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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	754037	2768153	9598782	29	2911290	357	22896
2	Polish	Polski	pl	735220	764945	2330568	13	25681	50	59
3	Russian	Русский	ru	508833	855008	3830020	6	85957	91	689
4	German	Deutsch	de	440071	484327	3554278	19	58003	118	5131
5	French	Français	fr	358804	2951320	9885692	17	96633	237	7358
6	Chinese	中文	zh	317138	951122	1715399	8	73284	142	240
7	Hebrew	עברית	he	180840	353024	919632	18	23571	61	358
8	Italian	Italiano	it	139220	550671	2353715	7	47887	78	990
9	Spanish	Español	es	113641	228775	1006522	8	65980	57	907
10	Arabic	العربية	ar	79067	153726	287294	8	44402	29	4066
11	Czech	Čeština	cs	47647	65251	209616	4	11590	27	5
12	Portuguese	Português	pt	30807	99661	395353	2	27534	39	31
13	Persian	فارسی	fa	23145	34513	99672	3	24168	21	1
14	Gujarati	ગુજરાતી	gu	22661	26031	109795	3	2337	14	0
15	Hungarian	Magyar	hu	21074	36578	94704	4	8156	6	72
16	Malayalam	മലയാളം	ml	19075	69112	204211	5	9582	14	603
17	Swedish	Svenska	sv	18135	105763	408021	4	9636	17	18
18	Korean	한국어	ko	17768	37259	201488	3	11961	29	619
19	Bengali	বাংলা	bn	16568	745087	1422180	5	10430	33	8759
20	Serbian	Српски / Srpski	sr	16093	19692	75533	4	11366	12	378
21	Sanskrit	संस्कृतम्	sa	15829	86745	212807	4	5125	103	60
22	Ukrainian	Українська	uk	15285	50985	137626	5	8885	29	0
23	Armenian	Հայերեն	hy	14576	97660	289747	3	8249	199	174
24	Slovenian	Slovenščina	sl	14466	30635	179755	6	7350	26	346
25	Telugu	తెలుగు	te	13874	74062	278867	5	4018	37	355
26	Greek	Ελληνικά	el	12751	31014	127974	6	13470	21	4
27	Romanian	Română	ro	11560	33174	117938	1	16152	15	228
28	Finnish	Suomi	fi	11403	17445	116362	4	5310	12	48
29	Japanese	日本語	ja	10470	26048	142339	5	24773	39	0
30	Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt	vi	10344	23757	76515	3	10951	23	1
31	Tamil	தமிழ்	ta	9281	423423	1026085	3	6249	41	36
32	Azerbaijani	Azərbaycanca	az	9115	19115	72625	3	6588	10	1
33	Thai	ไทย	th	7755	30365	98591	2	7939	17	74
34	Catalan	Català	ca	7381	39421	129106	3	6999	11	2
35	Breton	Brezhoneg	br	7237	50254	154692	3	1943	4	0
36	Dutch	Nederlands	nl	7018	22398	84849	3	10051	17	1
37	Kannada	ಕನ್ನಡ	kn	6926	75582	177187	1	5448	40	5
38	Croatian	Hrvatski	hr	6320	14358	57859	5	5009	11	434
39	Latin	Latina	la	5531	30549	113064	8	19000	23	47
40	Norwegian (Bokmål)	Norsk (Bokmål)	no	5150	66883	186441	2	4420	10	825
41	Icelandic	Íslenska	is	4928	6921	14934	2	2449	5	44
42	Esperanto	Esperanto	eo	4327	9754	34156	1	3329	13	37
43	Venetian	Vèneto	vec	4112	12192	66240	3	2793	6	1
44	Turkish	Türkçe	tr	3689	12804	73994	1	14785	23	2
45	Piedmontese	Piemontèis	pms	3595	4262	18512	1	394	8	0
46	Belarusian	Беларуская	be	3183	10448	32562	4	2344	7	1
47	Estonian	Eesti	et	3142	22276	57105	2	2695	5	48
48	Danish	Dansk	da	2854	25558	64685	2	6284	8	305
49	Macedonian	Македонски	mk	2852	6970	17448	2	2530	3	4
50	Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesia	id	2720	10976	53103	5	12503	10	269
51	Yiddish	ייִדיש	yi	2601	5331	19689	1	2288	4	1056
52	Bulgarian	Български	bg	2155	3711	16006	2	4025	11	9
53	Limburgish	Limburgs	li	1885	3338	6933	1	1670	6	1
54	Assamese	অসমীয়া	as	1821	17324	39532	2	1744	18	7
55	Marathi	मराठी	mr	1660	31438	54106	2	2996	14	15
56	Oriya	ଓଡ଼ିଆ	or	745	9999	39846	3	1699	13	0
57	Galician	Galego	gl	643	3454	19829	4	2660	6	65
58	Bosnian	Bosanski	bs	606	3198	11372	1	2426	4	62
59	Sakha	Саха тыла (Saxa Tyla)	sah	583	1580	7108	1	1502	2	2
60	Lithuanian	Lietuvių	lt	549	1775	9082	3	2609	5	3
61	Basque	Euskara	eu	506	3438	13915	1	465	6	0
62	Punjabi	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ	pa	491	30829	78553	3	907	55	114
63	Slovak	Slovenčina	sk	448	1396	8048	3	2958	4	1
64	Neapolitan	Nnapulitano	nap	415	10478	57649	4	528	18	0
65	Welsh	Cymraeg	cy	211	1366	6474	2	2401	5	4
66	Min Nan	Bân-lâm-gú	zh-min-nan	44	2993	8880	1	1928	4	2
67	Haitian	Krèyol ayisyen	ht	12	118	2078	1	424	0	5
68	Faroese	Føroyskt	fo	10	536	3177	1	1782	2	0
69	Anglo-Saxon	Englisc	ang	1	39	1667	1	622	0	0

Grand Total

Articles	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Files
4,112,904	12,798,393	43,319,587	305	3,823,117	57,878

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