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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,132,482
1,170,210
3,587,012
14
37,717
59
129
2
English
en
1,040,841
4,302,520
14,144,877
23
3,123,964
399
16,348
3
Russian
ru
621,124
1,081,912
5,123,811
5
120,750
88
32,833
4
German
de
565,702
618,476
4,369,663
17
83,351
120
6,922
5
French
fr
536,319
4,197,938
14,246,133
17
146,608
246
3,577
6
Chinese
zh
457,708
1,101,057
2,372,214
8
106,503
129
231
7
Hebrew
he
243,506
1,688,510
2,852,536
16
39,407
96
542
8
Ukrainian
uk
225,449
371,741
721,669
7
17,473
52
135
9
Italian
it
197,509
779,293
3,342,190
9
72,193
88
964
10
Arabic
ar
84,164
231,863
496,559
9
67,072
37
4,050
11
Spanish
es
83,727
274,412
1,457,523
9
89,520
53
233
12
Multilingual
www
82,264
207,854
1,032,593
13
392,227
127
861
13
Gujarati
gu
62,393
68,081
209,950
2
4,007
10
0
14
Czech
cs
58,176
85,880
300,161
3
18,449
21
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,729
47,120
137,111
4
14,963
17
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,329
149,199
507,896
3
38,549
38
15
17
Bangla
bn
32,733
729,921
1,811,755
4
19,050
26
6,421
18
Swedish
sv
28,315
180,628
556,051
4
17,482
23
9
19
Persian
fa
27,332
60,332
208,462
2
36,712
26
1
20
Korean
ko
23,683
68,908
323,992
5
17,168
22
615
21
Tamil
ta
23,524
469,012
1,548,680
4
14,235
30
42
22
Hungarian
hu
21,723
38,697
101,681
4
11,590
3
34
23
Belarusian
be
21,653
80,889
199,162
2
4,472
13
0
24
Malayalam
ml
20,482
72,953
218,688
3
12,272
8
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
19,571
160,717
402,072
2
8,966
21
64
26
Telugu
te
19,141
143,448
433,980
4
6,023
10
545
27
Turkish
tr
18,680
29,547
166,625
2
22,924
32
121
28
Slovenian
sl
17,907
35,619
219,525
5
9,639
13
346
29
Latin
la
17,899
64,163
217,448
7
27,752
27
48
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,744
54,745
173,116
3
18,008
20
2
31
Dutch
nl
16,218
58,476
180,977
4
16,097
18
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,797
124,025
353,262
3
12,450
18
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,647
40,344
219,159
4
40,914
33
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,164
38,092
137,342
3
20,651
12
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,158
20,189
126,011
4
7,286
7
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,401
88,966
3
2,254
3
0
37
Greek
el
12,542
41,605
155,420
6
19,911
16
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,349
21,381
84,867
2
11,264
24
1
39
Breton
br
9,731
60,495
183,458
3
2,602
8
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,656
50,604
170,779
4
10,977
12
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,410
15,016
60,516
3
6,707
6
434
42
Indonesian
id
8,028
59,015
193,714
6
24,147
57
305
43
Thai
th
7,779
46,089
225,408
3
10,971
21
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,438
90,738
230,127
2
5,642
12
825
45
Kannada
kn
7,354
91,381
244,338
2
7,481
13
6
46
Welsh
cy
6,910
45,039
97,701
3
3,668
3
3
47
Esperanto
eo
6,523
27,686
93,748
2
4,814
10
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,754
173,064
607,322
5
4,828
21
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,186
16,069
74,898
3
4,369
2
1
50
Icelandic
is
4,793
6,664
23,691
2
3,257
2
9
51
Marathi
mr
4,664
100,594
206,221
2
5,288
10
15
52
Balinese
ban
4,644
33,371
114,315
1
1,227
5
0
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,304
5,162
31,524
1
1,099
3
0
54
Ligurian
lij
3,985
14,816
42,038
1
901
2
0
55
Danish
da
3,467
32,103
79,248
1
10,375
8
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,191
2
3,699
1
48
57
Assamese
as
3,131
67,415
185,494
1
3,607
13
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,980
7,698
20,695
2
3,495
1
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,460
20,403
1
3,073
1
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,326
14,385
47,648
1
1,270
7
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,977
18,237
3
5,675
1
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,219
5,884
33,279
2
725
3
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,212
1
2,076
1
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,028
2
3,494
3
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,587
59,225
165,797
6
2,024
19
204
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,377
26,267
1
1,215
2
0
67
Odia
or
1,241
11,572
56,574
1
2,589
5
0
68
Galician
gl
693
3,708
21,285
2
3,425
2
64
69
Bosnian
bs
612
3,268
11,866
1
3,212
4
62
70
Yakut
sah
595
1,654
7,575
1
2,044
3
2
71
Slovak
sk
487
1,495
9,176
2
3,606
3
1
72
Sundanese
su
257
6,196
25,875
2
668
10
0
73
Minnan
zh-min-nan
54
3,396
10,087
1
2,570
2
2
74
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,499
1
2,279
1
0
75
Malay
ms
0
7
7
0
47
4
0
76
Georgian
ka
0
7
7
0
45
4
0
77
Burmese
my
0
7
7
0
36
4
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,028,431
20,023,540
66,250,394
316
4,889,100
2,274
79,768
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 .