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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,142,482
1,180,331
3,626,707
14
38,028
57
128
2
English
en
1,054,714
4,360,352
14,307,042
23
3,132,315
379
16,322
3
Russian
ru
622,199
1,087,109
5,150,240
5
121,955
85
32,956
4
German
de
570,412
623,350
4,387,778
17
83,972
89
6,922
5
French
fr
545,314
4,245,118
14,379,517
17
147,883
218
3,648
6
Chinese
zh
464,314
1,108,853
2,403,001
7
107,848
136
231
7
Hebrew
he
245,195
1,690,987
2,865,921
16
40,000
90
543
8
Ukrainian
uk
232,947
380,081
740,593
7
17,743
46
134
9
Italian
it
199,417
788,671
3,375,462
9
72,937
92
876
10
Arabic
ar
84,169
233,486
499,086
9
67,585
24
4,050
11
Spanish
es
83,851
277,386
1,467,113
9
90,157
34
233
12
Multilingual
www
81,903
211,494
1,042,772
13
400,057
146
910
13
Gujarati
gu
62,557
68,313
210,686
2
4,060
7
0
14
Czech
cs
58,576
86,501
301,459
3
18,601
22
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,749
47,151
137,350
4
15,081
12
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,429
149,785
510,729
3
38,963
52
16
17
Bangla
bn
33,377
727,943
1,822,204
4
19,273
23
6,419
18
Swedish
sv
28,743
184,061
562,472
4
17,612
20
9
19
Persian
fa
27,465
67,349
237,320
3
37,082
25
1
20
Tamil
ta
23,965
528,013
1,624,935
4
14,331
43
42
21
Korean
ko
23,867
72,255
329,098
5
17,422
41
615
22
Belarusian
be
22,631
85,488
210,819
2
4,531
16
0
23
Hungarian
hu
21,742
38,816
101,943
4
11,638
8
34
24
Malayalam
ml
20,485
72,961
218,762
3
12,341
9
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
19,932
161,099
403,462
2
9,075
10
64
26
Telugu
te
19,362
145,188
437,555
4
6,118
18
546
27
Turkish
tr
18,682
29,554
166,942
2
23,258
22
121
28
Latin
la
18,038
64,511
218,420
7
28,118
26
48
29
Slovenian
sl
17,938
35,693
219,968
5
9,769
16
346
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,852
55,547
175,459
3
18,160
21
2
31
Dutch
nl
16,658
60,096
183,258
4
16,202
13
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,796
124,050
353,431
3
12,573
25
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,792
40,722
220,869
4
41,314
36
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,280
38,689
138,503
4
20,778
12
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,212
20,276
126,323
4
7,332
8
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,401
89,012
3
2,277
4
0
37
Greek
el
12,578
41,727
155,695
6
20,091
15
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,474
21,851
86,512
2
11,367
10
1
39
Breton
br
9,840
61,017
185,497
3
2,624
8
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,667
50,870
171,268
3
11,061
10
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,436
15,044
60,619
3
6,757
7
434
42
Indonesian
id
8,056
59,838
196,211
6
24,357
47
305
43
Thai
th
7,826
46,918
228,134
3
11,071
17
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,531
91,864
232,399
2
5,689
7
825
45
Welsh
cy
7,408
47,505
102,589
3
3,702
6
3
46
Kannada
kn
7,355
91,705
250,554
2
7,578
16
6
47
Esperanto
eo
6,585
28,358
95,748
2
4,852
12
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,733
173,346
608,999
5
4,975
50
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,335
16,355
75,491
3
4,397
3
0
50
Icelandic
is
4,868
6,520
24,283
2
3,289
6
9
51
Marathi
mr
4,707
101,474
207,680
2
5,348
15
15
52
Balinese
ban
4,643
33,402
114,411
1
1,263
8
0
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,323
5,186
32,802
1
1,118
4
0
54
Ligurian
lij
4,072
15,087
42,483
1
917
5
0
55
Danish
da
3,467
32,107
79,292
1
10,450
10
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,198
2
3,723
2
48
57
Assamese
as
3,146
68,949
187,859
1
3,661
13
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,989
7,721
20,890
2
3,527
3
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,460
20,423
1
3,100
3
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,326
14,415
48,158
1
1,301
5
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,984
18,272
3
5,722
4
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,254
5,933
33,509
2
742
3
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,219
1
2,089
2
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,049
2
3,527
4
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,609
60,985
170,906
6
2,068
25
212
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,378
26,318
1
1,239
4
0
67
Odia
or
1,288
11,624
56,734
1
2,617
4
0
68
Georgian
ka
779
926
5,602
0
240
4
0
69
Galician
gl
693
3,709
21,296
2
3,453
4
64
70
Bosnian
bs
613
3,271
11,887
1
3,243
2
62
71
Yakut
sah
595
1,654
7,582
1
2,063
1
2
72
Slovak
sk
487
1,496
9,187
2
3,625
2
1
73
Malay
ms
417
2,453
10,154
2
571
13
0
74
Sundanese
su
258
6,290
26,054
2
695
3
0
75
Minnan
zh-min-nan
55
3,403
10,207
1
2,590
4
2
76
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,507
1
2,302
1
0
77
Burmese
my
0
7
9
0
121
1
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,092,397
20,284,257
66,963,898
318
4,919,514
2,248
79,903
Alemannic, North Frisian, Bavarian, Rhine Franconian, Pennsylvania Dutch Wikisources[ edit ]
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 .
Please see the talk page .