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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 nine 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 1,255,095 1,295,082 3,988,886 14 40,672 81 127
2 English en 1,124,515 4,774,443 15,542,507 18 3,205,403 648 16,702
3 French fr 628,767 4,575,597 15,453,099 17 158,332 303 4,026
4 Russian ru 619,523 1,126,500 5,673,403 5 130,916 109 32,757
5 German de 610,617 665,757 4,665,852 17 88,488 146 6,922
6 Chinese zh 490,176 1,167,121 2,598,310 8 117,199 284 230
7 Ukrainian uk 358,457 519,173 1,006,801 5 20,587 87 136
8 Hebrew he 252,230 1,661,661 2,964,256 16 43,957 149 562
9 Italian it 213,004 844,218 3,594,096 9 78,304 102 677
10 Arabic ar 93,481 284,445 600,796 5 71,096 88 4,033
11 Spanish es 88,038 325,361 1,600,439 8 94,462 62 231
12 Multilingual www 80,356 260,001 1,249,522 13 457,790 212 732
13 Gujarati gu 64,521 70,701 219,002 2 4,455 17 0
14 Czech cs 60,162 88,837 312,067 3 19,588 25 7
15 Serbian sr 43,078 47,642 140,646 4 15,907 39 361
16 Portuguese pt 38,605 162,569 546,457 2 41,784 65 18
17 Bangla bn 36,729 624,014 1,924,652 4 21,055 65 5,573
18 Armenian hy 35,917 146,350 392,084 3 13,523 45 62
19 Tamil ta 32,466 617,855 1,882,609 4 16,094 117 32
20 Swedish sv 31,458 208,300 624,469 5 18,488 25 8
21 Persian fa 28,993 76,030 282,038 3 39,132 36 0
22 Belarusian be 27,983 112,172 269,027 2 5,099 20 0
23 Korean ko 24,851 91,353 416,459 5 18,880 36 209
24 Telugu te 22,460 199,445 533,068 4 6,805 26 469
25 Hungarian hu 21,803 39,079 103,415 3 12,127 15 27
26 Sanskrit sa 20,362 162,447 410,834 2 10,064 26 64
27 Malayalam ml 20,183 77,151 231,074 4 13,083 14 602
28 Turkish tr 19,854 31,290 172,813 2 25,476 54 122
29 Dutch nl 19,704 76,364 214,617 2 17,042 17 0
30 Latin la 19,667 71,640 248,256 5 31,108 63 45
31 Vietnamese vi 18,907 66,004 202,728 3 19,563 44 2
32 Slovenian sl 18,001 35,846 222,646 5 10,337 19 341
33 Japanese ja 16,817 45,214 234,863 4 44,606 51 0
34 Romanian ro 15,249 42,688 147,080 3 21,914 40 227
35 Welsh cy 14,458 73,914 153,589 2 4,011 9 3
36 Finnish fi 13,561 20,699 127,565 3 7,808 17 53
37 Neapolitan nap 12,880 14,553 90,394 3 2,555 7 0
38 Greek el 12,560 44,138 162,549 6 21,779 39 4
39 Azerbaijani az 11,467 24,504 94,848 2 12,323 27 1
40 Norwegian no 10,667 121,020 294,834 2 6,095 8 815
41 Breton br 10,364 64,712 203,470 3 2,871 13 0
42 Catalan ca 10,292 54,766 180,749 3 11,739 11 5
43 Croatian hr 9,514 15,640 62,568 3 7,218 13 434
44 Indonesian id 8,803 81,487 257,417 9 26,490 83 302
45 Thai th 8,728 59,500 273,000 3 11,988 25 28
46 Kannada kn 7,073 94,241 269,289 2 8,299 20 19
47 Esperanto eo 6,837 32,646 112,354 2 5,272 14 28
48 Georgian ka 6,751 7,853 77,405 1 679 4 0
49 Hindi hi 5,959 183,449 638,143 5 5,662 46 0
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,384 80,446 2 4,662 6 0
51 Marathi mr 5,348 107,993 226,809 2 5,848 12 15
52 Balinese ban 5,186 36,412 123,258 1 1,599 30 0
53 Icelandic is 4,707 6,165 29,737 1 3,578 5 8
54 Burmese my 4,525 5,826 20,849 1 565 9 0
55 Piedmontese pms 4,410 5,288 37,443 1 1,348 9 0
56 Ligurian lij 4,295 16,202 45,395 1 1,115 6 0
57 Danish da 3,556 51,144 119,902 2 11,011 13 6
58 Assamese as 3,544 81,094 222,760 4 4,252 36 158
59 Estonian et 3,296 22,832 59,436 2 4,033 7 48
60 Macedonian mk 3,238 8,088 21,802 2 3,877 6 4
61 Minangkabau min 3,209 4,040 14,802 2 201 30 0
62 Javanese jv 3,096 21,951 70,940 3 1,776 17 149
63 Yiddish yi 2,633 5,461 20,511 1 3,373 5 1,056
64 Walloon wa 2,437 6,227 35,414 1 934 8 0
65 Bulgarian bg 2,301 3,991 18,567 1 6,093 13 7
66 Punjabi pa 2,295 68,934 209,591 6 2,507 44 212
67 Limburgish li 1,885 3,370 7,283 1 2,253 4 1
68 Lithuanian lt 1,757 3,137 12,213 2 3,806 6 1
69 Basque eu 1,542 7,004 28,769 1 1,475 10 0
70 Odia or 1,295 12,196 59,285 2 2,948 7 0
71 Malay ms 1,076 7,702 21,636 2 1,109 22 0
72 Yakut sah 746 2,022 8,930 1 2,280 14 2
73 Galician gl 709 3,787 21,728 2 3,715 4 64
74 Bosnian bs 614 3,274 12,019 1 3,514 6 62
75 Slovak sk 492 1,537 9,457 2 3,875 5 1
76 Sundanese su 383 12,737 47,412 2 1,044 9 0
77 Tagalog tl 330 2,237 15,500 3 287 4 0
78 Madurese mad 207 1,079 4,127 2 248 11 0
79 Minnan zh-min-nan 159 3,568 11,173 1 2,812 5 2
80 Central Bikol bcl 120 2,434 10,186 0 380 14 0
81 Tulu tcy 111 3,911 19,805 2 515 17 0
82 Faroese fo 9 554 3,578 1 2,490 8 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,677,252 22,027,053 73,317,808 316 5,157,648 3,868 78,792

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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