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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	1,171,661	1,210,363	3,726,620	15	38,803	59	129
2	English	en	1,084,032	4,503,551	14,737,931	22	3,150,372	469	16,209
3	Russian	ru	624,522	1,095,543	5,202,737	5	124,381	95	33,045
4	German	de	581,982	635,418	4,443,734	17	85,279	100	6,923
5	French	fr	576,542	4,375,738	14,798,092	15	151,036	255	3,694
6	Chinese	zh	471,820	1,131,351	2,482,407	8	110,772	154	230
7	Ukrainian	uk	284,936	431,007	849,934	6	18,526	73	135
8	Hebrew	he	246,685	1,652,123	2,895,203	16	41,296	100	549
9	Italian	it	202,625	804,757	3,444,403	9	74,530	82	723
10	Spanish	es	84,404	286,634	1,500,484	9	91,546	49	231
11	Arabic	ar	84,320	241,034	515,484	9	68,803	60	4,041
12	Multilingual	www	79,676	213,947	1,095,704	12	417,944	132	979
13	Gujarati	gu	63,012	68,920	212,850	2	4,189	17	0
14	Czech	cs	59,083	87,436	306,212	3	18,898	22	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,816	47,252	137,905	4	15,334	10	362
16	Portuguese	pt	37,006	153,962	522,924	3	39,858	30	16
17	Bangla	bn	34,560	676,172	1,850,201	4	19,887	50	6,264
18	Swedish	sv	29,385	191,877	584,571	4	17,938	28	9
19	Persian	fa	27,806	70,026	264,522	3	37,838	20	0
20	Tamil	ta	27,311	592,085	1,765,416	4	15,108	51	41
21	Belarusian	be	26,586	101,037	245,184	2	4,692	22	0
22	Korean	ko	24,566	78,931	347,858	4	17,949	39	607
23	Hungarian	hu	21,751	39,037	102,846	4	11,798	11	27
24	Malayalam	ml	20,546	75,130	223,833	3	12,581	33	594
25	Telugu	te	20,356	154,182	457,505	4	6,294	24	559
26	Sanskrit	sa	20,064	161,829	406,909	2	9,399	69	64
27	Turkish	tr	19,659	30,594	169,224	2	23,958	25	121
28	Latin	la	18,666	66,591	224,690	6	28,987	31	48
29	Armenian	hy	18,642	128,583	366,168	4	12,841	24	64
30	Dutch	nl	17,900	65,744	198,256	3	16,483	15	0
31	Slovenian	sl	17,858	35,624	221,019	5	9,924	9	341
32	Vietnamese	vi	17,385	59,293	186,486	3	18,550	21	2
33	Japanese	ja	15,516	42,090	225,900	4	42,233	41	0
34	Romanian	ro	14,595	39,955	141,005	3	21,082	18	227
35	Finnish	fi	13,310	20,411	126,791	4	7,475	11	53
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,753	14,412	89,091	3	2,352	5	0
37	Greek	el	12,313	42,197	157,198	6	20,569	18	4
38	Azerbaijani	az	10,815	22,575	89,649	2	11,682	20	1
39	Catalan	ca	9,918	52,390	176,448	3	11,291	35	5
40	Welsh	cy	9,916	56,630	122,257	3	3,786	6	3
41	Breton	br	9,892	61,622	190,214	3	2,703	11	0
42	Croatian	hr	9,464	15,432	61,722	3	6,893	10	434
43	Thai	th	8,238	50,992	243,878	3	11,372	17	28
44	Norwegian	no	7,912	96,884	239,804	2	5,820	10	825
45	Indonesian	id	7,714	63,909	206,394	7	25,117	107	302
46	Kannada	kn	7,249	94,121	266,347	2	7,765	14	19
47	Esperanto	eo	6,647	29,921	101,521	2	4,970	13	27
48	Hindi	hi	5,848	174,751	618,580	5	5,279	18	3
49	Venetian	vec	5,764	19,249	80,056	2	4,472	6	0
50	Marathi	mr	5,023	103,523	212,010	2	5,506	16	15
51	Balinese	ban	5,015	33,926	115,758	1	1,352	17	0
52	Icelandic	is	4,694	5,985	29,445	1	3,384	4	9
53	Piedmontese	pms	4,370	5,243	36,051	1	1,187	6	0
54	Ligurian	lij	4,097	15,415	44,174	1	987	7	0
55	Burmese	my	3,983	5,220	17,044	1	250	4	0
56	Danish	da	3,478	32,228	79,859	1	10,639	7	6
57	Estonian	et	3,253	22,688	59,226	2	3,819	4	48
58	Macedonian	mk	3,025	7,764	21,217	2	3,610	5	4
59	Assamese	as	2,892	71,181	198,146	3	3,845	34	86
60	Yiddish	yi	2,632	5,463	20,464	1	3,178	4	1,056
61	Javanese	jv	2,450	14,885	49,182	1	1,435	7	149
62	Bulgarian	bg	2,292	3,990	18,352	3	5,847	10	7
63	Walloon	wa	2,260	5,975	34,012	2	800	7	0
64	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,367	7,246	1	2,135	4	1
65	Lithuanian	lt	1,756	3,141	12,153	2	3,607	8	1
66	Punjabi	pa	1,691	64,018	185,023	6	2,176	33	212
67	Basque	eu	1,380	6,395	26,693	1	1,310	5	0
68	Odia	or	1,283	11,736	58,150	2	2,769	9	0
69	Malay	ms	772	4,555	14,680	2	764	21	0
70	Georgian	ka	748	932	5,621	0	347	1	0
71	Galician	gl	701	3,739	21,492	2	3,524	6	64
72	Bosnian	bs	613	3,272	11,929	1	3,327	5	62
73	Yakut	sah	603	1,680	7,705	1	2,121	7	2
74	Slovak	sk	488	1,518	9,283	2	3,700	9	1
75	Sundanese	su	276	6,727	27,138	2	775	7	0
76	Minnan	zh-min-nan	154	3,527	10,979	1	2,654	7	2
77	Central Bikol	bcl	97	1,969	8,944	1	156	2	0
78	Tulu	tcy	88	2,076	12,403	1	212	19	0
79	Faroese	fo	9	554	3,540	1	2,359	5	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,288,035	20,816,004	68,982,086	317	4,988,430	2,819	79,670

Wikisources in Wikipedia

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.

The Swahili Wikipedia has adopted a Wikichanzo namespace for its Wikisource: Swahili 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