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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	793906	825648	2495646	14	27467	48	65
2	English	English	en	781146	2995865	10063485	27	2940217	429	22648
3	Russian	Русский	ru	515984	869011	3936042	6	91188	89	866
4	German	Deutsch	de	450624	495501	3628388	18	61977	128	5133
5	French	Français	fr	378020	3117526	10357672	17	104884	284	7015
6	Chinese	中文	zh	327161	969848	1762491	7	78196	122	237
7	Hebrew	עברית	he	183686	359235	949204	17	25783	76	379
8	Italian	Italiano	it	144287	572868	2569110	7	51750	100	976
9	Spanish	Español	es	114276	235184	1057778	9	70157	83	386
10	Arabic	العربية	ar	79095	157398	292579	9	48013	42	4062
11	Czech	Čeština	cs	48576	68447	247449	3	12444	32	5
12	Portuguese	Português	pt	31227	101844	400000	3	28822	25	31
13	Gujarati	ગુજરાતી	gu	25897	29584	119805	3	2512	23	0
14	Ukrainian	Українська	uk	23803	97181	194880	4	9941	40	0
15	Persian	فارسی	fa	23204	35446	102171	3	26722	26	1
16	Hungarian	Magyar	hu	21086	36611	95004	4	8507	7	57
17	Malayalam	മലയാളം	ml	19103	69474	205097	5	10067	15	603
18	Swedish	Svenska	sv	18962	111830	419468	4	10259	19	18
19	Serbian	Српски / Srpski	sr	18894	22595	81313	4	11875	13	378
20	Korean	한국어	ko	18124	37996	205983	3	12692	23	616
21	Bengali	বাংলা	bn	16681	745612	1425643	4	11714	25	8759
22	Sanskrit	संस्कृतम्	sa	16559	91956	229648	3	5596	22	60
23	Armenian	Հայերեն	hy	15278	112552	325535	3	9021	152	64
24	Slovenian	Slovenščina	sl	14734	31154	185361	5	7786	32	346
25	Telugu	తెలుగు	te	14272	78649	291238	5	4283	18	359
26	Greek	Ελληνικά	el	13267	32409	131228	6	14339	17	4
27	Romanian	Română	ro	11826	33672	120930	2	17052	13	227
28	Finnish	Suomi	fi	11583	17704	117240	4	5612	15	52
29	Tamil	தமிழ்	ta	11424	428100	1080057	3	7282	86	40
30	Japanese	日本語	ja	11073	28047	154005	5	27491	32	0
31	Neapolitan	Nnapulitano	nap	10494	11840	76900	3	867	4	0
32	Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt	vi	10477	24513	82144	3	11660	13	1
33	Azerbaijani	Azərbaycanca	az	9177	19252	73849	3	7194	15	1
34	Breton	Brezhoneg	br	7656	51389	158002	3	2015	9	0
35	Catalan	Català	ca	7591	41032	133797	3	7361	19	2
36	Thai	ไทย	th	7352	31067	110280	3	8577	21	67
37	Dutch	Nederlands	nl	7313	24355	92622	3	11029	20	1
38	Kannada	ಕನ್ನಡ	kn	6979	85899	213551	2	5852	29	2
39	Croatian	Hrvatski	hr	6348	14413	58133	5	5282	12	434
40	Latin	Latina	la	6262	33200	120734	7	20044	16	47
41	Norwegian (Bokmål)	Norsk (Bokmål)	no	5211	67689	187785	2	4578	6	825
42	Icelandic	Íslenska	is	4931	6936	15078	2	2539	3	9
43	Esperanto	Esperanto	eo	4614	11281	39245	1	3501	13	37
44	Turkish	Türkçe	tr	4367	13972	79568	2	15762	27	2
45	Venetian	Vèneto	vec	4353	13311	69236	3	3067	5	1
46	Piedmontese	Piemontèis	pms	3770	4472	19197	1	481	4	0
47	Estonian	Eesti	et	3208	22470	57843	2	2843	8	48
48	Belarusian	Беларуская	be	3196	10563	32984	2	2561	10	1
49	Danish	Dansk	da	2937	25960	67026	2	6618	6	163
50	Macedonian	Македонски	mk	2853	6981	17573	2	2646	6	4
51	Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesia	id	2829	11434	54751	4	14039	26	269
52	Yiddish	ייִדיש	yi	2619	5367	19779	1	2380	4	1056
53	Bulgarian	Български	bg	2199	3771	16256	2	4261	9	9
54	Marathi	मराठी	mr	1907	36762	62710	1	3288	14	15
55	Limburgish	Limburgs	li	1885	3346	6951	1	1710	4	1
56	Assamese	অসমীয়া	as	1840	21372	45085	2	1910	11	7
57	Hindi	हिन्दी	hi	1414	71884	299234	3	1963	57	4
58	Lithuanian	Lietuvių	lt	840	2174	9776	3	2724	6	3
59	Oriya	ଓଡ଼ିଆ	or	797	10515	45652	2	1838	9	0
60	Punjabi	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ	pa	727	41557	101478	5	1145	26	194
61	Basque	Euskara	eu	719	3816	14848	2	575	3	0
62	Galician	Galego	gl	658	3541	20174	4	2746	6	65
63	Bosnian	Bosanski	bs	606	3227	11457	1	2532	3	62
64	Sakha	Саха тыла (Saxa Tyla)	sah	587	1603	7219	1	1570	10	2
65	Slovak	Slovenčina	sk	447	1404	8082	3	3026	6	1
66	Welsh	Cymraeg	cy	227	1820	7080	2	2517	6	3
67	Min Nan	Bân-lâm-gú	zh-min-nan	46	3013	8960	1	1990	3	2
68	Haitian	Krèyol ayisyen	ht	12	119	2079	1	452	0	5
69	Faroese	Føroyskt	fo	10	541	3191	1	1834	3	0
70	Anglo-Saxon	Englisc	ang	1	40	1668	1	685	0	0

Grand Total

Articles	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Files
4,293,217	13,556,848	45,696,427	302	3,921,311	56,730

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