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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 1,187,206 1,226,046 3,774,243 15 39,343 73 129
2 English en 1,073,186 4,585,457 14,962,956 22 3,161,621 456 16,588
3 Russian ru 626,151 1,100,333 5,378,700 5 126,095 110 32,991
4 French fr 602,500 4,443,511 15,015,805 16 152,949 250 3,643
5 German de 587,845 641,441 4,470,421 17 86,096 102 6,923
6 Chinese zh 476,172 1,143,796 2,514,348 8 112,252 145 230
7 Ukrainian uk 303,614 453,579 895,611 5 19,036 66 136
8 Hebrew he 246,827 1,653,209 2,912,542 16 42,011 84 551
9 Italian it 205,978 820,503 3,496,007 9 75,483 88 686
10 Arabic ar 84,803 245,446 526,187 9 69,433 63 4,036
11 Spanish es 84,659 304,802 1,546,150 8 92,282 46 231
12 Multilingual www 74,184 210,920 1,109,979 13 428,363 167 975
13 Gujarati gu 64,221 70,226 214,929 2 4,276 9 0
14 Czech cs 59,546 88,009 308,081 3 19,109 22 7
15 Serbian sr 42,839 47,275 138,289 4 15,489 11 361
16 Portuguese pt 37,730 157,901 533,204 3 40,348 40 16
17 Armenian hy 35,863 146,197 388,797 4 13,066 18 62
18 Bangla bn 35,394 655,734 1,867,017 4 20,183 33 6,100
19 Swedish sv 29,975 196,028 592,571 4 18,101 19 9
20 Persian fa 27,989 73,231 275,544 3 38,238 28 0
21 Tamil ta 27,952 599,834 1,791,935 4 15,324 42 41
22 Belarusian be 26,866 104,569 253,229 2 4,809 19 0
23 Korean ko 23,108 80,708 385,588 5 18,196 30 209
24 Hungarian hu 21,769 39,067 102,983 3 11,903 10 27
25 Telugu te 20,578 158,469 467,423 4 6,500 116 556
26 Malayalam ml 20,562 76,222 225,865 3 12,773 43 598
27 Sanskrit sa 20,069 161,857 407,885 2 9,554 17 64
28 Turkish tr 19,724 30,928 170,646 2 24,384 25 120
29 Latin la 18,889 67,541 230,648 5 29,508 34 48
30 Dutch nl 18,470 70,887 205,100 3 16,670 14 0
31 Slovenian sl 17,890 35,653 221,305 5 10,036 15 341
32 Vietnamese vi 17,796 61,334 191,467 3 18,822 19 2
33 Japanese ja 15,827 42,768 228,110 4 42,842 33 0
34 Romanian ro 14,715 40,335 141,832 2 21,357 21 227
35 Finnish fi 13,389 20,508 127,019 3 7,572 11 53
36 Neapolitan nap 12,820 14,492 89,713 3 2,429 4 0
37 Greek el 12,354 42,484 158,186 6 20,920 18 4
38 Welsh cy 11,235 61,714 131,404 2 3,852 4 3
39 Azerbaijani az 10,852 23,480 92,082 2 11,840 16 1
40 Breton br 10,080 62,736 193,602 3 2,760 7 0
41 Catalan ca 10,035 53,258 178,029 3 11,429 9 5
42 Croatian hr 9,472 15,441 61,754 3 6,987 7 434
43 Norwegian no 8,546 102,038 250,444 2 5,911 9 824
44 Thai th 8,499 52,696 251,351 3 11,557 11 28
45 Indonesian id 7,937 76,523 246,055 7 25,547 63 302
46 Kannada kn 7,264 94,371 268,343 2 7,927 50 19
47 Georgian ka 6,727 7,786 77,182 0 525 9 0
48 Esperanto eo 6,689 30,849 105,317 2 5,052 8 27
49 Hindi hi 5,864 175,095 620,808 5 5,393 13 3
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,383 80,286 2 4,545 4 0
51 Marathi mr 5,150 105,460 218,010 2 5,612 21 15
52 Balinese ban 5,092 34,055 116,217 1 1,424 8 0
53 Icelandic is 4,705 6,150 29,684 1 3,449 7 9
54 Piedmontese pms 4,403 5,284 37,186 1 1,240 5 0
55 Ligurian lij 4,183 15,774 44,707 1 1,033 5 0
56 Burmese my 4,102 5,379 17,672 1 346 6 0
57 Danish da 3,493 32,362 80,334 1 10,751 11 6
58 Estonian et 3,253 22,689 59,244 2 3,888 4 48
59 Macedonian mk 3,034 7,774 21,289 2 3,675 3 4
60 Assamese as 2,852 71,740 201,402 3 3,994 32 86
61 Yiddish yi 2,632 5,458 20,482 1 3,247 4 1,056
62 Javanese jv 2,475 18,715 65,198 3 1,541 48 149
63 Walloon wa 2,309 6,040 34,384 1 852 6 0
64 Bulgarian bg 2,292 3,990 18,418 1 5,923 7 7
65 Limburgish li 1,885 3,368 7,253 1 2,179 2 1
66 Lithuanian lt 1,757 3,142 12,184 2 3,671 5 1
67 Punjabi pa 1,730 64,570 188,987 6 2,241 21 212
68 Basque eu 1,382 6,448 26,935 1 1,362 8 0
69 Odia or 1,287 11,964 58,674 2 2,824 7 0
70 Malay ms 884 5,660 16,509 2 913 12 0
71 Galician gl 705 3,760 21,556 2 3,579 6 64
72 Bosnian bs 613 3,270 11,943 1 3,381 3 62
73 Yakut sah 603 1,687 7,739 1 2,174 3 2
74 Slovak sk 488 1,534 9,330 2 3,760 5 1
75 Sundanese su 302 12,403 46,354 2 899 55 0
76 Minnan zh-min-nan 153 3,539 11,011 1 2,724 3 2
77 Tulu tcy 110 3,492 18,313 2 339 52 0
78 Central Bikol bcl 78 2,125 9,171 1 260 6 0
79 Faroese fo 9 555 3,548 1 2,404 2 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,380,419 21,155,057 70,290,706 313 5,030,383 2,868 79,335

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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