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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	1,184,438	1,223,240	3,764,256	15	39,230	47	129
2	English	en	1,087,221	4,570,543	14,919,124	22	3,159,470	469	16,560
3	Russian	ru	625,949	1,099,502	5,349,964	5	125,719	114	33,001
4	French	fr	598,976	4,432,128	14,977,432	16	152,593	250	3,641
5	German	de	586,998	640,564	4,466,794	17	85,924	115	6,923
6	Chinese	zh	475,507	1,140,405	2,507,470	8	111,931	149	230
7	Ukrainian	uk	300,289	449,520	889,139	6	18,934	71	136
8	Hebrew	he	246,681	1,652,783	2,906,942	16	41,871	87	551
9	Italian	it	205,370	817,363	3,485,792	9	75,276	88	693
10	Arabic	ar	84,752	243,703	523,117	9	69,274	53	4,038
11	Spanish	es	84,597	303,391	1,542,693	9	92,120	49	231
12	Multilingual	www	73,886	209,261	1,105,512	13	426,215	129	975
13	Gujarati	gu	63,957	69,942	214,526	2	4,256	9	0
14	Czech	cs	59,454	87,851	307,780	3	19,066	22	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,835	47,277	138,249	4	15,452	13	361
16	Portuguese	pt	37,611	157,344	531,239	3	40,241	38	16
17	Armenian	hy	35,833	146,139	388,187	4	13,018	20	64
18	Bangla	bn	35,102	656,300	1,863,959	4	20,128	37	6,153
19	Swedish	sv	29,857	195,378	591,127	4	18,073	20	9
20	Persian	fa	27,924	72,579	274,143	3	38,166	24	0
21	Tamil	ta	27,711	598,340	1,787,571	4	15,287	112	41
22	Belarusian	be	26,801	103,984	252,040	2	4,783	16	0
23	Korean	ko	22,979	80,232	383,848	5	18,146	33	202
24	Hungarian	hu	21,760	39,059	102,928	4	11,882	9	27
25	Malayalam	ml	20,560	75,987	225,557	3	12,730	42	598
26	Telugu	te	20,539	157,673	465,312	4	6,375	27	564
27	Sanskrit	sa	20,069	161,859	407,703	2	9,525	12	64
28	Turkish	tr	19,712	30,819	170,278	2	24,292	24	120
29	Latin	la	18,857	67,419	229,496	6	29,398	30	48
30	Dutch	nl	18,323	70,131	204,033	3	16,630	18	0
31	Slovenian	sl	17,888	35,660	221,226	5	10,019	9	341
32	Vietnamese	vi	17,768	61,137	190,909	3	18,771	20	2
33	Japanese	ja	15,785	42,556	227,700	4	42,715	36	0
34	Romanian	ro	14,690	40,242	141,611	2	21,295	16	227
35	Finnish	fi	13,375	20,489	126,965	3	7,552	7	53
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,816	14,488	89,637	3	2,413	9	0
37	Greek	el	12,349	42,461	158,061	6	20,854	18	4
38	Welsh	cy	10,891	61,064	130,201	3	3,841	6	3
39	Azerbaijani	az	10,859	23,416	91,923	2	11,812	26	1
40	Breton	br	10,027	62,202	191,863	3	2,746	7	0
41	Catalan	ca	9,994	53,005	177,689	3	11,408	9	5
42	Croatian	hr	9,470	15,439	61,746	3	6,967	6	434
43	Thai	th	8,487	52,620	250,937	3	11,522	11	28
44	Norwegian	no	8,447	100,996	248,215	2	5,892	9	825
45	Indonesian	id	7,923	76,451	245,415	7	25,476	66	302
46	Kannada	kn	7,265	94,299	267,787	2	7,911	48	19
47	Georgian	ka	6,727	7,785	77,175	0	482	11	0
48	Esperanto	eo	6,685	30,457	104,342	2	5,035	7	27
49	Hindi	hi	5,862	175,090	620,757	5	5,374	26	3
50	Venetian	vec	5,794	19,354	80,233	2	4,527	4	0
51	Marathi	mr	5,118	105,067	216,942	2	5,585	17	15
52	Balinese	ban	5,092	34,053	116,213	1	1,408	12	0
53	Icelandic	is	4,705	6,149	29,667	1	3,432	4	9
54	Piedmontese	pms	4,397	5,276	36,886	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	10,726	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	201,196	3	3,968	32	86
61	Yiddish	yi	2,632	5,463	20,475	1	3,232	3	1,056
62	Walloon	wa	2,293	6,024	34,270	1	842	5	0
63	Bulgarian	bg	2,292	3,991	18,376	1	5,911	6	7
64	Javanese	jv	2,277	16,534	55,006	3	1,525	43	149
65	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,368	7,252	1	2,168	2	1
66	Lithuanian	lt	1,757	3,142	12,174	2	3,656	5	1
67	Punjabi	pa	1,727	64,513	188,539	6	2,224	16	212
68	Basque	eu	1,382	6,449	26,915	1	1,346	8	0
69	Odia	or	1,284	11,856	58,305	2	2,811	5	0
70	Malay	ms	847	5,405	16,017	2	883	11	0
71	Galician	gl	703	3,754	21,536	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	3,747	4	1
75	Sundanese	su	278	9,268	35,642	2	872	53	0
76	Minnan	zh-min-nan	153	3,539	11,010	1	2,709	4	2
77	Tulu	tcy	103	3,069	17,639	2	325	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	6,379,165	21,091,395	70,068,773	318	5,021,810	2,818	79,381

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