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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	1,187,828	1,226,676	3,777,900	15	39,364	73	129
2	English	en	1,073,961	4,588,335	14,969,222	22	3,161,962	453	16,594
3	Russian	ru	626,159	1,100,437	5,379,857	5	126,155	103	32,989
4	French	fr	602,819	4,445,160	15,021,536	16	153,015	250	3,643
5	German	de	588,182	641,781	4,471,107	17	86,122	100	6,923
6	Chinese	zh	476,276	1,144,147	2,515,456	8	112,303	143	230
7	Ukrainian	uk	305,079	455,070	897,537	5	19,053	68	136
8	Hebrew	he	246,842	1,653,248	2,912,963	16	42,029	84	551
9	Italian	it	206,080	820,828	3,496,993	9	75,511	88	686
10	Arabic	ar	84,807	245,767	527,044	9	69,449	63	4,036
11	Spanish	es	84,671	305,035	1,546,526	8	92,305	45	231
12	Multilingual	www	74,198	210,996	1,110,388	13	428,659	173	975
13	Gujarati	gu	64,221	70,229	214,940	2	4,279	9	0
14	Czech	cs	59,568	88,031	308,110	3	19,116	23	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,845	47,281	138,419	4	15,498	11	361
16	Portuguese	pt	37,739	157,931	533,426	3	40,363	40	16
17	Armenian	hy	35,863	146,197	388,834	4	13,068	18	62
18	Bangla	bn	35,419	655,789	1,867,538	4	20,193	34	6,091
19	Swedish	sv	29,996	196,186	592,887	5	18,104	18	8
20	Tamil	ta	27,998	600,086	1,792,743	4	15,328	41	35
21	Persian	fa	27,991	73,239	275,567	3	38,247	28	0
22	Belarusian	be	26,874	104,628	253,354	2	4,814	20	0
23	Korean	ko	23,165	80,815	385,959	5	18,199	30	209
24	Hungarian	hu	21,769	39,067	102,983	3	11,905	10	27
25	Telugu	te	20,587	158,872	468,054	4	6,514	116	551
26	Malayalam	ml	20,563	76,229	225,884	3	12,776	43	598
27	Sanskrit	sa	20,069	161,857	407,892	2	9,559	16	64
28	Turkish	tr	19,726	30,936	170,660	2	24,393	24	122
29	Latin	la	18,909	67,592	230,928	5	29,521	34	48
30	Dutch	nl	18,472	70,963	205,210	3	16,673	14	0
31	Slovenian	sl	17,890	35,652	221,314	5	10,038	16	341
32	Vietnamese	vi	17,799	61,616	191,795	3	18,827	20	2
33	Japanese	ja	15,838	42,823	228,208	4	42,855	33	0
34	Romanian	ro	14,727	40,359	141,885	3	21,366	21	227
35	Finnish	fi	13,391	20,510	127,027	3	7,575	11	53
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,822	14,494	89,735	3	2,430	4	0
37	Greek	el	12,354	42,485	158,193	6	20,931	18	4
38	Welsh	cy	11,329	61,989	131,814	2	3,853	3	3
39	Azerbaijani	az	10,843	23,489	92,109	2	11,850	13	1
40	Breton	br	10,080	62,757	193,944	3	2,761	7	0
41	Catalan	ca	10,035	53,258	178,031	3	11,432	8	5
42	Croatian	hr	9,472	15,441	61,754	3	6,989	7	434
43	Norwegian	no	8,546	102,045	250,555	2	5,914	9	824
44	Thai	th	8,499	52,702	251,357	3	11,563	12	28
45	Indonesian	id	7,934	76,519	246,122	7	25,554	63	302
46	Kannada	kn	7,265	94,378	268,358	2	7,928	50	19
47	Georgian	ka	6,727	7,786	77,183	0	528	8	0
48	Esperanto	eo	6,689	31,081	105,625	2	5,056	11	27
49	Hindi	hi	5,864	175,105	620,831	5	5,397	13	3
50	Venetian	vec	5,798	19,383	80,286	2	4,549	4	0
51	Marathi	mr	5,154	105,465	218,157	2	5,615	21	15
52	Balinese	ban	5,092	34,055	116,217	1	1,425	8	0
53	Icelandic	is	4,705	6,150	29,684	1	3,450	7	9
54	Piedmontese	pms	4,403	5,285	37,209	1	1,242	5	0
55	Ligurian	lij	4,183	15,774	44,707	1	1,034	5	0
56	Burmese	my	4,103	5,382	17,675	1	349	6	0
57	Danish	da	3,491	32,366	80,363	2	10,753	11	6
58	Estonian	et	3,253	22,689	59,244	2	3,889	4	48
59	Macedonian	mk	3,034	7,774	21,290	2	3,676	3	4
60	Assamese	as	2,853	71,745	201,436	3	4,000	34	87
61	Yiddish	yi	2,632	5,458	20,482	1	3,248	4	1,056
62	Javanese	jv	2,523	18,716	65,256	3	1,543	48	149
63	Walloon	wa	2,312	6,044	34,412	1	853	6	0
64	Bulgarian	bg	2,292	3,990	18,418	1	5,924	6	7
65	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,368	7,253	1	2,181	2	1
66	Lithuanian	lt	1,757	3,142	12,185	2	3,672	5	1
67	Punjabi	pa	1,732	64,605	189,107	6	2,242	21	212
68	Basque	eu	1,382	6,448	26,937	1	1,364	8	0
69	Odia	or	1,287	11,967	58,678	2	2,826	7	0
70	Malay	ms	886	5,703	16,641	2	915	12	0
71	Galician	gl	709	3,769	21,582	2	3,580	6	64
72	Bosnian	bs	613	3,270	11,943	1	3,382	3	62
73	Yakut	sah	603	1,687	7,739	1	2,175	3	2
74	Slovak	sk	488	1,534	9,330	2	3,761	5	1
75	Sundanese	su	302	12,403	46,370	2	901	55	0
76	Minnan	zh-min-nan	153	3,539	11,011	1	2,725	2	2
77	Tulu	tcy	109	3,493	18,328	2	341	52	0
78	Central Bikol	bcl	78	2,125	9,172	1	262	7	0
79	Faroese	fo	9	555	3,548	1	2,405	2	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,384,601	21,165,781	70,320,417	316	5,031,606	2,861	79,321

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