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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 1,228,303 1,267,750 3,901,274 14 40,062 61 127
2 English en 1,112,033 4,702,476 15,295,187 19 3,178,520 461 16,665
3 French fr 621,577 4,523,171 15,278,495 16 155,798 206 3,832
4 Russian ru 617,988 1,120,869 5,608,842 5 128,801 93 32,810
5 German de 597,274 651,662 4,614,402 17 87,450 110 6,922
6 Chinese zh 482,242 1,157,346 2,565,114 8 114,866 145 230
7 Ukrainian uk 341,485 498,706 972,303 6 19,913 75 136
8 Hebrew he 251,776 1,660,317 2,953,645 16 43,031 97 557
9 Italian it 210,317 835,592 3,556,879 9 77,040 70 677
10 Spanish es 86,665 318,310 1,576,760 8 93,442 47 231
11 Arabic ar 85,143 248,657 534,700 9 70,385 51 4,034
12 Multilingual www 78,462 236,989 1,190,653 12 444,275 160 991
13 Gujarati gu 64,458 70,532 217,460 2 4,352 11 0
14 Czech cs 60,040 88,627 309,235 3 19,378 20 7
15 Serbian sr 42,999 47,489 140,003 4 15,697 11 361
16 Portuguese pt 38,258 161,149 541,879 4 41,138 87 18
17 Bangla bn 36,542 636,066 1,903,099 4 20,651 36 5,695
18 Armenian hy 35,914 146,341 391,604 4 13,292 18 62
19 Tamil ta 30,891 613,269 1,856,946 4 15,739 65 32
20 Swedish sv 30,847 203,096 610,666 5 18,319 22 8
21 Persian fa 28,581 75,536 280,760 3 38,765 22 0
22 Belarusian be 27,495 108,740 262,482 2 4,949 18 0
23 Korean ko 24,296 87,303 400,036 5 18,580 41 209
24 Telugu te 22,176 196,306 522,180 4 6,654 24 468
25 Hungarian hu 21,795 39,134 103,315 3 12,018 10 27
26 Sanskrit sa 20,301 162,335 410,063 2 9,780 19 64
27 Malayalam ml 20,134 76,947 230,643 4 12,929 15 602
28 Turkish tr 19,802 31,146 171,859 2 24,999 21 122
29 Latin la 19,433 69,141 239,644 5 30,332 36 48
30 Dutch nl 19,120 74,497 210,992 3 16,856 22 0
31 Vietnamese vi 18,688 65,385 200,886 3 19,180 33 2
32 Slovenian sl 17,992 35,781 222,418 5 10,153 9 341
33 Japanese ja 16,134 43,529 230,944 4 43,879 35 0
34 Romanian ro 15,028 41,910 145,473 3 21,634 15 227
35 Finnish fi 13,503 20,642 127,369 3 7,678 10 53
36 Welsh cy 13,466 69,178 145,567 2 3,939 6 3
37 Neapolitan nap 12,865 14,538 90,123 3 2,492 9 0
38 Greek el 12,543 43,886 161,581 6 21,412 26 4
39 Azerbaijani az 11,261 24,167 94,059 2 12,105 11 1
40 Catalan ca 10,186 53,790 179,220 3 11,581 12 5
41 Breton br 10,163 63,485 198,738 3 2,812 12 0
42 Norwegian no 9,602 111,194 273,436 2 5,992 9 815
43 Croatian hr 9,501 15,756 62,428 3 7,111 9 434
44 Thai th 8,880 56,507 265,736 3 11,783 16 28
45 Indonesian id 8,672 79,334 252,532 7 26,073 52 302
46 Kannada kn 7,071 94,232 268,762 2 8,080 46 19
47 Esperanto eo 6,787 32,376 110,390 2 5,170 16 28
48 Georgian ka 6,741 7,829 77,352 0 614 7 0
49 Hindi hi 5,886 182,861 629,254 5 5,530 9 0
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,383 80,314 2 4,603 4 0
51 Marathi mr 5,299 107,075 224,734 2 5,727 14 15
52 Balinese ban 5,168 34,216 116,791 1 1,487 5 0
53 Icelandic is 4,705 6,151 29,709 1 3,514 4 9
54 Burmese my 4,481 5,792 19,702 1 471 8 0
55 Piedmontese pms 4,410 5,294 37,428 1 1,290 7 0
56 Ligurian lij 4,215 15,908 44,974 1 1,067 5 0
57 Danish da 3,494 32,411 80,715 2 10,883 18 6
58 Estonian et 3,262 22,780 59,369 2 3,955 5 48
59 Javanese jv 3,069 20,572 68,912 2 1,657 19 149
60 Macedonian mk 3,042 7,784 21,333 2 3,733 4 4
61 Assamese as 2,928 74,954 209,549 3 4,142 27 127
62 Yiddish yi 2,633 5,461 20,501 1 3,314 5 1,056
63 Walloon wa 2,392 6,152 35,058 1 889 6 0
64 Bulgarian bg 2,298 4,002 18,483 1 6,013 5 7
65 Punjabi pa 2,123 67,071 201,549 6 2,395 59 212
66 Limburgish li 1,885 3,368 7,273 1 2,207 4 1
67 Lithuanian lt 1,757 3,142 12,203 2 3,724 4 1
68 Basque eu 1,418 6,768 28,096 1 1,414 6 0
69 Odia or 1,295 12,091 59,115 2 2,883 8 0
70 Malay ms 1,059 7,499 20,760 2 1,016 14 0
71 Galician gl 711 3,788 21,698 2 3,628 6 64
72 Yakut sah 624 1,725 7,950 1 2,208 6 2
73 Bosnian bs 613 3,270 11,976 1 3,441 7 62
74 Slovak sk 492 1,537 9,353 2 3,811 5 1
75 Sundanese su 379 12,702 47,221 2 983 7 0
76 Minnan zh-min-nan 153 3,552 11,040 1 2,760 4 2
77 Central Bikol bcl 119 2,186 9,367 1 313 4 0
78 Tulu tcy 109 3,557 18,706 2 399 7 0
79 Faroese fo 9 556 3,565 1 2,439 6 0
80 Tagalog tl 0 26 27 1 72 6 0
81 Madurese mad 0 26 31 1 70 6 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,561,256 21,666,678 72,124,890 315 5,091,737 2,711 78,963

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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See also

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