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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,200,080
1,239,084
3,807,277
15
39,599
67
127
2
English
en
1,082,781
4,622,383
15,065,426
21
3,167,164
477
16,614
3
Russian
ru
626,669
1,102,357
5,524,001
5
126,992
104
32,966
4
French
fr
607,817
4,468,168
15,109,672
16
153,872
244
3,739
5
German
de
591,922
645,601
4,482,397
17
86,525
117
6,923
6
Chinese
zh
477,741
1,150,411
2,531,983
8
113,073
159
230
7
Ukrainian
uk
313,613
465,601
912,498
6
19,325
62
136
8
Hebrew
he
247,152
1,654,286
2,922,624
16
42,337
97
552
9
Italian
it
207,517
826,695
3,521,309
9
76,031
98
686
10
Spanish
es
85,373
308,462
1,553,563
8
92,656
61
231
11
Arabic
ar
84,985
246,357
529,833
9
69,743
55
4,036
12
Multilingual
www
74,355
214,742
1,121,171
12
433,450
157
971
13
Gujarati
gu
64,257
70,282
215,303
2
4,307
10
0
14
Czech
cs
59,641
88,164
308,400
3
19,203
24
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,911
47,363
139,276
4
15,570
18
361
16
Portuguese
pt
37,816
158,569
534,988
4
40,577
36
16
17
Bangla
bn
36,325
657,597
1,878,909
4
20,334
36
6,086
18
Armenian
hy
35,864
146,213
389,296
4
13,167
26
62
19
Swedish
sv
30,308
198,101
596,422
5
18,162
19
8
20
Tamil
ta
28,892
605,037
1,810,721
4
15,407
61
35
21
Persian
fa
28,082
74,028
277,606
3
38,418
24
0
22
Belarusian
be
27,129
105,928
256,367
2
4,853
17
0
23
Korean
ko
23,344
81,914
388,509
5
18,327
31
209
24
Hungarian
hu
21,773
39,096
103,115
3
11,936
15
27
25
Telugu
te
20,962
164,847
478,674
4
6,548
28
538
26
Sanskrit
sa
20,121
161,890
408,598
2
9,637
16
64
27
Malayalam
ml
20,075
76,591
229,704
4
12,846
34
599
28
Turkish
tr
19,759
30,999
171,023
2
24,602
24
122
29
Latin
la
19,002
67,799
231,976
5
29,804
29
48
30
Dutch
nl
18,716
72,879
207,939
3
16,731
17
0
31
Vietnamese
vi
18,020
62,333
193,594
3
18,947
19
2
32
Slovenian
sl
17,919
35,669
221,616
5
10,080
21
341
33
Japanese
ja
15,990
43,199
229,390
4
43,138
42
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,803
40,844
143,020
3
21,460
21
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,420
20,543
127,116
3
7,615
11
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,833
14,506
89,970
3
2,449
6
0
37
Greek
el
12,407
43,393
159,906
6
21,093
22
4
38
Welsh
cy
12,078
64,486
135,681
2
3,877
7
3
39
Azerbaijani
az
10,846
23,596
92,408
2
11,926
20
1
40
Catalan
ca
10,157
53,626
178,782
3
11,484
10
5
41
Breton
br
10,129
63,121
195,464
3
2,778
9
0
42
Croatian
hr
9,478
15,413
61,817
3
7,025
12
434
43
Norwegian
no
8,889
104,983
257,833
2
5,936
4
824
44
Thai
th
8,711
53,877
256,848
3
11,619
17
28
45
Indonesian
id
8,388
77,429
248,234
7
25,714
84
302
46
Kannada
kn
7,047
94,144
268,467
2
7,960
10
19
47
Georgian
ka
6,729
7,788
77,195
0
555
3
0
48
Esperanto
eo
6,695
31,167
107,099
2
5,100
12
28
49
Hindi
hi
5,865
175,236
620,997
5
5,439
15
3
50
Venetian
vec
5,798
19,382
80,298
2
4,569
6
0
51
Marathi
mr
5,205
105,880
219,888
2
5,644
16
15
52
Balinese
ban
5,146
34,143
116,532
1
1,446
14
0
53
Icelandic
is
4,705
6,149
29,692
1
3,478
5
9
54
Piedmontese
pms
4,405
5,289
37,385
1
1,256
6
0
55
Ligurian
lij
4,213
15,895
44,866
1
1,045
5
0
56
Burmese
my
4,209
5,488
17,985
1
382
7
0
57
Danish
da
3,493
32,369
80,481
2
10,799
9
6
58
Estonian
et
3,253
22,681
59,249
2
3,915
4
48
59
Macedonian
mk
3,037
7,777
21,306
2
3,697
4
4
60
Assamese
as
2,854
72,111
202,592
3
4,057
30
88
61
Javanese
jv
2,730
19,360
66,407
3
1,570
15
148
62
Yiddish
yi
2,633
5,460
20,489
1
3,273
4
1,056
63
Walloon
wa
2,325
6,062
34,492
1
866
5
0
64
Bulgarian
bg
2,292
3,990
18,427
1
5,943
4
7
65
Punjabi
pa
2,083
65,118
193,563
6
2,296
33
212
66
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,368
7,265
1
2,194
6
1
67
Lithuanian
lt
1,757
3,142
12,194
2
3,691
6
1
68
Basque
eu
1,381
6,447
26,963
1
1,382
5
0
69
Odia
or
1,288
12,022
58,755
2
2,846
11
0
70
Malay
ms
814
6,155
17,944
2
941
13
0
71
Galician
gl
709
3,766
21,604
2
3,595
7
64
72
Bosnian
bs
613
3,271
11,952
1
3,401
4
62
73
Yakut
sah
604
1,688
7,749
1
2,188
6
2
74
Slovak
sk
489
1,535
9,337
2
3,783
4
1
75
Sundanese
su
368
12,507
46,809
2
920
19
0
76
Minnan
zh-min-nan
153
3,539
11,015
1
2,738
2
2
77
Central Bikol
bcl
119
2,172
9,327
1
279
6
0
78
Tulu
tcy
109
3,523
18,517
2
363
16
0
79
Faroese
fo
9
555
3,555
1
2,416
5
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,434,065
21,307,641
70,880,655
317
5,050,364
2,785
79,393
Wikisources in Wikipedia
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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 .
The Swahili Wikipedia has adopted a Wikichanzo namespace for its Wikisource: Swahili Wikisource .