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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 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	1,172,567	1,211,290	3,729,632	15	38,823	60	129
2	English	en	1,084,757	4,506,604	14,750,086	22	3,150,866	488	16,214
3	Russian	ru	624,640	1,096,031	5,204,115	5	124,457	94	33,045
4	German	de	582,363	635,807	4,449,319	17	85,316	107	6,923
5	French	fr	581,939	4,383,696	14,814,891	15	151,122	242	3,694
6	Chinese	zh	472,911	1,132,659	2,485,170	8	110,846	159	230
7	Ukrainian	uk	289,094	435,420	854,958	6	18,553	76	136
8	Hebrew	he	246,713	1,652,263	2,896,497	16	41,336	96	549
9	Italian	it	202,949	806,060	3,448,195	9	74,580	88	723
10	Spanish	es	84,455	286,799	1,501,724	9	91,585	53	231
11	Arabic	ar	84,322	241,187	516,066	9	68,832	64	4,041
12	Multilingual	www	79,703	214,042	1,096,270	12	418,463	125	979
13	Gujarati	gu	63,026	68,940	212,953	2	4,193	18	0
14	Czech	cs	59,126	87,478	306,380	3	18,911	25	7
15	Serbian	sr	42,821	47,257	137,922	4	15,340	9	362
16	Portuguese	pt	37,063	154,467	523,923	3	39,881	35	16
17	Bangla	bn	34,665	676,634	1,851,530	4	19,903	52	6,265
18	Swedish	sv	29,402	192,059	584,909	4	17,944	27	9
19	Persian	fa	27,857	70,172	268,562	3	37,863	27	0
20	Tamil	ta	27,363	592,499	1,767,482	4	15,114	51	41
21	Belarusian	be	26,594	101,215	245,708	2	4,693	21	0
22	Korean	ko	24,578	79,337	348,539	4	17,963	38	607
23	Hungarian	hu	21,751	39,037	102,846	4	11,802	9	27
24	Malayalam	ml	20,546	75,444	224,242	3	12,591	33	594
25	Telugu	te	20,365	154,528	458,035	4	6,296	25	559
26	Sanskrit	sa	20,064	161,830	407,006	2	9,411	70	64
27	Turkish	tr	19,659	30,599	169,308	2	23,981	27	121
28	Latin	la	18,699	66,650	225,055	6	29,015	32	48
29	Armenian	hy	18,658	128,622	366,228	4	12,846	19	64
30	Dutch	nl	17,913	66,107	198,757	3	16,491	16	0
31	Slovenian	sl	17,858	35,624	221,021	5	9,928	9	341
32	Vietnamese	vi	17,384	59,419	186,694	3	18,569	24	2
33	Japanese	ja	15,553	42,156	226,137	4	42,272	44	0
34	Romanian	ro	14,603	39,969	141,036	3	21,092	16	227
35	Finnish	fi	13,315	20,418	126,802	4	7,480	11	53
36	Neapolitan	nap	12,755	14,415	89,099	3	2,355	7	0
37	Greek	el	12,314	42,209	157,245	6	20,602	27	4
38	Azerbaijani	az	10,815	22,586	89,684	2	11,687	21	1
39	Welsh	cy	10,048	56,938	122,865	3	3,787	6	3
40	Catalan	ca	9,928	52,417	176,795	3	11,294	34	5
41	Breton	br	9,892	61,661	190,254	3	2,705	11	0
42	Croatian	hr	9,464	15,432	61,722	3	6,895	10	434
43	Thai	th	8,261	51,166	244,604	3	11,381	17	28
44	Norwegian	no	7,926	97,167	240,186	2	5,823	9	825
45	Indonesian	id	7,770	64,081	206,867	7	25,130	94	302
46	Kannada	kn	7,249	94,122	266,350	2	7,771	14	19
47	Esperanto	eo	6,649	29,959	101,712	2	4,974	12	27
48	Hindi	hi	5,848	174,779	618,624	5	5,286	20	3
49	Venetian	vec	5,764	19,249	80,056	2	4,476	6	0
50	Marathi	mr	5,036	103,699	213,075	2	5,509	19	15
51	Balinese	ban	5,015	33,927	115,770	1	1,353	11	0
52	Icelandic	is	4,694	5,985	29,445	1	3,388	4	9
53	Piedmontese	pms	4,371	5,244	36,072	1	1,188	6	0
54	Ligurian	lij	4,108	15,463	44,235	1	988	7	0
55	Burmese	my	3,983	5,220	17,047	1	252	4	0
56	Danish	da	3,478	32,228	79,859	1	10,646	8	6
57	Estonian	et	3,253	22,688	59,227	2	3,822	4	48
58	Macedonian	mk	3,026	7,765	21,220	2	3,612	7	4
59	Assamese	as	2,894	71,184	198,355	3	3,849	34	86
60	Yiddish	yi	2,632	5,463	20,464	1	3,184	4	1,056
61	Javanese	jv	2,450	14,885	49,189	1	1,438	7	149
62	Bulgarian	bg	2,292	3,990	18,352	1	5,850	10	7
63	Walloon	wa	2,261	5,978	34,025	2	801	6	0
64	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,367	7,246	1	2,136	4	1
65	Lithuanian	lt	1,756	3,141	12,156	2	3,609	8	1
66	Punjabi	pa	1,691	64,094	185,313	6	2,179	30	212
67	Basque	eu	1,380	6,395	26,693	1	1,312	5	0
68	Odia	or	1,283	11,741	58,157	2	2,770	9	0
69	Malay	ms	780	4,708	14,931	2	773	32	0
70	Georgian	ka	748	932	5,621	0	351	2	0
71	Galician	gl	701	3,739	21,492	2	3,525	6	64
72	Bosnian	bs	613	3,272	11,930	1	3,328	6	62
73	Yakut	sah	603	1,680	7,705	1	2,123	8	2
74	Slovak	sk	488	1,519	9,285	2	3,701	8	1
75	Sundanese	su	276	6,741	27,168	2	778	8	0
76	Minnan	zh-min-nan	154	3,527	10,979	1	2,657	8	2
77	Central Bikol	bcl	97	1,969	8,947	1	158	2	0
78	Tulu	tcy	88	2,076	13,008	1	214	17	0
79	Faroese	fo	9	554	3,540	1	2,360	5	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	6,302,004	20,841,674	69,054,567	315	4,990,378	2,867	79,677

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