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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,141,012
1,178,854
3,622,601
14
37,998
58
128
2
English
en
1,052,949
4,354,022
14,290,771
23
3,131,257
375
16,324
3
Russian
ru
622,128
1,086,545
5,149,137
5
121,823
84
32,798
4
German
de
569,742
622,668
4,385,356
17
83,899
95
6,922
5
French
fr
544,722
4,240,560
14,363,513
17
147,740
217
3,643
6
Chinese
zh
463,499
1,107,787
2,398,688
7
107,688
137
231
7
Hebrew
he
245,093
1,690,836
2,864,192
16
39,933
91
543
8
Ukrainian
uk
230,317
377,393
737,055
7
17,718
45
134
9
Italian
it
199,135
787,200
3,371,785
9
72,872
92
879
10
Arabic
ar
84,169
233,360
498,891
9
67,511
26
4,050
11
Spanish
es
83,799
277,257
1,466,770
9
90,096
39
233
12
Multilingual
www
81,830
209,850
1,039,987
13
399,111
130
894
13
Gujarati
gu
62,545
68,295
210,593
2
4,055
6
0
14
Czech
cs
58,537
86,397
301,288
3
18,588
22
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,749
47,151
137,338
4
15,063
14
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,419
149,700
510,508
3
38,920
52
16
17
Bangla
bn
33,329
727,836
1,822,081
4
19,246
24
6,412
18
Swedish
sv
28,648
183,536
561,486
4
17,601
22
9
19
Persian
fa
27,457
67,067
236,430
3
37,054
24
1
20
Tamil
ta
23,889
527,497
1,622,057
4
14,319
41
42
21
Korean
ko
23,828
71,694
328,164
5
17,397
41
615
22
Belarusian
be
22,349
84,806
209,024
2
4,518
17
0
23
Hungarian
hu
21,738
38,790
101,831
4
11,634
9
34
24
Malayalam
ml
20,485
72,961
218,755
3
12,333
11
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
19,917
161,086
403,325
2
9,055
12
64
26
Telugu
te
19,306
144,692
436,757
4
6,108
18
545
27
Turkish
tr
18,682
29,554
166,927
2
23,224
26
121
28
Latin
la
18,026
64,495
218,301
7
28,079
25
48
29
Slovenian
sl
17,936
35,690
219,905
5
9,764
15
346
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,855
55,543
175,337
3
18,139
21
2
31
Dutch
nl
16,598
59,920
182,987
4
16,193
15
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,796
124,044
353,390
3
12,562
25
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,789
40,684
220,780
4
41,271
37
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,270
38,674
138,440
4
20,761
10
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,207
20,266
126,283
4
7,326
9
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,401
89,008
3
2,274
2
0
37
Greek
el
12,565
41,703
155,662
6
20,067
17
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,481
21,825
86,446
2
11,356
14
1
39
Breton
br
9,822
60,938
184,558
3
2,621
9
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,667
50,867
171,259
3
11,050
11
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,432
15,040
60,613
3
6,752
7
434
42
Indonesian
id
8,054
59,744
195,996
6
24,333
43
305
43
Thai
th
7,805
46,806
227,770
3
11,058
18
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,530
91,858
232,379
2
5,682
7
825
45
Welsh
cy
7,359
46,897
101,778
3
3,699
7
3
46
Kannada
kn
7,356
91,699
250,383
2
7,574
23
6
47
Esperanto
eo
6,585
28,356
95,741
2
4,847
15
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,733
173,282
608,851
5
4,945
47
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,323
16,329
75,455
3
4,393
5
0
50
Icelandic
is
4,867
6,477
24,217
2
3,282
5
9
51
Marathi
mr
4,700
101,374
207,376
2
5,342
14
15
52
Balinese
ban
4,643
33,402
114,409
1
1,260
7
0
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,323
5,186
32,696
1
1,116
4
0
54
Ligurian
lij
4,072
15,087
42,483
1
915
5
0
55
Danish
da
3,467
32,107
79,283
1
10,444
12
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,197
2
3,719
3
48
57
Assamese
as
3,146
68,940
187,697
1
3,653
12
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,989
7,721
20,874
2
3,523
3
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,460
20,421
1
3,096
2
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,326
14,406
48,141
1
1,299
4
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,984
18,265
3
5,716
5
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,241
5,915
33,432
2
741
3
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,218
1
2,087
3
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,049
2
3,523
5
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,609
60,828
170,346
6
2,062
26
212
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,378
26,316
1
1,238
4
0
67
Odia
or
1,248
11,582
56,671
1
2,612
3
0
68
Georgian
ka
779
926
5,602
0
233
4
0
69
Galician
gl
693
3,708
21,294
2
3,450
3
64
70
Bosnian
bs
613
3,271
11,886
1
3,240
4
62
71
Yakut
sah
595
1,654
7,582
1
2,058
2
2
72
Slovak
sk
487
1,496
9,186
2
3,623
3
1
73
Malay
ms
379
2,339
9,845
2
561
12
0
74
Sundanese
su
258
6,276
26,028
2
690
3
0
75
Minnan
zh-min-nan
55
3,403
10,206
1
2,588
5
2
76
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,506
1
2,301
1
0
77
Burmese
my
0
7
9
0
112
0
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,082,891
20,258,127
66,892,867
318
4,915,991
2,267
79,721
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 .