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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	1,184,536	1,223,339	3,764,540	15	39,234	47	129
2	English	en	1,087,427	4,571,236	14,920,540	22	3,159,538	469	16,560
3	Russian	ru	625,960	1,099,535	5,351,807	5	125,735	114	32,999
4	French	fr	599,032	4,432,721	14,978,883	16	152,605	250	3,641
5	German	de	587,032	640,598	4,466,966	17	85,930	115	6,923
6	Chinese	zh	475,554	1,140,415	2,507,578	8	111,939	149	230
7	Ukrainian	uk	300,342	449,592	889,275	6	18,936	71	136
8	Hebrew	he	246,682	1,652,795	2,907,062	16	41,876	87	551
9	Italian	it	205,385	817,412	3,486,009	9	75,282	88	693
10	Arabic	ar	84,754	243,709	523,191	9	69,277	53	4,038
11	Spanish	es	84,597	303,394	1,542,719	9	92,126	49	231
12	Multilingual	www	73,886	209,269	1,105,534	13	426,279	129	975
13	Gujarati	gu	63,957	69,943	214,535	2	4,257	9	0
14	Czech	cs	59,474	87,871	307,814	3	19,068	22	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,835	47,277	138,249	4	15,454	13	361
16	Portuguese	pt	37,617	157,417	531,454	3	40,244	38	16
17	Armenian	hy	35,834	146,139	388,190	4	13,019	20	64
18	Bangla	bn	35,123	656,337	1,864,113	4	20,128	37	6,153
19	Swedish	sv	29,863	195,398	591,159	4	18,074	20	9
20	Persian	fa	27,924	72,580	274,149	3	38,167	24	0
21	Tamil	ta	27,713	598,353	1,787,689	4	15,288	112	41
22	Belarusian	be	26,801	104,013	252,105	2	4,783	16	0
23	Korean	ko	22,980	80,239	383,862	5	18,147	33	202
24	Hungarian	hu	21,760	39,059	102,928	4	11,882	9	27
25	Malayalam	ml	20,560	75,987	225,562	3	12,732	42	598
26	Telugu	te	20,549	157,721	465,389	4	6,375	27	564
27	Sanskrit	sa	20,069	161,859	407,705	2	9,525	12	64
28	Turkish	tr	19,714	30,836	170,341	2	24,294	24	120
29	Latin	la	18,870	67,455	229,621	6	29,405	30	48
30	Dutch	nl	18,326	70,177	204,091	3	16,631	18	0
31	Slovenian	sl	17,888	35,660	221,226	5	10,019	9	341
32	Vietnamese	vi	17,768	61,137	190,913	3	18,772	20	2
33	Japanese	ja	15,786	42,560	227,708	4	42,717	36	0
34	Romanian	ro	14,691	40,254	141,624	2	21,298	16	227
35	Finnish	fi	13,376	20,490	126,967	3	7,552	7	53
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,816	14,488	89,637	3	2,413	9	0
37	Greek	el	12,349	42,462	158,063	6	20,855	18	4
38	Welsh	cy	10,908	61,087	130,273	3	3,841	6	3
39	Azerbaijani	az	10,868	23,421	91,943	2	11,812	26	1
40	Breton	br	10,029	62,207	191,905	3	2,746	7	0
41	Catalan	ca	9,994	53,005	177,689	3	11,409	9	5
42	Croatian	hr	9,470	15,439	61,746	3	6,967	6	434
43	Thai	th	8,489	52,626	250,981	3	11,522	11	28
44	Norwegian	no	8,452	101,035	248,315	2	5,892	9	825
45	Indonesian	id	7,922	76,452	245,426	7	25,479	66	302
46	Kannada	kn	7,265	94,299	267,787	2	7,912	48	19
47	Georgian	ka	6,727	7,785	77,175	0	483	11	0
48	Esperanto	eo	6,685	30,458	104,343	2	5,037	7	27
49	Hindi	hi	5,862	175,090	620,757	5	5,374	26	3
50	Venetian	vec	5,795	19,359	80,240	2	4,527	4	0
51	Marathi	mr	5,118	105,073	216,960	2	5,585	17	15
52	Balinese	ban	5,092	34,053	116,213	1	1,408	12	0
53	Icelandic	is	4,705	6,150	29,671	1	3,433	4	9
54	Piedmontese	pms	4,397	5,276	36,893	1	1,225	5	0
55	Ligurian	lij	4,183	15,775	44,705	1	1,021	4	0
56	Burmese	my	3,988	5,262	17,217	1	327	5	0
57	Danish	da	3,491	32,321	80,104	1	10,727	8	6
58	Estonian	et	3,253	22,689	59,239	2	3,873	3	48
59	Macedonian	mk	3,034	7,774	21,289	2	3,655	4	4
60	Assamese	as	2,850	71,683	201,203	3	3,968	32	86
61	Yiddish	yi	2,632	5,463	20,475	1	3,232	3	1,056
62	Javanese	jv	2,303	16,601	55,537	3	1,525	43	149
63	Walloon	wa	2,293	6,024	34,270	1	842	5	0
64	Bulgarian	bg	2,292	3,991	18,376	1	5,911	6	7
65	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,368	7,252	1	2,168	2	1
66	Lithuanian	lt	1,757	3,142	12,174	2	3,657	5	1
67	Punjabi	pa	1,727	64,513	188,555	6	2,224	16	212
68	Basque	eu	1,382	6,449	26,915	1	1,346	8	0
69	Odia	or	1,284	11,863	58,322	2	2,811	5	0
70	Malay	ms	847	5,405	16,019	2	884	11	0
71	Galician	gl	703	3,754	21,538	2	3,563	3	64
72	Bosnian	bs	613	3,270	11,941	1	3,371	3	62
73	Yakut	sah	603	1,685	7,733	1	2,159	4	2
74	Slovak	sk	488	1,535	9,328	2	3,748	4	1
75	Sundanese	su	278	9,619	36,483	2	873	53	0
76	Minnan	zh-min-nan	153	3,539	11,010	1	2,709	4	2
77	Tulu	tcy	103	3,101	17,671	2	326	58	0
78	Central Bikol	bcl	78	1,999	9,007	1	236	11	0
79	Faroese	fo	9	555	3,547	1	2,393	2	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,379,837	21,093,922	70,077,425	318	5,022,057	2,818	79,379

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