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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 1,195,440 1,234,386 3,796,018 15 39,496 78 128
2 English en 1,078,996 4,608,433 15,027,441 22 3,164,857 493 16,613
3 Russian ru 626,551 1,101,787 5,519,645 5 126,658 94 32,970
4 French fr 604,573 4,458,005 15,067,795 16 153,515 247 3,707
5 German de 589,986 643,618 4,476,352 17 86,342 98 6,923
6 Chinese zh 477,012 1,147,834 2,525,325 8 112,757 155 230
7 Ukrainian uk 310,437 461,961 906,812 6 19,222 66 136
8 Hebrew he 247,031 1,653,810 2,918,212 16 42,200 98 551
9 Italian it 206,892 823,988 3,509,715 9 75,819 116 686
10 Spanish es 85,331 307,673 1,552,030 8 92,516 55 231
11 Arabic ar 84,978 246,035 529,179 9 69,633 53 4,036
12 Multilingual www 74,292 211,362 1,116,690 13 431,470 159 970
13 Gujarati gu 64,252 70,269 215,150 2 4,302 10 0
14 Czech cs 59,601 88,088 308,228 3 19,169 21 7
15 Serbian sr 42,874 47,319 138,947 4 15,542 19 361
16 Portuguese pt 37,794 158,335 534,462 4 40,487 39 16
17 Bangla bn 36,088 656,820 1,876,649 4 20,289 40 6,059
18 Armenian hy 35,864 146,208 389,002 4 13,136 16 62
19 Swedish sv 30,182 197,298 594,902 5 18,135 21 8
20 Tamil ta 28,431 602,568 1,800,685 4 15,380 48 35
21 Persian fa 28,031 73,700 276,587 3 38,345 19 0
22 Belarusian be 27,118 105,493 255,413 2 4,836 14 0
23 Korean ko 23,278 81,463 387,633 5 18,280 28 209
24 Hungarian hu 21,771 39,086 103,057 3 11,922 8 27
25 Telugu te 20,807 163,743 475,275 4 6,530 29 540
26 Sanskrit sa 20,104 161,872 408,376 2 9,612 13 64
27 Malayalam ml 20,074 76,571 229,580 4 12,824 34 599
28 Turkish tr 19,743 30,973 170,875 2 24,523 20 122
29 Latin la 18,945 67,691 231,276 5 29,685 36 48
30 Dutch nl 18,562 72,062 206,814 3 16,701 16 0
31 Vietnamese vi 17,941 61,899 192,792 3 18,896 20 2
32 Slovenian sl 17,895 35,657 221,388 5 10,059 12 341
33 Japanese ja 15,924 43,054 228,782 4 43,018 34 0
34 Romanian ro 14,789 40,614 142,582 3 21,431 15 227
35 Finnish fi 13,408 20,529 127,091 3 7,603 10 53
36 Neapolitan nap 12,828 14,500 89,895 3 2,443 4 0
37 Greek el 12,391 42,555 158,387 6 21,022 17 4
38 Welsh cy 11,641 63,204 133,842 2 3,868 6 3
39 Azerbaijani az 10,821 23,548 92,303 2 11,894 17 1
40 Catalan ca 10,146 53,526 178,583 3 11,469 10 5
41 Breton br 10,104 62,873 194,892 3 2,770 5 0
42 Croatian hr 9,477 15,433 61,780 3 7,011 8 434
43 Norwegian no 8,784 103,415 254,777 2 5,924 4 824
44 Thai th 8,543 53,267 253,698 3 11,590 13 28
45 Indonesian id 8,256 77,073 247,301 7 25,647 59 302
46 Kannada kn 7,047 94,141 268,432 2 7,949 9 19
47 Georgian ka 6,729 7,788 77,194 0 544 2 0
48 Esperanto eo 6,692 31,108 106,265 2 5,087 10 27
49 Hindi hi 5,864 175,127 620,882 5 5,427 13 3
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,382 80,293 2 4,561 4 0
51 Marathi mr 5,161 105,615 219,039 2 5,632 16 15
52 Balinese ban 5,142 34,127 116,406 1 1,437 10 0
53 Icelandic is 4,705 6,149 29,690 1 3,465 3 9
54 Piedmontese pms 4,405 5,289 37,355 1 1,250 3 0
55 Ligurian lij 4,185 15,843 44,801 1 1,040 4 0
56 Burmese my 4,141 5,418 17,848 1 367 2 0
57 Danish da 3,493 32,369 80,477 2 10,779 10 6
58 Estonian et 3,253 22,681 59,247 2 3,907 2 48
59 Macedonian mk 3,037 7,777 21,303 2 3,688 3 4
60 Assamese as 2,843 71,766 201,922 3 4,026 19 87
61 Javanese jv 2,729 19,127 66,054 3 1,559 20 148
62 Yiddish yi 2,633 5,460 20,487 1 3,262 3 1,056
63 Walloon wa 2,317 6,050 34,446 1 861 3 0
64 Bulgarian bg 2,292 3,989 18,424 1 5,936 2 7
65 Punjabi pa 2,083 64,945 192,193 6 2,265 25 212
66 Limburgish li 1,885 3,368 7,259 1 2,189 2 1
67 Lithuanian lt 1,757 3,142 12,190 2 3,683 3 1
68 Basque eu 1,381 6,447 26,961 1 1,375 3 0
69 Odia or 1,288 12,003 58,734 2 2,839 8 0
70 Malay ms 916 5,974 17,221 2 933 13 0
71 Galician gl 709 3,765 21,602 2 3,589 5 64
72 Bosnian bs 613 3,271 11,948 1 3,394 3 62
73 Yakut sah 604 1,688 7,746 1 2,184 3 2
74 Slovak sk 488 1,534 9,332 2 3,776 1 1
75 Sundanese su 307 12,425 46,504 2 910 12 0
76 Minnan zh-min-nan 153 3,539 11,013 1 2,733 3 2
77 Central Bikol bcl 120 2,171 9,307 1 273 4 0
78 Tulu tcy 109 3,512 18,492 2 356 16 0
79 Faroese fo 9 555 3,553 1 2,412 3 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,412,874 21,247,143 70,700,838 319 5,042,516 2,619 79,336

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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