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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 1,210,347 1,249,564 3,838,889 14 39,721 72 127
2 English en 1,099,093 4,640,636 15,115,466 20 3,170,247 425 16,626
3 Russian ru 616,469 1,114,310 5,567,110 5 127,457 88 32,963
4 French fr 614,711 4,484,881 15,162,422 16 154,403 233 3,759
5 German de 593,361 647,150 4,490,852 17 86,760 118 6,922
6 Chinese zh 478,733 1,152,140 2,538,175 8 113,567 170 230
7 Ukrainian uk 320,918 474,537 926,466 6 19,477 73 136
8 Hebrew he 247,315 1,654,800 2,935,381 16 42,527 91 553
9 Italian it 208,189 829,648 3,531,741 9 76,349 101 686
10 Spanish es 85,382 309,089 1,554,731 8 92,870 49 231
11 Arabic ar 84,990 246,676 530,822 9 69,930 42 4,036
12 Multilingual www 74,491 223,316 1,136,770 12 436,441 194 968
13 Gujarati gu 64,374 70,413 215,664 2 4,320 5 0
14 Czech cs 59,742 88,277 308,627 3 19,254 16 7
15 Serbian sr 42,963 47,428 139,641 4 15,603 12 361
16 Portuguese pt 37,942 159,320 536,895 4 40,723 39 16
17 Bangla bn 36,545 650,946 1,886,729 4 20,430 54 5,774
18 Armenian hy 35,877 146,230 389,880 4 13,198 11 62
19 Swedish sv 30,475 199,552 598,861 5 18,217 28 8
20 Tamil ta 29,313 608,508 1,826,023 4 15,448 57 32
21 Persian fa 28,124 74,495 278,546 3 38,538 22 0
22 Belarusian be 27,180 106,506 257,934 2 4,876 16 0
23 Korean ko 23,575 82,704 390,364 5 18,410 27 209
24 Hungarian hu 21,777 39,106 103,203 3 11,955 12 27
25 Telugu te 21,182 166,574 485,330 4 6,588 39 532
26 Sanskrit sa 20,211 161,986 409,045 2 9,662 11 64
27 Malayalam ml 20,075 76,623 229,805 4 12,864 13 599
28 Turkish tr 19,769 31,054 171,264 2 24,715 29 122
29 Latin la 19,064 67,923 232,664 5 29,959 35 48
30 Dutch nl 18,898 73,390 208,897 3 16,760 19 0
31 Vietnamese vi 18,144 62,980 195,153 3 19,012 18 2
32 Slovenian sl 17,947 35,704 221,879 5 10,103 13 341
33 Japanese ja 16,055 43,280 229,896 4 43,346 39 0
34 Romanian ro 14,895 41,168 143,721 3 21,510 19 227
35 Finnish fi 13,448 20,574 127,177 3 7,632 10 53
36 Neapolitan nap 12,842 14,515 90,021 3 2,457 5 0
37 Welsh cy 12,590 66,009 138,837 2 3,894 11 3
38 Greek el 12,416 43,612 161,097 6 21,178 22 4
39 Azerbaijani az 11,037 23,867 93,279 2 12,002 53 1
40 Catalan ca 10,183 53,785 179,004 3 11,513 10 5
41 Breton br 10,140 63,201 195,601 3 2,787 8 0
42 Croatian hr 9,479 15,424 61,838 3 7,045 5 434
43 Norwegian no 9,082 106,976 262,155 2 5,949 6 815
44 Thai th 8,830 54,694 259,428 3 11,651 13 28
45 Indonesian id 8,600 78,214 249,670 7 25,809 58 302
46 Kannada kn 7,047 94,148 268,489 2 7,980 6 19
47 Esperanto eo 6,770 31,704 108,480 2 5,121 14 28
48 Georgian ka 6,740 7,807 77,244 0 571 5 0
49 Hindi hi 5,865 175,296 621,077 5 5,468 12 3
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,382 80,305 2 4,578 5 0
51 Marathi mr 5,228 106,271 221,759 2 5,663 16 15
52 Balinese ban 5,146 34,164 116,645 1 1,456 6 0
53 Icelandic is 4,705 6,149 29,700 1 3,486 4 9
54 Piedmontese pms 4,405 5,289 37,404 1 1,265 5 0
55 Burmese my 4,269 5,568 18,350 1 397 4 0
56 Ligurian lij 4,213 15,895 44,869 1 1,048 3 0
57 Danish da 3,493 32,369 80,487 2 10,820 5 6
58 Estonian et 3,253 22,681 59,253 2 3,924 3 48
59 Macedonian mk 3,038 7,780 21,311 2 3,701 2 4
60 Assamese as 2,893 72,470 203,508 3 4,072 17 88
61 Javanese jv 2,795 19,549 66,877 3 1,581 7 148
62 Yiddish yi 2,633 5,460 20,493 1 3,281 2 1,056
63 Walloon wa 2,336 6,075 34,554 1 868 5 0
64 Bulgarian bg 2,293 3,992 18,447 1 5,961 5 7
65 Punjabi pa 2,105 65,624 195,721 6 2,311 18 212
66 Limburgish li 1,885 3,368 7,268 1 2,197 2 1
67 Lithuanian lt 1,757 3,142 12,199 2 3,698 4 1
68 Basque eu 1,393 6,637 27,804 1 1,393 10 0
69 Odia or 1,292 12,033 58,910 2 2,853 6 0
70 Malay ms 834 6,470 18,439 2 961 9 0
71 Galician gl 709 3,766 21,605 2 3,603 3 64
72 Bosnian bs 613 3,271 11,957 1 3,408 5 62
73 Yakut sah 604 1,688 7,752 1 2,193 3 2
74 Slovak sk 489 1,534 9,340 2 3,788 6 1
75 Sundanese su 371 12,566 46,922 2 926 17 0
76 Minnan zh-min-nan 153 3,550 11,033 1 2,741 5 2
77 Central Bikol bcl 119 2,174 9,333 1 284 3 0
78 Tulu tcy 109 3,532 18,555 2 370 3 0
79 Faroese fo 9 555 3,558 1 2,421 2 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,472,135 21,403,744 71,196,601 315 5,061,545 2,613 79,089

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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