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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	1,135,396	1,173,170	3,605,336	14	37,818	49	130
2	English	en	1,045,528	4,320,929	14,208,457	23	3,126,729	405	16,395
3	Russian	ru	621,394	1,083,678	5,136,804	5	121,179	88	32,733
4	German	de	567,326	620,128	4,375,550	17	83,562	95	6,922
5	French	fr	538,824	4,215,547	14,291,136	17	147,016	252	3,604
6	Chinese	zh	459,460	1,103,072	2,381,905	8	106,951	137	231
7	Hebrew	he	243,962	1,689,243	2,857,435	16	39,600	98	543
8	Ukrainian	uk	226,754	373,627	727,796	7	17,574	53	135
9	Italian	it	198,009	783,450	3,355,553	9	72,439	106	964
10	Arabic	ar	84,159	233,060	498,243	9	67,245	28	4,050
11	Spanish	es	83,736	275,139	1,462,260	9	89,759	46	233
12	Multilingual	www	81,704	206,599	1,034,077	13	394,842	122	858
13	Gujarati	gu	62,520	68,224	210,268	2	4,022	11	0
14	Czech	cs	58,340	86,119	300,746	3	18,508	24	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,733	47,132	137,202	4	14,997	16	362
16	Portuguese	pt	36,396	149,361	509,313	3	38,665	27	15
17	Bangla	bn	32,974	726,897	1,818,241	4	19,115	28	6,377
18	Swedish	sv	28,411	181,934	558,264	4	17,532	24	9
19	Persian	fa	27,317	63,189	216,576	3	36,852	48	1
20	Tamil	ta	23,734	469,510	1,554,190	4	14,266	33	42
21	Korean	ko	23,725	69,519	324,943	5	17,286	30	615
22	Belarusian	be	21,915	82,082	202,771	2	4,486	14	0
23	Hungarian	hu	21,724	38,718	101,709	4	11,609	8	34
24	Malayalam	ml	20,482	72,956	218,709	3	12,285	7	605
25	Sanskrit	sa	19,685	160,847	402,511	2	8,987	13	64
26	Telugu	te	19,142	143,711	434,410	4	6,042	11	545
27	Turkish	tr	18,680	29,550	166,734	2	23,044	30	121
28	Slovenian	sl	17,932	35,650	219,705	5	9,662	17	346
29	Latin	la	17,904	64,181	217,597	7	27,872	22	48
30	Vietnamese	vi	16,779	55,459	174,305	3	18,069	22	2
31	Dutch	nl	16,405	59,332	182,190	4	16,140	23	0
32	Armenian	hy	15,797	124,030	353,280	3	12,497	12	64
33	Japanese	ja	14,727	40,484	219,677	4	41,035	32	0
34	Romanian	ro	14,224	38,542	138,101	3	20,699	12	227
35	Finnish	fi	13,174	20,218	126,092	4	7,294	8	53
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,752	14,401	89,001	3	2,261	3	0
37	Greek	el	12,535	41,627	155,492	6	19,963	14	4
38	Azerbaijani	az	10,421	21,535	85,464	2	11,304	33	1
39	Breton	br	9,757	60,539	183,741	3	2,606	5	0
40	Catalan	ca	9,665	50,799	171,146	3	11,008	13	5
41	Croatian	hr	9,423	15,031	60,584	3	6,727	8	434
42	Indonesian	id	8,035	59,440	194,947	6	24,227	87	305
43	Thai	th	7,781	46,307	226,067	3	10,994	20	29
44	Norwegian	no	7,447	90,820	230,463	2	5,658	11	825
45	Kannada	kn	7,355	91,526	245,891	2	7,493	16	6
46	Welsh	cy	7,226	46,161	99,825	3	3,680	7	3
47	Esperanto	eo	6,545	27,834	93,986	2	4,823	9	27
48	Hindi	hi	5,771	173,184	608,276	5	4,847	15	3
49	Venetian	vec	5,190	16,084	74,986	3	4,380	4	1
50	Icelandic	is	4,793	6,664	23,693	2	3,263	3	9
51	Marathi	mr	4,673	100,912	206,672	2	5,308	19	15
52	Balinese	ban	4,643	33,374	114,330	1	1,237	6	0
53	Piedmontese	pms	4,306	5,164	31,767	1	1,103	3	0
54	Ligurian	lij	4,067	15,072	42,423	1	904	3	0
55	Danish	da	3,467	32,103	79,256	1	10,400	8	14
56	Estonian	et	3,253	22,689	59,193	2	3,704	3	48
57	Assamese	as	3,132	67,508	185,663	1	3,617	21	78
58	Macedonian	mk	2,981	7,711	20,742	2	3,507	3	4
59	Yiddish	yi	2,631	5,460	20,417	1	3,080	4	1,056
60	Javanese	jv	2,326	14,388	48,055	1	1,280	8	149
61	Bulgarian	bg	2,286	3,977	18,244	3	5,688	2	9
62	Walloon	wa	2,227	5,893	33,315	2	731	2	0
63	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,366	7,214	1	2,079	1	1
64	Lithuanian	lt	1,756	3,136	12,029	2	3,505	4	1
65	Punjabi	pa	1,587	59,334	166,427	6	2,036	17	204
66	Basque	eu	1,367	6,377	26,289	1	1,218	4	0
67	Odia	or	1,241	11,572	56,606	1	2,595	3	0
68	Georgian	ka	779	924	5,594	0	201	7	0
69	Galician	gl	693	3,708	21,292	2	3,432	4	64
70	Bosnian	bs	612	3,268	11,869	1	3,222	6	62
71	Yakut	sah	595	1,654	7,578	1	2,047	2	2
72	Slovak	sk	487	1,496	9,181	2	3,610	6	1
73	Malay	ms	278	1,706	7,685	0	519	21	0
74	Sundanese	su	257	6,243	25,942	2	675	8	0
75	Minnan	zh-min-nan	54	3,396	10,089	1	2,574	3	2
76	Faroese	fo	9	554	3,501	1	2,291	3	0
77	Burmese	my	0	7	9	0	75	5	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,047,260	20,088,231	66,497,030	316	4,899,550	2,375	79,697

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