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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	1,133,644	1,171,397	3,599,473	14	37,778	54	130
2	English	en	1,042,951	4,312,017	14,179,763	23	3,125,407	409	16,358
3	Russian	ru	621,298	1,082,853	5,128,408	5	120,965	93	32,769
4	German	de	566,338	619,124	4,372,266	17	83,457	107	6,922
5	French	fr	537,696	4,207,383	14,271,586	17	146,830	245	3,583
6	Chinese	zh	458,515	1,102,035	2,377,018	8	106,755	127	231
7	Hebrew	he	243,916	1,689,083	2,856,234	16	39,504	99	542
8	Ukrainian	uk	226,293	372,788	725,212	7	17,534	59	135
9	Italian	it	197,791	780,715	3,348,960	9	72,319	95	964
10	Arabic	ar	84,163	231,881	496,698	9	67,146	33	4,050
11	Spanish	es	83,734	274,816	1,458,717	9	89,631	51	233
12	Multilingual	www	81,484	206,367	1,033,021	13	393,560	122	860
13	Gujarati	gu	62,518	68,215	210,193	2	4,016	10	0
14	Czech	cs	58,318	86,039	300,394	3	18,479	25	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,729	47,122	137,128	4	14,982	13	362
16	Portuguese	pt	36,333	149,276	508,021	3	38,603	37	15
17	Bangla	bn	32,854	728,419	1,817,054	4	19,081	23	6,390
18	Swedish	sv	28,389	181,334	557,132	4	17,496	20	9
19	Persian	fa	27,289	62,525	213,950	3	36,780	41	1
20	Korean	ko	23,725	69,256	324,525	5	17,217	22	615
21	Tamil	ta	23,580	469,132	1,550,484	4	14,248	27	42
22	Belarusian	be	21,844	81,649	201,927	2	4,480	14	0
23	Hungarian	hu	21,723	38,697	101,683	4	11,598	6	34
24	Malayalam	ml	20,482	72,954	218,697	3	12,281	7	605
25	Sanskrit	sa	19,603	160,760	402,281	2	8,981	18	64
26	Telugu	te	19,142	143,577	434,197	4	6,035	9	545
27	Turkish	tr	18,680	29,549	166,681	2	22,986	31	121
28	Slovenian	sl	17,912	35,624	219,590	5	9,652	16	346
29	Latin	la	17,904	64,176	217,552	7	27,815	25	48
30	Vietnamese	vi	16,768	54,911	173,596	3	18,035	17	2
31	Dutch	nl	16,339	58,958	181,694	4	16,117	18	0
32	Armenian	hy	15,797	124,028	353,271	3	12,469	12	64
33	Japanese	ja	14,720	40,437	219,489	4	40,979	36	0
34	Romanian	ro	14,194	38,273	137,654	3	20,671	13	227
35	Finnish	fi	13,167	20,211	126,060	4	7,293	7	53
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,752	14,401	88,998	3	2,260	3	0
37	Greek	el	12,539	41,611	155,448	6	19,937	15	4
38	Azerbaijani	az	10,372	21,456	85,157	2	11,282	28	1
39	Breton	br	9,750	60,531	183,583	3	2,603	7	0
40	Catalan	ca	9,663	50,788	171,101	3	10,988	12	5
41	Croatian	hr	9,414	15,021	60,538	3	6,715	5	434
42	Indonesian	id	8,033	59,218	194,216	6	24,179	68	305
43	Thai	th	7,780	46,228	225,777	3	10,985	22	29
44	Norwegian	no	7,440	90,745	230,166	2	5,650	11	825
45	Kannada	kn	7,355	91,504	244,469	2	7,490	16	6
46	Welsh	cy	7,031	45,583	98,915	3	3,672	6	3
47	Esperanto	eo	6,540	27,769	93,873	2	4,820	11	27
48	Hindi	hi	5,753	173,221	607,764	5	4,839	15	3
49	Venetian	vec	5,186	16,069	74,899	3	4,375	3	1
50	Icelandic	is	4,793	6,664	23,691	2	3,259	2	9
51	Marathi	mr	4,664	100,758	206,425	2	5,300	13	15
52	Balinese	ban	4,643	33,374	114,323	1	1,229	6	0
53	Piedmontese	pms	4,306	5,164	31,704	1	1,100	3	0
54	Ligurian	lij	4,011	14,932	42,217	1	902	2	0
55	Danish	da	3,467	32,103	79,253	1	10,384	8	14
56	Estonian	et	3,253	22,689	59,191	2	3,701	2	48
57	Assamese	as	3,132	67,483	185,632	1	3,613	22	78
58	Macedonian	mk	2,980	7,698	20,695	2	3,502	1	4
59	Yiddish	yi	2,631	5,460	20,415	1	3,078	3	1,056
60	Javanese	jv	2,326	14,385	48,043	1	1,274	8	149
61	Bulgarian	bg	2,286	3,977	18,238	3	5,685	1	9
62	Walloon	wa	2,227	5,893	33,309	2	727	2	0
63	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,366	7,212	1	2,077	1	1
64	Lithuanian	lt	1,756	3,136	12,028	2	3,499	1	1
65	Punjabi	pa	1,588	59,312	166,072	6	2,028	17	204
66	Basque	eu	1,367	6,377	26,276	1	1,216	3	0
67	Odia	or	1,241	11,572	56,588	1	2,592	4	0
68	Georgian	ka	779	924	5,591	0	189	5	0
69	Galician	gl	693	3,708	21,289	2	3,428	3	64
70	Bosnian	bs	612	3,268	11,867	1	3,214	5	62
71	Yakut	sah	595	1,654	7,575	1	2,045	2	2
72	Slovak	sk	487	1,495	9,176	2	3,608	5	1
73	Sundanese	su	257	6,218	25,908	2	671	9	0
74	Malay	ms	202	1,388	6,855	0	497	11	0
75	Minnan	zh-min-nan	54	3,396	10,087	1	2,572	2	2
76	Faroese	fo	9	554	3,499	1	2,286	2	0
77	Burmese	my	0	7	7	0	62	4	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,037,685	20,056,681	66,388,679	316	4,894,713	2,310	79,689

Alemannic, North Frisian, Bavarian, Rhine Franconian, Pennsylvania Dutch 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, 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.

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