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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	760456	2803181	9697167	28	2919691	342	22783
2	Polish	Polski	pl	748691	778657	2372912	13	26128	73	59
3	Russian	Русский	ru	511104	859610	3870653	6	87435	97	692
4	German	Deutsch	de	442181	486645	3574315	19	59212	122	5131
5	French	Français	fr	365159	3000190	10030217	18	99198	268	7032
6	Chinese	中文	zh	318877	953454	1724113	7	74875	141	240
7	Hebrew	עברית	he	181423	354428	926776	18	24163	69	361
8	Italian	Italiano	it	140272	558689	2503147	7	48828	78	990
9	Spanish	Español	es	113719	229805	1009603	8	67261	66	907
10	Arabic	العربية	ar	79071	154748	288699	8	45359	38	4065
11	Czech	Čeština	cs	47924	66263	212637	4	11832	32	5
12	Portuguese	Português	pt	30962	99923	395970	2	27881	28	31
13	Gujarati	ગુજરાતી	gu	24086	27616	113322	3	2400	17	0
14	Persian	فارسی	fa	23156	34622	100057	3	24882	24	1
15	Hungarian	Magyar	hu	21076	36587	94801	4	8245	8	57
16	Malayalam	മലയാളം	ml	19081	69149	204373	5	9712	17	603
17	Swedish	Svenska	sv	18421	107284	411262	4	9815	22	18
18	Korean	한국어	ko	17868	37427	203093	3	12169	25	618
19	Bengali	বাংলা	bn	16611	745402	1423801	5	10823	35	8758
20	Serbian	Српски / Srpski	sr	16234	19849	76136	4	11497	17	378
21	Sanskrit	संस्कृतम्	sa	15975	88413	216583	4	5262	24	60
22	Ukrainian	Українська	uk	15549	51660	140006	5	9143	24	0
23	Armenian	Հայերեն	hy	14991	105021	308000	3	8563	304	64
24	Slovenian	Slovenščina	sl	14571	30864	182320	6	7507	82	346
25	Telugu	తెలుగు	te	13935	75466	282828	5	4106	26	355
26	Greek	Ελληνικά	el	12961	31571	129098	6	13712	15	4
27	Romanian	Română	ro	11712	33419	119160	2	16415	16	228
28	Finnish	Suomi	fi	11440	17495	116606	4	5398	13	48
29	Japanese	日本語	ja	10605	26569	147213	5	25829	47	0
30	Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt	vi	10344	23797	78173	3	11150	19	1
31	Neapolitan	Nnapulitano	nap	10143	11289	73925	4	771	7	0
32	Tamil	தமிழ்	ta	9609	424237	1036648	3	6456	46	36
33	Azerbaijani	Azərbaycanca	az	9132	19098	72920	3	6751	12	1
34	Thai	ไทย	th	7683	30546	101838	3	8170	19	74
35	Catalan	Català	ca	7424	39604	130200	3	7106	26	2
36	Breton	Brezhoneg	br	7245	50289	154984	3	1963	8	0
37	Dutch	Nederlands	nl	7059	22762	87097	3	10333	26	1
38	Kannada	ಕನ್ನಡ	kn	6936	82671	188524	2	5578	24	5
39	Croatian	Hrvatski	hr	6319	14364	57926	5	5083	8	434
40	Latin	Latina	la	5542	30668	113369	8	19296	20	47
41	Norwegian (Bokmål)	Norsk (Bokmål)	no	5200	67448	187384	2	4469	9	825
42	Icelandic	Íslenska	is	4931	6934	15068	2	2474	4	9
43	Esperanto	Esperanto	eo	4364	10139	36792	1	3393	15	37
44	Venetian	Vèneto	vec	4126	12297	66527	3	2842	6	1
45	Turkish	Türkçe	tr	3727	12823	74466	2	14903	16	2
46	Piedmontese	Piemontèis	pms	3652	4328	18713	1	422	5	0
47	Belarusian	Беларуская	be	3171	10470	32668	4	2391	9	1
48	Estonian	Eesti	et	3145	22284	57139	2	2740	5	48
49	Danish	Dansk	da	2861	25625	64937	2	6390	8	305
50	Macedonian	Македонски	mk	2852	6974	17544	2	2563	4	4
51	Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesia	id	2729	11017	53370	5	12969	15	269
52	Yiddish	ייִדיש	yi	2602	5337	19702	1	2317	5	1056
53	Bulgarian	Български	bg	2159	3717	16062	2	4088	10	9
54	Limburgish	Limburgs	li	1885	3341	6938	1	1681	3	1
55	Assamese	অসমীয়া	as	1832	20305	43161	2	1812	10	7
56	Marathi	मराठी	mr	1778	31665	55187	2	3081	12	15
57	Hindi	हिन्दी	hi	867	53967	225152	3	1411	45	0
58	Oriya	ଓଡ଼ିଆ	or	792	10384	43968	1	1763	19	0
59	Galician	Galego	gl	653	3490	19976	4	2686	7	65
60	Punjabi	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ	pa	614	33278	86012	5	975	37	139
61	Bosnian	Bosanski	bs	606	3202	11388	1	2458	4	62
62	Basque	Euskara	eu	597	3621	14324	2	504	6	0
63	Sakha	Саха тыла (Saxa Tyla)	sah	585	1585	7125	1	1519	3	2
64	Lithuanian	Lietuvių	lt	553	1815	9170	3	2634	5	3
65	Slovak	Slovenčina	sk	448	1401	8059	3	2983	4	1
66	Welsh	Cymraeg	cy	217	1581	6740	2	2427	4	4
67	Min Nan	Bân-lâm-gú	zh-min-nan	45	2998	8891	1	1945	4	2
68	Haitian	Krèyol ayisyen	ht	12	118	2078	1	427	0	5
69	Faroese	Føroyskt	fo	10	539	3183	1	1799	3	0
70	Anglo-Saxon	Englisc	ang	1	39	1667	1	627	0	0

Grand Total

Articles	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Files
4,162,561	13,006,054	44,183,863	312	3,852,691	57,307

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