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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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

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	1,171,339	1,210,035	3,725,621	15	38,796	59	129
2	English	en	1,083,771	4,502,550	14,734,772	21	3,150,169	469	16,208
3	Russian	ru	624,463	1,095,428	5,202,392	5	124,356	95	33,045
4	German	de	581,719	635,155	4,443,141	17	85,264	100	6,923
5	French	fr	576,464	4,374,663	14,794,377	15	151,016	255	3,694
6	Chinese	zh	471,785	1,131,281	2,481,942	8	110,743	154	230
7	Ukrainian	uk	283,353	429,262	847,710	6	18,516	73	135
8	Hebrew	he	246,681	1,652,115	2,895,114	16	41,285	100	549
9	Italian	it	202,585	803,949	3,442,833	9	74,515	82	723
10	Spanish	es	84,401	286,568	1,500,129	9	91,529	49	231
11	Arabic	ar	84,310	240,884	515,202	9	68,790	60	4,041
12	Multilingual	www	79,648	213,894	1,095,536	12	417,757	132	979
13	Gujarati	gu	63,012	68,919	212,825	2	4,188	17	0
14	Czech	cs	59,077	87,427	306,186	3	18,892	22	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,816	47,252	137,905	4	15,331	10	362
16	Portuguese	pt	37,001	153,897	522,717	3	39,845	30	16
17	Bangla	bn	34,531	675,905	1,849,521	4	19,883	50	6,263
18	Swedish	sv	29,374	191,797	584,413	4	17,935	28	9
19	Persian	fa	27,806	70,021	263,075	3	37,830	20	0
20	Tamil	ta	27,290	591,959	1,764,859	4	15,108	51	41
21	Belarusian	be	26,585	100,981	245,045	2	4,689	22	0
22	Korean	ko	24,565	78,895	347,781	4	17,945	39	607
23	Hungarian	hu	21,751	39,037	102,846	4	11,797	11	27
24	Malayalam	ml	20,546	75,110	223,753	3	12,581	33	594
25	Telugu	te	20,351	154,058	457,265	4	6,291	24	559
26	Sanskrit	sa	20,063	161,828	406,880	2	9,397	69	64
27	Turkish	tr	19,659	30,594	169,215	2	23,948	25	121
28	Latin	la	18,524	66,275	224,281	6	28,979	31	48
29	Armenian	hy	18,381	128,314	365,740	4	12,840	24	64
30	Dutch	nl	17,867	65,703	198,204	3	16,478	15	0
31	Slovenian	sl	17,858	35,624	221,019	5	9,923	9	341
32	Vietnamese	vi	17,385	59,251	186,262	3	18,545	21	2
33	Japanese	ja	15,503	42,076	225,873	4	42,225	41	0
34	Romanian	ro	14,595	39,955	141,002	3	21,081	18	227
35	Finnish	fi	13,310	20,411	126,791	4	7,470	11	53
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,753	14,412	89,091	3	2,351	5	0
37	Greek	el	12,313	42,188	157,187	6	20,562	18	4
38	Azerbaijani	az	10,815	22,566	89,620	2	11,681	20	1
39	Catalan	ca	9,918	52,390	176,439	3	11,288	35	5
40	Welsh	cy	9,916	56,595	121,968	3	3,785	6	3
41	Breton	br	9,892	61,622	190,194	3	2,701	11	0
42	Croatian	hr	9,464	15,432	61,722	3	6,892	10	434
43	Thai	th	8,234	50,962	243,437	3	11,368	17	28
44	Norwegian	no	7,890	96,060	238,583	2	5,818	10	825
45	Indonesian	id	7,710	63,801	206,262	7	25,106	107	302
46	Kannada	kn	7,249	94,117	266,330	2	7,763	14	19
47	Esperanto	eo	6,642	29,767	101,293	2	4,969	13	27
48	Hindi	hi	5,848	174,749	618,569	5	5,279	18	3
49	Venetian	vec	5,764	19,249	80,056	2	4,469	6	0
50	Marathi	mr	5,023	103,226	211,603	2	5,503	16	15
51	Balinese	ban	5,015	33,923	115,755	1	1,350	17	0
52	Icelandic	is	4,694	5,985	29,445	1	3,383	4	9
53	Piedmontese	pms	4,370	5,243	36,046	1	1,186	6	0
54	Ligurian	lij	4,097	15,415	44,173	1	986	7	0
55	Burmese	my	3,983	5,220	17,044	1	247	4	0
56	Danish	da	3,478	32,228	79,859	1	10,636	7	6
57	Estonian	et	3,253	22,688	59,226	2	3,818	4	48
58	Assamese	as	3,191	71,447	198,042	3	3,844	34	86
59	Macedonian	mk	3,023	7,762	21,210	2	3,609	5	4
60	Yiddish	yi	2,632	5,463	20,464	1	3,176	4	1,056
61	Javanese	jv	2,450	14,885	49,182	1	1,434	7	149
62	Bulgarian	bg	2,292	3,990	18,351	3	5,846	10	7
63	Walloon	wa	2,260	5,974	34,007	2	799	7	0
64	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,367	7,246	1	2,134	4	1
65	Lithuanian	lt	1,756	3,141	12,153	2	3,601	8	1
66	Punjabi	pa	1,691	64,018	184,935	6	2,174	33	212
67	Basque	eu	1,380	6,395	26,691	1	1,309	5	0
68	Odia	or	1,283	11,734	58,148	2	2,768	9	0
69	Malay	ms	762	4,444	14,488	2	761	21	0
70	Georgian	ka	748	932	5,621	0	344	1	0
71	Galician	gl	701	3,739	21,492	2	3,523	6	64
72	Bosnian	bs	613	3,272	11,929	1	3,326	5	62
73	Yakut	sah	603	1,680	7,705	1	2,120	7	2
74	Slovak	sk	488	1,518	9,283	2	3,699	9	1
75	Sundanese	su	276	6,727	27,138	2	774	7	0
76	Minnan	zh-min-nan	154	3,527	10,979	1	2,654	7	2
77	Central Bikol	bcl	97	1,969	8,944	1	153	2	0
78	Tulu	tcy	88	2,076	12,358	1	210	19	0
79	Faroese	fo	9	554	3,540	1	2,358	5	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,285,072	20,807,525	68,960,035	316	4,987,694	2,819	79,668

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

• List of Wikisources at WikiStats, an alternative version of the table above
• Another version of the table at WikiStats, presented as raw wiki markup
• Wikisource Community User Group
• Role of Wikisource
• List of language editions
• Wikisource Tenth Birthday