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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	1,177,211	1,215,972	3,745,236	15	38,981	59	129
2	English	en	1,090,378	4,533,030	14,822,628	22	3,154,176	487	16,258
3	Russian	ru	625,388	1,097,986	5,214,833	5	124,969	113	33,042
4	French	fr	591,631	4,407,241	14,877,049	16	151,657	283	3,680
5	German	de	584,277	637,782	4,458,239	17	85,544	113	6,923
6	Chinese	zh	473,647	1,136,311	2,494,267	8	111,264	150	230
7	Ukrainian	uk	293,302	440,772	873,347	6	18,688	76	136
8	Hebrew	he	246,562	1,652,221	2,900,842	16	41,553	110	549
9	Italian	it	203,800	811,517	3,464,712	9	74,852	92	695
10	Spanish	es	85,441	298,843	1,532,150	9	91,766	57	231
11	Arabic	ar	84,489	242,486	519,082	9	68,987	52	4,039
12	Multilingual	www	79,764	213,936	1,099,032	12	421,592	147	977
13	Gujarati	gu	63,219	69,151	213,406	2	4,211	9	0
14	Czech	cs	59,290	87,659	306,951	3	18,965	25	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,823	47,265	138,061	4	15,377	12	362
16	Portuguese	pt	37,275	155,368	526,135	3	40,037	43	16
17	Bangla	bn	34,862	659,782	1,856,941	4	19,985	48	6,174
18	Swedish	sv	29,516	193,560	587,439	4	17,988	25	9
19	Persian	fa	27,866	70,309	269,616	3	37,978	26	0
20	Tamil	ta	27,564	594,265	1,776,533	4	15,173	59	41
21	Belarusian	be	26,815	102,470	248,932	2	4,726	20	0
22	Korean	ko	24,141	80,077	354,721	4	18,022	40	603
23	Hungarian	hu	21,755	39,045	102,866	4	11,834	9	27
24	Malayalam	ml	20,549	75,741	225,006	3	12,649	59	595
25	Telugu	te	20,421	155,339	460,199	4	6,317	20	559
26	Sanskrit	sa	20,065	161,835	407,316	2	9,448	16	64
27	Turkish	tr	19,654	30,627	169,539	2	24,102	27	120
28	Armenian	hy	18,848	128,855	367,590	4	12,890	16	64
29	Latin	la	18,773	66,912	226,191	6	29,154	30	48
30	Dutch	nl	18,128	68,308	201,584	3	16,546	18	0
31	Slovenian	sl	17,870	35,638	221,082	5	9,959	17	341
32	Vietnamese	vi	17,422	59,755	187,929	3	18,635	19	2
33	Japanese	ja	15,586	42,276	226,773	4	42,456	41	0
34	Romanian	ro	14,639	40,085	141,272	3	21,180	14	227
35	Finnish	fi	13,345	20,456	126,887	3	7,502	16	53
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,795	14,458	89,415	3	2,374	7	0
37	Greek	el	12,324	42,281	157,606	6	20,707	24	4
38	Azerbaijani	az	10,816	22,639	89,868	2	11,726	17	1
39	Welsh	cy	10,183	58,177	125,539	3	3,804	7	3
40	Catalan	ca	9,958	52,618	177,105	3	11,336	22	5
41	Breton	br	9,945	61,907	190,941	3	2,719	10	0
42	Croatian	hr	9,467	15,434	61,731	3	6,925	9	434
43	Thai	th	8,374	51,844	247,911	3	11,429	21	28
44	Norwegian	no	8,074	98,188	242,730	2	5,844	9	825
45	Indonesian	id	7,824	75,913	243,868	7	25,284	154	302
46	Kannada	kn	7,249	94,128	266,467	2	7,788	11	19
47	Esperanto	eo	6,667	30,185	102,780	2	4,990	9	27
48	Hindi	hi	5,859	175,052	619,036	5	5,319	22	3
49	Venetian	vec	5,764	19,249	80,060	2	4,488	5	0
50	Marathi	mr	5,106	104,543	214,638	2	5,539	21	15
51	Balinese	ban	5,034	33,965	115,877	1	1,372	19	0
52	Icelandic	is	4,701	6,128	29,623	1	3,403	6	9
53	Piedmontese	pms	4,382	5,257	36,475	1	1,192	3	0
54	Ligurian	lij	4,146	15,633	44,452	1	998	3	0
55	Burmese	my	3,987	5,257	17,189	1	280	9	0
56	Danish	da	3,483	32,285	80,033	1	10,673	12	6
57	Estonian	et	3,253	22,688	59,232	2	3,836	6	48
58	Macedonian	mk	3,032	7,772	21,277	2	3,622	5	4
59	Assamese	as	2,844	71,192	199,629	3	3,890	39	86
60	Yiddish	yi	2,632	5,462	20,468	1	3,198	4	1,056
61	Javanese	jv	2,456	14,951	49,385	1	1,464	24	149
62	Bulgarian	bg	2,292	3,990	18,368	1	5,868	12	7
63	Walloon	wa	2,267	5,984	34,051	2	814	5	0
64	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,367	7,248	1	2,143	3	1
65	Lithuanian	lt	1,757	3,141	12,165	2	3,621	8	1
66	Punjabi	pa	1,705	64,407	187,031	6	2,191	21	212
67	Basque	eu	1,380	6,395	26,723	1	1,323	3	0
68	Odia	or	1,283	11,771	58,196	2	2,780	7	0
69	Malay	ms	827	5,249	15,740	2	814	19	0
70	Georgian	ka	759	945	5,638	0	366	1	0
71	Galician	gl	702	3,744	21,505	2	3,536	6	64
72	Bosnian	bs	613	3,269	11,934	1	3,337	8	62
73	Yakut	sah	603	1,681	7,713	1	2,132	4	2
74	Slovak	sk	488	1,526	9,306	2	3,715	5	1
75	Sundanese	su	276	6,792	27,318	2	806	15	0
76	Minnan	zh-min-nan	153	3,534	11,001	1	2,671	6	2
77	Central Bikol	bcl	97	1,974	8,957	1	182	4	0
78	Tulu	tcy	82	2,123	15,191	2	239	10	0
79	Faroese	fo	9	554	3,542	1	2,369	1	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,333,849	20,940,527	69,409,348	316	5,002,270	2,964	79,577

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

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Name, Slogan, Logo

List of Wikisources

Wikisources in Wikipedia

Historical discussion

See also