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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 several times a day. You might need to purge the cache to see the latest numbers.
№ Language Wiki Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
1 Chinese zh 2,411,850 4,612,237 6,651,206 9 121,250 269 230
2 Polish pl 1,300,289 1,341,202 4,115,156 14 41,792 66 127
3 English en 1,105,474 4,777,582 16,000,816 19 3,281,683 662 16,647
4 French fr 686,337 4,734,302 15,841,946 17 163,147 298 4,258
5 German de 639,498 697,121 4,915,166 16 90,512 155 6,933
6 Russian ru 621,999 1,137,498 5,719,885 5 134,507 92 33,280
7 Ukrainian uk 379,546 544,741 1,059,704 5 21,911 118 136
8 Hebrew he 254,473 1,670,627 3,017,447 16 45,615 137 577
9 Italian it 220,292 868,704 3,844,186 9 80,785 85 676
10 Arabic ar 93,853 287,554 609,674 5 72,209 45 4,024
11 Spanish es 88,969 338,500 1,664,002 8 96,218 86 231
12 Gujarati gu 65,444 71,697 222,460 2 4,559 6 0
13 Multilingual www 65,336 254,754 1,337,469 14 483,566 132 731
14 Czech cs 61,725 90,636 333,565 3 19,967 24 7
15 Serbian sr 43,627 48,419 144,150 6 16,307 21 360
16 Portuguese pt 38,865 164,990 553,785 1 42,938 102 32
17 Bangla bn 37,629 618,287 1,954,348 4 21,736 60 5,536
18 Tamil ta 36,256 636,198 1,940,233 4 16,606 40 33
19 Armenian hy 36,047 146,525 393,047 4 13,907 14 62
20 Swedish sv 32,356 217,151 652,526 5 18,778 18 8
21 Belarusian be 29,425 121,252 289,036 2 5,328 14 0
22 Persian fa 29,235 77,603 285,923 3 39,641 14 0
23 Korean ko 25,571 88,383 427,873 5 19,365 34 209
24 Telugu te 23,061 207,663 555,368 4 7,079 34 469
25 Hungarian hu 21,819 39,111 103,536 3 12,307 11 27
26 Dutch nl 21,139 80,273 222,957 2 17,295 16 0
27 Latin la 20,864 79,629 269,329 5 32,316 64 45
28 Sanskrit sa 20,393 162,636 416,014 2 10,484 25 64
29 Malayalam ml 20,314 77,658 233,054 3 13,305 21 606
30 Turkish tr 19,883 31,400 173,917 2 26,367 46 122
31 Vietnamese vi 19,088 66,637 205,493 3 20,228 61 2
32 Slovenian sl 18,220 36,116 224,020 5 10,585 22 340
33 Japanese ja 18,200 48,564 243,023 4 45,837 47 0
34 Welsh cy 15,929 82,492 166,111 2 4,128 8 3
35 Romanian ro 15,615 44,412 150,836 3 22,458 31 227
36 Norwegian no 14,072 135,202 323,815 2 6,242 12 815
37 Finnish fi 13,800 22,052 130,547 3 8,028 20 46
38 Neapolitan nap 12,941 14,615 90,640 3 2,648 3 0
39 Greek el 12,727 45,818 166,317 6 22,496 23 4
40 Esperanto eo 11,941 38,367 121,874 2 5,405 10 29
41 Urdu ur 11,915 13,691 34,789 2 218 18 0
42 Azerbaijani az 11,611 24,601 95,851 2 12,659 14 1
43 Breton br 10,534 65,487 208,520 3 2,967 4 0
44 Catalan ca 10,472 56,304 184,473 3 11,982 6 5
45 Indonesian id 10,100 96,930 297,377 9 27,195 146 303
46 Croatian hr 9,595 15,736 63,217 3 7,430 10 434
47 Thai th 9,536 64,322 290,368 2 12,319 20 28
48 Georgian ka 6,812 7,946 77,578 1 826 8 0
49 Hindi hi 5,994 183,520 640,515 5 5,884 8 0
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,376 86,712 2 4,747 4 0
51 Marathi mr 5,406 109,115 230,868 2 6,035 13 15
52 Balinese ban 5,186 36,440 123,428 2 1,725 9 0
53 Burmese my 4,779 6,105 21,623 1 744 7 0
54 Icelandic is 4,711 6,215 29,812 1 3,686 5 8
55 Piedmontese pms 4,414 5,312 37,915 2 1,430 5 0
56 Ligurian lij 4,393 16,864 46,960 1 1,183 8 0
57 Assamese as 3,956 90,972 252,813 4 4,433 19 225
58 Danish da 3,874 103,438 427,112 2 11,198 10 6
59 Macedonian mk 3,360 8,219 22,337 2 4,004 8 4
60 Estonian et 3,299 22,934 59,697 1 4,154 10 48
61 Javanese jv 3,173 25,889 81,866 3 1,958 16 149
62 Yiddish yi 2,638 5,461 20,550 1 3,461 3 1,056
63 Walloon wa 2,504 6,320 36,019 1 981 6 0
64 Punjabi pa 2,372 71,779 220,683 6 2,643 40 212
65 Bulgarian bg 2,328 4,031 18,709 1 6,222 7 7
66 Limburgish li 1,885 3,368 7,296 1 2,296 2 1
67 Lithuanian lt 1,800 3,193 12,804 1 3,916 13 1
68 Basque eu 1,547 7,034 28,942 1 1,553 5 0
69 Kannada kn 1,531 112,406 314,236 2 8,531 25 18
70 Odia or 1,305 12,404 59,525 1 3,016 6 0
71 Malay ms 1,166 8,229 23,393 2 1,239 14 0
72 Yakut sah 752 2,126 9,372 2 2,344 5 2
73 Galician gl 712 3,703 21,908 2 3,811 5 64
74 Bosnian bs 613 3,271 12,040 1 3,599 2 62
75 Slovak sk 492 1,539 9,478 2 3,937 2 1
76 Sundanese su 408 12,862 47,752 1 1,109 11 0
77 Minangkabau min 396 9,112 30,410 2 360 15 0
78 Tagalog tl 328 2,311 15,701 3 381 4 0
79 Madurese mad 207 1,145 4,397 2 351 28 0
80 Minnan zh-min-nan 159 3,569 11,188 1 2,879 2 2
81 Central Bikol bcl 137 2,462 10,253 0 458 2 0
82 Tulu tcy 113 4,768 21,846 2 598 16 0
83 Faroese fo 79 611 3,832 1 2,573 5 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 8,766,492 26,019,728 80,024,619 319 5,302,570 3,512 79,548

Wikisources in Wikipedia

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Seven Wikisources are hosted as seperate namespaces within their appropriate language's Wikipedia.

The following language Wikipedias have adopted the Text: namespace for their Wikisource projects:

The Swahili Wikipedia has adopted the Wikichanzo: namespace for its Wikisource.

Historical discussion

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Please see the talk page.

See also

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