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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	852398	885126	2634976	16	28903	66	65
2	English	English	en	822462	3241919	10589681	26	2965838	373	19745
3	Russian	Русский	ru	523470	883690	4000311	5	95144	88	904
4	German	Deutsch	de	459848	505388	3690635	18	65140	114	5327
5	French	Français	fr	402830	3267631	10818564	17	110756	258	6113
6	Chinese	中文	zh	357025	998046	1942872	7	82156	134	234
7	Hebrew	עברית	he	185595	365224	994445	17	27830	91	398
8	Italian	Italiano	it	153359	619732	2691376	7	54678	87	976
9	Spanish	Español	es	115241	243347	1128848	9	73505	77	373
10	Arabic	العربية	ar	79451	162184	301937	8	51190	20	4061
11	Ukrainian	Українська	uk	67947	122035	242748	4	10876	30	30
12	Czech	Čeština	cs	49270	70937	257608	3	13328	27	5
13	Gujarati	ગુજરાતી	gu	32457	36526	137447	3	2792	13	0
14	Portuguese	Português	pt	32153	112545	429297	3	30121	28	15
15	Serbian	Српски / Srpski	sr	27018	30834	94941	4	12356	15	378
16	Persian	فارسی	fa	24017	37903	109591	4	28297	15	1
17	Hungarian	Magyar	hu	21371	37082	96615	4	8852	10	35
18	Swedish	Svenska	sv	20089	117789	430134	4	10893	22	18
19	Malayalam	മലയാളം	ml	19161	69942	206817	5	10558	19	604
20	Korean	한국어	ko	18759	39238	213665	3	13433	28	616
21	Bengali	বাংলা	bn	18489	747924	1464940	4	13005	34	8772
22	Sanskrit	संस्कृतम्	sa	17274	106656	280954	3	6269	47	63
23	Slovenian	Slovenščina	sl	15584	32290	193216	4	8115	93	346
24	Telugu	తెలుగు	te	15499	91121	318380	5	4583	15	395
25	Armenian	Հայերեն	hy	15354	117595	334515	3	9565	50	64
26	Tamil	தமிழ்	ta	14665	429215	1179708	4	8120	64	42
27	Greek	Ελληνικά	el	14266	34517	136353	6	15129	11	4
28	Romanian	Română	ro	11934	33980	122801	3	17550	17	227
29	Finnish	Suomi	fi	11878	18521	119692	4	5858	11	52
30	Japanese	日本語	ja	11724	30183	164417	5	29622	42	0
31	Thai	ไทย	th	11507	34351	136286	3	8978	13	54
32	Neapolitan	Nnapulitano	nap	11321	12757	79195	3	972	6	0
33	Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt	vi	10947	25955	87047	3	12226	16	1
34	Turkish	Türkçe	tr	9881	17677	96550	3	16821	22	14
35	Azerbaijani	Azərbaycanca	az	9327	19614	75511	3	7622	11	1
36	Breton	Brezhoneg	br	8377	54779	164410	3	2095	6	0
37	Latin	Latina	la	8361	39173	140952	8	21061	17	47
38	Catalan	Català	ca	7883	43235	138721	3	7752	14	2
39	Dutch	Nederlands	nl	7759	26939	100886	3	11765	29	1
40	Kannada	ಕನ್ನಡ	kn	7161	87350	226705	2	6091	13	6
41	Croatian	Hrvatski	hr	6438	14534	58638	5	5520	9	434
42	Esperanto	Esperanto	eo	5417	13893	44737	1	3699	12	37
43	Norwegian (Bokmål)	Norsk (Bokmål)	no	5303	68585	189036	2	4712	3	825
44	Icelandic	Íslenska	is	4932	6950	15134	2	2633	1	9
45	Venetian	Vèneto	vec	4390	13429	70186	3	3316	3	1
46	Piedmontese	Piemontèis	pms	3900	4621	19748	1	570	3	0
47	Estonian	Eesti	et	3239	22559	58464	2	2969	5	48
48	Belarusian	Беларуская	be	3209	10713	33485	2	2749	4	1
49	Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesia	id	3146	14399	63294	5	15151	27	269
50	Danish	Dansk	da	3010	26387	68181	2	7047	8	12
51	Ligurian	Líguru	lij	2887	9995	33884	1	470	2	0
52	Macedonian	Македонски	mk	2852	6998	17730	2	2761	1	4
53	Hindi	हिन्दी	hi	2756	136635	411538	3	2318	26	0
54	Yiddish	ייִדיש	yi	2625	5385	19866	1	2487	5	1056
55	Marathi	मराठी	mr	2226	63966	111309	3	3669	21	15
56	Bulgarian	Български	bg	2209	3797	16480	1	4458	12	9
57	Assamese	অসমীয়া	as	2103	45760	91809	3	2248	31	8
58	Limburgish	Limburgs	li	1885	3352	6986	1	1751	2	1
59	Lithuanian	Lietuvių	lt	1693	3001	11140	3	2822	2	3
60	Basque	Euskara	eu	981	4161	15917	1	658	7	0
61	Oriya	ଓଡ଼ିଆ	or	905	10807	47572	2	1987	8	0
62	Punjabi	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ	pa	863	44257	117577	4	1272	23	197
63	Galician	Galego	gl	671	3573	20338	4	2843	3	64
64	Bosnian	Bosanski	bs	607	3235	11515	1	2626	3	62
65	Sakha	Саха тыла (Saxa Tyla)	sah	587	1607	7269	1	1635	3	2
66	Slovak	Slovenčina	sk	447	1415	8145	3	3107	3	1
67	Welsh	Cymraeg	cy	321	2366	8027	2	2627	4	3
68	Min Nan	Bân-lâm-gú	zh-min-nan	46	3082	9056	1	2065	4	2
69	Haitian	Krèyol ayisyen	ht	12	116	2081	1	489	0	2
70	Faroese	Føroyskt	fo	10	544	3223	1	1886	1	0
71	Anglo-Saxon	Englisc	ang	1	40	1668	1	714	0	0

Grand Total

Articles	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Files
4,572,783	14,401,112	48,167,780	307	4,003,104	53,054

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