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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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).
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
1,159,987
1,198,505
3,691,441
16
38,479
63
129
2
English
en
1,070,773
4,442,264
14,551,209
23
3,143,426
466
16,237
3
Russian
ru
623,567
1,092,390
5,184,002
5
123,405
83
33,026
4
German
de
577,170
630,492
4,416,565
17
84,772
106
6,922
5
French
fr
554,208
4,303,410
14,628,495
16
149,725
252
3,633
6
Chinese
zh
468,411
1,116,611
2,433,295
8
109,650
137
231
7
Ukrainian
uk
256,665
408,011
788,245
6
18,197
79
135
8
Hebrew
he
246,427
1,651,201
2,888,219
16
40,799
92
547
9
Italian
it
201,840
796,098
3,410,095
9
73,863
85
743
10
Spanish
es
84,749
280,940
1,479,544
9
90,988
38
232
11
Arabic
ar
84,230
238,812
509,920
9
68,330
41
4,043
12
Multilingual
www
82,889
217,283
1,078,336
13
410,767
179
983
13
Gujarati
gu
62,774
68,626
211,758
2
4,139
7
0
14
Czech
cs
58,804
86,964
305,019
3
18,774
25
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,822
47,246
137,658
4
15,234
14
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,674
152,126
518,470
3
39,434
38
16
17
Bangla
bn
33,740
681,320
1,835,661
4
19,671
65
6,268
18
Swedish
sv
29,054
188,156
577,506
4
17,805
23
9
19
Persian
fa
27,797
69,525
260,945
3
37,525
21
0
20
Tamil
ta
25,995
565,219
1,709,072
4
14,948
74
41
21
Belarusian
be
25,324
95,834
234,467
2
4,628
21
0
22
Korean
ko
24,439
77,113
342,742
5
17,666
28
611
23
Hungarian
hu
21,750
39,025
102,616
4
11,733
11
27
24
Malayalam
ml
20,518
73,125
219,179
3
12,455
18
591
25
Telugu
te
20,081
149,862
447,696
4
6,232
16
554
26
Sanskrit
sa
20,058
161,273
404,511
2
9,260
13
64
27
Turkish
tr
19,015
29,934
168,026
2
23,669
21
121
28
Latin
la
18,460
65,876
222,504
7
28,664
31
48
29
Slovenian
sl
18,004
35,773
220,753
5
9,863
21
342
30
Dutch
nl
17,279
64,610
194,967
3
16,342
21
0
31
Vietnamese
vi
17,271
57,827
181,263
3
18,391
18
2
32
Armenian
hy
16,784
126,364
360,384
3
12,725
16
64
33
Japanese
ja
15,151
41,436
223,300
4
41,863
31
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,466
39,318
139,853
3
20,937
14
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,289
20,392
126,666
4
7,424
11
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,406
89,067
3
2,324
5
0
37
Greek
el
12,309
42,022
156,364
6
20,390
15
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,830
22,440
89,034
2
11,564
20
1
39
Breton
br
9,885
61,301
187,573
3
2,672
8
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,818
51,702
173,735
3
11,174
11
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,448
15,376
61,569
3
6,837
12
434
42
Welsh
cy
8,634
53,064
114,614
3
3,745
7
3
43
Thai
th
8,038
49,302
236,189
3
11,254
14
28
44
Norwegian
no
7,687
94,213
235,921
2
5,769
12
825
45
Indonesian
id
7,533
61,936
201,480
6
24,793
74
301
46
Kannada
kn
7,247
93,844
265,672
2
7,709
18
18
47
Esperanto
eo
6,628
29,492
99,337
2
4,925
13
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,841
174,066
617,569
5
5,203
36
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,702
18,298
78,742
2
4,442
6
0
50
Balinese
ban
5,005
33,825
115,563
1
1,313
9
0
51
Marathi
mr
4,830
102,660
209,694
2
5,450
10
15
52
Icelandic
is
4,690
5,948
29,385
1
3,344
5
9
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,329
5,198
34,627
1
1,159
6
0
54
Ligurian
lij
4,083
15,209
43,001
1
952
3
0
55
Burmese
my
3,890
4,535
13,906
0
196
4
0
56
Danish
da
3,477
32,208
79,758
1
10,554
6
6
57
Estonian
et
3,253
22,688
59,214
2
3,779
4
48
58
Assamese
as
3,164
70,059
191,718
3
3,768
27
85
59
Macedonian
mk
2,990
7,725
21,073
2
3,574
8
4
60
Yiddish
yi
2,632
5,464
20,454
1
3,148
5
1,056
61
Javanese
jv
2,345
14,619
48,679
1
1,394
35
149
62
Bulgarian
bg
2,292
3,990
18,317
3
5,793
8
7
63
Walloon
wa
2,245
5,936
33,769
2
775
3
0
64
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,235
1
2,117
3
1
65
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,141
12,084
2
3,566
7
1
66
Punjabi
pa
1,647
63,204
178,582
6
2,132
21
212
67
Basque
eu
1,380
6,394
26,517
1
1,282
5
0
68
Odia
or
1,289
11,672
56,896
1
2,675
13
0
69
Central Bikol
bcl
926
1,924
8,579
0
81
5
0
70
Georgian
ka
746
929
5,608
0
304
2
0
71
Galician
gl
694
3,719
21,356
2
3,497
5
64
72
Malay
ms
633
3,602
12,961
2
684
20
0
73
Bosnian
bs
613
3,272
11,915
1
3,294
4
62
74
Yakut
sah
601
1,663
7,646
1
2,101
7
2
75
Slovak
sk
487
1,509
9,236
2
3,672
4
1
76
Sundanese
su
276
6,629
26,978
2
743
18
0
77
Minnan
zh-min-nan
55
3,404
10,233
1
2,628
7
2
78
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,526
1
2,337
4
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,195,039
20,539,469
68,129,758
317
4,960,896
2,688
79,641
Wikisources in Wikipedia[ edit ]
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 .
Please see the talk page .