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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
Original Wikisource 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 .
See also