Wikisource

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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.

Name, Slogan, 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

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	1,165,084	1,203,719	3,708,774	16	38,621	57	129
2	English	en	1,076,951	4,472,530	14,652,839	22	3,146,453	467	16,249
3	Russian	ru	623,974	1,093,579	5,195,827	5	123,844	94	33,032
4	German	de	579,597	633,010	4,425,526	17	85,004	105	6,922
5	French	fr	558,824	4,333,394	14,702,691	15	150,387	247	3,654
6	Chinese	zh	470,493	1,125,583	2,463,997	8	110,183	147	231
7	Ukrainian	uk	271,894	424,519	818,933	6	18,351	78	135
8	Hebrew	he	246,567	1,651,610	2,891,234	16	41,023	96	547
9	Italian	it	202,611	798,887	3,424,827	9	74,180	80	723
10	Spanish	es	84,648	283,862	1,487,874	9	91,252	49	231
11	Arabic	ar	84,283	239,841	512,184	9	68,537	50	4,043
12	Multilingual	www	79,153	211,781	1,087,272	12	413,967	148	977
13	Gujarati	gu	62,849	68,716	212,263	2	4,153	13	0
14	Czech	cs	59,042	87,275	305,809	3	18,828	31	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,823	47,252	137,826	4	15,275	21	362
16	Portuguese	pt	36,907	153,183	520,661	3	39,636	42	16
17	Bangla	bn	34,087	677,137	1,842,806	4	19,766	33	6,310
18	Swedish	sv	29,192	190,136	581,880	4	17,873	25	9
19	Persian	fa	27,799	69,539	261,818	3	37,660	22	0
20	Tamil	ta	26,711	589,173	1,751,654	4	15,053	52	41
21	Belarusian	be	26,034	98,769	240,063	2	4,651	19	0
22	Korean	ko	24,395	77,841	345,255	5	17,734	33	611
23	Hungarian	hu	21,749	39,032	102,804	4	11,765	12	27
24	Malayalam	ml	20,538	73,743	220,333	3	12,495	40	593
25	Telugu	te	20,248	151,839	451,942	4	6,259	24	559
26	Sanskrit	sa	20,058	161,275	404,724	2	9,298	13	64
27	Turkish	tr	19,506	30,426	168,781	2	23,800	24	121
28	Latin	la	18,473	65,933	223,048	6	28,808	34	48
29	Slovenian	sl	17,857	35,623	220,992	5	9,890	22	341
30	Dutch	nl	17,470	64,990	196,670	3	16,387	21	0
31	Vietnamese	vi	17,370	58,628	183,901	3	18,484	22	2
32	Armenian	hy	17,316	127,166	362,857	4	12,778	20	64
33	Japanese	ja	15,268	41,666	224,608	4	42,016	48	0
34	Romanian	ro	14,556	39,733	140,560	3	20,998	21	227
35	Finnish	fi	13,294	20,400	126,715	4	7,447	15	53
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,753	14,412	89,085	3	2,335	9	0
37	Greek	el	12,311	42,152	156,999	6	20,464	27	4
38	Azerbaijani	az	10,826	22,490	89,304	2	11,611	18	1
39	Breton	br	9,894	61,452	189,146	3	2,682	13	0
40	Catalan	ca	9,862	51,999	175,033	3	11,234	40	5
41	Croatian	hr	9,456	15,395	61,643	3	6,859	13	434
42	Welsh	cy	9,101	54,561	117,621	3	3,764	9	3
43	Thai	th	8,143	50,136	240,184	3	11,305	23	28
44	Norwegian	no	7,826	95,287	237,282	2	5,789	10	825
45	Indonesian	id	7,581	62,609	203,566	6	24,929	87	301
46	Kannada	kn	7,249	94,056	266,135	2	7,735	16	19
47	Esperanto	eo	6,631	29,575	100,013	2	4,942	13	27
48	Hindi	hi	5,844	174,648	618,261	5	5,233	22	3
49	Venetian	vec	5,738	19,145	79,918	2	4,453	8	0
50	Balinese	ban	5,009	33,846	115,606	1	1,323	12	0
51	Marathi	mr	4,882	102,832	210,267	2	5,479	17	15
52	Icelandic	is	4,693	5,978	29,433	1	3,359	10	9
53	Piedmontese	pms	4,361	5,234	35,542	1	1,167	7	0
54	Ligurian	lij	4,088	15,272	43,872	1	967	8	0
55	Burmese	my	3,988	5,219	16,994	1	218	9	0
56	Danish	da	3,478	32,227	79,810	1	10,589	9	6
57	Estonian	et	3,253	22,689	59,225	2	3,797	6	48
58	Assamese	as	3,171	70,820	194,558	3	3,806	27	85
59	Macedonian	mk	2,993	7,729	21,086	2	3,586	7	4
60	Yiddish	yi	2,632	5,464	20,463	1	3,157	7	1,056
61	Javanese	jv	2,450	14,778	49,030	1	1,409	21	149
62	Bulgarian	bg	2,292	3,991	18,339	3	5,817	11	7
63	Walloon	wa	2,250	5,945	33,854	2	781	9	0
64	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,368	7,245	1	2,122	7	1
65	Lithuanian	lt	1,756	3,140	12,108	2	3,576	10	1
66	Punjabi	pa	1,679	63,662	181,892	6	2,153	32	212
67	Basque	eu	1,380	6,396	26,624	1	1,290	7	0
68	Odia	or	1,289	11,696	57,554	2	2,751	12	0
69	Georgian	ka	748	933	5,620	0	324	5	0
70	Galician	gl	695	3,721	21,371	2	3,508	7	64
71	Malay	ms	650	3,679	13,158	2	710	8	0
72	Bosnian	bs	613	3,273	11,926	1	3,307	6	62
73	Yakut	sah	602	1,678	7,698	1	2,108	8	2
74	Slovak	sk	487	1,516	9,265	2	3,685	8	1
75	Sundanese	su	277	6,683	27,068	2	754	10	0
76	Minnan	zh-min-nan	151	3,518	10,921	1	2,636	8	2
77	Central Bikol	bcl	97	1,968	8,934	1	123	5	0
78	Faroese	fo	9	555	3,539	1	2,346	10	0
79	Tulu	tcy	1	37	1,011	1	159	23	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,232,695	20,677,554	68,558,151	318	4,973,198	2,859	79,702

Wikisources in Wikipedia

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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Name, Slogan, Logo

List of Wikisources

Wikisources in Wikipedia

Historical discussion

See also