Wikisource

Wikisource is a Wikimafia project to build a library of free texts. Initially called "Project Zoidberg" when it began in 2003 (a play on the already existing non-Wikimafia project with similar goals, Project Zuckerberg), it branched into subdivisions for individual languages by 2005. Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches, death threats and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	1,135,512	1,173,286	3,606,052	14	37,834	51	130
2	English	en	1,046,016	4,323,143	14,213,001	23	3,126,973	415	16,398
3	Russian	ru	621,459	1,083,797	5,137,626	5	121,226	91	32,733
4	German	de	567,475	620,283	4,376,342	17	83,579	88	6,922
5	French	fr	539,743	4,217,846	14,297,408	17	147,061	258	3,640
6	Chinese	zh	459,637	1,103,265	2,382,821	8	106,999	137	231
7	Hebrew	he	244,017	1,689,324	2,857,756	16	39,629	99	543
8	Ukrainian	uk	226,955	373,832	728,240	7	17,581	58	135
9	Italian	it	198,085	783,796	3,356,821	9	72,462	103	964
10	Arabic	ar	84,156	233,050	498,319	9	67,259	28	4,050
11	Spanish	es	83,740	275,141	1,462,296	9	89,790	42	233
12	Multilingual	www	81,739	207,056	1,034,784	13	395,106	129	858
13	Gujarati	gu	62,535	68,243	210,302	2	4,026	11	0
14	Czech	cs	58,345	86,128	300,780	3	18,519	26	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,735	47,134	137,224	4	15,003	19	362
16	Portuguese	pt	36,397	149,368	509,338	3	38,680	28	15
17	Bangla	bn	33,040	727,089	1,818,548	4	19,123	26	6,375
18	Swedish	sv	28,415	181,972	558,408	4	17,536	26	9
19	Persian	fa	27,342	63,277	216,787	3	36,870	49	1
20	Tamil	ta	23,735	469,790	1,554,974	4	14,273	34	42
21	Korean	ko	23,731	69,661	325,190	5	17,297	46	615
22	Belarusian	be	21,950	82,263	203,046	2	4,489	15	0
23	Hungarian	hu	21,724	38,718	101,710	4	11,612	9	34
24	Malayalam	ml	20,482	72,957	218,712	3	12,290	7	605
25	Sanskrit	sa	19,691	160,853	402,536	2	8,992	12	64
26	Telugu	te	19,142	143,730	434,445	4	6,047	11	545
27	Turkish	tr	18,680	29,551	166,743	2	23,058	28	121
28	Slovenian	sl	17,932	35,650	219,717	5	9,664	17	346
29	Latin	la	17,905	64,186	217,646	7	27,890	20	48
30	Vietnamese	vi	16,793	55,465	174,386	3	18,075	23	2
31	Dutch	nl	16,419	59,368	182,244	4	16,146	22	0
32	Armenian	hy	15,797	124,030	353,281	3	12,501	12	64
33	Japanese	ja	14,727	40,502	219,717	4	41,048	26	0
34	Romanian	ro	14,229	38,558	138,153	3	20,704	14	227
35	Finnish	fi	13,176	20,220	126,099	4	7,297	8	53
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,752	14,401	89,002	3	2,263	4	0
37	Greek	el	12,535	41,627	155,493	6	19,970	12	4
38	Azerbaijani	az	10,420	21,550	85,527	2	11,310	25	1
39	Breton	br	9,757	60,539	183,756	3	2,609	5	0
40	Catalan	ca	9,665	50,799	171,147	3	11,017	11	5
41	Croatian	hr	9,423	15,031	60,586	3	6,731	8	434
42	Indonesian	id	8,037	59,481	195,120	6	24,235	82	305
43	Thai	th	7,780	46,316	226,090	3	10,999	18	29
44	Norwegian	no	7,447	90,824	230,470	2	5,661	11	825
45	Kannada	kn	7,352	91,532	245,927	2	7,496	15	6
46	Welsh	cy	7,231	46,267	100,166	3	3,684	8	3
47	Esperanto	eo	6,545	27,834	93,990	2	4,827	10	27
48	Hindi	hi	5,755	173,179	608,292	5	4,853	14	3
49	Venetian	vec	5,190	16,084	74,987	3	4,382	5	1
50	Icelandic	is	4,793	6,664	23,694	2	3,268	3	9
51	Marathi	mr	4,673	100,917	206,678	2	5,310	18	15
52	Balinese	ban	4,643	33,374	114,332	1	1,240	6	0
53	Piedmontese	pms	4,306	5,164	31,786	1	1,106	6	0
54	Ligurian	lij	4,067	15,072	42,424	1	906	4	0
55	Danish	da	3,467	32,103	79,257	1	10,404	7	14
56	Estonian	et	3,253	22,689	59,194	2	3,707	3	48
57	Assamese	as	3,132	67,509	185,670	1	3,620	20	78
58	Macedonian	mk	2,987	7,717	20,749	2	3,511	3	4
59	Yiddish	yi	2,631	5,460	20,418	1	3,082	4	1,056
60	Javanese	jv	2,326	14,388	48,085	1	1,283	8	149
61	Bulgarian	bg	2,286	3,977	18,245	3	5,690	2	9
62	Walloon	wa	2,227	5,893	33,316	2	733	2	0
63	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,366	7,215	1	2,081	1	1
64	Lithuanian	lt	1,756	3,136	12,030	2	3,508	4	1
65	Punjabi	pa	1,589	59,537	166,874	6	2,041	15	204
66	Basque	eu	1,367	6,378	26,297	1	1,223	4	0
67	Odia	or	1,241	11,572	56,609	1	2,598	4	0
68	Georgian	ka	779	924	5,594	0	206	7	0
69	Galician	gl	693	3,708	21,292	2	3,435	4	64
70	Bosnian	bs	613	3,268	11,872	1	3,225	6	62
71	Yakut	sah	595	1,654	7,579	1	2,049	2	2
72	Slovak	sk	487	1,496	9,182	2	3,612	6	1
73	Malay	ms	285	1,734	7,897	0	527	23	0
74	Sundanese	su	257	6,245	25,946	2	680	7	0
75	Minnan	zh-min-nan	55	3,397	10,094	1	2,576	3	2
76	Faroese	fo	9	554	3,503	1	2,293	3	0
77	Burmese	my	0	7	9	0	80	5	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,049,747	20,095,899	66,517,846	316	4,900,670	2,396	79,734

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

• Wikisource Community User Group
• Role of Wikisource
• d:Wikidata:Wikisource/Lists/language editions
• oldwikisource:Wikisource:Tenth Birthday