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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 1,170,820 1,209,516 3,724,164 15 38,781 60 129
2 English en 1,083,315 4,500,210 14,728,523 21 3,149,836 467 16,208
3 Russian ru 624,387 1,095,261 5,201,601 5 124,303 94 33,042
4 German de 581,575 635,025 4,442,625 17 85,245 97 6,923
5 French fr 575,998 4,372,457 14,786,935 15 150,964 253 3,662
6 Chinese zh 471,485 1,130,687 2,480,285 8 110,690 156 230
7 Ukrainian uk 282,504 428,111 846,096 6 18,498 72 135
8 Hebrew he 246,672 1,652,064 2,894,733 16 41,264 97 548
9 Italian it 202,504 803,342 3,441,384 9 74,489 79 723
10 Spanish es 84,461 286,069 1,498,861 9 91,512 47 231
11 Arabic ar 84,309 240,733 514,846 9 68,758 52 4,041
12 Multilingual www 79,620 213,819 1,095,322 12 417,419 139 979
13 Gujarati gu 63,012 68,917 212,789 2 4,186 14 0
14 Czech cs 59,075 87,418 306,167 3 18,888 20 7
15 Serbian sr 42,816 47,252 137,901 4 15,324 7 362
16 Portuguese pt 36,998 153,813 522,499 3 39,832 33 16
17 Bangla bn 34,468 675,531 1,849,449 4 19,877 50 6,271
18 Swedish sv 29,368 191,633 584,170 4 17,932 27 9
19 Persian fa 27,804 70,008 263,040 3 37,817 18 0
20 Tamil ta 27,143 591,633 1,763,649 4 15,106 50 41
21 Belarusian be 26,584 100,933 244,712 2 4,688 20 0
22 Korean ko 24,563 78,843 347,647 4 17,939 38 607
23 Hungarian hu 21,751 39,037 102,846 4 11,797 9 27
24 Malayalam ml 20,546 74,811 223,252 3 12,577 58 594
25 Telugu te 20,345 153,795 456,867 4 6,288 23 559
26 Sanskrit sa 20,062 161,827 406,817 2 9,392 67 64
27 Turkish tr 19,654 30,588 169,173 2 23,930 22 121
28 Latin la 18,498 66,189 223,996 6 28,959 31 48
29 Armenian hy 18,382 128,307 365,443 4 12,835 21 64
30 Slovenian sl 17,858 35,624 221,015 5 9,921 7 341
31 Dutch nl 17,842 65,604 197,988 3 16,475 14 0
32 Vietnamese vi 17,385 59,245 186,129 3 18,537 19 2
33 Japanese ja 15,481 42,019 225,743 4 42,203 41 0
34 Romanian ro 14,590 39,924 140,945 3 21,078 17 227
35 Finnish fi 13,309 20,410 126,787 4 7,470 8 53
36 Neapolitan nap 12,753 14,412 89,091 3 2,350 5 0
37 Greek el 12,312 42,185 157,148 6 20,553 22 4
38 Azerbaijani az 10,814 22,560 89,607 2 11,680 17 1
39 Catalan ca 9,918 52,390 176,434 3 11,282 34 5
40 Breton br 9,892 61,604 190,133 3 2,700 8 0
41 Welsh cy 9,881 56,505 121,818 3 3,784 4 3
42 Croatian hr 9,464 15,406 61,690 3 6,888 9 434
43 Thai th 8,231 50,663 242,959 3 11,364 15 28
44 Norwegian no 7,879 95,981 238,275 2 5,817 7 825
45 Indonesian id 7,683 63,701 206,010 7 25,098 113 302
46 Kannada kn 7,249 94,074 266,282 2 7,761 11 19
47 Esperanto eo 6,641 29,665 101,098 2 4,968 11 27
48 Hindi hi 5,848 174,747 618,546 5 5,275 15 3
49 Venetian vec 5,764 19,249 80,056 2 4,469 4 0
50 Marathi mr 5,034 103,132 210,758 2 5,502 11 15
51 Balinese ban 5,015 33,923 115,755 1 1,349 16 0
52 Icelandic is 4,694 5,985 29,445 1 3,381 3 9
53 Piedmontese pms 4,369 5,242 36,041 1 1,183 4 0
54 Ligurian lij 4,090 15,402 44,155 1 982 5 0
55 Burmese my 3,983 5,220 17,044 1 244 4 0
56 Danish da 3,478 32,228 79,859 1 10,634 6 6
57 Estonian et 3,253 22,688 59,226 2 3,817 2 48
58 Assamese as 3,190 71,427 197,567 3 3,844 33 86
59 Macedonian mk 3,020 7,759 21,194 2 3,607 4 4
60 Yiddish yi 2,632 5,463 20,464 1 3,173 2 1,056
61 Javanese jv 2,450 14,885 49,182 1 1,433 7 149
62 Bulgarian bg 2,292 3,990 18,349 3 5,846 7 7
63 Walloon wa 2,259 5,973 33,992 2 798 6 0
64 Limburgish li 1,885 3,367 7,246 1 2,134 2 1
65 Lithuanian lt 1,756 3,141 12,153 2 3,600 6 1
66 Punjabi pa 1,691 63,969 184,611 6 2,174 32 212
67 Basque eu 1,380 6,395 26,691 1 1,307 3 0
68 Odia or 1,283 11,731 58,145 2 2,768 7 0
69 Malay ms 752 4,351 14,341 2 757 21 0
70 Georgian ka 748 932 5,620 0 339 1 0
71 Galician gl 701 3,739 21,490 2 3,523 4 64
72 Bosnian bs 613 3,272 11,929 1 3,324 3 62
73 Yakut sah 603 1,680 7,704 1 2,120 5 2
74 Slovak sk 487 1,517 9,282 2 3,698 6 1
75 Sundanese su 276 6,727 27,138 2 773 7 0
76 Minnan zh-min-nan 154 3,527 10,979 1 2,653 5 2
77 Central Bikol bcl 97 1,969 8,944 1 151 3 0
78 Tulu tcy 88 2,076 12,135 1 207 20 0
79 Faroese fo 9 554 3,540 1 2,357 3 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,281,795 20,796,061 68,928,525 316 4,986,477 2,740 79,640

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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