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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	1,177,497	1,216,258	3,746,115	15	39,000	59	129
2	English	en	1,090,695	4,535,713	14,828,692	22	3,154,459	487	16,240
3	Russian	ru	625,424	1,098,077	5,215,625	5	125,004	113	33,043
4	French	fr	591,839	4,408,127	14,880,422	16	151,698	283	3,681
5	German	de	584,356	637,865	4,458,549	17	85,562	113	6,923
6	Chinese	zh	473,834	1,136,542	2,494,843	8	111,284	150	230
7	Ukrainian	uk	293,497	441,062	873,915	6	18,699	76	136
8	Hebrew	he	246,565	1,652,236	2,901,072	16	41,569	110	549
9	Italian	it	203,839	811,698	3,465,525	9	74,871	92	695
10	Spanish	es	85,315	298,891	1,532,506	9	91,786	57	231
11	Arabic	ar	84,493	242,491	519,103	9	69,004	52	4,039
12	Multilingual	www	79,794	214,505	1,100,345	12	421,844	147	977
13	Gujarati	gu	63,274	69,208	213,488	2	4,212	9	0
14	Czech	cs	59,293	87,667	306,974	3	18,970	25	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,823	47,265	138,112	4	15,382	12	362
16	Portuguese	pt	37,290	155,450	526,307	3	40,044	43	16
17	Bangla	bn	34,878	659,994	1,857,469	4	19,991	48	6,174
18	Swedish	sv	29,523	193,643	587,619	4	17,993	25	9
19	Persian	fa	27,866	70,400	269,714	3	37,990	26	0
20	Tamil	ta	27,568	594,408	1,777,148	4	15,178	59	41
21	Belarusian	be	26,821	102,512	249,032	2	4,730	20	0
22	Korean	ko	24,143	80,081	354,827	4	18,026	40	603
23	Armenian	hy	22,257	132,279	371,122	4	12,892	16	64
24	Hungarian	hu	21,755	39,045	102,866	4	11,835	9	27
25	Malayalam	ml	20,549	75,742	225,035	3	12,650	59	596
26	Telugu	te	20,426	155,435	460,409	4	6,318	20	559
27	Sanskrit	sa	20,065	161,835	407,342	2	9,450	16	64
28	Turkish	tr	19,683	30,656	169,592	2	24,109	27	120
29	Latin	la	18,773	66,921	226,247	6	29,162	30	48
30	Dutch	nl	18,148	68,495	201,818	3	16,552	18	0
31	Slovenian	sl	17,870	35,638	221,086	5	9,961	17	341
32	Vietnamese	vi	17,446	59,852	188,068	3	18,638	19	2
33	Japanese	ja	15,600	42,302	226,814	4	42,465	41	0
34	Romanian	ro	14,644	40,093	141,289	3	21,183	14	227
35	Finnish	fi	13,347	20,458	126,893	3	7,503	16	53
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,795	14,458	89,432	3	2,375	7	0
37	Greek	el	12,324	42,287	157,649	6	20,721	24	4
38	Azerbaijani	az	10,821	22,657	89,896	2	11,729	17	1
39	Welsh	cy	10,184	58,314	125,699	3	3,806	7	3
40	Catalan	ca	9,958	52,631	177,128	3	11,339	22	5
41	Breton	br	9,945	61,918	191,034	3	2,722	10	0
42	Croatian	hr	9,467	15,434	61,731	3	6,926	9	434
43	Thai	th	8,396	51,934	248,207	3	11,434	21	28
44	Norwegian	no	8,166	98,457	243,266	2	5,845	9	825
45	Indonesian	id	7,825	75,923	243,918	7	25,293	154	302
46	Kannada	kn	7,249	94,130	266,473	2	7,791	11	19
47	Esperanto	eo	6,667	30,185	102,840	2	4,993	9	27
48	Hindi	hi	5,859	175,052	619,036	5	5,321	22	3
49	Venetian	vec	5,764	19,249	80,060	2	4,490	5	0
50	Marathi	mr	5,106	104,571	214,672	2	5,540	21	15
51	Balinese	ban	5,034	33,970	115,935	1	1,373	19	0
52	Icelandic	is	4,701	6,128	29,623	1	3,404	6	9
53	Piedmontese	pms	4,383	5,258	36,492	1	1,194	3	0
54	Ligurian	lij	4,146	15,633	44,452	1	999	3	0
55	Burmese	my	3,987	5,257	17,189	1	281	9	0
56	Danish	da	3,483	32,285	80,034	1	10,676	12	6
57	Estonian	et	3,253	22,688	59,233	2	3,838	6	48
58	Macedonian	mk	3,032	7,772	21,278	2	3,623	5	4
59	Assamese	as	2,844	71,196	199,641	3	3,894	39	86
60	Yiddish	yi	2,632	5,462	20,468	1	3,199	4	1,056
61	Javanese	jv	2,458	14,965	49,426	1	1,465	24	149
62	Bulgarian	bg	2,292	3,990	18,368	1	5,871	12	7
63	Walloon	wa	2,267	5,984	34,053	2	816	5	0
64	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,367	7,248	1	2,145	3	1
65	Lithuanian	lt	1,757	3,141	12,165	2	3,622	8	1
66	Punjabi	pa	1,705	64,407	187,111	6	2,193	21	212
67	Basque	eu	1,380	6,395	26,723	1	1,323	3	0
68	Odia	or	1,283	11,773	58,198	2	2,781	7	0
69	Malay	ms	828	5,253	15,752	2	815	19	0
70	Georgian	ka	759	945	5,638	0	369	1	0
71	Galician	gl	702	3,744	21,505	2	3,538	6	64
72	Bosnian	bs	613	3,269	11,934	1	3,339	8	62
73	Yakut	sah	603	1,681	7,713	1	2,134	4	2
74	Slovak	sk	488	1,526	9,306	2	3,716	5	1
75	Sundanese	su	276	6,801	27,343	2	807	15	0
76	Minnan	zh-min-nan	153	3,534	11,001	1	2,673	6	2
77	Central Bikol	bcl	97	1,975	8,958	1	186	4	0
78	Tulu	tcy	82	2,123	15,291	2	242	10	0
79	Faroese	fo	9	554	3,542	1	2,370	1	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,338,848	20,951,120	69,432,644	316	5,003,225	2,964	79,562

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