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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,214,638
1,253,806
3,854,655
14
39,788
67
127
2
English
en
1,102,981
4,650,284
15,145,007
20
3,171,709
437
16,628
3
French
fr
616,520
4,492,614
15,185,552
16
154,670
235
3,792
4
Russian
ru
616,466
1,114,988
5,571,593
5
127,696
96
32,963
5
German
de
594,062
647,889
4,514,957
17
86,904
108
6,922
6
Chinese
zh
479,073
1,153,439
2,543,221
8
113,814
187
230
7
Ukrainian
uk
325,443
480,043
935,530
6
19,574
74
136
8
Hebrew
he
250,359
1,658,079
2,941,702
16
42,641
74
554
9
Italian
it
208,772
831,121
3,538,242
9
76,485
83
686
10
Spanish
es
85,482
309,433
1,559,827
8
92,985
46
231
11
Arabic
ar
85,003
246,828
531,179
9
70,018
39
4,036
12
Multilingual
www
74,636
226,304
1,158,306
12
437,851
217
970
13
Gujarati
gu
64,387
70,432
215,780
2
4,326
5
0
14
Czech
cs
59,771
88,314
308,703
3
19,279
17
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,976
47,448
139,715
4
15,625
9
361
16
Portuguese
pt
37,964
159,506
537,358
4
40,779
31
16
17
Bangla
bn
36,500
644,646
1,888,932
4
20,460
44
5,790
18
Armenian
hy
35,880
146,236
390,375
4
13,221
12
62
19
Swedish
sv
30,558
200,185
599,828
5
18,241
24
8
20
Tamil
ta
29,415
609,614
1,832,250
4
15,472
49
32
21
Persian
fa
28,126
74,519
278,614
3
38,571
20
0
22
Belarusian
be
27,232
107,009
258,889
2
4,890
15
0
23
Korean
ko
23,622
83,432
392,266
5
18,457
45
209
24
Hungarian
hu
21,777
39,112
103,242
3
11,966
8
27
25
Telugu
te
21,432
171,740
492,048
4
6,599
35
546
26
Sanskrit
sa
20,215
162,007
409,193
2
9,682
13
64
27
Malayalam
ml
20,076
76,716
230,037
4
12,879
15
599
28
Turkish
tr
19,776
31,063
171,345
2
24,763
31
122
29
Latin
la
19,145
68,073
233,645
5
30,029
31
48
30
Dutch
nl
18,936
73,600
209,255
3
16,786
16
0
31
Vietnamese
vi
18,191
63,217
195,895
3
19,048
23
2
32
Slovenian
sl
17,956
35,713
221,966
5
10,118
10
341
33
Japanese
ja
16,081
43,389
230,211
4
43,456
38
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,924
41,328
143,967
3
21,537
15
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,456
20,590
127,239
3
7,637
8
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,845
14,518
90,028
3
2,467
6
0
37
Welsh
cy
12,828
66,796
140,752
2
3,906
8
3
38
Greek
el
12,417
43,614
161,134
6
21,216
23
4
39
Azerbaijani
az
11,149
24,002
93,632
2
12,030
56
1
40
Catalan
ca
10,183
53,783
179,037
3
11,532
9
5
41
Breton
br
10,143
63,246
195,663
3
2,789
6
0
42
Croatian
hr
9,482
15,427
61,851
3
7,060
7
434
43
Norwegian
no
9,135
107,552
264,111
2
5,958
7
815
44
Thai
th
8,970
55,012
261,163
3
11,676
18
28
45
Indonesian
id
8,629
78,529
250,680
7
25,872
56
302
46
Kannada
kn
7,047
94,149
268,500
2
7,991
6
19
47
Esperanto
eo
6,776
31,859
109,224
2
5,137
13
28
48
Georgian
ka
6,740
7,807
77,244
0
585
3
0
49
Hindi
hi
5,865
175,296
621,081
5
5,476
10
3
50
Venetian
vec
5,798
19,382
80,308
2
4,583
4
0
51
Marathi
mr
5,230
106,380
221,986
2
5,677
15
15
52
Balinese
ban
5,168
34,214
116,781
1
1,464
15
0
53
Icelandic
is
4,705
6,149
29,702
1
3,492
4
9
54
Piedmontese
pms
4,405
5,289
37,409
1
1,271
3
0
55
Burmese
my
4,319
5,626
18,510
1
413
5
0
56
Ligurian
lij
4,213
15,896
44,880
1
1,053
4
0
57
Danish
da
3,493
32,369
80,488
2
10,832
6
6
58
Estonian
et
3,253
22,681
59,255
2
3,933
3
48
59
Macedonian
mk
3,038
7,780
21,311
2
3,707
3
4
60
Assamese
as
2,907
72,853
204,286
4
4,094
21
88
61
Javanese
jv
2,803
19,608
66,952
3
1,589
8
148
62
Yiddish
yi
2,633
5,460
20,496
1
3,286
3
1,056
63
Walloon
wa
2,344
6,089
34,652
1
871
4
0
64
Bulgarian
bg
2,294
3,995
18,456
1
5,971
5
7
65
Punjabi
pa
2,105
65,754
196,383
6
2,317
28
212
66
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,368
7,270
1
2,198
2
1
67
Lithuanian
lt
1,757
3,142
12,201
2
3,705
2
1
68
Basque
eu
1,395
6,735
27,975
1
1,397
11
0
69
Odia
or
1,293
12,036
58,969
2
2,861
6
0
70
Malay
ms
993
6,912
19,275
2
976
7
0
71
Galician
gl
709
3,766
21,607
2
3,608
3
64
72
Bosnian
bs
613
3,272
11,964
1
3,417
6
62
73
Yakut
sah
605
1,689
7,758
1
2,197
3
2
74
Slovak
sk
489
1,534
9,342
2
3,791
3
1
75
Sundanese
su
371
12,653
47,140
2
960
42
0
76
Minnan
zh-min-nan
153
3,550
11,035
1
2,743
3
2
77
Central Bikol
bcl
119
2,174
9,342
1
290
3
0
78
Tulu
tcy
109
3,543
18,570
2
374
5
0
79
Faroese
fo
9
555
3,560
1
2,426
2
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,493,248
21,448,761
71,382,487
316
5,067,147
2,634
79,157
Wikisources in Wikipedia
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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 .
The Swahili Wikipedia has adopted a Wikichanzo namespace for its Wikisource: Swahili Wikisource .