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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.

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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

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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 1,168,640 1,207,299 3,717,547 16 38,699 58 129
2 English en 1,080,041 4,488,729 14,698,899 21 3,148,100 444 16,299
3 Russian ru 624,118 1,094,111 5,198,619 5 124,076 97 33,032
4 German de 580,649 634,076 4,430,376 17 85,143 88 6,922
5 French fr 561,843 4,347,144 14,738,078 15 150,715 244 3,663
6 Chinese zh 470,971 1,128,225 2,473,023 8 110,447 155 231
7 Ukrainian uk 276,820 430,481 830,951 6 18,426 81 135
8 Hebrew he 246,620 1,651,851 2,893,117 16 41,145 101 547
9 Italian it 202,124 800,608 3,434,049 9 74,349 81 723
10 Spanish es 84,530 285,560 1,492,040 9 91,394 47 231
11 Arabic ar 84,285 240,015 512,834 9 68,651 47 4,043
12 Multilingual www 79,517 213,244 1,093,166 12 415,720 146 979
13 Gujarati gu 62,973 68,858 212,599 2 4,166 16 0
14 Czech cs 59,072 87,330 305,996 3 18,854 29 7
15 Serbian sr 42,814 47,241 137,885 4 15,298 18 362
16 Portuguese pt 36,965 153,452 521,373 3 39,752 37 16
17 Bangla bn 34,357 676,344 1,845,764 4 19,822 46 6,303
18 Swedish sv 29,290 191,098 583,270 4 17,908 27 9
19 Persian fa 27,802 69,856 262,469 3 37,739 24 0
20 Tamil ta 26,881 590,407 1,758,497 4 15,077 54 41
21 Belarusian be 26,447 100,344 242,950 2 4,669 21 0
22 Korean ko 24,459 78,439 346,685 4 17,871 34 607
23 Hungarian hu 21,751 39,037 102,843 4 11,777 13 27
24 Malayalam ml 20,540 74,309 221,781 3 12,540 69 594
25 Telugu te 20,318 153,137 455,743 4 6,273 22 559
26 Sanskrit sa 20,058 161,547 405,144 2 9,315 13 64
27 Turkish tr 19,587 30,516 168,983 2 23,860 22 121
28 Latin la 18,477 65,952 223,331 6 28,886 35 48
29 Slovenian sl 17,857 35,624 220,994 5 9,899 19 341
30 Dutch nl 17,654 65,332 197,498 3 16,443 20 0
31 Armenian hy 17,470 127,388 363,706 4 12,806 26 64
32 Vietnamese vi 17,382 59,003 185,197 3 18,514 17 2
33 Japanese ja 15,360 41,840 225,161 4 42,111 44 0
34 Romanian ro 14,573 39,865 140,826 3 21,039 18 227
35 Finnish fi 13,299 20,399 126,754 4 7,457 14 53
36 Neapolitan nap 12,753 14,411 89,089 3 2,341 8 0
37 Greek el 12,311 42,158 157,055 6 20,498 30 4
38 Azerbaijani az 10,814 22,523 89,410 2 11,648 19 1
39 Catalan ca 9,905 52,182 175,898 3 11,259 38 5
40 Breton br 9,892 61,554 190,067 3 2,690 13 0
41 Welsh cy 9,591 55,741 120,194 3 3,773 10 3
42 Croatian hr 9,462 15,401 61,674 3 6,873 14 434
43 Thai th 8,222 50,600 242,479 3 11,338 21 28
44 Norwegian no 7,863 95,760 237,816 2 5,799 10 825
45 Indonesian id 7,586 63,053 204,844 6 24,999 107 301
46 Kannada kn 7,249 94,073 266,240 2 7,751 14 19
47 Esperanto eo 6,632 29,585 100,475 2 4,952 14 27
48 Hindi hi 5,850 174,727 618,474 5 5,257 16 3
49 Venetian vec 5,764 19,249 80,056 2 4,460 7 0
50 Balinese ban 5,014 33,915 115,740 1 1,335 20 0
51 Marathi mr 4,913 102,937 210,457 2 5,488 16 15
52 Icelandic is 4,694 5,985 29,445 1 3,367 11 9
53 Piedmontese pms 4,367 5,240 35,991 1 1,177 5 0
54 Ligurian lij 4,088 15,284 43,913 1 971 7 0
55 Burmese my 3,983 5,223 17,044 1 229 8 0
56 Danish da 3,478 32,227 79,816 1 10,613 10 6
57 Estonian et 3,253 22,688 59,227 2 3,805 7 48
58 Assamese as 3,172 71,268 195,506 3 3,820 29 85
59 Macedonian mk 2,999 7,738 21,124 2 3,593 7 4
60 Yiddish yi 2,632 5,463 20,465 1 3,165 8 1,056
61 Javanese jv 2,450 14,879 49,172 1 1,419 14 149
62 Bulgarian bg 2,292 3,990 18,341 3 5,832 11 7
63 Walloon wa 2,254 5,961 33,926 2 790 8 0
64 Limburgish li 1,885 3,367 7,247 1 2,127 7 1
65 Lithuanian lt 1,756 3,139 12,117 2 3,588 10 1
66 Punjabi pa 1,688 63,709 183,377 6 2,165 36 212
67 Basque eu 1,380 6,395 26,667 1 1,296 6 0
68 Odia or 1,289 11,715 57,581 2 2,759 8 0
69 Georgian ka 748 932 5,621 0 331 3 0
70 Galician gl 701 3,739 21,487 2 3,513 8 64
71 Malay ms 688 3,945 13,644 2 720 14 0
72 Bosnian bs 613 3,272 11,929 1 3,315 7 62
73 Yakut sah 603 1,679 7,704 1 2,114 7 2
74 Slovak sk 487 1,516 9,278 2 3,690 9 1
75 Sundanese su 276 6,687 27,079 2 760 9 0
76 Minnan zh-min-nan 152 3,525 10,956 1 2,646 11 2
77 Central Bikol bcl 97 1,969 8,944 1 132 6 0
78 Tulu tcy 90 2,073 11,868 1 190 23 0
79 Faroese fo 9 554 3,541 1 2,349 10 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,251,489 20,740,692 68,751,126 316 4,979,878 2,883 79,753

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.

Historical discussion

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Please see the talk page.

See also

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