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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	1,171,241	1,209,937	3,725,224	15	38,790	60	129
2	English	en	1,083,589	4,501,982	14,732,624	21	3,150,029	467	16,208
3	Russian	ru	624,435	1,095,368	5,201,979	5	124,334	94	33,044
4	German	de	581,683	635,136	4,442,900	17	85,254	97	6,923
5	French	fr	576,340	4,374,024	14,792,323	15	150,994	253	3,694
6	Chinese	zh	471,741	1,131,110	2,481,332	8	110,720	156	230
7	Ukrainian	uk	283,283	429,174	847,527	6	18,504	72	135
8	Hebrew	he	246,678	1,652,094	2,894,964	16	41,274	97	548
9	Italian	it	202,562	803,855	3,442,477	9	74,504	79	723
10	Spanish	es	84,399	286,326	1,499,406	9	91,522	47	231
11	Arabic	ar	84,309	240,872	515,025	9	68,778	52	4,041
12	Multilingual	www	79,636	213,858	1,095,467	12	417,628	139	979
13	Gujarati	gu	63,012	68,918	212,812	2	4,187	14	0
14	Czech	cs	59,077	87,422	306,178	3	18,892	20	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,816	47,252	137,904	4	15,326	7	362
16	Portuguese	pt	37,001	153,866	522,656	3	39,837	33	16
17	Bangla	bn	34,496	675,696	1,849,049	4	19,881	50	6,268
18	Swedish	sv	29,370	191,747	584,328	4	17,935	27	9
19	Persian	fa	27,806	70,020	263,072	3	37,826	18	0
20	Tamil	ta	27,282	591,880	1,764,288	4	15,108	50	41
21	Belarusian	be	26,585	100,972	244,993	2	4,689	20	0
22	Korean	ko	24,565	78,875	347,744	4	17,942	38	607
23	Hungarian	hu	21,751	39,037	102,846	4	11,797	9	27
24	Malayalam	ml	20,546	74,915	223,478	3	12,579	58	594
25	Telugu	te	20,351	153,900	457,049	4	6,289	23	559
26	Sanskrit	sa	20,062	161,828	406,869	2	9,396	67	64
27	Turkish	tr	19,658	30,593	169,203	2	23,938	22	121
28	Latin	la	18,504	66,196	224,145	6	28,969	31	48
29	Armenian	hy	18,382	128,312	365,593	4	12,839	21	64
30	Slovenian	sl	17,858	35,624	221,019	5	9,922	7	341
31	Dutch	nl	17,845	65,663	198,136	3	16,476	14	0
32	Vietnamese	vi	17,386	59,248	186,184	3	18,540	19	2
33	Japanese	ja	15,497	42,070	225,857	4	42,219	41	0
34	Romanian	ro	14,591	39,932	140,970	3	21,081	17	227
35	Finnish	fi	13,310	20,411	126,789	4	7,470	8	53
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,753	14,412	89,091	3	2,350	5	0
37	Greek	el	12,312	42,186	157,174	6	20,557	22	4
38	Azerbaijani	az	10,815	22,565	89,615	2	11,681	17	1
39	Catalan	ca	9,918	52,390	176,439	3	11,283	34	5
40	Welsh	cy	9,916	56,595	121,968	3	3,785	4	3
41	Breton	br	9,892	61,622	190,194	3	2,701	8	0
42	Croatian	hr	9,464	15,432	61,722	3	6,890	9	434
43	Thai	th	8,233	50,812	243,186	3	11,368	15	28
44	Norwegian	no	7,885	96,050	238,568	2	5,818	7	825
45	Indonesian	id	7,698	63,759	206,192	7	25,101	113	302
46	Kannada	kn	7,249	94,111	266,324	2	7,761	11	19
47	Esperanto	eo	6,642	29,739	101,235	2	4,969	11	27
48	Hindi	hi	5,848	174,748	618,564	5	5,278	15	3
49	Venetian	vec	5,764	19,249	80,056	2	4,469	4	0
50	Marathi	mr	5,022	103,120	210,929	2	5,502	11	15
51	Balinese	ban	5,015	33,923	115,755	1	1,349	16	0
52	Icelandic	is	4,694	5,985	29,445	1	3,383	3	9
53	Piedmontese	pms	4,370	5,243	36,046	1	1,185	4	0
54	Ligurian	lij	4,090	15,402	44,155	1	985	5	0
55	Burmese	my	3,983	5,220	17,044	1	245	4	0
56	Danish	da	3,478	32,228	79,859	1	10,636	6	6
57	Estonian	et	3,253	22,688	59,226	2	3,817	2	48
58	Assamese	as	3,191	71,431	197,970	3	3,844	33	86
59	Macedonian	mk	3,021	7,760	21,198	2	3,607	4	4
60	Yiddish	yi	2,632	5,463	20,464	1	3,173	2	1,056
61	Javanese	jv	2,450	14,885	49,182	1	1,433	7	149
62	Bulgarian	bg	2,292	3,990	18,349	3	5,846	7	7
63	Walloon	wa	2,260	5,974	34,007	2	798	6	0
64	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,367	7,246	1	2,134	2	1
65	Lithuanian	lt	1,756	3,141	12,153	2	3,600	6	1
66	Punjabi	pa	1,691	64,013	184,824	6	2,174	32	212
67	Basque	eu	1,380	6,395	26,691	1	1,307	3	0
68	Odia	or	1,283	11,733	58,147	2	2,768	7	0
69	Malay	ms	760	4,418	14,442	2	759	21	0
70	Georgian	ka	748	932	5,620	0	340	1	0
71	Galician	gl	701	3,739	21,490	2	3,523	4	64
72	Bosnian	bs	613	3,272	11,929	1	3,326	3	62
73	Yakut	sah	603	1,680	7,705	1	2,120	5	2
74	Slovak	sk	488	1,518	9,283	2	3,698	6	1
75	Sundanese	su	276	6,727	27,138	2	773	7	0
76	Minnan	zh-min-nan	154	3,527	10,979	1	2,653	5	2
77	Central Bikol	bcl	97	1,969	8,944	1	151	3	0
78	Tulu	tcy	88	2,076	12,274	1	208	20	0
79	Faroese	fo	9	554	3,540	1	2,358	3	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,284,319	20,804,156	68,948,772	316	4,987,175	2,740	79,671

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