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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,151,876
1,190,084
3,663,621
15
38,275
55
128
2
English
en
1,063,590
4,400,846
14,431,029
23
3,138,498
382
16,215
3
Russian
ru
622,867
1,091,136
5,161,360
5
122,765
75
33,018
4
German
de
573,963
627,037
4,401,800
17
84,406
113
6,922
5
French
fr
549,609
4,277,253
14,466,428
16
148,863
224
3,655
6
Chinese
zh
467,217
1,113,651
2,421,444
8
108,826
132
231
7
Hebrew
he
245,684
1,648,963
2,872,831
16
40,437
96
548
8
Ukrainian
uk
245,209
392,748
763,145
7
17,978
49
134
9
Italian
it
200,567
793,228
3,393,459
9
73,391
75
760
10
Arabic
ar
84,195
235,076
501,918
9
68,005
40
4,043
11
Spanish
es
84,161
278,588
1,470,568
9
90,596
44
233
12
Multilingual
www
82,512
219,598
1,060,407
13
405,751
157
980
13
Gujarati
gu
62,713
68,518
211,251
2
4,100
10
0
14
Czech
cs
58,694
86,684
304,181
3
18,693
23
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,785
47,203
137,477
4
15,176
12
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,539
150,853
514,549
2
39,242
52
17
17
Bangla
bn
33,728
695,955
1,830,773
4
19,452
37
6,293
18
Swedish
sv
28,882
186,436
567,868
4
17,710
23
9
19
Persian
fa
27,727
68,916
246,576
3
37,346
28
0
20
Tamil
ta
24,877
537,849
1,656,266
4
14,674
60
42
21
Korean
ko
24,125
75,347
336,177
5
17,542
46
615
22
Belarusian
be
23,929
90,872
224,041
2
4,584
16
0
23
Hungarian
hu
21,745
38,845
102,096
4
11,692
11
30
24
Malayalam
ml
20,488
72,975
218,838
3
12,405
17
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
20,030
161,239
404,121
2
9,164
20
64
26
Telugu
te
19,751
146,852
442,078
4
6,183
18
547
27
Turkish
tr
18,684
29,567
167,132
2
23,496
20
121
28
Latin
la
18,217
64,992
220,269
7
28,401
27
48
29
Slovenian
sl
17,971
35,737
220,340
5
9,828
18
343
30
Dutch
nl
16,970
62,062
187,801
4
16,262
20
0
31
Vietnamese
vi
16,943
56,419
177,810
3
18,279
21
2
32
Armenian
hy
15,875
124,139
353,802
3
12,657
25
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,990
41,031
222,032
4
41,607
33
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,328
38,786
138,749
3
20,857
16
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,264
20,365
126,581
4
7,386
19
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,405
89,025
3
2,307
7
0
37
Greek
el
12,306
41,955
156,105
6
20,257
19
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,673
22,238
87,755
2
11,497
56
1
39
Breton
br
9,878
61,181
185,977
3
2,653
10
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,718
51,060
171,571
3
11,117
13
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,450
15,123
60,876
3
6,805
9
434
42
Welsh
cy
8,268
49,637
107,263
3
3,729
8
3
43
Thai
th
7,938
47,729
230,974
3
11,182
21
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,650
93,751
235,006
2
5,736
12
825
45
Indonesian
id
7,448
60,892
199,033
6
24,569
43
305
46
Kannada
kn
7,223
93,337
258,570
2
7,658
56
6
47
Esperanto
eo
6,616
29,244
97,631
2
4,897
16
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,819
173,841
615,067
5
5,063
40
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,618
17,406
77,097
3
4,425
8
0
50
Balinese
ban
4,926
33,708
115,144
1
1,291
11
0
51
Icelandic
is
4,834
6,353
24,475
2
3,317
9
9
52
Marathi
mr
4,818
102,335
209,203
2
5,396
20
15
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,325
5,192
33,535
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
10,510
11
6
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,205
2
3,750
7
48
57
Assamese
as
3,154
69,653
189,856
2
3,705
21
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
3,127
8
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,333
14,494
48,403
1
1,348
13
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,287
3,985
18,293
3
5,759
10
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
5
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,059
2
3,554
6
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,617
61,288
173,144
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
56,816
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
5
64
70
Bosnian
bs
613
3,272
11,901
1
3,275
6
62
71
Yakut
sah
600
1,659
7,624
1
2,087
7
2
72
Malay
ms
591
3,344
12,320
2
634
14
0
73
Slovak
sk
487
1,496
9,195
2
3,656
7
1
74
Sundanese
su
263
6,382
26,250
2
723
6
0
75
Minnan
zh-min-nan
55
3,407
10,220
1
2,611
8
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
6,143,378
20,377,071
67,469,805
318
4,941,921
2,574
79,675
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 .