From Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki
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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 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
1,134,603
1,172,818
3,603,897
14
37,806
49
130
2
English
en
1,045,199
4,319,386
14,204,027
23
3,126,383
409
16,395
3
Russian
ru
621,365
1,083,651
5,135,432
5
121,130
88
32,736
4
German
de
566,986
619,785
4,374,674
17
83,531
95
6,922
5
French
fr
538,464
4,213,543
14,286,500
17
146,964
257
3,585
6
Chinese
zh
459,249
1,102,830
2,380,971
8
106,910
139
231
7
Hebrew
he
243,952
1,689,207
2,857,259
16
39,577
100
542
8
Ukrainian
uk
226,635
373,504
727,215
7
17,565
53
135
9
Italian
it
197,967
783,293
3,354,529
9
72,409
106
964
10
Arabic
ar
84,166
231,894
496,789
9
67,222
30
4,050
11
Spanish
es
83,763
275,131
1,462,054
9
89,725
50
233
12
Multilingual
www
81,683
206,433
1,033,813
13
394,552
118
858
13
Gujarati
gu
62,520
68,222
210,262
2
4,020
10
0
14
Czech
cs
58,336
86,088
300,696
3
18,501
26
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,729
47,129
137,182
4
14,993
15
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,397
149,355
509,086
3
38,645
32
15
17
Bangla
bn
32,958
727,829
1,817,927
4
19,108
29
6,377
18
Swedish
sv
28,406
181,627
557,521
4
17,520
23
9
19
Persian
fa
27,311
63,012
215,885
3
36,832
43
1
20
Korean
ko
23,725
69,449
324,821
5
17,243
29
615
21
Tamil
ta
23,702
469,433
1,553,278
4
14,259
29
42
22
Belarusian
be
21,890
81,938
202,481
2
4,486
15
0
23
Hungarian
hu
21,724
38,718
101,708
4
11,604
9
34
24
Malayalam
ml
20,482
72,955
218,705
3
12,285
8
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
19,682
160,843
402,469
2
8,985
15
64
26
Telugu
te
19,142
143,666
434,349
4
6,040
13
545
27
Turkish
tr
18,680
29,550
166,726
2
23,031
31
121
28
Slovenian
sl
17,912
35,625
219,622
5
9,660
16
346
29
Latin
la
17,904
64,179
217,584
7
27,860
21
48
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,779
54,973
173,775
3
18,063
20
2
31
Dutch
nl
16,399
59,271
182,105
4
16,135
23
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,797
124,030
353,279
3
12,493
12
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,727
40,484
219,670
4
41,020
34
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,216
38,406
137,847
3
20,690
12
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,171
20,215
126,081
4
7,293
9
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,401
88,999
3
2,261
3
0
37
Greek
el
12,535
41,617
155,472
6
19,959
16
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,421
21,528
85,437
2
11,302
33
1
39
Breton
br
9,757
60,539
183,738
3
2,604
6
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,664
50,799
171,136
3
11,003
14
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,423
15,031
60,573
3
6,723
11
434
42
Indonesian
id
8,034
59,427
194,860
6
24,215
69
305
43
Thai
th
7,781
46,300
226,034
3
10,990
22
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,447
90,819
230,461
2
5,656
12
825
45
Kannada
kn
7,355
91,526
245,845
2
7,491
17
6
46
Welsh
cy
7,220
45,982
99,563
3
3,677
7
3
47
Esperanto
eo
6,545
27,822
93,965
2
4,822
9
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,816
173,207
608,127
5
4,845
16
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,186
16,069
74,900
3
4,377
4
1
50
Icelandic
is
4,793
6,664
23,692
2
3,262
3
9
51
Marathi
mr
4,673
100,877
206,614
2
5,306
14
15
52
Balinese
ban
4,643
33,374
114,329
1
1,232
6
0
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,306
5,164
31,742
1
1,101
3
0
54
Ligurian
lij
4,041
15,007
42,325
1
904
3
0
55
Danish
da
3,467
32,103
79,255
1
10,394
7
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,192
2
3,704
3
48
57
Assamese
as
3,132
67,506
185,660
1
3,616
22
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,981
7,711
20,742
2
3,506
3
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,460
20,416
1
3,079
4
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,326
14,388
48,054
1
1,277
8
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,977
18,243
3
5,687
2
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,227
5,893
33,315
2
730
2
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,213
1
2,078
1
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,029
2
3,503
2
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,587
59,327
166,372
6
2,033
17
204
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,377
26,288
1
1,217
4
0
67
Odia
or
1,241
11,572
56,599
1
2,594
3
0
68
Georgian
ka
779
924
5,594
0
196
7
0
69
Galician
gl
693
3,708
21,292
2
3,431
4
64
70
Bosnian
bs
612
3,268
11,868
1
3,219
6
62
71
Yakut
sah
595
1,654
7,578
1
2,046
2
2
72
Slovak
sk
487
1,495
9,179
2
3,610
6
1
73
Malay
ms
273
1,629
7,434
0
509
17
0
74
Sundanese
su
257
6,242
25,938
2
672
8
0
75
Minnan
zh-min-nan
54
3,396
10,088
1
2,573
3
2
76
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,500
1
2,290
3
0
77
Burmese
my
0
7
9
0
71
5
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,044,911
20,081,007
66,473,889
316
4,898,305
2,375
79,680
Alemannic, North Frisian, Bavarian, Rhine Franconian, Pennsylvania Dutch Wikisources
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 .
Historical discussion
Please see the talk page .
See also