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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.

 
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 1,171,513 1,210,210 3,726,102 15 38,800 59 129
2 English en 1,083,878 4,502,917 14,736,508 22 3,150,299 469 16,209
3 Russian ru 624,494 1,095,497 5,202,600 5 124,374 95 33,045
4 German de 581,860 635,298 4,443,475 17 85,276 100 6,923
5 French fr 576,521 4,375,419 14,796,728 15 151,028 255 3,694
6 Chinese zh 471,807 1,131,320 2,482,136 8 110,760 154 230
7 Ukrainian uk 283,713 429,706 848,363 6 18,523 73 135
8 Hebrew he 246,686 1,652,123 2,895,201 16 41,293 100 549
9 Italian it 202,613 804,512 3,443,928 9 74,523 82 723
10 Spanish es 84,387 286,571 1,500,247 9 91,539 49 231
11 Arabic ar 84,320 241,032 515,469 9 68,798 60 4,041
12 Multilingual www 79,661 213,933 1,095,658 12 417,877 132 979
13 Gujarati gu 63,012 68,919 212,835 2 4,188 17 0
14 Czech cs 59,078 87,428 306,192 3 18,895 22 7
15 Serbian sr 42,816 47,252 137,905 4 15,333 10 362
16 Portuguese pt 37,005 153,938 522,867 3 39,852 30 16
17 Bangla bn 34,553 676,057 1,849,904 4 19,883 50 6,263
18 Swedish sv 29,376 191,826 584,484 4 17,936 28 9
19 Persian fa 27,806 70,021 263,077 3 37,835 20 0
20 Tamil ta 27,307 592,027 1,765,214 4 15,108 51 41
21 Belarusian be 26,585 101,012 245,154 2 4,690 22 0
22 Korean ko 24,566 78,931 347,858 4 17,947 39 607
23 Hungarian hu 21,751 39,037 102,846 4 11,797 11 27
24 Malayalam ml 20,546 75,126 223,799 3 12,581 33 594
25 Telugu te 20,355 154,152 457,426 4 6,294 24 559
26 Sanskrit sa 20,064 161,829 406,909 2 9,398 69 64
27 Turkish tr 19,659 30,594 169,223 2 23,954 25 121
28 Armenian hy 18,642 128,583 366,167 4 12,840 24 64
29 Latin la 18,553 66,382 224,432 6 28,987 31 48
30 Dutch nl 17,900 65,743 198,254 3 16,481 15 0
31 Slovenian sl 17,858 35,624 221,019 5 9,923 9 341
32 Vietnamese vi 17,385 59,251 186,333 3 18,548 21 2
33 Japanese ja 15,512 42,085 225,890 4 42,231 41 0
34 Romanian ro 14,595 39,955 141,005 3 21,082 18 227
35 Finnish fi 13,310 20,411 126,791 4 7,474 11 53
36 Neapolitan nap 12,753 14,412 89,091 3 2,351 5 0
37 Greek el 12,313 42,197 157,198 6 20,563 18 4
38 Azerbaijani az 10,815 22,571 89,634 2 11,682 20 1
39 Catalan ca 9,918 52,390 176,440 3 11,289 35 5
40 Welsh cy 9,916 56,595 122,026 3 3,785 6 3
41 Breton br 9,892 61,622 190,214 3 2,701 11 0
42 Croatian hr 9,464 15,432 61,722 3 6,892 10 434
43 Thai th 8,236 50,973 243,679 3 11,368 17 28
44 Norwegian no 7,900 96,868 239,648 2 5,819 10 825
45 Indonesian id 7,712 63,892 206,373 7 25,115 107 302
46 Kannada kn 7,249 94,117 266,330 2 7,764 14 19
47 Esperanto eo 6,644 29,788 101,351 2 4,969 13 27
48 Hindi hi 5,848 174,750 618,578 5 5,279 18 3
49 Venetian vec 5,764 19,249 80,056 2 4,470 6 0
50 Marathi mr 5,023 103,281 211,705 2 5,505 16 15
51 Balinese ban 5,015 33,926 115,758 1 1,351 17 0
52 Icelandic is 4,694 5,985 29,445 1 3,383 4 9
53 Piedmontese pms 4,370 5,243 36,049 1 1,186 6 0
54 Ligurian lij 4,097 15,415 44,174 1 986 7 0
55 Burmese my 3,983 5,220 17,044 1 249 4 0
56 Danish da 3,478 32,228 79,859 1 10,637 7 6
57 Estonian et 3,253 22,688 59,226 2 3,818 4 48
58 Macedonian mk 3,023 7,762 21,211 2 3,609 5 4
59 Assamese as 2,934 71,221 198,340 3 3,845 34 86
60 Yiddish yi 2,632 5,463 20,464 1 3,177 4 1,056
61 Javanese jv 2,450 14,885 49,182 1 1,434 7 149
62 Bulgarian bg 2,292 3,990 18,351 3 5,846 10 7
63 Walloon wa 2,260 5,975 34,012 2 800 7 0
64 Limburgish li 1,885 3,367 7,246 1 2,134 4 1
65 Lithuanian lt 1,756 3,141 12,153 2 3,604 8 1
66 Punjabi pa 1,690 64,018 184,997 6 2,175 33 212
67 Basque eu 1,380 6,395 26,691 1 1,309 5 0
68 Odia or 1,283 11,735 58,149 2 2,768 9 0
69 Malay ms 766 4,522 14,604 2 762 21 0
70 Georgian ka 748 932 5,621 0 345 1 0
71 Galician gl 701 3,739 21,492 2 3,523 6 64
72 Bosnian bs 613 3,272 11,929 1 3,326 5 62
73 Yakut sah 603 1,680 7,705 1 2,120 7 2
74 Slovak sk 488 1,518 9,283 2 3,699 9 1
75 Sundanese su 276 6,727 27,138 2 774 7 0
76 Minnan zh-min-nan 154 3,527 10,979 1 2,654 7 2
77 Central Bikol bcl 97 1,969 8,944 1 154 2 0
78 Tulu tcy 88 2,076 12,392 1 211 19 0
79 Faroese fo 9 554 3,540 1 2,358 5 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,286,152 20,812,031 68,972,022 317 4,988,136 2,819 79,669

Wikisources in Wikipedia

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

Please see the talk page.

See also

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