Gujarati
gu
65,528
71,784
222,721
2
4,567
8
0
13
Multilingual
www
65,383
255,412
1,339,355
14
485,098
152
731
14
Czech
cs
61,889
90,810
333,891
2
19,992
23
7
15
Serbian
sr
43,691
48,489
144,345
6
16,335
20
360
16
Portuguese
pt
38,902
165,250
554,319
1
43,036
70
32
17
Bangla
bn
37,725
618,452
1,975,050
4
21,780
59
5,476
18
Tamil
ta
36,570
637,218
1,945,171
4
16,622
58
33
19
Armenian
hy
36,062
146,539
393,207
4
13,922
12
62
20
Swedish
sv
32,385
217,471
653,055
5
18,789
21
8
21
Belarusian
be
29,450
121,499
289,507
2
5,339
15
0
22
Persian
fa
29,242
78,027
286,513
3
39,674
13
0
23
Korean
ko
25,397
88,788
454,089
5
19,401
42
209
24
Telugu
te
23,144
208,281
557,244
4
7,095
45
468
25
Hungarian
hu
21,819
39,115
103,549
3
12,315
13
27
26
Dutch
nl
21,216
80,512
223,393
2
17,311
18
0
27
Latin
la
20,924
80,113
272,236
7
32,381
60
45
28
Sanskrit
sa
20,414
163,237
416,830
2
10,507
21
64
29
Malayalam
ml
20,337
78,184
234,089
3
13,362
51
608
30
Turkish
tr
19,883
31,402
173,943
2
26,407
31
122
31
Vietnamese
vi
19,090
66,665
205,547
3
20,261
51
2
32
Slovenian
sl
18,297
36,192
224,139
5
10,601
22
340
33
Japanese
ja
18,248
48,656
243,263
4
45,897
42
0
34
Welsh
cy
16,006
82,846
166,602
2
4,134
8
3
35
Romanian
ro
15,616
44,419
150,860
3
22,481
22
227
36
Norwegian
no
14,195
135,652
324,405
2
6,251
12
815
37
Finnish
fi
13,801
22,053
130,551
3
8,038
16
46
38
Neapolitan
nap
12,941
14,615
90,641
3
2,648
4
0
39
Greek
el
12,755
45,861
166,428
6
22,542
36
4
40
Esperanto
eo
12,011
38,447
122,037
2
5,411
10
29
41
Urdu
ur
11,914
13,766
35,030
2
235
18
0
42
Azerbaijani
az
11,620
24,623
95,888
2
12,664
12
1
43
Breton
br
10,534
65,489
208,565
3
2,970
5
0
44
Catalan
ca
10,472
56,326
184,542
3
11,989
6
5
45
Indonesian
id
10,178
97,492
298,324
9
27,244
135
303
46
Croatian
hr
9,595
15,736
63,221
3
7,441
10
434
47
Thai
th
9,561
64,377
290,680
2
12,330
19
28
48
Georgian
ka
6,812
7,957
77,621
1
828
8
0
49
Hindi
hi
6,003
183,556
640,900
5
5,939
25
0
50
Venetian
vec
5,798
19,379
86,721
2
4,749
4
0
51
Marathi
mr
5,427
109,230
232,362
2
6,050
17
15
52
Balinese
ban
5,186
36,440
123,433
2
1,731
9
0
53
Burmese
my
4,850
6,177
21,790
1
755
7
0
54
Icelandic
is
4,716
6,235
29,842
1
3,688
4
8
55
Piedmontese
pms
4,414
5,312
37,948
2
1,432
3
0
56
Ligurian
lij
4,393
16,864
46,960
1
1,184
8
0
57
Assamese
as
4,014
91,321
253,762
4
4,440
24
226
58
Danish
da
3,901
104,811
430,128
2
11,199
11
6
59
Macedonian
mk
3,366
8,225
22,345
2
4,007
7
4
60
Estonian
et
3,299
22,934
59,697
1
4,160
3
48
61
Javanese
jv
3,173
25,910
81,989
3
1,966
16
149
62
Yiddish
yi
2,638
5,461
20,550
1
3,462
2
1,056
63
Walloon
wa
2,505
6,321
36,026
1
982
6
0
64
Punjabi
pa
2,485
72,102
221,863
6
2,661
42
212
65
Bulgarian
bg
2,329
4,032
18,737
1
6,231
8
7
66
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,368
7,296
1
2,296
2
1
67
Lithuanian
lt
1,800
3,193
12,804
1
3,918
12
1
68
Basque
eu
1,547
7,036
28,946
1
1,557
5
0
69
Kannada
kn
1,537
112,532
314,649
2
8,537
22
18
70
Odia
or
1,305
12,415
59,537
1
3,018
5
0
71
Malay
ms
1,171
8,249
23,450
2
1,252
14
0
72
Yakut
sah
742
2,141
9,478
1
2,345
7
0
73
Galician
gl
712
3,703
21,912
2
3,815
5
64
74
Bosnian
bs
613
3,271
12,040
1
3,602
2
62
75
Slovak
sk
497
1,560
9,514
1
3,940
4
1
76
Sundanese
su
408
12,862
47,759
1
1,111
11
0
77
Minangkabau
min
402
9,123
30,438
2
364
15
0
78
Tagalog
tl
328
2,311
15,701
3
382
4
0
79
Madurese
mad
207
1,145
4,400
2
352
28
0
80
Minnan
zh-min-nan
159
3,569
11,188
1
2,879
2
2
81
Central Bikol
bcl
137
2,462
10,253
0
460
2
0
82
Tulu
tcy
113
4,768
21,848
2
600
16
0
83
Faroese
fo
79
611
3,832
1
2,576
5
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
9,386,080
27,097,979
81,411,120
318
5,312,157
3,557
79,513
Wikisources in Wikipedia[ 編集 ]
Seven Wikisources are hosted as seperate namespaces within their appropriate language's Wikipedia.
The following language Wikipedias have adopted the Text: namespace for their Wikisource projects:
The Swahili Wikipedia has adopted the Wikichanzo: namespace for its Wikisource.
Please see the talk page .