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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.

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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

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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 1,171,241 1,209,937 3,725,224 15 38,790 60 129
2 English en 1,083,589 4,501,982 14,732,624 21 3,150,029 467 16,208
3 Russian ru 624,435 1,095,368 5,201,979 5 124,334 94 33,044
4 German de 581,683 635,136 4,442,900 17 85,254 97 6,923
5 French fr 576,340 4,374,024 14,792,323 15 150,994 253 3,694
6 Chinese zh 471,741 1,131,110 2,481,332 8 110,720 156 230
7 Ukrainian uk 283,283 429,174 847,527 6 18,504 72 135
8 Hebrew he 246,678 1,652,094 2,894,964 16 41,274 97 548
9 Italian it 202,562 803,855 3,442,477 9 74,504 79 723
10 Spanish es 84,399 286,326 1,499,406 9 91,522 47 231
11 Arabic ar 84,309 240,872 515,025 9 68,778 52 4,041
12 Multilingual www 79,636 213,858 1,095,467 12 417,628 139 979
13 Gujarati gu 63,012 68,918 212,812 2 4,187 14 0
14 Czech cs 59,077 87,422 306,178 3 18,892 20 7
15 Serbian sr 42,816 47,252 137,904 4 15,326 7 362
16 Portuguese pt 37,001 153,866 522,656 3 39,837 33 16
17 Bangla bn 34,496 675,696 1,849,049 4 19,881 50 6,268
18 Swedish sv 29,370 191,747 584,328 4 17,935 27 9
19 Persian fa 27,806 70,020 263,072 3 37,826 18 0
20 Tamil ta 27,282 591,880 1,764,288 4 15,108 50 41
21 Belarusian be 26,585 100,972 244,993 2 4,689 20 0
22 Korean ko 24,565 78,875 347,744 4 17,942 38 607
23 Hungarian hu 21,751 39,037 102,846 4 11,797 9 27
24 Malayalam ml 20,546 74,915 223,478 3 12,579 58 594
25 Telugu te 20,351 153,900 457,049 4 6,289 23 559
26 Sanskrit sa 20,062 161,828 406,869 2 9,396 67 64
27 Turkish tr 19,658 30,593 169,203 2 23,938 22 121
28 Latin la 18,504 66,196 224,145 6 28,969 31 48
29 Armenian hy 18,382 128,312 365,593 4 12,839 21 64
30 Slovenian sl 17,858 35,624 221,019 5 9,922 7 341
31 Dutch nl 17,845 65,663 198,136 3 16,476 14 0
32 Vietnamese vi 17,386 59,248 186,184 3 18,540 19 2
33 Japanese ja 15,497 42,070 225,857 4 42,219 41 0
34 Romanian ro 14,591 39,932 140,970 3 21,081 17 227
35 Finnish fi 13,310 20,411 126,789 4 7,470 8 53
36 Neapolitan nap 12,753 14,412 89,091 3 2,350 5 0
37 Greek el 12,312 42,186 157,174 6 20,557 22 4
38 Azerbaijani az 10,815 22,565 89,615 2 11,681 17 1
39 Catalan ca 9,918 52,390 176,439 3 11,283 34 5
40 Welsh cy 9,916 56,595 121,968 3 3,785 4 3
41 Breton br 9,892 61,622 190,194 3 2,701 8 0
42 Croatian hr 9,464 15,432 61,722 3 6,890 9 434
43 Thai th 8,233 50,812 243,186 3 11,368 15 28
44 Norwegian no 7,885 96,050 238,568 2 5,818 7 825
45 Indonesian id 7,698 63,759 206,192 7 25,101 113 302
46 Kannada kn 7,249 94,111 266,324 2 7,761 11 19
47 Esperanto eo 6,642 29,739 101,235 2 4,969 11 27
48 Hindi hi 5,848 174,748 618,564 5 5,278 15 3
49 Venetian vec 5,764 19,249 80,056 2 4,469 4 0
50 Marathi mr 5,022 103,120 210,929 2 5,502 11 15
51 Balinese ban 5,015 33,923 115,755 1 1,349 16 0
52 Icelandic is 4,694 5,985 29,445 1 3,383 3 9
53 Piedmontese pms 4,370 5,243 36,046 1 1,185 4 0
54 Ligurian lij 4,090 15,402 44,155 1 985 5 0
55 Burmese my 3,983 5,220 17,044 1 245 4 0
56 Danish da 3,478 32,228 79,859 1 10,636 6 6
57 Estonian et 3,253 22,688 59,226 2 3,817 2 48
58 Assamese as 3,191 71,431 197,970 3 3,844 33 86
59 Macedonian mk 3,021 7,760 21,198 2 3,607 4 4
60 Yiddish yi 2,632 5,463 20,464 1 3,173 2 1,056
61 Javanese jv 2,450 14,885 49,182 1 1,433 7 149
62 Bulgarian bg 2,292 3,990 18,349 3 5,846 7 7
63 Walloon wa 2,260 5,974 34,007 2 798 6 0
64 Limburgish li 1,885 3,367 7,246 1 2,134 2 1
65 Lithuanian lt 1,756 3,141 12,153 2 3,600 6 1
66 Punjabi pa 1,691 64,013 184,824 6 2,174 32 212
67 Basque eu 1,380 6,395 26,691 1 1,307 3 0
68 Odia or 1,283 11,733 58,147 2 2,768 7 0
69 Malay ms 760 4,418 14,442 2 759 21 0
70 Georgian ka 748 932 5,620 0 340 1 0
71 Galician gl 701 3,739 21,490 2 3,523 4 64
72 Bosnian bs 613 3,272 11,929 1 3,326 3 62
73 Yakut sah 603 1,680 7,705 1 2,120 5 2
74 Slovak sk 488 1,518 9,283 2 3,698 6 1
75 Sundanese su 276 6,727 27,138 2 773 7 0
76 Minnan zh-min-nan 154 3,527 10,979 1 2,653 5 2
77 Central Bikol bcl 97 1,969 8,944 1 151 3 0
78 Tulu tcy 88 2,076 12,274 1 208 20 0
79 Faroese fo 9 554 3,540 1 2,358 3 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,284,319 20,804,156 68,948,772 316 4,987,175 2,740 79,671

Wikisources in Wikipedia

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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

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Please see the talk page.

See also

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