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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 .
External Source , dynamically
sortable to any criteria, self-updating every six hours by cronjob.
External Source , generated wikisyntax, which manually is being pasted in this page .
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
1,138,636
1,176,448
3,615,428
14
37,909
47
128
2
English
en
1,049,795
4,340,197
14,255,721
23
3,129,194
399
16,421
3
Russian
ru
621,687
1,085,259
5,143,322
5
121,533
77
32,764
4
German
de
568,619
621,524
4,380,914
17
83,740
95
6,922
5
French
fr
542,284
4,228,702
14,331,389
17
147,459
248
3,642
6
Chinese
zh
461,491
1,105,378
2,390,369
7
107,360
133
231
7
Hebrew
he
245,024
1,690,626
2,862,318
16
39,794
103
543
8
Ukrainian
uk
228,143
375,267
732,100
7
17,646
53
134
9
Italian
it
198,566
786,029
3,365,222
9
72,656
96
964
10
Arabic
ar
84,164
233,201
498,641
9
67,401
26
4,050
11
Spanish
es
83,723
276,651
1,465,088
9
89,949
44
233
12
Multilingual
www
81,707
209,047
1,038,216
13
397,281
136
867
13
Gujarati
gu
62,542
68,272
210,427
2
4,039
10
0
14
Czech
cs
58,446
86,268
301,034
3
18,555
26
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,740
47,141
137,302
4
15,034
23
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,402
149,528
509,742
3
38,820
31
15
17
Bangla
bn
33,190
727,484
1,820,391
4
19,176
25
6,365
18
Swedish
sv
28,491
182,780
559,935
4
17,572
25
9
19
Persian
fa
27,444
66,621
232,211
3
36,971
34
1
20
Tamil
ta
23,845
483,130
1,572,549
4
14,298
38
42
21
Korean
ko
23,789
70,684
326,764
5
17,343
45
615
22
Belarusian
be
22,046
83,011
205,193
2
4,500
16
0
23
Hungarian
hu
21,734
38,765
101,791
4
11,618
11
34
24
Malayalam
ml
20,484
72,959
218,741
3
12,307
11
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
19,823
160,975
402,892
2
9,028
13
64
26
Telugu
te
19,201
144,065
435,364
4
6,087
33
545
27
Turkish
tr
18,681
29,554
166,857
2
23,145
28
121
28
Latin
la
18,022
64,478
218,202
7
27,983
26
48
29
Slovenian
sl
17,932
35,661
219,775
5
9,747
13
346
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,827
55,511
175,051
3
18,106
24
2
31
Dutch
nl
16,530
59,708
182,684
4
16,166
20
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,796
124,038
353,317
3
12,528
19
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,758
40,604
220,267
4
41,159
29
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,258
38,650
138,377
4
20,733
16
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,190
20,236
126,151
4
7,310
9
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,401
89,005
3
2,265
3
0
37
Greek
el
12,548
41,666
155,595
6
20,017
15
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,440
21,699
86,058
2
11,335
22
1
39
Breton
br
9,777
60,597
183,898
3
2,611
7
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,666
50,832
171,200
3
11,033
11
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,423
15,031
60,591
3
6,742
10
434
42
Indonesian
id
8,042
59,576
195,528
6
24,284
60
305
43
Thai
th
7,769
46,576
226,891
3
11,030
16
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,505
91,433
231,933
2
5,670
11
825
45
Welsh
cy
7,359
46,877
101,711
3
3,689
8
3
46
Kannada
kn
7,357
91,607
246,610
2
7,559
56
6
47
Esperanto
eo
6,561
28,076
95,074
2
4,833
15
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,734
173,184
608,621
5
4,917
31
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,243
16,192
75,167
3
4,387
7
1
50
Icelandic
is
4,808
6,539
24,161
2
3,271
5
9
51
Marathi
mr
4,686
101,151
206,971
2
5,325
18
15
52
Balinese
ban
4,643
33,385
114,350
1
1,245
5
0
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,318
5,181
32,170
1
1,108
5
0
54
Ligurian
lij
4,070
15,076
42,441
1
908
6
0
55
Danish
da
3,467
32,103
79,277
1
10,427
10
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,195
2
3,711
4
48
57
Assamese
as
3,141
67,570
185,913
1
3,639
11
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,987
7,717
20,751
2
3,517
5
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,460
20,419
1
3,086
3
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,326
14,401
48,113
1
1,291
7
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,977
18,254
3
5,702
5
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,237
5,906
33,363
2
735
2
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,216
1
2,083
3
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,045
2
3,516
9
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,607
60,003
168,481
6
2,048
21
210
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,378
26,305
1
1,223
6
0
67
Odia
or
1,241
11,573
56,632
1
2,603
3
0
68
Georgian
ka
779
924
5,595
0
221
3
0
69
Galician
gl
693
3,708
21,294
2
3,441
5
64
70
Bosnian
bs
613
3,271
11,884
1
3,232
6
62
71
Yakut
sah
595
1,654
7,580
1
2,053
3
2
72
Slovak
sk
487
1,496
9,183
2
3,618
5
1
73
Malay
ms
332
2,128
9,346
2
545
15
0
74
Sundanese
su
258
6,268
25,992
2
685
2
0
75
Minnan
zh-min-nan
55
3,401
10,113
1
2,580
6
2
76
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,504
1
2,294
3
0
77
Burmese
my
0
7
9
0
94
1
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,066,716
20,165,221
66,702,184
318
4,908,720
2,431
79,792
Alemannic, North Frisian, Bavarian and Rhine Franconian Wikisources
An Alemannic Wikisource has been created as separate namespace within Alemannic Wikipedia: Alemannischi Textsammlig (Wikisource) and similarly, the North Frisian Wikipedia, the Bavarian Wikipedia and the Rhine Franconian Wikipedia have also adopted Wikisource projects in the Text
namespace: Nordfriisk Bibleteek , Boarische Text , Rheifränggische Tegschdsommlung .
Historical discussion
Please see the talk page .
See also