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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,143,873
1,181,756
3,631,282
14
38,058
66
128
2
English
en
1,055,636
4,364,560
14,321,854
23
3,133,282
383
16,293
3
Russian
ru
622,271
1,089,013
5,152,585
5
122,064
88
33,025
4
German
de
570,688
623,669
4,389,328
17
84,045
89
6,922
5
French
fr
545,906
4,249,647
14,392,508
17
148,038
225
3,649
6
Chinese
zh
464,782
1,109,468
2,407,032
8
107,988
131
231
7
Hebrew
he
245,329
1,691,197
2,867,233
16
40,059
83
543
8
Ukrainian
uk
234,676
381,851
743,517
7
17,785
46
134
9
Italian
it
199,570
790,311
3,379,301
9
72,998
90
871
10
Arabic
ar
84,169
233,607
499,231
9
67,665
25
4,050
11
Spanish
es
83,915
277,496
1,467,473
9
90,224
33
233
12
Multilingual
www
82,011
211,833
1,043,946
13
400,889
166
972
13
Gujarati
gu
62,596
68,356
210,767
2
4,063
7
0
14
Czech
cs
58,583
86,522
301,497
3
18,608
21
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,749
47,151
137,359
4
15,094
12
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,440
149,848
511,085
3
39,002
54
16
17
Bangla
bn
33,423
728,230
1,823,011
4
19,303
30
6,418
18
Swedish
sv
28,692
184,400
563,207
4
17,624
21
9
19
Persian
fa
27,465
67,410
239,796
3
37,111
20
1
20
Korean
ko
23,914
72,522
329,509
5
17,432
47
615
21
Tamil
ta
23,590
528,214
1,632,764
4
14,338
49
42
22
Belarusian
be
22,795
85,875
211,563
2
4,536
14
0
23
Hungarian
hu
21,744
38,842
102,013
4
11,642
9
34
24
Malayalam
ml
20,484
72,961
218,768
3
12,352
8
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
19,978
161,150
403,676
2
9,084
13
64
26
Telugu
te
19,410
145,553
438,356
4
6,134
14
546
27
Turkish
tr
18,682
29,554
166,957
2
23,286
19
121
28
Latin
la
18,038
64,512
218,500
7
28,159
24
48
29
Slovenian
sl
17,941
35,706
220,021
5
9,789
18
346
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,855
55,644
175,708
3
18,175
24
2
31
Dutch
nl
16,688
60,198
183,419
4
16,210
14
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,796
124,051
353,492
3
12,581
22
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,798
40,759
221,016
4
41,344
32
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,288
38,702
138,530
4
20,794
12
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,219
20,289
126,373
4
7,335
8
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,401
89,014
3
2,279
5
0
37
Greek
el
12,580
41,731
155,710
6
20,118
16
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,475
21,903
86,748
2
11,378
12
1
39
Breton
br
9,843
61,026
185,537
3
2,627
8
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,668
50,872
171,288
3
11,066
11
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,436
15,044
60,623
3
6,760
5
434
42
Indonesian
id
8,094
60,172
197,220
6
24,416
98
305
43
Thai
th
7,879
47,075
228,642
3
11,090
16
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,533
91,886
232,486
2
5,695
10
825
45
Welsh
cy
7,408
47,505
102,591
3
3,705
7
3
46
Kannada
kn
7,355
91,709
250,665
2
7,584
18
6
47
Esperanto
eo
6,589
28,393
95,818
2
4,856
10
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,774
173,419
609,323
5
4,986
24
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,398
16,507
75,656
3
4,399
4
0
50
Icelandic
is
4,871
6,541
24,307
2
3,291
5
9
51
Marathi
mr
4,717
101,598
207,975
2
5,352
15
15
52
Balinese
ban
4,643
33,402
114,413
1
1,265
9
0
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,323
5,187
32,892
1
1,122
5
0
54
Ligurian
lij
4,074
15,100
42,510
1
918
4
0
55
Danish
da
3,470
32,124
79,410
1
10,455
8
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,200
2
3,726
1
48
57
Assamese
as
3,146
69,028
188,105
1
3,668
17
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,989
7,721
20,892
2
3,529
5
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,460
20,427
1
3,103
5
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,327
14,420
48,177
1
1,303
7
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,984
18,276
3
5,724
5
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,255
5,938
33,528
2
743
3
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,221
1
2,090
2
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,051
2
3,528
3
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,609
61,049
171,358
6
2,069
21
212
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,378
26,320
1
1,240
3
0
67
Odia
or
1,288
11,624
56,742
1
2,619
5
0
68
Georgian
ka
746
926
5,602
0
243
3
0
69
Galician
gl
693
3,709
21,296
2
3,456
4
64
70
Bosnian
bs
613
3,271
11,889
1
3,245
2
62
71
Yakut
sah
595
1,654
7,584
1
2,066
2
2
72
Slovak
sk
487
1,496
9,189
2
3,628
2
1
73
Malay
ms
450
2,716
10,818
2
580
15
0
74
Sundanese
su
259
6,304
26,089
2
697
4
0
75
Minnan
zh-min-nan
55
3,403
10,209
1
2,591
4
2
76
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,509
1
2,303
1
0
77
Burmese
my
0
7
9
0
123
1
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,098,575
20,305,285
67,033,996
319
4,922,727
2,322
80,000
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 .