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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,152,073
1,190,283
3,664,037
15
38,277
54
128
2
English
en
1,063,788
4,401,411
14,432,577
23
3,138,595
384
16,215
3
Russian
ru
622,906
1,091,170
5,161,476
5
122,774
79
33,018
4
German
de
574,017
627,093
4,402,100
17
84,414
110
6,922
5
French
fr
549,670
4,277,664
14,467,803
16
148,874
227
3,655
6
Chinese
zh
467,280
1,113,735
2,421,714
8
108,839
123
231
7
Hebrew
he
245,685
1,649,208
2,874,174
16
40,445
96
549
8
Ukrainian
uk
245,439
392,964
763,633
7
17,983
48
134
9
Italian
it
200,599
793,293
3,393,743
9
73,401
78
760
10
Arabic
ar
84,197
235,505
502,390
9
68,009
39
4,043
11
Spanish
es
84,176
278,623
1,470,642
9
90,600
46
233
12
Multilingual
www
82,513
219,602
1,060,423
13
405,851
163
980
13
Gujarati
gu
62,713
68,518
211,254
2
4,100
9
0
14
Czech
cs
58,695
86,685
304,184
3
18,693
21
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,785
47,203
137,477
4
15,177
10
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,543
150,859
514,589
2
39,247
50
17
17
Bangla
bn
33,743
695,988
1,830,885
4
19,456
31
6,295
18
Swedish
sv
28,882
186,459
567,905
4
17,712
22
9
19
Persian
fa
27,727
68,917
246,591
3
37,348
29
0
20
Tamil
ta
24,881
538,198
1,656,826
4
14,676
45
42
21
Korean
ko
24,126
75,371
336,501
5
17,546
46
615
22
Belarusian
be
23,933
90,879
224,133
2
4,584
16
0
23
Hungarian
hu
21,745
38,849
102,102
4
11,692
12
30
24
Malayalam
ml
20,488
72,975
218,838
3
12,407
15
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
20,030
161,239
404,128
2
9,165
20
64
26
Telugu
te
19,756
146,883
442,190
4
6,185
20
547
27
Turkish
tr
18,684
29,567
167,134
2
23,498
20
121
28
Latin
la
18,217
64,992
220,270
7
28,405
28
48
29
Slovenian
sl
17,971
35,737
220,351
5
9,828
17
343
30
Dutch
nl
16,967
62,065
187,820
4
16,263
18
0
31
Vietnamese
vi
16,944
56,420
177,851
3
18,282
21
2
32
Armenian
hy
15,886
124,150
353,825
3
12,659
22
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,992
41,044
222,121
4
41,613
34
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,330
38,796
138,764
3
20,858
16
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,265
20,366
126,583
4
7,386
17
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,405
89,025
3
2,307
8
0
37
Greek
el
12,306
41,955
156,108
6
20,259
19
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,673
22,238
87,754
2
11,497
55
1
39
Breton
br
9,878
61,181
185,977
3
2,653
9
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,718
51,060
171,571
3
11,118
13
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,450
15,123
60,876
3
6,805
7
434
42
Welsh
cy
8,213
49,597
107,443
3
3,729
6
3
43
Thai
th
7,938
47,731
230,980
3
11,183
20
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,650
93,751
235,006
2
5,737
10
825
45
Indonesian
id
7,449
60,911
199,060
6
24,571
42
305
46
Kannada
kn
7,226
93,385
258,878
2
7,658
56
6
47
Esperanto
eo
6,616
29,253
97,656
2
4,898
15
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,819
173,841
615,081
5
5,063
35
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,619
17,417
77,170
3
4,425
7
0
50
Balinese
ban
4,951
33,735
115,215
1
1,291
11
0
51
Icelandic
is
4,834
6,353
24,475
2
3,317
8
9
52
Marathi
mr
4,819
102,343
209,213
2
5,396
19
15
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,325
5,192
33,553
1
1,139
6
0
54
Ligurian
lij
4,078
15,148
42,663
1
938
3
0
55
Danish
da
3,476
32,195
79,642
1
10,511
10
6
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,205
2
3,751
6
48
57
Assamese
as
3,154
69,653
189,905
2
3,705
22
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,990
7,725
20,909
2
3,551
5
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,632
5,462
20,437
1
3,128
6
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,337
14,501
48,425
1
1,348
12
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,287
3,985
18,293
3
5,759
9
7
62
Walloon
wa
2,241
5,927
33,721
2
763
5
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,226
1
2,105
4
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,059
2
3,554
5
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,618
61,294
173,188
6
2,103
27
212
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,378
26,357
1
1,266
4
0
67
Odia
or
1,287
11,630
56,820
1
2,648
6
0
68
Georgian
ka
746
927
5,605
0
281
3
0
69
Galician
gl
693
3,709
21,306
2
3,479
4
64
70
Bosnian
bs
613
3,272
11,901
1
3,275
5
62
71
Yakut
sah
600
1,659
7,626
1
2,088
7
2
72
Malay
ms
597
3,370
12,376
2
634
14
0
73
Slovak
sk
487
1,496
9,195
2
3,656
6
1
74
Sundanese
su
263
6,392
26,260
2
723
4
0
75
Minnan
zh-min-nan
55
3,407
10,220
1
2,611
7
2
76
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,516
1
2,324
6
0
77
Burmese
my
0
8
12
0
159
3
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,144,306
20,380,065
67,478,942
318
4,942,248
2,515
79,678
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 .