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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,143,964
1,181,847
3,631,554
14
38,059
66
128
2
English
en
1,055,701
4,364,981
14,322,811
23
3,133,314
383
16,293
3
Russian
ru
622,271
1,089,359
5,152,950
5
122,070
88
33,025
4
German
de
570,712
623,694
4,389,411
17
84,046
89
6,922
5
French
fr
545,918
4,249,784
14,392,984
17
148,047
225
3,649
6
Chinese
zh
464,788
1,109,480
2,407,072
8
107,990
131
231
7
Hebrew
he
245,331
1,691,202
2,867,255
16
40,061
83
543
8
Ukrainian
uk
234,679
381,858
743,530
7
17,786
46
134
9
Italian
it
199,579
790,339
3,379,394
9
73,002
90
871
10
Arabic
ar
84,169
233,607
499,233
9
67,666
25
4,050
11
Spanish
es
83,916
277,497
1,467,493
9
90,224
33
233
12
Multilingual
www
82,013
211,835
1,043,953
13
400,913
166
972
13
Gujarati
gu
62,596
68,356
210,771
2
4,063
7
0
14
Czech
cs
58,583
86,522
301,497
3
18,611
21
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,749
47,151
137,359
4
15,095
12
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,440
149,860
511,105
3
39,003
54
16
17
Bangla
bn
33,423
728,232
1,823,046
4
19,305
30
6,418
18
Swedish
sv
28,711
184,454
563,363
4
17,625
21
9
19
Persian
fa
27,465
67,420
239,811
3
37,114
20
1
20
Korean
ko
23,916
72,525
329,512
5
17,434
47
615
21
Tamil
ta
23,590
528,215
1,632,814
4
14,340
49
42
22
Belarusian
be
22,827
85,924
211,666
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
403,679
2
9,084
13
64
26
Telugu
te
19,413
145,559
438,374
4
6,134
14
546
27
Turkish
tr
18,682
29,554
166,957
2
23,288
19
121
28
Latin
la
18,038
64,512
218,500
7
28,162
24
48
29
Slovenian
sl
17,942
35,707
220,025
5
9,789
18
346
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,856
55,645
175,710
3
18,175
24
2
31
Dutch
nl
16,696
60,207
183,431
4
16,210
14
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,796
124,051
353,492
3
12,581
22
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,798
40,760
221,021
4
41,344
32
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,289
38,703
138,532
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
155,712
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
197,227
6
24,416
98
305
43
Thai
th
7,879
47,078
228,647
3
11,091
16
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,535
92,010
232,610
2
5,695
10
825
45
Welsh
cy
7,408
47,506
102,592
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
5,775
173,440
609,344
5
4,987
24
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,408
16,535
75,686
3
4,399
4
0
50
Icelandic
is
4,871
6,546
24,317
2
3,291
5
9
51
Marathi
mr
4,717
101,599
207,976
2
5,353
15
15
52
Balinese
ban
4,643
33,402
114,413
1
1,265
9
0
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,323
5,187
32,900
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
188,111
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
56,743
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
10,825
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
6,098,870
20,306,693
67,037,001
319
4,922,833
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 .