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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 1,204,385 1,243,490 3,819,495 15 39,659 75 127
2 English en 1,084,502 4,630,549 15,087,677 21 3,168,603 443 16,624
3 Russian ru 626,840 1,103,044 5,528,303 5 127,210 97 32,965
4 French fr 610,354 4,476,098 15,133,639 16 154,154 239 3,750
5 German de 592,593 646,297 4,485,304 17 86,653 114 6,923
6 Chinese zh 477,992 1,151,028 2,534,148 8 113,277 154 230
7 Ukrainian uk 316,218 468,898 917,640 6 19,411 71 136
8 Hebrew he 247,280 1,654,675 2,929,056 16 42,438 101 553
9 Italian it 207,933 828,252 3,526,989 9 76,178 99 686
10 Spanish es 85,396 308,903 1,554,295 8 92,761 58 231
11 Arabic ar 84,985 246,439 530,046 9 69,823 51 4,036
12 Multilingual www 74,397 220,989 1,128,493 12 434,846 131 971
13 Gujarati gu 64,374 70,407 215,516 2 4,315 9 0
14 Czech cs 59,660 88,190 308,489 3 19,225 20 7
15 Serbian sr 42,938 47,403 139,482 4 15,587 17 361
16 Portuguese pt 37,867 158,881 535,694 4 40,647 34 16
17 Bangla bn 36,338 655,807 1,882,619 4 20,371 39 6,102
18 Armenian hy 35,876 146,226 389,666 4 13,185 24 62
19 Swedish sv 30,398 198,819 597,762 5 18,187 23 8
20 Tamil ta 29,107 606,525 1,818,020 4 15,428 62 35
21 Persian fa 28,091 74,244 278,010 3 38,466 22 0
22 Belarusian be 27,136 106,160 257,100 2 4,866 15 0
23 Korean ko 23,403 82,297 389,254 5 18,357 28 209
24 Hungarian hu 21,775 39,103 103,141 3 11,943 13 27
25 Telugu te 21,061 165,872 482,421 4 6,559 31 534
26 Sanskrit sa 20,204 161,975 408,912 2 9,648 17 64
27 Malayalam ml 20,075 76,595 229,718 4 12,855 17 599
28 Turkish tr 19,762 31,034 171,157 2 24,655 24 122
29 Latin la 19,038 67,862 232,276 5 29,890 31 48
30 Dutch nl 18,762 73,150 208,568 3 16,744 16 0
31 Vietnamese vi 18,112 62,897 194,711 3 18,985 14 2
32 Slovenian sl 17,926 35,681 221,699 5 10,092 17 341
33 Japanese ja 16,016 43,227 229,666 4 43,230 40 0
34 Romanian ro 14,834 40,964 143,438 3 21,485 27 227
35 Finnish fi 13,434 20,558 127,142 3 7,623 11 53
36 Neapolitan nap 12,836 14,509 89,999 3 2,452 6 0
37 Greek el 12,413 43,544 160,947 6 21,127 22 4
38 Welsh cy 12,266 65,242 137,092 2 3,880 9 3
39 Azerbaijani az 10,849 23,626 92,619 2 11,943 19 1
40 Catalan ca 10,182 53,697 178,895 3 11,495 10 5
41 Breton br 10,134 63,149 195,521 3 2,781 8 0
42 Croatian hr 9,478 15,421 61,834 3 7,037 8 434
43 Norwegian no 9,011 106,090 260,285 2 5,943 5 815
44 Thai th 8,696 53,877 256,959 3 11,633 15 28
45 Indonesian id 8,413 77,528 248,463 7 25,754 80 302
46 Kannada kn 7,047 94,146 268,479 2 7,968 8 19
47 Esperanto eo 6,755 31,551 108,085 2 5,111 15 28
48 Georgian ka 6,740 7,808 77,243 0 562 5 0
49 Hindi hi 5,865 175,262 621,031 5 5,452 12 3
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,382 80,302 2 4,574 6 0
51 Marathi mr 5,203 105,880 220,677 2 5,655 15 15
52 Balinese ban 5,146 34,144 116,535 1 1,452 10 0
53 Icelandic is 4,705 6,149 29,695 1 3,482 5 9
54 Piedmontese pms 4,405 5,289 37,401 1 1,258 7 0
55 Ligurian lij 4,213 15,895 44,868 1 1,046 4 0
56 Burmese my 4,211 5,491 18,033 1 391 5 0
57 Danish da 3,493 32,369 80,481 2 10,804 6 6
58 Estonian et 3,253 22,681 59,252 2 3,919 3 48
59 Macedonian mk 3,037 7,777 21,306 2 3,698 4 4
60 Assamese as 2,868 72,303 202,957 3 4,064 25 88
61 Javanese jv 2,787 19,517 66,810 3 1,574 9 148
62 Yiddish yi 2,633 5,460 20,492 1 3,274 3 1,056
63 Walloon wa 2,335 6,073 34,539 1 866 6 0
64 Bulgarian bg 2,292 3,991 18,433 1 5,950 4 7
65 Punjabi pa 2,084 65,371 194,546 6 2,301 30 212
66 Limburgish li 1,885 3,368 7,267 1 2,195 6 1
67 Lithuanian lt 1,757 3,142 12,198 2 3,696 7 1
68 Basque eu 1,381 6,447 26,968 1 1,383 5 0
69 Odia or 1,291 12,031 58,815 2 2,848 6 0
70 Malay ms 816 6,336 18,240 2 949 13 0
71 Galician gl 709 3,766 21,604 2 3,598 4 64
72 Bosnian bs 613 3,271 11,955 1 3,406 5 62
73 Yakut sah 604 1,688 7,751 1 2,190 6 2
74 Slovak sk 489 1,535 9,339 2 3,785 7 1
75 Sundanese su 371 12,514 46,820 2 922 15 0
76 Minnan zh-min-nan 153 3,550 11,032 1 2,738 4 2
77 Central Bikol bcl 119 2,174 9,332 1 282 4 0
78 Tulu tcy 109 3,532 18,528 2 368 5 0
79 Faroese fo 9 555 3,557 1 2,418 3 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,448,516 21,349,670 71,006,731 317 5,055,580 2,638 79,417

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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