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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.

 
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 1,183,682 1,222,481 3,761,980 15 39,194 49 129
2 English en 1,086,020 4,564,623 14,902,726 22 3,158,589 470 16,518
3 Russian ru 625,858 1,099,174 5,325,025 5 125,618 109 33,017
4 French fr 594,719 4,424,902 14,959,836 16 152,398 278 3,643
5 German de 586,508 640,071 4,465,382 17 85,860 118 6,923
6 Chinese zh 475,349 1,139,344 2,505,448 8 111,814 143 230
7 Ukrainian uk 297,807 446,705 885,547 6 18,905 78 136
8 Hebrew he 246,671 1,652,731 2,905,557 16 41,818 91 551
9 Italian it 205,225 816,823 3,482,785 9 75,212 96 693
10 Arabic ar 84,742 243,468 522,383 9 69,222 48 4,039
11 Spanish es 84,689 302,823 1,541,304 9 92,071 50 231
12 Multilingual www 73,880 208,715 1,104,188 12 425,463 129 975
13 Gujarati gu 63,692 69,673 214,178 2 4,253 12 0
14 Czech cs 59,405 87,792 307,603 3 19,051 20 7
15 Serbian sr 42,824 47,266 138,207 4 15,442 10 361
16 Portuguese pt 37,571 156,986 530,195 3 40,215 41 16
17 Bangla bn 34,926 656,018 1,862,505 4 20,111 48 6,171
18 Armenian hy 32,715 143,016 384,758 4 13,002 22 64
19 Swedish sv 29,777 195,147 590,526 4 18,060 22 9
20 Persian fa 27,922 72,177 273,593 3 38,141 26 0
21 Tamil ta 27,683 598,187 1,785,925 4 15,272 120 41
22 Belarusian be 26,795 103,707 251,616 2 4,773 17 0
23 Korean ko 23,278 80,202 369,624 5 18,124 35 217
24 Hungarian hu 21,760 39,059 102,927 4 11,876 11 27
25 Malayalam ml 20,560 75,986 225,539 3 12,726 47 598
26 Telugu te 20,495 156,813 463,830 4 6,364 25 564
27 Sanskrit sa 20,069 161,859 407,658 2 9,512 15 64
28 Turkish tr 19,711 30,724 169,903 2 24,264 21 120
29 Latin la 18,835 67,375 228,875 6 29,356 29 48
30 Dutch nl 18,302 70,017 203,882 3 16,619 17 0
31 Slovenian sl 17,886 35,657 221,214 5 10,014 14 341
32 Vietnamese vi 17,647 61,048 190,373 3 18,749 24 2
33 Japanese ja 15,712 42,448 227,427 4 42,676 37 0
34 Romanian ro 14,681 40,223 141,559 3 21,284 20 227
35 Finnish fi 13,372 20,486 126,955 3 7,547 11 53
36 Neapolitan nap 12,811 14,482 89,585 3 2,409 11 0
37 Greek el 12,347 42,454 157,996 6 20,830 20 4
38 Azerbaijani az 10,877 23,362 91,659 2 11,803 24 1
39 Welsh cy 10,726 60,639 129,539 3 3,836 11 3
40 Breton br 9,996 62,106 191,506 3 2,744 8 0
41 Catalan ca 9,987 52,927 177,571 3 11,402 10 5
42 Croatian hr 9,468 15,437 61,742 3 6,959 10 434
43 Thai th 8,483 52,590 250,835 3 11,509 19 28
44 Norwegian no 8,435 100,851 247,862 2 5,884 11 825
45 Indonesian id 7,938 76,349 245,005 7 25,448 72 302
46 Kannada kn 7,249 94,146 266,531 2 7,836 6 19
47 Georgian ka 6,717 7,775 77,144 0 473 10 0
48 Esperanto eo 6,685 30,451 104,126 2 5,031 9 27
49 Hindi hi 5,862 175,083 620,721 5 5,367 28 3
50 Venetian vec 5,771 19,283 80,142 2 4,522 6 0
51 Marathi mr 5,118 104,887 216,472 2 5,577 18 15
52 Balinese ban 5,087 34,045 116,195 1 1,404 12 0
53 Icelandic is 4,705 6,148 29,659 1 3,430 5 9
54 Piedmontese pms 4,396 5,275 36,818 1 1,220 8 0
55 Ligurian lij 4,183 15,771 44,698 1 1,018 6 0
56 Burmese my 3,988 5,262 17,217 1 324 6 0
57 Danish da 3,488 32,297 80,063 1 10,719 12 6
58 Estonian et 3,253 22,689 59,238 2 3,869 5 48
59 Macedonian mk 3,034 7,774 21,289 2 3,651 6 4
60 Assamese as 2,851 71,590 200,922 3 3,940 14 86
61 Yiddish yi 2,632 5,463 20,474 1 3,228 6 1,056
62 Javanese jv 2,609 15,398 50,513 3 1,501 22 149
63 Bulgarian bg 2,292 3,992 18,374 1 5,904 5 7
64 Walloon wa 2,291 6,021 34,258 1 838 8 0
65 Limburgish li 1,885 3,368 7,251 1 2,165 4 1
66 Lithuanian lt 1,757 3,142 12,173 2 3,651 6 1
67 Punjabi pa 1,722 64,500 188,400 6 2,220 22 212
68 Basque eu 1,382 6,398 26,797 1 1,344 9 0
69 Odia or 1,283 11,805 58,247 2 2,805 6 0
70 Malay ms 845 5,377 15,973 2 876 13 0
71 Galician gl 702 3,746 21,509 2 3,561 5 64
72 Bosnian bs 613 3,270 11,940 1 3,368 4 62
73 Yakut sah 603 1,685 7,732 1 2,156 7 2
74 Slovak sk 488 1,535 9,326 2 3,741 6 1
75 Sundanese su 281 6,942 27,669 2 839 11 0
76 Minnan zh-min-nan 153 3,539 11,009 1 2,702 6 2
77 Tulu tcy 85 2,143 15,670 2 276 21 0
78 Central Bikol bcl 78 1,993 8,999 0 226 11 0
79 Faroese fo 9 555 3,546 1 2,391 5 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,365,933 21,058,271 69,945,428 317 5,018,592 2,827 79,391

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

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