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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.

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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

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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 1,194,601 1,233,535 3,794,334 15 39,480 85 128
2 English en 1,078,387 4,606,150 15,020,814 22 3,164,435 505 16,612
3 Russian ru 626,526 1,101,686 5,518,635 5 126,599 97 32,973
4 French fr 604,388 4,456,721 15,060,937 16 153,451 247 3,703
5 German de 589,738 643,365 4,475,682 17 86,324 95 6,923
6 Chinese zh 476,921 1,147,402 2,524,467 8 112,708 158 230
7 Ukrainian uk 310,212 461,677 906,330 6 19,199 67 136
8 Hebrew he 246,979 1,653,673 2,916,292 16 42,178 93 559
9 Italian it 206,802 823,513 3,508,358 9 75,784 116 686
10 Spanish es 85,323 307,445 1,551,453 8 92,482 53 231
11 Arabic ar 84,966 246,025 529,105 9 69,604 50 4,036
12 Multilingual www 74,275 210,873 1,115,835 13 431,127 157 970
13 Gujarati gu 64,250 70,265 215,124 2 4,300 10 0
14 Czech cs 59,599 88,086 308,219 3 19,161 22 7
15 Serbian sr 42,868 47,313 138,899 4 15,540 17 361
16 Portuguese pt 37,793 158,317 534,403 3 40,476 39 16
17 Bangla bn 36,061 656,717 1,876,328 4 20,280 43 6,059
18 Armenian hy 35,863 146,203 388,986 4 13,127 16 62
19 Swedish sv 30,173 197,209 594,765 5 18,131 21 8
20 Tamil ta 28,406 602,417 1,799,994 4 15,378 47 35
21 Persian fa 28,021 73,576 276,166 3 38,337 19 0
22 Belarusian be 27,118 105,474 255,262 2 4,833 13 0
23 Korean ko 23,267 81,342 387,390 5 18,274 29 209
24 Hungarian hu 21,771 39,086 103,054 3 11,921 9 27
25 Telugu te 20,797 163,715 475,013 4 6,529 115 543
26 Sanskrit sa 20,104 161,869 408,344 2 9,604 15 64
27 Malayalam ml 20,074 76,560 229,556 4 12,821 33 599
28 Turkish tr 19,744 30,974 170,868 2 24,507 19 122
29 Latin la 18,941 67,687 231,236 5 29,662 37 48
30 Dutch nl 18,560 72,026 206,766 3 16,697 16 0
31 Vietnamese vi 17,937 61,896 192,730 3 18,889 19 2
32 Slovenian sl 17,892 35,654 221,350 5 10,057 13 341
33 Japanese ja 15,902 43,003 228,680 4 42,987 32 0
34 Romanian ro 14,786 40,588 142,526 3 21,417 16 227
35 Finnish fi 13,408 20,529 127,091 3 7,598 10 53
36 Neapolitan nap 12,828 14,500 89,895 3 2,443 4 0
37 Greek el 12,391 42,555 158,386 6 21,012 18 4
38 Welsh cy 11,539 62,980 133,455 2 3,865 6 3
39 Azerbaijani az 10,823 23,542 92,290 2 11,891 18 1
40 Catalan ca 10,105 53,424 178,423 3 11,463 10 5
41 Breton br 10,104 62,873 194,889 3 2,770 6 0
42 Croatian hr 9,477 15,433 61,780 3 7,008 8 434
43 Norwegian no 8,775 103,126 254,234 2 5,924 5 824
44 Thai th 8,540 53,238 253,592 3 11,583 13 28
45 Indonesian id 8,253 77,024 247,200 7 25,634 47 302
46 Kannada kn 7,047 94,141 268,432 2 7,948 9 19
47 Georgian ka 6,729 7,788 77,194 0 544 3 0
48 Esperanto eo 6,692 31,106 106,181 2 5,082 11 27
49 Hindi hi 5,864 175,115 620,870 5 5,424 13 3
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,382 80,291 2 4,561 4 0
51 Marathi mr 5,155 105,609 219,029 2 5,632 17 15
52 Balinese ban 5,092 34,056 116,221 1 1,436 3 0
53 Icelandic is 4,705 6,149 29,690 1 3,464 3 9
54 Piedmontese pms 4,405 5,289 37,352 1 1,250 3 0
55 Ligurian lij 4,185 15,843 44,801 1 1,040 4 0
56 Burmese my 4,139 5,418 17,840 1 366 2 0
57 Danish da 3,493 32,369 80,469 2 10,776 10 6
58 Estonian et 3,253 22,681 59,247 2 3,906 2 48
59 Macedonian mk 3,036 7,776 21,301 2 3,688 3 4
60 Assamese as 2,838 71,756 201,880 3 4,022 21 87
61 Javanese jv 2,710 19,080 65,977 3 1,556 35 148
62 Yiddish yi 2,633 5,460 20,487 1 3,262 4 1,056
63 Walloon wa 2,315 6,048 34,441 1 861 4 0
64 Bulgarian bg 2,292 3,989 18,424 1 5,934 2 7
65 Limburgish li 1,885 3,368 7,257 1 2,189 2 1
66 Punjabi pa 1,758 64,914 191,928 6 2,264 26 212
67 Lithuanian lt 1,757 3,142 12,189 2 3,681 3 1
68 Basque eu 1,381 6,447 26,961 1 1,375 3 0
69 Odia or 1,287 11,998 58,726 2 2,839 8 0
70 Malay ms 916 5,972 17,183 2 933 11 0
71 Galician gl 709 3,765 21,602 2 3,589 4 64
72 Bosnian bs 613 3,271 11,948 1 3,394 3 62
73 Yakut sah 604 1,688 7,746 1 2,183 2 2
74 Slovak sk 488 1,534 9,332 2 3,772 1 1
75 Sundanese su 307 12,425 46,501 2 910 30 0
76 Minnan zh-min-nan 153 3,539 11,013 1 2,733 3 2
77 Central Bikol bcl 120 2,171 9,281 1 273 5 0
78 Tulu tcy 109 3,512 18,492 2 356 15 0
79 Faroese fo 9 555 3,553 1 2,412 3 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,409,765 21,238,622 70,672,975 318 5,041,145 2,740 79,345

Wikisources in Wikipedia

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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

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Please see the talk page.

See also

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