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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,145,701
1,183,620
3,638,644
15
38,100
56
128
2
English
en
1,056,878
4,371,312
14,344,522
23
3,134,502
394
16,316
3
Russian
ru
622,384
1,090,192
5,155,545
5
122,229
85
33,016
4
German
de
571,471
624,483
4,391,875
17
84,125
98
6,922
5
French
fr
546,562
4,254,529
14,407,320
17
148,236
241
3,650
6
Chinese
zh
465,255
1,110,154
2,409,912
8
108,182
133
231
7
Hebrew
he
245,375
1,691,304
2,868,238
16
40,136
86
543
8
Ukrainian
uk
237,040
384,320
747,044
7
17,818
48
134
9
Italian
it
199,906
790,412
3,383,771
9
73,091
86
834
10
Arabic
ar
84,160
233,710
499,412
9
67,745
25
4,050
11
Spanish
es
84,065
277,697
1,468,321
9
90,304
33
233
12
Multilingual
www
82,139
213,136
1,047,113
13
402,002
177
975
13
Gujarati
gu
62,658
68,425
210,869
2
4,068
8
0
14
Czech
cs
58,616
86,583
301,666
3
18,626
22
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,781
47,197
137,429
4
15,115
14
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,440
149,903
511,302
3
39,051
54
16
17
Bangla
bn
33,462
728,336
1,825,454
4
19,339
32
6,418
18
Swedish
sv
28,787
185,084
564,787
4
17,639
21
9
19
Persian
fa
27,511
67,753
240,536
3
37,165
24
1
20
Tamil
ta
24,092
528,308
1,636,460
4
14,483
55
42
21
Korean
ko
23,997
73,942
331,419
5
17,456
50
615
22
Belarusian
be
23,048
86,609
213,262
2
4,542
16
0
23
Hungarian
hu
21,744
38,842
102,025
4
11,653
10
34
24
Malayalam
ml
20,484
72,962
218,773
3
12,361
8
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
20,026
161,209
403,902
2
9,105
13
64
26
Telugu
te
19,465
145,769
439,004
4
6,144
11
546
27
Turkish
tr
18,682
29,555
166,988
2
23,338
24
121
28
Latin
la
18,074
64,555
218,941
7
28,205
21
48
29
Slovenian
sl
17,942
35,707
220,062
5
9,796
16
346
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,860
55,745
176,257
3
18,197
24
2
31
Dutch
nl
16,789
60,403
183,716
4
16,222
14
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,796
124,051
353,507
3
12,597
15
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,821
40,820
221,262
4
41,414
33
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,296
38,712
138,571
3
20,807
10
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,223
20,293
126,385
4
7,344
7
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,403
89,017
3
2,284
8
0
37
Greek
el
12,580
41,752
155,742
6
20,154
16
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,475
21,947
86,946
2
11,394
12
1
39
Breton
br
9,844
61,033
185,638
3
2,632
9
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,668
50,872
171,316
3
11,073
12
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,440
15,049
60,634
3
6,770
4
434
42
Indonesian
id
8,105
60,316
197,745
6
24,448
95
305
43
Thai
th
7,885
47,152
228,943
3
11,113
18
29
44
Welsh
cy
7,553
47,956
103,346
3
3,710
6
3
45
Norwegian
no
7,552
92,128
232,752
2
5,699
10
825
46
Kannada
kn
7,355
91,716
250,810
2
7,592
18
6
47
Esperanto
eo
6,589
28,398
95,895
2
4,865
13
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,792
173,553
609,566
5
5,000
24
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,444
16,628
75,829
3
4,402
4
0
50
Icelandic
is
4,885
6,585
24,415
2
3,298
5
9
51
Marathi
mr
4,728
101,666
208,077
2
5,359
17
15
52
Balinese
ban
4,644
33,405
114,528
1
1,271
10
0
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,323
5,187
33,020
1
1,125
7
0
54
Ligurian
lij
4,078
15,148
42,658
1
921
5
0
55
Danish
da
3,470
32,124
79,437
1
10,465
6
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,201
2
3,730
3
48
57
Assamese
as
3,147
69,194
188,543
2
3,675
19
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,990
7,725
20,906
2
3,535
5
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,461
20,429
1
3,109
5
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,332
14,430
48,225
1
1,309
10
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,984
18,278
3
5,731
7
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,258
5,943
33,546
2
746
3
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,222
1
2,093
2
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,052
2
3,534
3
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,608
61,107
171,841
6
2,079
19
212
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,378
26,321
1
1,248
4
0
67
Odia
or
1,287
11,624
56,756
1
2,624
5
0
68
Georgian
ka
746
926
5,602
0
250
1
0
69
Galician
gl
693
3,709
21,297
2
3,461
6
64
70
Bosnian
bs
613
3,271
11,893
1
3,251
5
62
71
Yakut
sah
595
1,654
7,585
1
2,069
2
2
72
Slovak
sk
487
1,496
9,190
2
3,632
2
1
73
Malay
ms
471
2,866
11,237
2
593
12
0
74
Sundanese
su
259
6,308
26,111
2
702
6
0
75
Minnan
zh-min-nan
55
3,403
10,210
1
2,594
3
2
76
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,510
1
2,306
2
0
77
Burmese
my
0
7
9
0
129
1
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,108,420
20,331,881
67,120,572
320
4,927,112
2,388
79,981
Alemannic, North Frisian, Bavarian, Rhine Franconian, Pennsylvania Dutch Wikisources
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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 .