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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,146,009
1,183,949
3,639,764
15
38,108
57
128
2
English
en
1,057,504
4,373,589
14,349,378
23
3,134,743
396
16,324
3
Russian
ru
622,394
1,090,226
5,157,074
5
122,260
85
33,016
4
German
de
571,540
624,560
4,392,200
17
84,141
100
6,922
5
French
fr
546,723
4,255,293
14,409,968
17
148,266
248
3,650
6
Chinese
zh
465,398
1,110,396
2,410,781
8
108,223
130
231
7
Hebrew
he
245,384
1,691,330
2,868,469
16
40,158
86
543
8
Ukrainian
uk
237,376
384,681
748,055
7
17,827
50
134
9
Italian
it
199,944
790,467
3,384,558
9
73,109
80
762
10
Arabic
ar
84,160
233,844
499,567
9
67,763
28
4,050
11
Spanish
es
84,068
277,712
1,468,391
9
90,322
33
233
12
Multilingual
www
82,149
213,684
1,048,330
13
402,245
187
979
13
Gujarati
gu
62,669
68,437
210,886
2
4,069
8
0
14
Czech
cs
58,624
86,570
301,706
3
18,634
23
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,782
47,200
137,437
4
15,121
14
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,448
149,919
511,348
3
39,063
52
16
17
Bangla
bn
33,484
728,308
1,825,756
4
19,347
35
6,408
18
Swedish
sv
28,803
185,198
565,001
4
17,641
20
9
19
Persian
fa
27,512
67,807
240,628
3
37,172
23
1
20
Tamil
ta
24,185
528,436
1,636,711
4
14,485
70
42
21
Korean
ko
23,999
74,067
331,606
5
17,459
52
615
22
Belarusian
be
23,116
86,804
213,594
2
4,543
16
0
23
Hungarian
hu
21,744
38,842
102,025
4
11,657
10
34
24
Malayalam
ml
20,484
72,962
218,775
3
12,363
8
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
20,029
161,213
403,940
2
9,109
14
64
26
Telugu
te
19,469
145,801
439,101
4
6,147
11
546
27
Turkish
tr
18,682
29,555
166,991
2
23,353
25
121
28
Latin
la
18,095
64,574
219,046
7
28,224
22
48
29
Slovenian
sl
17,942
35,707
220,068
5
9,798
14
346
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,863
55,784
176,342
3
18,202
23
2
31
Dutch
nl
16,810
60,434
183,768
4
16,225
15
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,796
124,052
353,510
3
12,603
15
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,821
40,824
221,273
4
41,428
35
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,297
38,715
138,577
3
20,810
9
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,224
20,294
126,388
4
7,345
7
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,403
89,018
3
2,286
8
0
37
Greek
el
12,580
41,752
155,742
6
20,158
16
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,475
21,960
87,016
2
11,401
14
1
39
Breton
br
9,848
61,068
185,723
3
2,634
8
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,668
50,872
171,316
3
11,077
11
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,444
15,065
60,795
3
6,773
5
434
42
Indonesian
id
8,114
60,380
197,857
6
24,457
94
305
43
Thai
th
7,889
47,242
229,204
3
11,114
18
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,571
92,476
233,144
2
5,702
10
825
45
Welsh
cy
7,554
48,080
103,495
3
3,711
6
3
46
Kannada
kn
7,355
91,717
250,817
2
7,594
16
6
47
Esperanto
eo
6,589
28,399
95,970
2
4,867
13
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,792
173,563
609,807
5
5,009
24
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,444
16,628
75,845
3
4,404
4
0
50
Icelandic
is
4,885
6,588
24,419
2
3,299
5
9
51
Marathi
mr
4,730
101,732
208,170
2
5,363
16
15
52
Balinese
ban
4,644
33,406
114,545
1
1,272
10
0
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,323
5,188
33,049
1
1,126
7
0
54
Ligurian
lij
4,078
15,148
42,659
1
922
5
0
55
Danish
da
3,470
32,124
79,453
1
10,468
6
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,201
2
3,731
3
48
57
Assamese
as
3,147
69,232
188,603
2
3,677
19
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,990
7,725
20,906
2
3,538
5
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,461
20,429
1
3,111
6
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,333
14,431
48,229
1
1,310
10
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,984
18,278
3
5,734
7
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,266
5,957
33,596
2
747
3
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,222
1
2,094
2
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,052
2
3,536
3
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,609
61,127
171,921
6
2,082
20
212
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,378
26,321
1
1,249
4
0
67
Odia
or
1,287
11,624
56,758
1
2,625
5
0
68
Georgian
ka
746
926
5,603
0
252
1
0
69
Galician
gl
693
3,709
21,297
2
3,463
6
64
70
Bosnian
bs
613
3,272
11,896
1
3,252
6
62
71
Yakut
sah
595
1,654
7,585
1
2,070
2
2
72
Slovak
sk
487
1,496
9,190
2
3,633
2
1
73
Malay
ms
477
2,891
11,302
2
595
13
0
74
Sundanese
su
259
6,309
26,112
2
703
6
0
75
Minnan
zh-min-nan
55
3,403
10,210
1
2,597
3
2
76
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,510
1
2,308
2
0
77
Burmese
my
0
7
9
0
131
1
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,110,476
20,338,356
67,139,286
320
4,928,038
2,426
79,911
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 .