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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 1,162,964 1,201,574 3,702,641 16 38,586 61 129
2 English en 1,075,052 4,461,405 14,621,216 23 3,145,486 470 16,225
3 Russian ru 623,792 1,093,099 5,194,166 5 123,693 89 33,029
4 German de 578,789 632,163 4,422,432 17 84,934 109 6,922
5 French fr 557,283 4,317,264 14,670,698 16 150,176 265 3,639
6 Chinese zh 470,107 1,124,651 2,459,809 8 110,018 132 231
7 Ukrainian uk 266,604 419,379 805,020 6 18,305 70 135
8 Hebrew he 246,549 1,651,488 2,890,167 16 40,951 94 547
9 Italian it 202,287 797,664 3,420,644 9 74,087 84 723
10 Spanish es 84,440 283,121 1,484,780 9 91,168 52 232
11 Arabic ar 84,280 239,701 511,619 9 68,472 52 4,043
12 Multilingual www 79,050 211,460 1,085,613 13 412,998 152 982
13 Gujarati gu 62,778 68,645 212,061 2 4,149 10 0
14 Czech cs 58,899 87,080 305,550 3 18,817 26 7
15 Serbian sr 42,823 47,253 137,798 4 15,263 13 362
16 Portuguese pt 36,855 152,968 520,152 3 39,575 37 16
17 Bangla bn 33,886 676,552 1,838,676 4 19,746 30 6,266
18 Swedish sv 29,138 189,541 581,031 4 17,864 22 9
19 Persian fa 27,799 69,535 261,719 2 37,619 19 0
20 Tamil ta 26,494 588,558 1,744,393 4 14,985 51 41
21 Belarusian be 25,921 97,830 238,165 2 4,644 19 0
22 Korean ko 24,476 77,589 344,439 5 17,719 28 611
23 Hungarian hu 21,756 39,049 102,798 4 11,756 10 27
24 Malayalam ml 20,538 73,457 219,892 3 12,488 34 595
25 Telugu te 20,191 150,624 449,686 4 6,250 19 555
26 Sanskrit sa 20,058 161,275 404,640 2 9,280 10 64
27 Turkish tr 19,432 30,354 168,662 2 23,762 19 121
28 Latin la 18,469 65,921 222,899 7 28,757 32 48
29 Slovenian sl 17,855 35,619 220,933 5 9,882 20 341
30 Dutch nl 17,389 64,833 196,266 3 16,370 18 0
31 Vietnamese vi 17,367 58,393 183,106 3 18,459 20 2
32 Armenian hy 16,908 126,680 361,501 4 12,760 14 64
33 Japanese ja 15,229 41,549 224,272 4 41,961 47 0
34 Romanian ro 14,537 39,624 140,383 3 20,979 16 227
35 Finnish fi 13,292 20,397 126,705 4 7,440 12 53
36 Neapolitan nap 12,753 14,411 89,081 3 2,334 7 0
37 Greek el 12,310 42,139 156,760 6 20,437 18 4
38 Azerbaijani az 10,831 22,467 89,236 2 11,596 14 1
39 Breton br 9,892 61,384 188,706 3 2,680 8 0
40 Catalan ca 9,855 51,937 174,259 3 11,215 26 5
41 Croatian hr 9,456 15,391 61,622 3 6,851 11 434
42 Welsh cy 8,900 53,918 116,342 3 3,755 6 3
43 Thai th 8,103 49,660 238,419 3 11,292 18 28
44 Norwegian no 7,714 94,346 236,163 2 5,783 12 825
45 Indonesian id 7,565 62,454 203,126 6 24,899 84 301
46 Kannada kn 7,249 94,030 265,997 2 7,726 14 18
47 Esperanto eo 6,629 29,535 99,839 2 4,938 10 27
48 Hindi hi 5,845 174,598 618,198 5 5,223 18 3
49 Venetian vec 5,738 18,974 79,737 2 4,448 6 0
50 Balinese ban 5,009 33,844 115,602 1 1,323 17 0
51 Marathi mr 4,869 102,784 210,167 2 5,470 13 15
52 Icelandic is 4,693 5,978 29,429 1 3,353 8 9
53 Piedmontese pms 4,358 5,231 35,221 1 1,167 8 0
54 Ligurian lij 4,087 15,287 43,484 1 961 5 0
55 Burmese my 3,988 5,218 16,990 1 212 9 0
56 Danish da 3,478 32,224 79,790 1 10,569 7 6
57 Estonian et 3,253 22,690 59,224 2 3,789 3 48
58 Assamese as 3,170 70,763 194,277 3 3,801 26 85
59 Macedonian mk 2,993 7,730 21,084 2 3,584 8 4
60 Yiddish yi 2,632 5,465 20,463 1 3,156 6 1,056
61 Javanese jv 2,371 14,674 48,841 1 1,408 40 149
62 Bulgarian bg 2,292 3,991 18,335 3 5,813 8 7
63 Walloon wa 2,246 5,941 33,818 2 781 9 0
64 Limburgish li 1,885 3,368 7,243 1 2,121 3 1
65 Lithuanian lt 1,756 3,143 12,101 2 3,575 10 1
66 Punjabi pa 1,652 63,574 180,755 6 2,147 29 212
67 Basque eu 1,380 6,396 26,591 1 1,288 5 0
68 Odia or 1,289 11,686 57,533 2 2,750 10 0
69 Georgian ka 748 932 5,619 0 319 3 0
70 Galician gl 695 3,722 21,367 2 3,504 5 64
71 Malay ms 644 3,640 13,079 2 701 8 0
72 Bosnian bs 613 3,273 11,926 1 3,304 4 62
73 Yakut sah 601 1,667 7,656 1 2,108 6 2
74 Slovak sk 487 1,515 9,260 2 3,683 5 1
75 Sundanese su 277 6,656 27,033 2 752 6 0
76 Central Bikol bcl 153 1,960 8,920 1 115 11 0
77 Minnan zh-min-nan 127 3,488 10,718 1 2,634 4 2
78 Faroese fo 9 556 3,536 1 2,342 4 0
79 Tulu tcy 1 24 97 0 67 19 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,217,883 20,628,959 68,422,176 320 4,969,373 2,707 79,619

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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