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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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

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

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	Polish	pl	1,274,789	1,315,227	4,045,719	14	41,172	78	127
2	English	en	1,132,262	4,833,520	15,714,228	19	3,235,530	625	16,638
3	French	fr	652,285	4,634,305	15,619,239	17	160,189	316	4,145
4	German	de	620,599	676,476	4,826,655	17	89,320	145	6,922
5	Russian	ru	620,098	1,130,114	5,692,336	5	132,470	107	32,997
6	Chinese	zh	493,022	1,172,605	2,620,976	8	118,887	240	230
7	Ukrainian	uk	370,568	531,747	1,029,063	5	21,134	110	136
8	Hebrew	he	252,525	1,663,821	2,985,847	16	44,654	170	569
9	Italian	it	216,924	855,685	3,633,358	9	79,263	91	677
10	Arabic	ar	93,650	285,630	604,260	5	71,532	41	4,027
11	Spanish	es	88,838	333,015	1,626,843	8	95,152	72	230
12	Multilingual	www	80,820	267,068	1,322,436	13	468,319	237	740
13	Gujarati	gu	64,741	70,950	220,078	2	4,489	9	0
14	Czech	cs	60,491	89,265	313,057	3	19,739	23	7
15	Serbian	sr	43,208	47,896	141,650	5	16,079	30	361
16	Portuguese	pt	38,753	163,829	550,008	1	42,172	53	32
17	Bangla	bn	37,272	619,192	1,938,246	4	21,299	35	5,557
18	Armenian	hy	35,907	146,361	392,307	4	13,677	26	62
19	Tamil	ta	33,693	624,044	1,904,122	4	16,351	76	32
20	Swedish	sv	31,888	211,599	629,692	5	18,607	25	8
21	Persian	fa	29,088	76,616	283,586	3	39,399	19	0
22	Belarusian	be	28,519	115,145	275,678	2	5,198	15	0
23	Korean	ko	25,376	92,707	422,949	5	19,054	27	209
24	Telugu	te	22,859	202,955	543,701	4	6,946	45	465
25	Hungarian	hu	21,813	39,097	103,477	3	12,191	8	27
26	Sanskrit	sa	20,387	162,522	415,012	2	10,281	43	64
27	Malayalam	ml	20,208	77,166	231,348	4	13,159	17	602
28	Dutch	nl	20,132	78,103	217,595	2	17,131	16	0
29	Latin	la	20,046	75,944	256,830	5	31,561	43	45
30	Turkish	tr	19,856	31,327	173,336	2	25,831	31	122
31	Vietnamese	vi	19,036	66,229	203,734	3	19,812	59	2
32	Slovenian	sl	18,142	36,018	223,479	5	10,448	32	341
33	Japanese	ja	17,022	46,223	236,874	4	45,124	60	0
34	Romanian	ro	15,513	43,957	149,712	3	22,129	32	227
35	Welsh	cy	15,061	77,833	159,149	2	4,057	4	3
36	Finnish	fi	13,667	20,829	127,874	3	7,904	10	53
37	Neapolitan	nap	12,939	14,613	90,560	3	2,589	6	0
38	Greek	el	12,620	45,186	164,799	6	22,078	27	4
39	Azerbaijani	az	11,490	24,346	95,184	2	12,444	26	1
40	Norwegian	no	11,287	126,535	307,367	2	6,146	7	815
41	Breton	br	10,445	65,105	206,620	3	2,920	7	0
42	Catalan	ca	10,424	55,877	183,080	3	11,853	17	5
43	Croatian	hr	9,582	15,719	62,955	3	7,301	13	434
44	Thai	th	9,522	62,793	285,270	3	12,142	19	28
45	Indonesian	id	8,806	85,403	264,035	9	26,764	86	303
46	Kannada	kn	7,076	94,270	269,588	2	8,374	21	19
47	Esperanto	eo	6,850	32,999	114,072	2	5,324	14	29
48	Georgian	ka	6,751	7,856	77,412	1	736	4	0
49	Hindi	hi	5,993	183,501	638,793	5	5,761	30	0
50	Venetian	vec	5,798	19,384	80,460	2	4,697	5	0
51	Marathi	mr	5,356	108,240	227,976	2	5,928	12	15
52	Balinese	ban	5,186	36,424	123,357	2	1,644	9	0
53	Icelandic	is	4,707	6,166	29,743	1	3,616	3	8
54	Burmese	my	4,603	5,916	21,279	1	632	3	0
55	Piedmontese	pms	4,410	5,299	37,556	2	1,385	6	0
56	Ligurian	lij	4,319	16,280	45,682	1	1,137	6	0
57	Danish	da	3,707	95,498	274,229	2	11,086	11	6
58	Assamese	as	3,589	84,341	234,896	4	4,339	32	184
59	Macedonian	mk	3,345	8,198	22,276	2	3,929	8	4
60	Estonian	et	3,299	22,936	59,671	2	4,080	7	48
61	Javanese	jv	3,107	22,715	72,416	3	1,850	15	149
62	Yiddish	yi	2,633	5,463	20,525	1	3,419	5	1,056
63	Walloon	wa	2,449	6,247	35,576	1	957	7	0
64	Punjabi	pa	2,334	69,481	212,813	6	2,563	23	212
65	Bulgarian	bg	2,306	4,009	18,646	1	6,148	7	7
66	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,369	7,287	1	2,269	1	1
67	Lithuanian	lt	1,799	3,188	12,736	2	3,849	11	1
68	Basque	eu	1,547	7,019	28,869	1	1,503	6	0
69	Odia	or	1,297	12,271	59,373	2	2,975	4	0
70	Malay	ms	1,091	7,847	22,267	2	1,158	8	0
71	Yakut	sah	747	2,053	9,005	1	2,304	7	2
72	Minangkabau	min	735	4,345	15,326	2	281	30	0
73	Galician	gl	712	3,702	21,799	2	3,743	8	64
74	Bosnian	bs	613	3,271	12,031	1	3,549	7	62
75	Slovak	sk	492	1,536	9,462	2	3,901	2	1
76	Sundanese	su	385	12,763	47,481	1	1,065	8	0
77	Tagalog	tl	326	2,302	15,659	3	331	6	0
78	Madurese	mad	208	1,112	4,246	2	290	4	0
79	Minnan	zh-min-nan	159	3,569	11,177	1	2,832	3	2
80	Central Bikol	bcl	137	2,454	10,240	0	411	2	0
81	Tulu	tcy	108	4,675	21,258	1	550	19	0
82	Faroese	fo	9	589	3,669	1	2,519	2	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,766,241	22,321,885	74,423,175	318	5,215,632	3,534	79,117

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

Please see the talk page.

See also

• List of Wikisources at WikiStats, an alternative version of the table above
• Another version of the table at WikiStats, presented as raw wiki markup
• Wikisource Community User Group
• Role of Wikisource
• List of language editions
• Wikisource Tenth Birthday
• Wikisource proofreading contests