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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.

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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

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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.

Historical discussion

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Please see the talk page.

See also

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