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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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.

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.

№	Language	Wiki	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
1	Polish	pl	1,076,259	1,112,798	3,411,755	14	35,621	63	116
2	English	en	997,438	4,042,972	13,224,384	22	3,079,800	400	17,104
3	Russian	ru	616,898	1,088,871	4,836,360	5	113,823	82	55,789
4	German	de	539,819	591,280	4,242,137	18	79,110	110	6,921
5	French	fr	501,702	3,963,844	13,302,529	17	138,175	219	3,687
6	Chinese	zh	450,153	1,078,717	2,262,851	8	99,794	151	231
7	Hebrew	he	238,074	1,677,041	2,759,328	16	36,309	91	461
8	Italian	it	185,619	736,031	3,175,439	9	67,993	107	952
9	Ukrainian	uk	171,878	304,932	602,231	7	15,611	45	135
10	Arabic	ar	82,893	220,551	430,678	9	63,906	43	4,053
11	Spanish	es	80,763	235,262	1,325,887	9	85,938	47	233
12	Multilingual	www	68,725	186,382	975,439	17	355,625	104	858
13	Gujarati	gu	56,728	62,071	196,262	2	3,741	12	0
14	Czech	cs	56,143	81,736	289,032	4	17,454	21	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,557	46,898	135,419	4	14,268	14	362
16	Portuguese	pt	34,442	135,747	481,471	3	36,619	30	3
17	Bangla	bn	29,571	754,511	1,751,639	4	17,814	24	7,744
18	Persian	fa	26,735	54,907	195,947	4	34,472	14	1
19	Swedish	sv	26,108	164,171	524,577	4	15,711	21	18
20	Korean	ko	23,004	58,734	269,503	3	16,201	32	615
21	Hungarian	hu	21,649	38,028	100,434	4	11,204	10	34
22	Tamil	ta	21,077	459,793	1,507,654	4	12,996	99	42
23	Malayalam	ml	20,424	72,720	217,605	4	11,827	12	605
24	Sanskrit	sa	19,358	136,585	371,941	2	8,314	16	64
25	Telugu	te	18,187	134,201	415,320	5	5,685	18	521
26	Slovenian	sl	17,678	35,244	214,509	4	9,292	38	346
27	Turkish	tr	17,528	27,999	159,925	3	21,139	19	121
28	Vietnamese	vi	16,028	48,855	153,797	3	16,883	20	2
29	Armenian	hy	15,740	123,568	349,984	3	11,676	39	64
30	Latin	la	15,661	56,870	194,203	7	25,836	22	48
31	Greek	el	14,610	40,121	151,710	6	18,697	22	4
32	Japanese	ja	13,779	38,326	204,030	4	38,652	38	0
33	Romanian	ro	13,320	36,331	132,397	3	19,884	17	227
34	Belarusian	be	13,163	47,355	131,659	2	4,044	15	0
35	Dutch	nl	13,042	41,149	139,981	2	15,303	19	1
36	Finnish	fi	12,851	19,849	124,913	4	6,942	15	52
37	Neapolitan	nap	12,636	14,206	87,303	3	1,473	7	0
38	Azerbaijani	az	9,960	20,593	81,213	2	10,527	21	1
39	Catalan	ca	9,466	49,385	163,484	4	10,377	6	2
40	Croatian	hr	9,350	14,938	60,138	3	6,380	4	434
41	Breton	br	9,142	58,147	176,453	3	2,426	6	0
42	Kannada	kn	7,350	91,050	242,336	3	7,132	15	6
43	Norwegian	no	7,120	85,864	224,000	2	5,337	8	825
44	Indonesian	id	6,479	34,056	121,994	6	22,501	88	307
45	Thai	th	6,342	39,218	205,167	3	10,338	16	29
46	Hindi	hi	5,547	165,117	515,751	4	4,113	30	2
47	Esperanto	eo	5,312	21,676	79,361	2	4,546	25	29
48	Icelandic	is	4,948	7,188	16,082	2	3,038	1	9
49	Venetian	vec	4,748	14,562	72,685	3	4,175	1	1
50	Welsh	cy	4,519	28,593	58,927	3	3,460	4	3
51	Balinese	ban	4,228	30,648	106,589	1	936	29	0
52	Piedmontese	pms	4,224	5,047	24,839	1	934	2	0
53	Marathi	mr	4,183	83,231	180,767	2	4,842	19	15
54	Ligurian	lij	3,799	14,038	40,672	1	764	4	0
55	Danish	da	3,434	31,639	78,311	1	9,840	9	14
56	Estonian	et	3,251	22,676	59,119	2	3,472	1	48
57	Macedonian	mk	2,965	7,667	20,581	2	3,296	2	4
58	Assamese	as	2,962	64,693	175,587	2	3,265	22	11
59	Yiddish	yi	2,629	5,441	20,333	1	2,887	2	1,056
60	Bulgarian	bg	2,270	3,952	17,907	3	5,337	4	9
61	Javanese	jv	2,188	10,215	33,391	2	959	5	173
62	Walloon	wa	1,965	5,520	31,750	2	586	2	0
63	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,365	7,175	1	1,967	1	1
64	Lithuanian	lt	1,755	3,131	11,924	3	3,275	7	1
65	Punjabi	pa	1,726	55,639	151,754	5	1,772	22	204
66	Odia	or	1,244	11,373	55,357	1	2,399	5	0
67	Basque	eu	1,222	6,203	25,815	1	1,059	1	0
68	Galician	gl	687	3,660	21,011	3	3,228	3	64
69	Bosnian	bs	611	3,265	11,794	1	3,029	6	62
70	Yakut	sah	594	1,646	7,536	1	1,906	4	2
71	Slovak	sk	482	1,500	8,798	2	3,457	7	1
72	Min Nan Chinese	zh-min-nan	55	3,351	9,844	1	2,413	2	2
73	Faroese	fo	9	555	3,463	1	2,151	2	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	5,720,891	18,977,498	62,172,141	322	4,725,956	2,442	104,736

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
• List of language editions
• Wikisource Tenth Birthday