Wikisource

Language

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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	1,134,427	1,172,193	3,602,462	14	37,804	49	130
2	English	en	1,044,990	4,318,652	14,200,878	23	3,126,288	409	16,395
3	Russian	ru	621,333	1,083,586	5,135,247	5	121,114	88	32,736
4	German	de	566,896	619,689	4,374,424	17	83,527	95	6,922
5	French	fr	538,358	4,212,878	14,284,925	17	146,951	257	3,585
6	Chinese	zh	459,188	1,102,768	2,380,783	8	106,895	139	231
7	Hebrew	he	243,952	1,689,207	2,857,244	16	39,572	100	542
8	Ukrainian	uk	226,597	373,477	727,084	7	17,562	53	135
9	Italian	it	197,961	783,254	3,354,208	9	72,402	106	964
10	Arabic	ar	84,166	231,894	496,786	9	67,216	30	4,050
11	Spanish	es	83,761	275,129	1,462,046	9	89,719	50	233
12	Multilingual	www	81,558	206,416	1,033,274	13	394,451	118	859
13	Gujarati	gu	62,519	68,219	210,256	2	4,019	10	0
14	Czech	cs	58,305	86,057	300,661	3	18,500	26	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,729	47,128	137,181	4	14,993	15	362
16	Portuguese	pt	36,397	149,352	509,079	3	38,643	32	15
17	Bangla	bn	32,948	727,801	1,817,805	4	19,105	29	6,379
18	Swedish	sv	28,403	181,589	557,465	4	17,518	23	9
19	Persian	fa	27,311	62,941	215,618	3	36,829	43	1
20	Korean	ko	23,725	69,445	324,765	5	17,239	29	615
21	Tamil	ta	23,698	469,387	1,552,893	4	14,257	29	42
22	Belarusian	be	21,878	81,865	202,347	2	4,484	15	0
23	Hungarian	hu	21,724	38,718	101,708	4	11,604	9	34
24	Malayalam	ml	20,482	72,955	218,705	3	12,284	8	605
25	Sanskrit	sa	19,665	160,826	402,434	2	8,985	15	64
26	Telugu	te	19,142	143,659	434,340	4	6,040	13	545
27	Turkish	tr	18,680	29,549	166,722	2	23,025	31	121
28	Slovenian	sl	17,912	35,625	219,615	5	9,660	16	346
29	Latin	la	17,904	64,176	217,580	7	27,857	21	48
30	Vietnamese	vi	16,779	54,969	173,752	3	18,061	20	2
31	Dutch	nl	16,387	59,251	182,078	4	16,133	23	0
32	Armenian	hy	15,797	124,030	353,279	3	12,493	12	64
33	Japanese	ja	14,727	40,483	219,663	4	41,017	34	0
34	Romanian	ro	14,215	38,405	137,845	3	20,685	12	227
35	Finnish	fi	13,171	20,215	126,081	4	7,293	9	53
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,752	14,401	88,999	3	2,261	3	0
37	Greek	el	12,535	41,616	155,471	6	19,957	16	4
38	Azerbaijani	az	10,422	21,526	85,413	2	11,299	33	1
39	Breton	br	9,757	60,539	183,738	3	2,604	6	0
40	Catalan	ca	9,664	50,797	171,132	3	11,002	14	5
41	Croatian	hr	9,423	15,031	60,573	3	6,723	11	434
42	Indonesian	id	8,033	59,315	194,609	6	24,212	69	305
43	Thai	th	7,781	46,299	226,031	3	10,990	22	29
44	Norwegian	no	7,447	90,819	230,461	2	5,656	12	825
45	Kannada	kn	7,355	91,504	244,473	2	7,491	17	6
46	Welsh	cy	7,220	45,930	99,488	3	3,677	7	3
47	Esperanto	eo	6,544	27,813	93,937	2	4,822	9	27
48	Hindi	hi	5,817	173,251	608,080	5	4,845	16	3
49	Venetian	vec	5,186	16,069	74,900	3	4,376	4	1
50	Icelandic	is	4,793	6,664	23,692	2	3,261	3	9
51	Marathi	mr	4,673	100,862	206,589	2	5,305	14	15
52	Balinese	ban	4,643	33,374	114,329	1	1,232	6	0
53	Piedmontese	pms	4,306	5,164	31,736	1	1,101	3	0
54	Ligurian	lij	4,041	15,007	42,325	1	904	3	0
55	Danish	da	3,467	32,103	79,255	1	10,394	7	14
56	Estonian	et	3,253	22,689	59,192	2	3,704	3	48
57	Assamese	as	3,132	67,506	185,660	1	3,616	22	78
58	Macedonian	mk	2,981	7,711	20,742	2	3,506	3	4
59	Yiddish	yi	2,631	5,460	20,416	1	3,079	4	1,056
60	Javanese	jv	2,326	14,388	48,054	1	1,276	8	149
61	Bulgarian	bg	2,286	3,977	18,243	3	5,687	2	9
62	Walloon	wa	2,227	5,893	33,315	2	729	2	0
63	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,366	7,213	1	2,078	1	1
64	Lithuanian	lt	1,756	3,136	12,029	2	3,503	2	1
65	Punjabi	pa	1,587	59,324	166,357	6	2,033	17	204
66	Basque	eu	1,367	6,377	26,288	1	1,217	4	0
67	Odia	or	1,241	11,572	56,598	1	2,594	3	0
68	Georgian	ka	779	924	5,594	0	195	7	0
69	Galician	gl	693	3,708	21,292	2	3,431	4	64
70	Bosnian	bs	612	3,268	11,868	1	3,219	6	62
71	Yakut	sah	595	1,654	7,578	1	2,046	2	2
72	Slovak	sk	487	1,495	9,179	2	3,610	6	1
73	Malay	ms	269	1,605	7,346	0	507	17	0
74	Sundanese	su	257	6,241	25,936	2	672	8	0
75	Minnan	zh-min-nan	54	3,396	10,088	1	2,573	3	2
76	Faroese	fo	9	554	3,500	1	2,290	3	0
77	Burmese	my	0	7	9	0	70	5	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,043,971	20,078,123	66,462,961	316	4,897,972	2,375	79,683

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