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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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

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 1,165,084 1,203,719 3,708,774 16 38,621 57 129
2 English en 1,076,951 4,472,530 14,652,839 22 3,146,453 467 16,249
3 Russian ru 623,974 1,093,579 5,195,827 5 123,844 94 33,032
4 German de 579,597 633,010 4,425,526 17 85,004 105 6,922
5 French fr 558,824 4,333,394 14,702,691 15 150,387 247 3,654
6 Chinese zh 470,493 1,125,583 2,463,997 8 110,183 147 231
7 Ukrainian uk 271,894 424,519 818,933 6 18,351 78 135
8 Hebrew he 246,567 1,651,610 2,891,234 16 41,023 96 547
9 Italian it 202,611 798,887 3,424,827 9 74,180 80 723
10 Spanish es 84,648 283,862 1,487,874 9 91,252 49 231
11 Arabic ar 84,283 239,841 512,184 9 68,537 50 4,043
12 Multilingual www 79,153 211,781 1,087,272 12 413,967 148 977
13 Gujarati gu 62,849 68,716 212,263 2 4,153 13 0
14 Czech cs 59,042 87,275 305,809 3 18,828 31 7
15 Serbian sr 42,823 47,252 137,826 4 15,275 21 362
16 Portuguese pt 36,907 153,183 520,661 3 39,636 42 16
17 Bangla bn 34,087 677,137 1,842,806 4 19,766 33 6,310
18 Swedish sv 29,192 190,136 581,880 4 17,873 25 9
19 Persian fa 27,799 69,539 261,818 3 37,660 22 0
20 Tamil ta 26,711 589,173 1,751,654 4 15,053 52 41
21 Belarusian be 26,034 98,769 240,063 2 4,651 19 0
22 Korean ko 24,395 77,841 345,255 5 17,734 33 611
23 Hungarian hu 21,749 39,032 102,804 4 11,765 12 27
24 Malayalam ml 20,538 73,743 220,333 3 12,495 40 593
25 Telugu te 20,248 151,839 451,942 4 6,259 24 559
26 Sanskrit sa 20,058 161,275 404,724 2 9,298 13 64
27 Turkish tr 19,506 30,426 168,781 2 23,800 24 121
28 Latin la 18,473 65,933 223,048 6 28,808 34 48
29 Slovenian sl 17,857 35,623 220,992 5 9,890 22 341
30 Dutch nl 17,470 64,990 196,670 3 16,387 21 0
31 Vietnamese vi 17,370 58,628 183,901 3 18,484 22 2
32 Armenian hy 17,316 127,166 362,857 4 12,778 20 64
33 Japanese ja 15,268 41,666 224,608 4 42,016 48 0
34 Romanian ro 14,556 39,733 140,560 3 20,998 21 227
35 Finnish fi 13,294 20,400 126,715 4 7,447 15 53
36 Neapolitan nap 12,753 14,412 89,085 3 2,335 9 0
37 Greek el 12,311 42,152 156,999 6 20,464 27 4
38 Azerbaijani az 10,826 22,490 89,304 2 11,611 18 1
39 Breton br 9,894 61,452 189,146 3 2,682 13 0
40 Catalan ca 9,862 51,999 175,033 3 11,234 40 5
41 Croatian hr 9,456 15,395 61,643 3 6,859 13 434
42 Welsh cy 9,101 54,561 117,621 3 3,764 9 3
43 Thai th 8,143 50,136 240,184 3 11,305 23 28
44 Norwegian no 7,826 95,287 237,282 2 5,789 10 825
45 Indonesian id 7,581 62,609 203,566 6 24,929 87 301
46 Kannada kn 7,249 94,056 266,135 2 7,735 16 19
47 Esperanto eo 6,631 29,575 100,013 2 4,942 13 27
48 Hindi hi 5,844 174,648 618,261 5 5,233 22 3
49 Venetian vec 5,738 19,145 79,918 2 4,453 8 0
50 Balinese ban 5,009 33,846 115,606 1 1,323 12 0
51 Marathi mr 4,882 102,832 210,267 2 5,479 17 15
52 Icelandic is 4,693 5,978 29,433 1 3,359 10 9
53 Piedmontese pms 4,361 5,234 35,542 1 1,167 7 0
54 Ligurian lij 4,088 15,272 43,872 1 967 8 0
55 Burmese my 3,988 5,219 16,994 1 218 9 0
56 Danish da 3,478 32,227 79,810 1 10,589 9 6
57 Estonian et 3,253 22,689 59,225 2 3,797 6 48
58 Assamese as 3,171 70,820 194,558 3 3,806 27 85
59 Macedonian mk 2,993 7,729 21,086 2 3,586 7 4
60 Yiddish yi 2,632 5,464 20,463 1 3,157 7 1,056
61 Javanese jv 2,450 14,778 49,030 1 1,409 21 149
62 Bulgarian bg 2,292 3,991 18,339 3 5,817 11 7
63 Walloon wa 2,250 5,945 33,854 2 781 9 0
64 Limburgish li 1,885 3,368 7,245 1 2,122 7 1
65 Lithuanian lt 1,756 3,140 12,108 2 3,576 10 1
66 Punjabi pa 1,679 63,662 181,892 6 2,153 32 212
67 Basque eu 1,380 6,396 26,624 1 1,290 7 0
68 Odia or 1,289 11,696 57,554 2 2,751 12 0
69 Georgian ka 748 933 5,620 0 324 5 0
70 Galician gl 695 3,721 21,371 2 3,508 7 64
71 Malay ms 650 3,679 13,158 2 710 8 0
72 Bosnian bs 613 3,273 11,926 1 3,307 6 62
73 Yakut sah 602 1,678 7,698 1 2,108 8 2
74 Slovak sk 487 1,516 9,265 2 3,685 8 1
75 Sundanese su 277 6,683 27,068 2 754 10 0
76 Minnan zh-min-nan 151 3,518 10,921 1 2,636 8 2
77 Central Bikol bcl 97 1,968 8,934 1 123 5 0
78 Faroese fo 9 555 3,539 1 2,346 10 0
79 Tulu tcy 1 37 1,011 1 159 23 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,232,695 20,677,554 68,558,151 318 4,973,198 2,859 79,702

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.

See also

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