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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	Polish	Polski	pl	911238	945088	2799553	15	30986	71	101
2	English	English	en	880197	3518760	11408980	24	2997179	450	19570
3	Russian	Русский	ru	540984	921702	4097721	5	100030	103	1126
4	German	Deutsch	de	473361	520235	3798066	17	69157	112	5532
5	French	Français	fr	431061	3462888	11491437	17	117525	221	6283
6	Chinese	中文	zh	368551	1017582	2017991	7	86335	146	234
7	Hebrew	עברית	he	197532	385374	1101132	15	30421	98	402
8	Italian	Italiano	it	162458	652782	2797306	7	59035	105	952
9	Spanish	Español	es	114237	247910	1161905	9	76855	60	258
10	Arabic	العربية	ar	79849	166928	312829	8	55272	30	4057
11	Ukrainian	Українська	uk	78596	175055	366253	6	12076	39	133
12	Czech	Čeština	cs	51260	74584	268305	4	14688	21	5
13	Gujarati	ગુજરાતી	gu	36135	40695	150763	3	3192	12	0
14	Portuguese	Português	pt	33452	127366	457731	3	31899	32	14
15	Serbian	Српски / Srpski	sr	30366	34245	101956	5	12950	12	378
16	Persian	فارسی	fa	22862	40866	125541	4	30151	22	1
17	Hungarian	Magyar	hu	21468	37336	97543	4	9461	12	34
18	Swedish	Svenska	sv	21231	128403	450824	4	12059	23	18
19	Korean	한국어	ko	19537	40747	221126	3	14173	25	616
20	Malayalam	മലയാളം	ml	19490	70420	210090	4	10927	16	605
21	Bengali	বাংলা	bn	18484	737990	1550392	4	14540	42	8653
22	Sanskrit	संस्कृतम्	sa	18115	116380	312803	3	6825	24	64
23	Telugu	తెలుగు	te	16561	106537	356218	5	4894	19	419
24	Tamil	தமிழ்	ta	16529	433907	1324166	4	9392	185	42
25	Slovenian	Slovenščina	sl	16155	33220	200793	4	8467	19	346
26	Armenian	Հայերեն	hy	15330	119458	339061	3	10236	47	64
27	Greek	Ελληνικά	el	14675	35922	140660	6	16148	20	4
28	Turkish	Türkçe	tr	12753	21927	116415	3	18025	30	65
29	Romanian	Română	ro	12245	34554	125500	3	18284	12	227
30	Finnish	Suomi	fi	12102	18774	120851	4	6175	20	52
31	Japanese	日本語	ja	11893	32089	174217	4	32142	47	0
32	Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt	vi	11721	28597	95255	3	13216	16	1
33	Neapolitan	Nnapulitano	nap	11644	13105	81053	3	1099	6	0
34	Azerbaijani	Azərbaycanca	az	9345	19684	76727	2	8552	14	1
35	Latin	Latina	la	9187	43674	152086	8	22278	34	47
36	Catalan	Català	ca	9035	46302	151217	4	8358	24	2
37	Breton	Brezhoneg	br	8803	56605	170305	3	2196	9	0
38	Dutch	Nederlands	nl	8659	31020	112957	3	12588	25	1
39	Kannada	ಕನ್ನಡ	kn	7244	89620	234035	2	6318	6	6
40	Croatian	Hrvatski	hr	6461	14570	58980	4	5769	7	434
41	Thai	ไทย	th	6241	29990	158170	3	9357	19	32
42	Norwegian (Bokmål)	Norsk (Bokmål)	no	5866	73550	208824	2	4903	9	825
43	Esperanto	Esperanto	eo	5476	14096	45570	2	3961	13	37
44	Icelandic	Íslenska	is	4948	7055	15433	2	2760	7	9
45	Venetian	Vèneto	vec	4637	14305	71556	3	3772	6	1
46	Piedmontese	Piemontèis	pms	3982	4721	20360	1	663	6	0
47	Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesia	id	3948	20449	80376	5	16757	29	264
48	Hindi	हिन्दी	hi	3760	147104	456111	4	3030	57	0
49	Belarusian	Беларуская	be	3632	11691	36815	2	3003	9	1
50	Estonian	Eesti	et	3246	22634	58807	2	3102	11	48
51	Ligurian	Lìgure	lij	3246	10964	36135	1	577	2	0
52	Danish	Dansk	da	3212	28262	71489	2	7806	10	12
53	Macedonian	Македонски	mk	2900	7254	18707	2	2925	3	4
54	Yiddish	ייִדיש	yi	2625	5479	20052	1	2595	6	1056
55	Assamese	অসমীয়া	as	2290	51018	120427	2	2492	22	8
56	Marathi	मराठी	mr	2245	65255	125904	2	3965	13	15
57	Bulgarian	Български	bg	2228	3870	17164	4	4719	9	9
58	Limburgish	Limburgs	li	1885	3354	7052	1	1807	4	1
59	Lithuanian	Lietuvių	lt	1738	3068	11388	3	2960	7	1
60	Walloon	Walon	wa	1227	3471	20358	1	354	4	0
61	Basque	Euskara	eu	1143	6126	24375	1	807	9	0
62	Oriya	ଓଡ଼ିଆ	or	1049	10978	52723	2	2122	10	0
63	Punjabi	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ	pa	946	48890	129125	4	1430	29	198
64	Welsh	Cymraeg	cy	729	3517	10142	2	2768	7	3
65	Galician	Galego	gl	681	3637	20826	4	2955	6	64
66	Bosnian	Bosanski	bs	610	3256	11646	1	2734	4	62
67	Sakha	Саха тыла (Saxa Tyla)	sah	594	1635	7381	1	1711	3	2
68	Slovak	Slovenčina	sk	455	1425	8291	3	3205	6	1
69	Min Nan	Bân-lâm-gú	zh-min-nan	48	3144	9224	1	2171	6	2
70	Haitian	Krèyol ayisyen	ht	12	116	2081	1	491	1	2
71	Faroese	Føroyskt	fo	10	545	3310	1	1967	5	0
72	Anglo-Saxon	Englisc	ang	1	40	1668	1	717	1	0

Grand Total

Articles	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Files
4,816,416	15,253,800	51,212,233	306	4,104,459	53,404

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