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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	1,185,117	1,223,935	3,766,553	15	39,260	51	129
2	English	en	1,070,524	4,575,262	14,932,866	22	3,160,129	456	16,576
3	Russian	ru	625,995	1,099,700	5,364,337	5	125,824	112	32,998
4	French	fr	599,325	4,434,474	14,988,539	16	152,693	241	3,641
5	German	de	587,201	640,773	4,468,180	17	85,966	114	6,923
6	Chinese	zh	475,733	1,141,416	2,509,421	8	112,030	145	230
7	Ukrainian	uk	301,174	450,571	890,833	6	18,959	72	136
8	Hebrew	he	246,711	1,652,893	2,908,034	16	41,913	88	551
9	Italian	it	205,550	818,150	3,488,598	9	75,330	83	686
10	Arabic	ar	84,778	243,856	523,504	9	69,319	51	4,038
11	Spanish	es	84,622	303,737	1,543,656	9	92,161	52	231
12	Multilingual	www	73,937	209,857	1,107,069	13	426,788	140	975
13	Gujarati	gu	63,958	69,949	214,581	2	4,262	9	0
14	Czech	cs	59,497	87,896	307,870	3	19,079	22	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,835	47,277	138,251	4	15,463	12	361
16	Portuguese	pt	37,676	157,657	532,374	3	40,268	35	16
17	Armenian	hy	35,837	146,160	388,341	4	13,032	21	64
18	Bangla	bn	35,173	656,274	1,864,978	4	20,142	35	6,142
19	Swedish	sv	29,911	195,437	591,476	4	18,082	20	9
20	Persian	fa	27,971	72,640	274,264	3	38,187	26	0
21	Tamil	ta	27,785	598,719	1,788,754	4	15,300	108	41
22	Belarusian	be	26,808	104,170	252,404	2	4,789	16	0
23	Korean	ko	22,998	80,311	384,184	5	18,160	32	202
24	Hungarian	hu	21,766	39,064	102,948	4	11,886	11	27
25	Malayalam	ml	20,560	75,989	225,593	3	12,736	44	598
26	Telugu	te	20,558	158,063	465,919	4	6,380	27	560
27	Sanskrit	sa	20,069	161,864	407,753	2	9,533	13	64
28	Turkish	tr	19,719	30,895	170,535	2	24,321	23	120
29	Latin	la	18,882	67,500	229,892	6	29,426	31	48
30	Dutch	nl	18,365	70,294	204,248	3	16,642	16	0
31	Slovenian	sl	17,888	35,661	221,241	5	10,023	10	341
32	Vietnamese	vi	17,768	61,142	190,926	3	18,782	23	2
33	Japanese	ja	15,793	42,593	227,794	4	42,744	39	0
34	Romanian	ro	14,695	40,265	141,659	2	21,312	17	227
35	Finnish	fi	13,380	20,494	126,979	3	7,556	8	53
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,817	14,489	89,653	3	2,416	9	0
37	Greek	el	12,351	42,465	158,073	6	20,870	16	4
38	Welsh	cy	10,919	61,099	130,409	3	3,844	6	3
39	Azerbaijani	az	10,864	23,448	92,005	2	11,817	25	1
40	Breton	br	10,044	62,269	192,025	3	2,748	8	0
41	Catalan	ca	10,003	53,127	177,836	3	11,414	9	5
42	Croatian	hr	9,470	15,439	61,749	3	6,972	4	434
43	Thai	th	8,489	52,651	251,124	3	11,530	10	28
44	Norwegian	no	8,475	101,242	248,704	2	5,896	9	824
45	Indonesian	id	7,926	76,493	245,690	7	25,495	64	302
46	Kannada	kn	7,265	94,299	267,800	2	7,916	48	19
47	Georgian	ka	6,727	7,784	77,176	0	503	12	0
48	Esperanto	eo	6,687	30,470	104,443	2	5,040	7	27
49	Hindi	hi	5,862	175,091	620,773	5	5,378	28	3
50	Venetian	vec	5,798	19,375	80,261	2	4,532	4	0
51	Marathi	mr	5,118	105,117	217,142	2	5,588	18	15
52	Balinese	ban	5,092	34,055	116,215	1	1,411	12	0
53	Icelandic	is	4,705	6,150	29,684	1	3,439	6	9
54	Piedmontese	pms	4,398	5,278	36,960	1	1,230	5	0
55	Ligurian	lij	4,183	15,775	44,705	1	1,024	4	0
56	Burmese	my	4,002	5,279	17,553	1	332	6	0
57	Danish	da	3,491	32,321	80,106	1	10,735	9	6
58	Estonian	et	3,253	22,689	59,242	2	3,878	3	48
59	Macedonian	mk	3,034	7,774	21,289	2	3,661	4	4
60	Assamese	as	2,851	71,684	201,253	3	3,973	32	86
61	Yiddish	yi	2,632	5,463	20,476	1	3,234	3	1,056
62	Javanese	jv	2,353	17,892	61,563	3	1,529	44	149
63	Walloon	wa	2,298	6,029	34,304	1	844	5	0
64	Bulgarian	bg	2,292	3,991	18,377	1	5,913	6	7
65	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,368	7,253	1	2,171	2	1
66	Lithuanian	lt	1,757	3,142	12,179	2	3,660	5	1
67	Punjabi	pa	1,729	64,514	188,605	6	2,230	18	212
68	Basque	eu	1,382	6,449	26,922	1	1,350	9	0
69	Odia	or	1,286	11,931	58,394	2	2,815	5	0
70	Malay	ms	859	5,465	16,153	2	890	11	0
71	Galician	gl	705	3,760	21,552	2	3,567	3	64
72	Bosnian	bs	613	3,270	11,942	1	3,373	3	62
73	Yakut	sah	603	1,686	7,737	1	2,161	4	2
74	Slovak	sk	488	1,535	9,329	2	3,750	4	1
75	Sundanese	su	279	10,889	40,952	2	884	56	0
76	Minnan	zh-min-nan	153	3,539	11,011	1	2,714	3	2
77	Tulu	tcy	106	3,269	17,897	2	328	54	0
78	Central Bikol	bcl	78	2,001	9,010	1	242	11	0
79	Faroese	fo	9	555	3,548	1	2,395	2	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,365,890	21,109,549	70,143,628	318	5,024,169	2,809	79,371

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