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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.
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).
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
1,133,185
1,170,934
3,597,691
14
37,756
57
130
2
English
en
1,041,919
4,307,667
14,168,617
23
3,124,769
408
16,349
3
Russian
ru
621,228
1,082,132
5,125,762
5
120,876
95
32,829
4
German
de
566,117
618,897
4,371,237
17
83,414
111
6,922
5
French
fr
537,146
4,204,268
14,262,983
17
146,740
237
3,583
6
Chinese
zh
458,232
1,101,687
2,374,864
8
106,643
131
231
7
Hebrew
he
243,846
1,688,930
2,854,879
16
39,468
98
542
8
Ukrainian
uk
225,862
372,179
723,528
7
17,518
56
135
9
Italian
it
197,679
780,325
3,345,998
9
72,270
92
964
10
Arabic
ar
84,163
231,877
496,662
9
67,117
36
4,050
11
Spanish
es
83,737
274,523
1,458,071
9
89,585
53
233
12
Multilingual
www
81,442
206,292
1,032,809
13
392,992
129
860
13
Gujarati
gu
62,518
68,208
210,145
2
4,009
10
0
14
Czech
cs
58,248
85,953
300,267
3
18,468
25
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,729
47,121
137,122
4
14,974
15
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,330
149,234
507,951
3
38,588
38
15
17
Bangla
bn
32,752
730,010
1,816,054
4
19,070
25
6,420
18
Swedish
sv
28,361
180,955
556,544
4
17,489
21
9
19
Persian
fa
27,336
60,918
210,563
2
36,751
39
1
20
Korean
ko
23,686
69,041
324,181
5
17,195
19
615
21
Tamil
ta
23,564
469,094
1,549,399
4
14,242
29
42
22
Belarusian
be
21,804
81,467
200,881
2
4,476
14
0
23
Hungarian
hu
21,723
38,697
101,682
4
11,595
5
34
24
Malayalam
ml
20,482
72,953
218,694
3
12,277
8
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
19,577
160,734
402,162
2
8,978
20
64
26
Telugu
te
19,144
143,513
434,106
4
6,033
9
545
27
Turkish
tr
18,680
29,547
166,657
2
22,961
33
121
28
Slovenian
sl
17,912
35,624
219,565
5
9,646
14
346
29
Latin
la
17,902
64,171
217,518
7
27,783
26
48
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,752
54,798
173,337
3
18,024
18
2
31
Dutch
nl
16,263
58,768
181,416
4
16,106
19
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,797
124,027
353,265
3
12,465
15
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,691
40,400
219,349
4
40,954
36
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,179
38,158
137,465
3
20,664
13
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,163
20,194
126,028
4
7,292
7
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,401
88,993
3
2,259
3
0
37
Greek
el
12,541
41,611
155,439
6
19,925
15
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,350
21,411
84,994
2
11,273
26
1
39
Breton
br
9,740
60,515
183,501
3
2,603
7
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,663
50,707
170,938
4
10,981
12
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,410
15,016
60,516
3
6,713
5
434
42
Indonesian
id
8,031
59,145
194,038
6
24,171
67
305
43
Thai
th
7,779
46,113
225,474
3
10,978
23
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,438
90,740
230,132
2
5,648
12
825
45
Kannada
kn
7,355
91,502
244,463
2
7,487
16
6
46
Welsh
cy
6,959
45,362
98,323
3
3,669
6
3
47
Esperanto
eo
6,535
27,738
93,829
2
4,817
10
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,753
173,268
607,710
5
4,834
16
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,186
16,069
74,898
3
4,372
3
1
50
Icelandic
is
4,793
6,664
23,691
2
3,258
2
9
51
Marathi
mr
4,664
100,662
206,307
2
5,294
11
15
52
Balinese
ban
4,643
33,372
114,318
1
1,229
5
0
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,304
5,162
31,598
1
1,099
3
0
54
Ligurian
lij
4,011
14,904
42,177
1
902
2
0
55
Danish
da
3,467
32,103
79,253
1
10,379
8
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,191
2
3,700
2
48
57
Assamese
as
3,131
67,477
185,623
1
3,612
23
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,980
7,698
20,695
2
3,500
1
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,460
20,415
1
3,078
3
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,326
14,385
47,837
1
1,273
7
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,977
18,237
3
5,680
1
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,219
5,884
33,282
2
727
2
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,212
1
2,077
1
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,028
2
3,497
1
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,587
59,300
165,914
6
2,028
19
204
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,377
26,271
1
1,216
3
0
67
Odia
or
1,241
11,572
56,584
1
2,592
4
0
68
Georgian
ka
779
924
5,590
0
183
5
0
69
Galician
gl
693
3,708
21,288
2
3,427
2
64
70
Bosnian
bs
612
3,268
11,866
1
3,214
4
62
71
Yakut
sah
595
1,654
7,575
1
2,045
2
2
72
Slovak
sk
487
1,495
9,176
2
3,607
5
1
73
Sundanese
su
257
6,196
25,875
2
671
11
0
74
Malay
ms
185
1,257
6,613
0
486
10
0
75
Minnan
zh-min-nan
54
3,396
10,087
1
2,571
2
2
76
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,499
1
2,282
2
0
77
Burmese
my
0
7
7
0
55
4
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,033,856
20,043,541
66,342,909
316
4,892,600
2,327
79,770
Alemannic, North Frisian, Bavarian, Rhine Franconian, Pennsylvania Dutch Wikisources[ edit ]
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 .
Please see the talk page .