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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	892219	925672	2748955	16	30400	71	101
2	English	English	en	862867	3455294	11183193	26	2988121	400	19758
3	Russian	Русский	ru	528335	893225	4050136	5	98755	100	1008
4	German	Deutsch	de	468446	514952	3763216	17	68057	115	5328
5	French	Français	fr	423698	3413302	11265064	17	115645	241	6307
6	Chinese	中文	zh	363789	1006942	1999438	7	85101	111	234
7	Hebrew	עברית	he	190945	379456	1074434	15	29714	84	400
8	Italian	Italiano	it	160596	646078	2775759	7	57784	86	965
9	Spanish	Español	es	114070	244942	1151494	9	75824	49	266
10	Arabic	العربية	ar	79802	165368	309722	8	54058	32	4057
11	Ukrainian	Українська	uk	75604	169157	346951	5	11767	48	134
12	Czech	Čeština	cs	50516	73635	265834	4	14322	23	5
13	Gujarati	ગુજરાતી	gu	35176	39580	147606	3	3084	18	0
14	Portuguese	Português	pt	33392	126921	456374	3	31378	28	12
15	Serbian	Српски / Srpski	sr	30366	34239	101584	5	12770	19	378
16	Persian	فارسی	fa	22735	39767	122568	4	29621	26	1
17	Hungarian	Magyar	hu	21466	37328	97462	4	9342	6	34
18	Swedish	Svenska	sv	20770	124311	441338	4	11770	18	18
19	Malayalam	മലയാളം	ml	19428	70347	209698	4	10810	13	605
20	Korean	한국어	ko	19381	39881	218657	3	13962	24	616
21	Bengali	বাংলা	bn	18227	747736	1529182	4	14059	42	8762
22	Sanskrit	संस्कृतम्	sa	17820	115444	307224	3	6703	20	64
23	Telugu	తెలుగు	te	16290	102492	348522	5	4796	20	416
24	Tamil	தமிழ்	ta	16139	432486	1279931	4	9003	63	42
25	Slovenian	Slovenščina	sl	16092	33123	199798	4	8386	37	346
26	Armenian	Հայերեն	hy	15356	119067	337956	3	10058	66	64
27	Greek	Ελληνικά	el	14606	35381	139636	6	15855	16	4
28	Romanian	Română	ro	12143	34374	124816	2	18111	18	227
29	Finnish	Suomi	fi	12048	18713	120291	4	6074	10	52
30	Turkish	Türkçe	tr	12020	20797	111577	3	17687	36	37
31	Japanese	日本語	ja	12013	31426	169367	4	31441	43	0
32	Thai	ไทย	th	11881	37330	150420	3	9248	16	36
33	Neapolitan	Nnapulitano	nap	11560	13017	80600	3	1067	8	0
34	Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt	vi	11509	27320	91807	3	12941	17	1
35	Azerbaijani	Azərbaycanca	az	9344	19676	76574	2	8314	20	1
36	Catalan	Català	ca	8967	45847	149212	4	8152	19	2
37	Latin	Latina	la	8929	42272	148712	8	21926	31	47
38	Breton	Brezhoneg	br	8764	56527	169596	3	2165	8	0
39	Dutch	Nederlands	nl	8422	29959	110242	3	12330	17	1
40	Kannada	ಕನ್ನಡ	kn	7242	89542	233897	2	6250	7	6
41	Croatian	Hrvatski	hr	6450	14552	58882	4	5716	10	434
42	Norwegian (Bokmål)	Norsk (Bokmål)	no	5566	70526	198780	2	4840	8	825
43	Esperanto	Esperanto	eo	5472	14079	45478	2	3890	14	37
44	Icelandic	Íslenska	is	4932	6949	15196	2	2726	6	9
45	Venetian	Vèneto	vec	4419	13546	70443	3	3641	10	1
46	Piedmontese	Piemontèis	pms	3978	4714	20250	1	640	7	0
47	Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesia	id	3752	17019	68717	5	16330	32	269
48	Hindi	हिन्दी	hi	3374	144650	444413	4	2877	20	0
49	Belarusian	Беларуская	be	3304	10944	34558	2	2948	9	1
50	Ligurian	Lìgure	lij	3244	10966	36119	1	554	8	0
51	Estonian	Eesti	et	3225	22546	58546	2	3069	2	48
52	Danish	Dansk	da	3181	27884	70385	2	7605	11	12
53	Macedonian	Македонски	mk	2880	7188	18418	2	2880	3	4
54	Yiddish	ייִדיש	yi	2625	5476	20040	1	2571	3	1056
55	Assamese	অসমীয়া	as	2269	50799	116442	3	2405	17	8
56	Marathi	मराठी	mr	2242	65135	124348	3	3897	16	15
57	Bulgarian	Български	bg	2226	3864	17095	4	4656	11	9
58	Limburgish	Limburgs	li	1885	3352	7045	1	1795	4	1
59	Lithuanian	Lietuvių	lt	1736	3057	11345	3	2915	4	1
60	Walloon	Walon	wa	1120	3207	19079	1	329	9	0
61	Basque	Euskara	eu	1082	5925	23561	1	768	8	0
62	Oriya	ଓଡ଼ିଆ	or	941	10874	52224	2	2087	9	0
63	Punjabi	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ	pa	898	47794	125564	4	1370	16	198
64	Welsh	Cymraeg	cy	719	3424	9963	2	2737	8	3
65	Galician	Galego	gl	672	3585	20463	4	2922	5	64
66	Bosnian	Bosanski	bs	607	3250	11627	1	2704	8	62
67	Sakha	Саха тыла (Saxa Tyla)	sah	590	1621	7348	1	1691	3	2
68	Slovak	Slovenčina	sk	454	1423	8272	3	3178	7	1
69	Min Nan	Bân-lâm-gú	zh-min-nan	48	3142	9199	1	2142	5	2
70	Haitian	Krèyol ayisyen	ht	12	116	2081	1	490	0	2
71	Faroese	Føroyskt	fo	10	543	3304	1	1947	4	0
72	Anglo-Saxon	Englisc	ang	1	40	1668	1	716	0	0

Grand Total

Articles	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Files
4,736,887	15,035,116	50,339,696	309	4,075,887	53,399

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