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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	1006121	1041324	3112923	15	33295	69	118
2	English	English	en	951385	3811057	12364290	22	3036735	360	19505
3	Russian	Русский	ru	604893	1055989	4496124	5	106243	89	55754
4	German	Deutsch	de	513142	562539	4057048	17	74391	112	6149
5	French	Français	fr	469692	3710586	12486426	18	127251	226	4287
6	Chinese	中文	zh	396264	1047887	2111980	7	92813	141	233
7	Hebrew	עברית	he	229851	445767	1401540	15	33350	100	457
8	Italian	Italiano	it	176469	696587	2990218	8	63809	90	955
9	Spanish	Español	es	118318	259423	1232880	10	81463	61	236
10	Arabic	العربية	ar	81217	207432	397576	9	59425	28	4054
11	Ukrainian	Українська	uk	80138	200118	443010	6	13666	31	135
12	Czech	Čeština	cs	54101	78918	279472	4	16317	18	7
13	Gujarati	ગુજરાતી	gu	40636	45518	164639	2	3453	15	0
14	Serbian	Српски / Srpski	sr	36802	40849	117083	5	13629	23	378
15	Portuguese	Português	pt	33848	130129	464307	2	34387	28	14
16	Swedish	Svenska	sv	24256	149547	496840	4	13697	23	18
17	Persian	فارسی	fa	23178	44806	137344	4	32105	16	1
18	Hungarian	Magyar	hu	21557	37618	98952	4	10534	10	34
19	Korean	한국어	ko	20894	50831	247516	3	15209	29	616
20	Bengali	বাংলা	bn	20345	738963	1679954	4	16034	31	8492
21	Malayalam	മലയാളം	ml	20124	71778	214294	4	11401	15	605
22	Sanskrit	संस्कृतम्	sa	18986	123075	338190	3	7676	103	64
23	Tamil	தமிழ்	ta	18266	440324	1420344	3	11219	47	42
24	Telugu	తెలుగు	te	17409	121338	389690	5	5275	18	456
25	Slovenian	Slovenščina	sl	16804	34083	205392	4	8882	19	346
26	Turkish	Türkçe	tr	16076	26276	150762	3	19364	22	120
27	Armenian	Հայերեն	hy	15479	121984	345429	3	10965	42	64
28	Greek	Ελληνικά	el	15117	37845	146046	6	17441	31	4
29	Latin	Latina	la	14841	52414	180008	7	24062	27	47
30	Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt	vi	14034	39947	133417	3	15199	25	1
31	Japanese	日本語	ja	12591	34449	186220	4	35497	45	0
32	Romanian	Română	ro	12457	35110	127927	3	19062	12	227
33	Finnish	Suomi	fi	12375	19078	122417	4	6554	12	52
34	Neapolitan	Nnapulitano	nap	12302	13840	84318	3	1279	9	0
35	Dutch	Nederlands	nl	10410	35815	124831	3	14189	16	1
36	Azerbaijani	Azərbaycanca	az	9391	19827	77828	2	9585	18	1
37	Catalan	Català	ca	9310	48368	159169	4	9627	15	2
38	Breton	Brezhoneg	br	9023	57321	173877	3	2314	7	0
39	Kannada	ಕನ್ನಡ	kn	7260	90123	235934	2	6722	11	6
40	Croatian	Hrvatski	hr	6733	14794	59550	4	6037	8	434
41	Norwegian (Bokmål)	Norsk (Bokmål)	no	6639	81815	218735	2	5121	13	825
42	Belarusian	Беларуская	be	6070	19716	58182	2	3519	12	0
43	Thai	ไทย	th	5958	34243	184459	3	9799	23	30
44	Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesia	id	5913	25657	97450	5	19905	36	294
45	Esperanto	Esperanto	eo	5430	16851	62557	2	4269	17	33
46	Hindi	हिन्दी	hi	5378	154495	494645	4	3555	23	2
47	Icelandic	Íslenska	is	4949	7150	15862	2	2902	9	9
48	Venetian	Vèneto	vec	4705	14463	72343	3	4025	6	1
49	Piedmontese	Piemontèis	pms	4110	4856	21047	1	806	9	0
50	Balinese	Bali	ban	3781	27115	96663	1	698	32	0
51	Ligurian	Lìgure	lij	3408	12144	37818	1	657	5	0
52	Danish	Dansk	da	3372	31482	76878	2	9193	12	12
53	Estonian	Eesti	et	3249	22641	58979	2	3280	5	48
54	Marathi	मराठी	mr	2948	68397	147438	2	4406	22	15
55	Macedonian	Македонски	mk	2909	7354	19269	2	3107	5	4
56	Welsh	Cymraeg	cy	2868	14793	33249	2	3246	13	3
57	Yiddish	ייִדיש	yi	2626	5396	20162	1	2724	6	1056
58	Assamese	অসমীয়া	as	2475	57865	154844	2	2905	25	11
59	Bulgarian	Български	bg	2250	3910	17583	3	5023	4	9
60	Limburgish	Limburgs	li	1885	3358	7104	1	1877	5	1
61	Lithuanian	Lietuvių	lt	1747	3095	11595	3	3106	7	1
62	Javanese	Basa Jawa	jv	1733	6798	22103	1	708	6	167
63	Walloon	Walon	wa	1669	5077	29353	1	484	7	0
64	Punjabi	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ	pa	1559	52457	139448	6	1577	23	204
65	Basque	Euskara	eu	1219	6192	25706	1	930	6	0
66	Oriya	ଓଡ଼ିଆ	or	1193	11156	53867	2	2257	10	0
67	Galician	Galego	gl	690	3647	20888	4	3099	7	64
68	Bosnian	Bosanski	bs	610	3261	11708	1	2876	4	62
69	Sakha	Саха тыла (Saxa Tyla)	sah	594	1639	7453	1	1806	6	2
70	Slovak	Slovenčina	sk	466	1470	8507	2	3336	6	1
71	Min Nan	Bân-lâm-gú	zh-min-nan	49	3156	9295	1	2304	4	2
72	Haitian	Krèyol ayisyen	ht	12	116	2081	1	492	0	2
73	Faroese	Føroyskt	fo	10	549	3369	1	2052	5	0
74	Anglo-Saxon	Ænglisc	ang	1	40	1668	1	718	0	0

Grand Total

Articles	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Files
5,264,570	16,506,031	55,898,073	306	4,236,918	106,773

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