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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	1,178,971	1,217,705	3,749,498	15	39,042	58	129
2	English	en	1,081,222	4,541,897	14,845,738	22	3,155,276	494	16,439
3	Russian	ru	625,465	1,098,127	5,220,672	5	125,122	116	33,038
4	French	fr	592,252	4,411,366	14,892,156	16	151,839	287	3,683
5	German	de	584,733	638,254	4,459,941	17	85,613	108	6,923
6	Chinese	zh	474,219	1,137,065	2,496,972	8	111,380	136	230
7	Ukrainian	uk	294,664	442,618	876,345	6	18,738	69	136
8	Hebrew	he	246,582	1,652,363	2,901,782	16	41,603	102	549
9	Italian	it	204,067	812,867	3,469,634	9	74,938	98	695
10	Spanish	es	85,127	299,583	1,534,020	9	91,840	53	231
11	Arabic	ar	84,673	242,822	519,944	9	69,050	49	4,039
12	Multilingual	www	79,853	214,621	1,101,746	12	422,538	149	977
13	Gujarati	gu	63,345	69,282	213,607	2	4,214	11	0
14	Czech	cs	59,334	87,714	307,094	3	18,987	18	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,825	47,268	138,149	4	15,391	11	362
16	Portuguese	pt	37,378	155,695	526,869	3	40,079	43	16
17	Bangla	bn	34,792	658,319	1,858,637	4	20,009	47	6,174
18	Swedish	sv	29,569	193,901	588,123	4	18,003	25	9
19	Persian	fa	27,877	70,591	270,289	3	38,010	19	0
20	Tamil	ta	27,574	594,848	1,778,596	4	15,186	67	41
21	Belarusian	be	26,814	102,647	249,363	2	4,731	19	0
22	Armenian	hy	25,716	135,750	374,827	4	12,905	17	64
23	Korean	ko	23,322	80,105	365,602	4	18,040	40	603
24	Hungarian	hu	21,757	39,056	102,885	4	11,841	8	27
25	Malayalam	ml	20,552	75,763	225,070	3	12,654	48	598
26	Telugu	te	20,429	155,663	460,810	4	6,323	21	559
27	Sanskrit	sa	20,066	161,838	407,382	2	9,463	15	64
28	Turkish	tr	19,686	30,666	169,653	2	24,128	29	120
29	Latin	la	18,812	67,226	227,114	6	29,195	28	48
30	Dutch	nl	18,181	69,013	202,571	3	16,563	18	0
31	Slovenian	sl	17,871	35,640	221,131	5	9,967	19	341
32	Vietnamese	vi	17,497	60,101	188,401	3	18,651	19	2
33	Japanese	ja	15,618	42,326	226,951	4	42,502	40	0
34	Romanian	ro	14,650	40,131	141,347	3	21,205	13	227
35	Finnish	fi	13,353	20,465	126,910	3	7,513	13	53
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,800	14,464	89,476	3	2,379	7	0
37	Greek	el	12,325	42,315	157,701	6	20,741	21	4
38	Azerbaijani	az	10,821	22,674	89,932	2	11,738	18	1
39	Welsh	cy	10,304	59,010	126,723	3	3,809	10	3
40	Catalan	ca	9,971	52,846	177,366	3	11,347	20	5
41	Breton	br	9,947	61,930	191,161	3	2,724	10	0
42	Croatian	hr	9,468	15,436	61,737	3	6,932	9	434
43	Thai	th	8,424	52,070	248,753	3	11,451	16	28
44	Norwegian	no	8,314	98,957	244,081	2	5,851	7	825
45	Indonesian	id	7,833	75,965	244,075	7	25,326	141	302
46	Kannada	kn	7,249	94,138	266,507	2	7,799	11	19
47	Esperanto	eo	6,671	30,211	103,111	2	4,997	10	27
48	Hindi	hi	5,860	175,080	619,113	5	5,326	22	3
49	Venetian	vec	5,764	19,250	80,062	2	4,495	6	0
50	Marathi	mr	5,115	104,598	215,104	2	5,545	21	15
51	Balinese	ban	5,034	33,971	115,947	1	1,376	18	0
52	Icelandic	is	4,701	6,129	29,628	1	3,407	6	9
53	Piedmontese	pms	4,391	5,270	36,597	1	1,195	3	0
54	Ligurian	lij	4,146	15,644	44,465	1	1,000	4	0
55	Burmese	my	3,987	5,260	17,202	1	287	9	0
56	Danish	da	3,488	32,291	80,050	1	10,683	13	6
57	Estonian	et	3,253	22,689	59,235	2	3,847	7	48
58	Macedonian	mk	3,032	7,773	21,280	2	3,626	6	4
59	Assamese	as	2,851	71,175	199,897	3	3,899	38	86
60	Yiddish	yi	2,632	5,464	20,472	1	3,202	5	1,056
61	Javanese	jv	2,564	15,178	49,946	1	1,471	24	149
62	Bulgarian	bg	2,292	3,991	18,370	1	5,875	11	7
63	Walloon	wa	2,275	5,993	34,097	2	817	6	0
64	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,368	7,250	1	2,148	4	1
65	Lithuanian	lt	1,757	3,142	12,167	2	3,626	6	1
66	Punjabi	pa	1,708	64,412	187,285	6	2,196	20	212
67	Basque	eu	1,380	6,396	26,725	1	1,324	3	0
68	Odia	or	1,283	11,779	58,207	2	2,783	7	0
69	Malay	ms	832	5,296	15,818	2	823	19	0
70	Georgian	ka	770	971	5,976	0	436	1	0
71	Galician	gl	702	3,745	21,508	2	3,540	5	64
72	Bosnian	bs	613	3,270	11,936	1	3,343	8	62
73	Yakut	sah	603	1,683	7,728	1	2,135	5	2
74	Slovak	sk	488	1,530	9,315	2	3,718	6	1
75	Sundanese	su	276	6,812	27,373	2	814	16	0
76	Minnan	zh-min-nan	153	3,535	11,003	1	2,676	5	2
77	Central Bikol	bcl	97	1,976	8,959	0	192	7	0
78	Tulu	tcy	82	2,124	15,501	2	247	12	0
79	Faroese	fo	9	555	3,545	1	2,373	3	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,336,996	20,973,662	69,512,213	315	5,006,058	2,913	79,760

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