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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	1,182,731	1,221,514	3,759,829	15	39,177	49	129
2	English	en	1,085,537	4,561,888	14,895,881	22	3,158,145	470	16,518
3	Russian	ru	625,780	1,099,056	5,320,879	5	125,550	108	33,017
4	French	fr	594,356	4,422,686	14,950,604	16	152,319	283	3,640
5	German	de	586,170	639,724	4,464,550	17	85,832	116	6,923
6	Chinese	zh	475,207	1,138,849	2,503,660	8	111,770	144	230
7	Ukrainian	uk	297,715	446,478	885,049	6	18,891	74	136
8	Hebrew	he	246,662	1,652,702	2,904,808	16	41,788	91	551
9	Italian	it	205,131	816,505	3,481,275	9	75,185	96	693
10	Arabic	ar	84,737	243,420	522,213	9	69,205	48	4,039
11	Spanish	es	84,733	302,021	1,539,708	9	92,050	52	231
12	Multilingual	www	73,870	208,530	1,103,732	12	425,105	135	975
13	Gujarati	gu	63,546	69,522	214,002	2	4,250	11	0
14	Czech	cs	59,358	87,734	307,467	3	19,043	19	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,824	47,268	138,176	4	15,434	10	361
16	Portuguese	pt	37,565	156,931	529,988	3	40,200	41	16
17	Bangla	bn	34,853	656,215	1,861,971	4	20,102	49	6,166
18	Armenian	hy	32,314	142,608	384,133	4	12,997	22	64
19	Swedish	sv	29,743	194,977	590,194	4	18,056	23	9
20	Persian	fa	27,921	71,511	272,850	3	38,124	24	0
21	Tamil	ta	27,671	598,078	1,785,034	4	15,269	122	41
22	Belarusian	be	26,783	103,566	251,359	2	4,769	17	0
23	Korean	ko	23,292	80,020	368,725	5	18,121	36	217
24	Hungarian	hu	21,760	39,059	102,926	4	11,873	10	27
25	Malayalam	ml	20,560	75,979	225,525	3	12,723	46	598
26	Telugu	te	20,473	156,577	463,400	4	6,361	24	561
27	Sanskrit	sa	20,068	161,851	407,558	2	9,509	14	64
28	Turkish	tr	19,709	30,701	169,839	2	24,249	20	120
29	Latin	la	18,833	67,374	228,662	6	29,339	29	48
30	Dutch	nl	18,298	69,849	203,676	3	16,611	17	0
31	Slovenian	sl	17,885	35,656	221,196	5	10,013	13	341
32	Vietnamese	vi	17,646	60,981	190,098	3	18,740	24	2
33	Japanese	ja	15,693	42,419	227,326	4	42,654	36	0
34	Romanian	ro	14,672	40,213	141,512	3	21,278	19	227
35	Finnish	fi	13,370	20,484	126,951	3	7,543	11	53
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,810	14,481	89,582	3	2,408	10	0
37	Greek	el	12,347	42,436	157,953	6	20,822	19	4
38	Azerbaijani	az	10,878	23,246	91,347	2	11,795	24	1
39	Welsh	cy	10,678	60,531	129,197	3	3,835	9	3
40	Catalan	ca	9,987	52,908	177,551	3	11,399	10	5
41	Breton	br	9,985	62,074	191,444	3	2,744	8	0
42	Croatian	hr	9,468	15,437	61,741	3	6,959	9	434
43	Thai	th	8,481	52,573	250,689	3	11,506	19	28
44	Norwegian	no	8,413	100,719	247,484	2	5,881	10	825
45	Indonesian	id	7,882	76,224	244,695	7	25,437	73	302
46	Kannada	kn	7,249	94,146	266,528	2	7,835	5	19
47	Esperanto	eo	6,682	30,407	103,985	2	5,031	9	27
48	Georgian	ka	6,677	7,732	77,095	0	471	9	0
49	Hindi	hi	5,863	175,081	620,649	5	5,365	27	3
50	Venetian	vec	5,769	19,263	80,117	2	4,521	4	0
51	Marathi	mr	5,118	104,880	216,323	2	5,573	16	15
52	Balinese	ban	5,085	34,041	116,183	1	1,401	13	0
53	Icelandic	is	4,705	6,148	29,657	1	3,427	4	9
54	Piedmontese	pms	4,395	5,274	36,775	1	1,220	6	0
55	Ligurian	lij	4,183	15,771	44,698	1	1,017	5	0
56	Burmese	my	3,988	5,262	17,214	1	320	3	0
57	Danish	da	3,488	32,297	80,063	1	10,716	11	6
58	Estonian	et	3,253	22,689	59,238	2	3,869	5	48
59	Macedonian	mk	3,033	7,773	21,286	2	3,650	5	4
60	Assamese	as	2,851	71,577	200,897	3	3,933	14	86
61	Yiddish	yi	2,632	5,463	20,474	1	3,227	5	1,056
62	Javanese	jv	2,607	15,382	50,482	2	1,497	21	149
63	Bulgarian	bg	2,292	3,992	18,374	1	5,901	5	7
64	Walloon	wa	2,288	6,018	34,237	1	837	7	0
65	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,368	7,251	1	2,164	3	1
66	Lithuanian	lt	1,757	3,142	12,173	2	3,651	5	1
67	Punjabi	pa	1,712	64,470	188,286	6	2,219	21	212
68	Basque	eu	1,382	6,398	26,796	1	1,343	8	0
69	Odia	or	1,283	11,799	58,233	2	2,805	5	0
70	Malay	ms	841	5,361	15,936	2	868	12	0
71	Galician	gl	702	3,746	21,509	2	3,560	4	64
72	Bosnian	bs	613	3,270	11,940	1	3,368	4	62
73	Yakut	sah	603	1,685	7,732	1	2,155	6	2
74	Slovak	sk	488	1,533	9,323	2	3,738	5	1
75	Sundanese	su	279	6,886	27,574	2	839	10	0
76	Minnan	zh-min-nan	153	3,539	11,009	1	2,702	5	2
77	Tulu	tcy	85	2,143	15,663	2	275	20	0
78	Central Bikol	bcl	78	1,993	8,999	0	224	11	0
79	Faroese	fo	9	555	3,546	1	2,390	4	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,362,423	21,046,659	69,906,684	316	5,017,173	2,791	79,380

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