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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 .
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
1,146,772
1,184,715
3,642,460
15
38,128
55
128
2
English
en
1,059,000
4,377,858
14,360,595
23
3,135,299
390
16,218
3
Russian
ru
622,409
1,090,289
5,157,476
5
122,322
81
33,016
4
German
de
571,774
624,797
4,393,040
17
84,167
101
6,922
5
French
fr
546,938
4,257,662
14,415,940
16
148,345
253
3,650
6
Chinese
zh
465,592
1,110,808
2,412,279
8
108,291
131
231
7
Hebrew
he
245,414
1,691,403
2,868,867
16
40,192
92
543
8
Ukrainian
uk
238,451
385,799
749,904
7
17,851
49
134
9
Italian
it
200,040
791,716
3,386,831
9
73,149
76
762
10
Arabic
ar
84,161
233,884
499,631
9
67,799
32
4,050
11
Spanish
es
84,070
277,816
1,468,754
9
90,348
34
233
12
Multilingual
www
82,168
214,676
1,050,022
13
402,777
183
979
13
Gujarati
gu
62,674
68,447
210,945
2
4,074
8
0
14
Czech
cs
58,631
86,577
301,722
3
18,638
24
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,783
47,201
137,444
4
15,128
12
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,454
149,959
511,456
3
39,086
49
16
17
Bangla
bn
33,489
728,318
1,826,138
4
19,355
39
6,407
18
Swedish
sv
28,815
185,353
565,731
4
17,654
18
9
19
Persian
fa
27,512
67,840
241,121
3
37,199
24
1
20
Tamil
ta
24,272
528,820
1,638,205
4
14,611
70
42
21
Korean
ko
23,995
74,355
332,123
5
17,467
50
615
22
Belarusian
be
23,226
87,240
214,371
2
4,543
16
0
23
Hungarian
hu
21,744
38,842
102,026
4
11,659
9
34
24
Malayalam
ml
20,484
72,962
218,780
3
12,367
10
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
20,042
161,226
403,965
2
9,115
14
64
26
Telugu
te
19,514
145,893
439,395
4
6,151
11
546
27
Turkish
tr
18,682
29,555
167,005
2
23,362
20
121
28
Latin
la
18,132
64,609
219,262
7
28,243
21
48
29
Slovenian
sl
17,944
35,709
220,078
5
9,803
12
346
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,893
55,856
176,558
3
18,216
25
2
31
Dutch
nl
16,840
60,481
183,909
4
16,229
16
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,796
124,052
353,517
3
12,605
16
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,821
40,827
221,281
4
41,456
34
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,299
38,717
138,588
3
20,811
9
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,228
20,299
126,400
4
7,345
7
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,403
89,019
3
2,288
9
0
37
Greek
el
12,580
41,775
155,816
6
20,169
16
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,475
22,004
87,110
2
11,407
13
1
39
Breton
br
9,859
61,117
185,852
3
2,636
8
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,668
50,874
171,326
3
11,081
11
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,444
15,116
60,860
3
6,777
6
434
42
Indonesian
id
8,115
60,414
198,044
6
24,477
94
305
43
Thai
th
7,895
47,281
229,329
3
11,120
16
29
44
Welsh
cy
7,674
48,359
104,152
3
3,713
6
3
45
Norwegian
no
7,594
92,807
233,528
2
5,704
10
825
46
Kannada
kn
7,355
91,767
251,133
2
7,598
13
6
47
Esperanto
eo
6,589
28,407
96,118
2
4,871
11
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,798
173,574
611,060
5
5,018
36
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,454
16,677
76,000
3
4,405
5
0
50
Icelandic
is
4,885
6,595
24,446
2
3,300
5
9
51
Marathi
mr
4,747
101,796
208,358
2
5,369
14
15
52
Balinese
ban
4,655
33,417
114,565
1
1,272
8
0
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,325
5,190
33,111
1
1,126
8
0
54
Ligurian
lij
4,078
15,148
42,660
1
922
6
0
55
Danish
da
3,473
32,142
79,488
1
10,476
6
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,202
2
3,731
3
48
57
Assamese
as
3,147
69,276
188,718
2
3,679
20
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,990
7,725
20,906
2
3,538
5
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,461
20,430
1
3,111
6
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,333
14,470
48,358
1
1,332
29
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,984
18,282
3
5,738
7
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,267
5,958
33,602
2
747
3
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,223
1
2,095
2
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,053
2
3,537
2
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,609
61,129
172,007
6
2,082
20
212
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,378
26,330
1
1,249
3
0
67
Odia
or
1,287
11,624
56,763
1
2,625
5
0
68
Georgian
ka
746
926
5,603
0
255
1
0
69
Galician
gl
693
3,709
21,297
2
3,463
5
64
70
Bosnian
bs
613
3,272
11,898
1
3,253
6
62
71
Yakut
sah
595
1,654
7,586
1
2,071
2
2
72
Malay
ms
506
2,991
11,510
2
599
13
0
73
Slovak
sk
487
1,496
9,191
2
3,634
2
1
74
Sundanese
su
258
6,330
26,146
2
703
6
0
75
Minnan
zh-min-nan
55
3,403
10,211
1
2,597
3
2
76
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,511
1
2,308
2
0
77
Burmese
my
0
7
9
0
134
1
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,115,247
20,352,962
67,178,630
319
4,929,995
2,438
79,804
Alemannic, North Frisian, Bavarian, Rhine Franconian, Pennsylvania Dutch 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, 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 .
Historical discussion
See also