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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,131,471
1,169,179
3,583,410
14
37,664
58
129
2
English
en
1,039,063
4,293,545
14,099,089
23
3,122,576
405
16,347
3
Russian
ru
621,783
1,082,699
5,122,114
5
120,555
90
32,981
4
German
de
564,953
617,712
4,366,344
17
83,237
124
6,922
5
French
fr
535,469
4,190,913
14,227,289
17
146,404
239
3,571
6
Chinese
zh
457,039
1,099,805
2,366,364
8
106,271
125
231
7
Hebrew
he
243,260
1,688,102
2,850,728
16
39,335
90
542
8
Ukrainian
uk
224,003
368,689
717,432
7
17,413
49
135
9
Italian
it
197,196
778,490
3,338,310
9
72,086
86
964
10
Arabic
ar
84,164
231,743
496,322
9
66,982
36
4,050
11
Spanish
es
83,685
273,955
1,456,120
9
89,406
54
233
12
Multilingual
www
82,063
207,432
1,031,686
13
390,944
130
861
13
Gujarati
gu
62,317
67,995
209,757
2
3,997
10
0
14
Czech
cs
58,168
85,848
300,050
3
18,424
17
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,726
47,118
137,081
4
14,942
19
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,304
149,008
507,604
3
38,500
34
15
17
Bangla
bn
32,656
729,795
1,810,756
4
19,022
29
6,421
18
Swedish
sv
28,291
179,854
554,689
4
17,463
20
18
19
Persian
fa
27,286
59,923
207,505
3
36,643
24
1
20
Korean
ko
23,539
68,578
322,925
5
17,138
22
615
21
Tamil
ta
23,483
468,276
1,547,066
4
14,220
35
42
22
Hungarian
hu
21,723
38,697
101,675
4
11,583
4
34
23
Belarusian
be
21,559
80,348
198,008
2
4,464
15
0
24
Malayalam
ml
20,477
72,944
218,664
3
12,264
6
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
19,512
160,653
401,850
2
8,955
21
64
26
Telugu
te
19,132
143,239
433,429
4
6,019
14
545
27
Turkish
tr
18,679
29,542
166,581
2
22,856
21
121
28
Slovenian
sl
17,902
35,607
219,421
5
9,629
15
346
29
Latin
la
17,890
64,128
217,346
7
27,695
23
48
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,736
54,696
172,899
3
17,982
22
2
31
Dutch
nl
16,149
58,197
180,598
4
16,082
16
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,784
124,012
353,235
3
12,426
23
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,642
40,303
218,989
4
40,853
35
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,157
38,082
137,261
3
20,628
12
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,149
20,176
125,972
4
7,282
7
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,401
88,954
3
2,252
3
0
37
Greek
el
12,532
41,583
155,378
6
19,884
17
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,345
21,319
84,420
2
11,244
20
1
39
Breton
br
9,731
60,495
183,405
3
2,594
6
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,642
50,419
170,508
4
10,964
9
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,410
15,016
60,513
3
6,698
6
434
42
Indonesian
id
8,029
58,869
193,361
6
24,112
70
305
43
Thai
th
7,767
45,998
225,139
3
10,954
19
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,438
90,733
230,115
2
5,631
11
825
45
Kannada
kn
7,355
91,369
244,262
1
7,478
3
6
46
Welsh
cy
6,707
44,281
96,330
3
3,662
5
3
47
Esperanto
eo
6,524
27,649
93,690
2
4,806
11
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,757
172,726
606,837
5
4,818
21
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,186
16,069
74,894
3
4,367
1
1
50
Icelandic
is
4,793
6,664
23,688
2
3,252
2
9
51
Marathi
mr
4,653
100,473
206,080
2
5,280
15
15
52
Balinese
ban
4,643
33,329
114,238
1
1,225
5
0
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,296
5,154
31,202
1
1,096
4
0
54
Ligurian
lij
3,915
14,610
41,759
1
898
1
0
55
Danish
da
3,467
32,103
79,219
1
10,364
7
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,188
2
3,693
1
48
57
Assamese
as
3,131
67,404
185,401
1
3,581
12
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,980
7,698
20,694
2
3,491
0
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,460
20,401
1
3,070
1
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,326
14,385
47,645
1
1,265
9
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,976
18,234
3
5,666
3
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,215
5,879
33,246
2
722
2
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,210
1
2,075
1
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,027
2
3,491
2
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,587
58,910
165,435
6
2,020
21
204
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,377
26,249
1
1,213
2
0
67
Odia
or
1,241
11,572
56,560
1
2,586
5
0
68
Galician
gl
693
3,708
21,285
2
3,424
3
64
69
Bosnian
bs
612
3,266
11,861
1
3,208
3
62
70
Yakut
sah
595
1,654
7,574
1
2,040
2
2
71
Slovak
sk
486
1,489
9,161
2
3,604
2
1
72
Sundanese
su
257
6,190
25,844
2
655
9
0
73
Minnan
zh-min-nan
54
3,396
10,086
1
2,566
1
2
74
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,497
1
2,278
1
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,020,716
19,993,652
66,144,159
316
4,884,167
2,246
79,918
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 .