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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.
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).
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
1,133,433
1,171,183
3,598,623
14
37,767
54
130
2
English
en
1,042,565
4,310,459
14,175,581
23
3,125,136
409
16,349
3
Russian
ru
621,244
1,082,159
5,126,385
5
120,926
93
32,796
4
German
de
566,252
619,034
4,371,844
17
83,437
107
6,922
5
French
fr
537,505
4,205,974
14,267,927
17
146,791
245
3,583
6
Chinese
zh
458,415
1,101,909
2,376,424
8
106,702
127
231
7
Hebrew
he
243,895
1,689,029
2,855,978
16
39,494
99
542
8
Ukrainian
uk
225,984
372,332
724,270
7
17,526
59
135
9
Italian
it
197,728
780,474
3,347,394
9
72,301
95
964
10
Arabic
ar
84,163
231,878
496,687
9
67,135
33
4,050
11
Spanish
es
83,738
274,539
1,458,148
9
89,614
51
233
12
Multilingual
www
81,467
206,333
1,032,892
13
393,322
122
860
13
Gujarati
gu
62,518
68,212
210,168
2
4,013
10
0
14
Czech
cs
58,287
86,008
300,347
3
18,474
25
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,729
47,121
137,125
4
14,981
13
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,332
149,266
508,003
3
38,595
37
15
17
Bangla
bn
32,803
729,941
1,816,590
4
19,078
23
6,394
18
Swedish
sv
28,375
181,076
556,805
4
17,493
20
9
19
Persian
fa
27,284
61,698
212,018
3
36,770
41
1
20
Korean
ko
23,685
69,078
324,264
5
17,207
22
615
21
Tamil
ta
23,572
469,119
1,549,770
4
14,246
27
42
22
Belarusian
be
21,810
81,516
201,449
2
4,477
14
0
23
Hungarian
hu
21,723
38,697
101,683
4
11,597
6
34
24
Malayalam
ml
20,482
72,954
218,697
3
12,279
7
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
19,581
160,738
402,207
2
8,981
18
64
26
Telugu
te
19,144
143,547
434,146
4
6,034
9
545
27
Turkish
tr
18,680
29,547
166,673
2
22,970
31
121
28
Slovenian
sl
17,912
35,624
219,584
5
9,651
16
346
29
Latin
la
17,903
64,174
217,536
7
27,802
25
48
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,762
54,904
173,522
3
18,030
17
2
31
Dutch
nl
16,321
58,929
181,637
4
16,112
18
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,797
124,027
353,266
3
12,469
12
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,692
40,405
219,383
4
40,971
36
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,183
38,240
137,610
3
20,669
13
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,167
20,207
126,054
4
7,293
7
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,401
88,998
3
2,259
3
0
37
Greek
el
12,540
41,611
155,443
6
19,932
15
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,359
21,422
85,032
2
11,278
28
1
39
Breton
br
9,750
60,531
183,583
3
2,603
7
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,663
50,746
171,006
3
10,985
12
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,411
15,017
60,522
3
6,715
5
434
42
Indonesian
id
8,031
59,169
194,098
6
24,177
68
305
43
Thai
th
7,780
46,193
225,706
3
10,983
22
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,438
90,742
230,134
2
5,648
11
825
45
Kannada
kn
7,355
91,502
244,464
2
7,489
16
6
46
Welsh
cy
6,961
45,471
98,586
3
3,671
6
3
47
Esperanto
eo
6,537
27,752
93,847
2
4,819
11
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,753
173,248
607,749
5
4,836
15
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,186
16,069
74,898
3
4,374
3
1
50
Icelandic
is
4,793
6,664
23,691
2
3,258
2
9
51
Marathi
mr
4,664
100,720
206,378
2
5,297
13
15
52
Balinese
ban
4,643
33,374
114,323
1
1,229
5
0
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,304
5,162
31,655
1
1,099
3
0
54
Ligurian
lij
4,011
14,921
42,201
1
902
2
0
55
Danish
da
3,467
32,103
79,253
1
10,381
8
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,191
2
3,701
2
48
57
Assamese
as
3,131
67,479
185,625
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
47,938
1
1,274
8
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,977
18,237
3
5,684
1
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,219
5,884
33,282
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
3,497
1
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,588
59,307
166,023
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
56,586
1
2,592
4
0
68
Georgian
ka
779
924
5,590
0
188
5
0
69
Galician
gl
693
3,708
21,289
2
3,427
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
3,607
5
1
73
Sundanese
su
257
6,207
25,897
2
671
9
0
74
Malay
ms
186
1,272
6,651
0
492
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
2,284
2
0
77
Burmese
my
0
7
7
0
60
4
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,035,864
20,050,964
66,367,403
316
4,893,827
2,309
79,711
Alemannic, North Frisian, Bavarian, Rhine Franconian, Pennsylvania Dutch Wikisources
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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 .