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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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

№	Language	Language (local)	Wiki	Good	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Active Users	Files
1	English	English	en	769999	2891250	9862752	27	2929019	345	22657
2	Polish	Polski	pl	768588	798977	2433954	14	26666	67	59
3	Russian	Русский	ru	513737	864367	3906003	6	89279	90	693
4	German	Deutsch	de	446245	490941	3600690	19	60468	124	5135
5	French	Français	fr	371852	3056040	10175727	17	101918	244	7028
6	Chinese	中文	zh	320160	956340	1735535	7	76334	116	240
7	Hebrew	עברית	he	182445	356274	935915	18	24931	70	362
8	Italian	Italiano	it	141966	563023	2525743	7	50151	76	976
9	Spanish	Español	es	114070	232477	1020617	8	68524	72	904
10	Arabic	العربية	ar	79088	155815	290140	9	46402	40	4065
11	Czech	Čeština	cs	48198	67543	240242	4	12110	25	5
12	Portuguese	Português	pt	31103	100401	397132	2	28317	33	31
13	Gujarati	ગુજરાતી	gu	24624	28205	115677	3	2440	14	0
14	Persian	فارسی	fa	23169	34913	100797	3	25751	17	1
15	Hungarian	Magyar	hu	21077	36594	94826	4	8350	7	57
16	Ukrainian	Українська	uk	19698	56565	148486	5	9515	30	0
17	Malayalam	മലയാളം	ml	19101	69295	204787	5	9894	12	603
18	Swedish	Svenska	sv	18729	109653	414482	4	9993	16	18
19	Korean	한국어	ko	18018	37662	204701	3	12378	26	618
20	Serbian	Српски / Srpski	sr	17621	21278	78962	4	11666	15	378
21	Bengali	বাংলা	bn	16637	745481	1424911	5	11193	26	8759
22	Sanskrit	संस्कृतम्	sa	16204	89782	222766	3	5391	22	60
23	Armenian	Հայերեն	hy	15263	109074	318239	3	8776	153	64
24	Slovenian	Slovenščina	sl	14621	30977	183765	6	7590	23	346
25	Telugu	తెలుగు	te	14081	77340	286578	5	4183	21	358
26	Greek	Ελληνικά	el	13109	31970	130195	6	14023	19	4
27	Romanian	Română	ro	11729	33493	119956	2	16717	17	228
28	Finnish	Suomi	fi	11506	17580	116901	4	5508	9	48
29	Japanese	日本語	ja	10789	27200	151625	5	26647	42	0
30	Neapolitan	Nnapulitano	nap	10468	11750	76284	4	826	13	0
31	Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt	vi	10409	24124	80510	3	11382	16	1
32	Tamil	தமிழ்	ta	9862	425663	1054584	3	6801	77	40
33	Azerbaijani	Azərbaycanca	az	9137	19139	73242	2	6957	20	1
34	Thai	ไทย	th	7714	30831	105526	3	8384	13	74
35	Catalan	Català	ca	7522	40345	132292	3	7230	16	2
36	Breton	Brezhoneg	br	7312	50439	155602	3	1984	8	0
37	Dutch	Nederlands	nl	7220	23361	90249	3	10641	29	1
38	Kannada	ಕನ್ನಡ	kn	6961	83664	195793	2	5697	27	5
39	Croatian	Hrvatski	hr	6333	14389	58034	5	5170	8	434
40	Latin	Latina	la	5684	30881	113848	7	19641	20	47
41	Norwegian (Bokmål)	Norsk (Bokmål)	no	5201	67566	187632	2	4524	6	825
42	Icelandic	Íslenska	is	4931	6937	15074	2	2502	2	9
43	Esperanto	Esperanto	eo	4375	10159	36857	1	3437	9	37
44	Venetian	Vèneto	vec	4126	12308	66945	3	2930	5	1
45	Turkish	Türkçe	tr	3807	12926	74924	1	15136	19	2
46	Piedmontese	Piemontèis	pms	3712	4400	18952	1	452	4	0
47	Estonian	Eesti	et	3205	22453	57494	2	2793	8	48
48	Belarusian	Беларуская	be	3194	10541	32831	4	2434	9	1
49	Danish	Dansk	da	2878	25702	65109	2	6496	9	305
50	Macedonian	Македонски	mk	2853	6981	17568	2	2607	4	4
51	Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesia	id	2801	11306	54101	5	13403	24	269
52	Yiddish	ייִדיש	yi	2602	5341	19716	1	2349	4	1056
53	Bulgarian	Български	bg	2191	3762	16199	2	4160	14	9
54	Limburgish	Limburgs	li	1885	3345	6944	1	1696	3	1
55	Marathi	मराठी	mr	1859	33158	58076	2	3164	18	15
56	Assamese	অসমীয়া	as	1835	21166	44172	2	1855	9	7
57	Hindi	हिन्दी	hi	1164	66775	258854	3	1683	40	1
58	Oriya	ଓଡ଼ିଆ	or	792	10439	45181	2	1802	7	0
59	Punjabi	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ	pa	701	36332	92701	5	1073	65	188
60	Galician	Galego	gl	656	3515	20048	4	2718	6	65
61	Basque	Euskara	eu	654	3689	14492	2	535	4	0
62	Lithuanian	Lietuvių	lt	646	1924	9395	4	2671	6	3
63	Bosnian	Bosanski	bs	606	3208	11410	1	2491	5	62
64	Sakha	Саха тыла (Saxa Tyla)	sah	585	1588	7129	1	1537	2	2
65	Slovak	Slovenčina	sk	448	1404	8067	3	3009	2	1
66	Welsh	Cymraeg	cy	220	1670	6876	2	2458	4	4
67	Min Nan	Bân-lâm-gú	zh-min-nan	46	3013	8951	1	1967	2	2
68	Haitian	Krèyol ayisyen	ht	12	119	2079	1	439	1	5
69	Faroese	Føroyskt	fo	10	542	3188	1	1817	2	0
70	Anglo-Saxon	Englisc	ang	1	40	1668	1	667	1	0

Grand Total

Articles	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Files
4,220,045	13,237,405	44,840,701	310	3,883,652	57,224

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