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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	1,040,894	1,076,814	3,230,644	14	34,432	70	132
2	English	en	975,253	3,925,992	12,778,327	22	3,057,555	371	18,716
3	Russian	ru	613,998	1,077,599	4,693,214	5	109,888	87	55,750
4	German	de	524,686	575,538	4,152,324	18	76,540	105	6,921
5	French	fr	484,355	3,833,610	12,845,708	18	132,281	230	4,540
6	Chinese	zh	406,650	1,063,711	2,167,959	7	96,496	128	231
7	Hebrew	he	232,687	452,281	1,446,045	15	34,785	84	456
8	Italian	it	181,809	717,321	3,073,363	9	65,910	76	952
9	Ukrainian	uk	120,995	251,071	522,410	6	14,623	47	136
10	Spanish	es	120,088	267,679	1,270,202	10	83,877	72	235
11	Arabic	ar	82,322	213,863	413,223	7	61,494	48	4,054
12	Czech	cs	55,310	80,318	284,297	4	16,806	21	7
13	Gujarati	gu	48,271	53,391	180,179	2	3,602	12	0
14	Serbian	sr	40,463	44,732	129,962	5	13,907	20	362
15	Portuguese	pt	34,823	132,564	470,745	2	35,535	25	14
16	Persian	fa	26,278	53,122	192,235	4	33,178	15	1
17	Swedish	sv	25,372	157,559	513,789	4	14,573	23	18
18	Bangla	bn	23,908	745,745	1,706,573	4	17,100	33	8,484
19	Hungarian	hu	21,626	37,984	100,148	4	10,778	5	34
20	Korean	ko	21,131	53,336	254,792	3	15,664	19	616
21	Tamil	ta	20,482	452,305	1,466,952	4	11,971	63	42
22	Malayalam	ml	20,144	72,269	216,601	4	11,611	14	605
23	Sanskrit	sa	19,209	134,545	361,397	3	8,057	63	64
24	Telugu	te	17,674	127,529	402,995	5	5,505	19	480
25	Slovenian	sl	17,191	34,583	209,862	4	9,066	61	346
26	Turkish	tr	16,999	27,334	157,362	3	20,169	22	120
27	Latin	la	15,580	56,434	192,257	7	24,926	26	48
28	Armenian	hy	15,466	122,345	346,734	3	11,229	33	64
29	Greek	el	15,302	39,334	149,376	6	18,036	19	4
30	Vietnamese	vi	15,127	45,324	143,674	3	16,029	20	2
31	Japanese	ja	13,167	36,759	195,050	4	36,933	38	0
32	Romanian	ro	12,658	35,441	129,155	3	19,403	12	227
33	Finnish	fi	12,547	19,376	123,324	4	6,726	9	52
34	Neapolitan	nap	12,474	14,022	85,833	3	1,367	6	0
35	Dutch	nl	11,896	38,120	131,096	2	14,757	22	1
36	Belarusian	be	9,769	36,190	107,827	3	3,799	16	0
37	Azerbaijani	az	9,522	20,011	78,901	2	10,034	25	1
38	Catalan	ca	9,391	48,952	161,833	4	9,908	34	2
39	Breton	br	9,030	57,628	174,541	3	2,356	6	0
40	Kannada	kn	7,292	90,559	238,273	2	6,897	16	6
41	Norwegian	no	7,034	85,162	223,005	2	5,209	8	825
42	Croatian	hr	6,766	14,850	59,711	4	6,194	4	434
43	Indonesian	id	6,097	27,842	103,647	5	21,138	42	303
44	Thai	th	5,806	36,072	196,862	3	10,055	18	29
45	Esperanto	eo	5,463	17,041	63,313	2	4,380	10	33
46	Hindi	hi	5,400	156,793	499,774	4	3,824	20	2
47	Icelandic	is	4,949	7,172	15,969	2	2,959	1	9
48	Venetian	vec	4,748	14,561	72,543	3	4,089	1	1
49	Piedmontese	pms	4,217	5,032	23,209	1	864	8	0
50	Balinese	ban	3,979	30,278	105,702	0	794	7	0
51	Marathi	mr	3,880	71,550	161,928	2	4,640	26	15
52	Welsh	cy	3,803	20,617	45,192	2	3,340	4	3
53	Danish	da	3,429	31,627	77,943	2	9,496	10	14
54	Ligurian	lij	3,413	12,192	37,974	1	701	4	0
55	Estonian	et	3,249	22,665	59,065	2	3,360	5	48
56	Macedonian	mk	2,913	7,544	20,264	2	3,198	2	4
57	Assamese	as	2,831	62,824	168,178	2	3,075	24	11
58	Yiddish	yi	2,625	5,399	20,261	1	2,793	2	1,056
59	Bulgarian	bg	2,259	3,922	17,693	3	5,158	3	9
60	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,363	7,151	1	1,916	1	1
61	Walloon	wa	1,871	5,366	30,722	1	526	5	0
62	Javanese	jv	1,777	7,041	22,940	1	805	8	170
63	Lithuanian	lt	1,749	3,118	11,716	3	3,169	4	1
64	Punjabi	pa	1,668	54,372	146,977	6	1,666	20	204
65	Basque	eu	1,219	6,198	25,755	1	977	1	0
66	Odia	or	1,201	11,202	54,526	2	2,320	6	0
67	Galician	gl	687	3,653	20,955	4	3,150	3	64
68	Bosnian	bs	610	3,262	11,744	1	2,940	4	62
69	Sakha	sah	594	1,643	7,501	1	1,849	2	2
70	Slovak	sk	474	1,491	8,614	2	3,379	4	1
71	Chinese (Min Nan)	zh-min-nan	53	3,190	9,581	1	2,347	5	2
72	Faroese	fo	8	553	3,434	1	2,091	3	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	5,458,496	17,060,885	57,833,031	303	4,300,205	2,280	107,026

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