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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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	1,280,464	1,320,983	4,059,868	14	41,275	80	127
2	English	en	1,135,626	4,851,003	15,772,477	19	3,242,718	569	16,635
3	French	fr	658,025	4,651,695	15,665,262	17	160,730	332	4,167
4	German	de	624,219	680,364	4,849,624	17	89,561	132	6,932
5	Russian	ru	620,448	1,131,627	5,697,678	5	132,899	86	33,067
6	Chinese	zh	494,075	1,174,329	2,638,296	8	119,303	223	230
7	Ukrainian	uk	371,478	533,292	1,032,666	5	21,264	99	136
8	Hebrew	he	253,689	1,665,371	2,995,668	16	44,850	144	570
9	Italian	it	217,843	858,380	3,643,857	9	79,539	101	677
10	Arabic	ar	93,725	286,106	606,073	5	71,643	43	4,025
11	Spanish	es	89,065	334,279	1,643,298	8	95,327	73	230
12	Multilingual	www	81,078	268,092	1,325,824	13	471,203	238	733
13	Gujarati	gu	64,871	71,091	220,450	2	4,500	10	0
14	Czech	cs	60,549	89,367	313,244	3	19,773	14	7
15	Serbian	sr	43,264	47,963	141,977	5	16,127	25	361
16	Portuguese	pt	38,745	163,859	550,120	1	42,291	47	32
17	Bangla	bn	37,293	618,148	1,938,934	4	21,361	34	5,566
18	Armenian	hy	35,910	146,370	392,374	4	13,726	32	62
19	Tamil	ta	34,199	626,677	1,912,152	4	16,449	73	32
20	Swedish	sv	32,013	212,476	631,153	5	18,647	26	8
21	Persian	fa	29,113	76,701	283,925	3	39,479	24	0
22	Belarusian	be	28,683	116,184	278,619	2	5,224	14	0
23	Korean	ko	25,413	92,834	423,244	5	19,108	33	209
24	Telugu	te	22,886	204,684	546,699	4	6,968	25	467
25	Hungarian	hu	21,817	39,109	103,505	3	12,202	4	27
26	Sanskrit	sa	20,387	162,569	415,449	2	10,322	37	64
27	Dutch	nl	20,306	78,579	218,347	2	17,154	15	0
28	Malayalam	ml	20,207	77,170	231,390	4	13,179	19	602
29	Latin	la	20,155	76,549	258,678	5	31,693	40	45
30	Turkish	tr	19,859	31,324	173,422	2	25,934	29	122
31	Vietnamese	vi	19,052	66,327	204,209	3	19,908	66	2
32	Slovenian	sl	18,181	36,060	223,619	5	10,480	24	341
33	Japanese	ja	17,171	46,549	238,041	4	45,254	62	0
34	Romanian	ro	15,548	44,188	150,234	3	22,184	26	227
35	Welsh	cy	15,520	79,067	161,150	2	4,063	2	3
36	Finnish	fi	13,733	20,907	128,084	3	7,921	14	53
37	Neapolitan	nap	12,939	14,613	90,570	3	2,601	2	0
38	Greek	el	12,643	45,398	165,270	6	22,149	29	4
39	Norwegian	no	11,544	128,107	310,572	2	6,158	6	815
40	Azerbaijani	az	11,506	24,393	95,321	2	12,489	21	1
41	Breton	br	10,497	65,368	207,453	3	2,928	7	0
42	Catalan	ca	10,430	56,086	183,647	3	11,881	6	5
43	Thai	th	9,614	63,363	286,803	3	12,174	15	28
44	Croatian	hr	9,590	15,730	63,027	3	7,333	14	434
45	Indonesian	id	8,838	86,951	266,554	9	26,820	79	303
46	Kannada	kn	7,076	94,403	270,199	2	8,419	14	19
47	Esperanto	eo	6,871	33,107	114,404	2	5,338	13	29
48	Georgian	ka	6,751	7,857	77,421	1	753	6	0
49	Hindi	hi	5,994	183,507	640,298	5	5,787	30	0
50	Venetian	vec	5,798	19,384	80,460	2	4,704	1	0
51	Marathi	mr	5,360	108,374	228,390	2	5,948	10	15
52	Balinese	ban	5,187	36,439	123,387	2	1,663	15	0
53	Icelandic	is	4,707	6,166	29,743	1	3,629	3	8
54	Burmese	my	4,604	5,921	21,299	1	655	5	0
55	Piedmontese	pms	4,410	5,299	37,602	2	1,390	5	0
56	Ligurian	lij	4,333	16,626	46,432	1	1,141	4	0
57	Danish	da	3,714	95,613	331,348	2	11,104	11	6
58	Assamese	as	3,626	84,965	237,125	4	4,359	24	193
59	Macedonian	mk	3,351	8,204	22,289	2	3,943	4	4
60	Estonian	et	3,299	22,933	59,675	2	4,096	5	48
61	Javanese	jv	3,108	22,725	72,452	3	1,868	17	149
62	Yiddish	yi	2,638	5,463	20,536	1	3,426	4	1,056
63	Walloon	wa	2,455	6,254	35,603	1	960	2	0
64	Punjabi	pa	2,335	69,541	213,396	6	2,577	19	212
65	Bulgarian	bg	2,306	4,009	18,647	1	6,157	4	7
66	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,369	7,287	1	2,273	0	1
67	Lithuanian	lt	1,800	3,189	12,748	2	3,858	4	1
68	Basque	eu	1,547	7,022	28,887	1	1,514	4	0
69	Odia	or	1,300	12,296	59,399	2	2,980	2	0
70	Malay	ms	1,091	7,852	22,292	2	1,165	9	0
71	Yakut	sah	751	2,067	9,036	1	2,309	4	2
72	Minangkabau	min	735	4,349	15,338	2	289	13	0
73	Galician	gl	711	3,702	21,807	2	3,757	3	64
74	Bosnian	bs	613	3,271	12,031	1	3,556	0	62
75	Slovak	sk	492	1,536	9,463	2	3,910	2	1
76	Sundanese	su	404	12,784	47,583	1	1,070	8	0
77	Tagalog	tl	326	2,302	15,659	3	333	0	0
78	Madurese	mad	207	1,112	4,256	2	297	18	0
79	Minnan	zh-min-nan	159	3,569	11,179	1	2,838	3	2
80	Central Bikol	bcl	137	2,454	10,240	0	415	1	0
81	Tulu	tcy	111	4,678	21,275	2	556	15	0
82	Faroese	fo	9	589	3,669	1	2,527	0	0
83	Urdu	ur	0	8	8	1	26	2	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,792,412	22,393,221	74,731,690	320	5,230,382	3,278	79,228

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