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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	1,174,528	1,213,270	3,736,946	15	38,869	54	129
2	English	en	1,086,489	4,515,280	14,775,508	22	3,151,927	492	16,226
3	Russian	ru	624,851	1,096,844	5,206,441	5	124,622	101	33,046
4	French	fr	584,237	4,391,074	14,835,214	15	151,286	256	3,654
5	German	de	583,219	636,694	4,453,282	17	85,401	104	6,923
6	Chinese	zh	473,151	1,133,262	2,487,303	8	111,003	155	230
7	Ukrainian	uk	292,098	438,935	859,864	6	18,600	84	136
8	Hebrew	he	246,367	1,652,028	2,898,591	16	41,415	111	549
9	Italian	it	203,333	809,728	3,455,792	9	74,670	80	723
10	Spanish	es	84,567	287,326	1,503,571	9	91,649	56	231
11	Arabic	ar	84,368	241,583	516,935	9	68,885	64	4,041
12	Multilingual	www	79,691	213,593	1,096,706	12	419,464	144	976
13	Gujarati	gu	63,080	69,000	213,089	2	4,198	16	0
14	Czech	cs	59,207	87,562	306,611	3	18,932	27	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,822	47,257	137,931	4	15,348	9	362
16	Portuguese	pt	37,093	154,634	524,223	3	39,927	38	16
17	Bangla	bn	34,632	667,444	1,852,999	4	19,935	57	6,201
18	Swedish	sv	29,438	192,562	585,638	4	17,952	26	9
19	Persian	fa	27,858	70,218	268,853	3	37,902	27	0
20	Tamil	ta	27,473	593,109	1,770,547	4	15,127	49	41
21	Belarusian	be	26,703	101,750	247,099	2	4,703	21	0
22	Korean	ko	24,432	79,493	349,816	4	17,990	39	607
23	Hungarian	hu	21,755	39,045	102,861	4	11,813	8	27
24	Malayalam	ml	20,549	75,506	224,523	3	12,604	32	595
25	Telugu	te	20,392	154,783	458,840	4	6,301	21	559
26	Sanskrit	sa	20,064	161,830	407,086	2	9,420	65	64
27	Turkish	tr	19,639	30,597	169,422	2	24,029	30	120
28	Latin	la	18,732	66,681	225,360	6	29,067	30	48
29	Armenian	hy	18,660	128,640	366,301	4	12,856	14	64
30	Dutch	nl	17,954	66,802	199,628	3	16,504	16	0
31	Slovenian	sl	17,870	35,638	221,050	5	9,937	11	341
32	Vietnamese	vi	17,385	59,436	186,921	3	18,591	20	2
33	Japanese	ja	15,576	42,192	226,312	4	42,330	47	0
34	Romanian	ro	14,611	39,989	141,092	3	21,116	14	227
35	Finnish	fi	13,324	20,429	126,828	4	7,489	13	53
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,756	14,416	89,142	3	2,359	7	0
37	Greek	el	12,314	42,221	157,303	6	20,644	24	4
38	Azerbaijani	az	10,817	22,608	89,789	2	11,704	21	1
39	Welsh	cy	10,093	57,190	123,218	3	3,792	6	3
40	Catalan	ca	9,949	52,487	176,912	3	11,305	18	5
41	Breton	br	9,892	61,659	190,268	3	2,707	12	0
42	Croatian	hr	9,464	15,431	61,725	3	6,908	10	434
43	Thai	th	8,342	51,586	246,690	3	11,399	19	28
44	Norwegian	no	7,945	97,440	241,051	2	5,831	10	825
45	Indonesian	id	7,807	69,554	225,514	7	25,211	169	302
46	Kannada	kn	7,249	94,124	266,355	2	7,775	10	19
47	Esperanto	eo	6,664	30,038	102,143	2	4,978	9	27
48	Hindi	hi	5,859	174,861	618,797	5	5,300	20	3
49	Venetian	vec	5,764	19,249	80,056	2	4,477	3	0
50	Marathi	mr	5,039	104,311	214,117	2	5,517	16	15
51	Balinese	ban	5,015	33,933	115,782	1	1,358	7	0
52	Icelandic	is	4,698	6,075	29,556	1	3,392	6	9
53	Piedmontese	pms	4,375	5,249	36,221	1	1,189	4	0
54	Ligurian	lij	4,142	15,553	44,353	1	993	5	0
55	Burmese	my	3,987	5,226	17,074	1	258	4	0
56	Danish	da	3,482	32,266	79,958	1	10,657	11	6
57	Estonian	et	3,253	22,688	59,229	2	3,826	5	48
58	Macedonian	mk	3,029	7,768	21,234	2	3,613	5	4
59	Assamese	as	2,899	71,261	199,046	3	3,857	40	86
60	Yiddish	yi	2,632	5,462	20,464	1	3,188	4	1,056
61	Javanese	jv	2,450	14,887	49,211	1	1,442	8	149
62	Bulgarian	bg	2,292	3,989	18,358	1	5,853	9	7
63	Walloon	wa	2,261	5,980	34,033	2	803	5	0
64	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,367	7,246	1	2,137	2	1
65	Lithuanian	lt	1,756	3,141	12,159	2	3,613	6	1
66	Punjabi	pa	1,705	64,220	185,818	6	2,183	25	212
67	Basque	eu	1,380	6,395	26,697	1	1,313	5	0
68	Odia	or	1,283	11,751	58,168	2	2,775	7	0
69	Malay	ms	810	5,090	15,466	2	783	33	0
70	Georgian	ka	759	945	5,638	0	355	1	0
71	Galician	gl	701	3,738	21,492	2	3,528	7	64
72	Bosnian	bs	613	3,269	11,930	1	3,330	6	62
73	Yakut	sah	603	1,680	7,705	1	2,124	6	2
74	Slovak	sk	488	1,521	9,293	2	3,705	7	1
75	Sundanese	su	276	6,753	27,199	2	786	7	0
76	Minnan	zh-min-nan	153	3,528	10,982	1	2,661	6	2
77	Central Bikol	bcl	97	1,970	8,948	1	165	1	0
78	Tulu	tcy	88	2,076	13,916	1	222	15	0
79	Faroese	fo	9	554	3,540	1	2,361	4	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,313,223	20,871,724	69,172,979	315	4,994,239	2,936	79,583

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