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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.

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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).

List of Wikisources

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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 several times a day. You might need to purge the cache to see the latest numbers.
№ Language Wiki Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
1 Chinese zh 5,213,664 9,890,055 12,378,313 9 124,762 252 230
2 Polish pl 1,341,957 1,383,409 4,216,729 14 42,589 71 127
3 English en 1,136,433 4,904,630 16,418,978 20 3,316,939 662 16,682
4 French fr 720,173 4,850,803 16,220,182 17 167,920 520 4,462
5 German de 656,726 715,748 5,084,225 16 92,051 115 6,933
6 Russian ru 624,722 1,145,953 5,759,746 5 136,998 106 33,441
7 Ukrainian uk 409,080 580,365 1,130,022 6 23,026 105 146
8 Hebrew he 262,177 1,683,229 3,097,668 17 46,726 131 596
9 Italian it 225,910 885,525 3,916,591 9 82,816 82 675
10 Arabic ar 94,720 301,996 639,396 5 73,490 92 4,023
11 Spanish es 90,243 346,556 1,692,378 8 97,886 119 231
12 Gujarati gu 66,486 72,809 225,629 2 4,703 12 0
13 Multilingual www 66,035 261,920 1,363,714 13 505,733 157 734
14 Czech cs 63,086 93,137 345,684 2 20,216 28 7
15 Serbian sr 44,075 49,010 148,025 7 16,555 11 360
16 Portuguese pt 39,559 170,403 566,764 2 44,031 58 52
17 Bangla bn 39,453 615,739 2,006,263 4 22,572 41 5,487
18 Tamil ta 38,502 657,810 1,983,317 4 17,471 303 33
19 Armenian hy 37,798 148,447 397,953 4 14,134 28 62
20 Persian fa 35,016 87,147 305,555 3 40,119 22 0
21 Swedish sv 32,829 221,131 660,180 5 18,993 22 8
22 Belarusian be 31,457 127,204 302,454 2 5,479 23 0
23 Korean ko 25,603 92,195 468,645 5 19,817 38 209
24 Telugu te 24,547 233,982 595,459 5 7,328 21 541
25 Dutch nl 22,120 83,831 228,892 2 17,454 18 0
26 Hungarian hu 21,823 39,122 103,625 3 12,397 9 27
27 Latin la 21,666 84,248 286,046 7 33,263 71 45
28 Malayalam ml 20,866 82,847 242,348 3 13,640 37 620
29 Sanskrit sa 20,451 164,380 418,877 2 10,815 26 64
30 Turkish tr 20,184 31,806 175,578 2 26,963 32 123
31 Japanese ja 19,151 50,072 246,970 4 46,820 62 0
32 Vietnamese vi 19,109 66,852 206,477 3 20,780 58 2
33 Slovenian sl 18,342 36,284 224,573 5 10,745 29 340
34 Welsh cy 16,627 85,335 171,847 2 4,244 15 3
35 Romanian ro 15,814 45,239 153,005 3 22,825 34 221
36 Norwegian no 15,071 142,157 341,025 2 6,342 8 815
37 Indonesian id 14,207 109,037 323,712 9 27,883 126 306
38 Finnish fi 13,861 22,359 131,206 3 8,167 9 46
39 Esperanto eo 13,574 40,946 127,287 3 5,507 6 29
40 Neapolitan nap 12,945 14,627 91,037 3 2,736 1 0
41 Greek el 12,943 46,365 168,027 6 23,067 20 4
42 Azerbaijani az 11,924 25,131 97,356 2 12,894 20 1
43 Urdu ur 11,919 13,930 36,008 1 340 8 0
44 Breton br 10,653 66,302 210,648 3 3,018 4 0
45 Catalan ca 10,513 56,848 185,749 3 12,110 8 5
46 Thai th 9,899 68,102 303,622 2 12,601 19 2
47 Croatian hr 9,627 15,780 63,643 3 7,546 5 433
48 Georgian ka 7,024 8,256 78,433 1 917 7 0
49 Hindi hi 6,047 188,223 653,856 5 6,270 22 0
50 Venetian vec 5,799 19,395 86,766 2 4,799 5 0
51 Balinese ban 5,292 36,637 123,810 2 1,869 21 0
52 Burmese my 4,784 6,118 21,906 1 932 4 0
53 Marathi mr 4,769 110,222 238,210 2 6,255 11 15
54 Icelandic is 4,758 6,412 30,076 1 3,749 2 8
55 Assamese as 4,465 93,129 264,070 4 4,709 130 243
56 Piedmontese pms 4,414 5,319 38,011 2 1,470 1 0
57 Ligurian lij 4,398 16,883 47,967 1 1,247 4 0
58 Danish da 4,064 122,397 482,622 3 11,320 10 6
59 Macedonian mk 3,384 8,265 22,528 2 4,071 4 4
60 Estonian et 3,341 23,252 60,198 1 4,222 1 48
61 Javanese jv 3,296 26,403 82,881 3 2,043 12 149
62 Walloon wa 2,655 6,507 36,969 1 1,019 3 0
63 Yiddish yi 2,639 5,463 20,570 1 3,510 2 1,056
64 Punjabi pa 2,554 74,550 242,072 6 2,775 22 214
65 Lithuanian lt 2,430 4,770 16,519 2 3,986 2 1
66 Bulgarian bg 2,343 4,052 18,816 1 6,316 6 7
67 Limburgish li 1,885 3,371 7,320 1 2,327 1 1
68 Kannada kn 1,560 112,718 316,193 2 8,765 97 18
69 Basque eu 1,548 7,055 29,014 1 1,591 3 0
70 Malay ms 1,351 9,450 25,431 2 1,403 10 0
71 Odia or 1,317 12,557 59,711 1 3,097 6 0
72 Galician gl 712 3,706 21,965 2 3,864 4 64
73 Yakut sah 699 2,213 10,410 2 2,396 4 4
74 Bosnian bs 648 3,344 12,189 1 3,648 1 61
75 Slovak sk 501 1,594 9,597 1 3,986 4 1
76 Minangkabau min 413 9,421 31,428 2 434 4 0
77 Sundanese su 412 12,906 47,919 1 1,168 5 0
78 Tagalog tl 329 2,349 15,803 2 459 1 0
79 Madurese mad 206 1,171 4,496 1 394 4 0
80 Minnan zh-min-nan 160 3,595 11,232 1 2,930 1 2
81 Central Bikol bcl 137 2,481 10,340 0 500 2 0
82 Tulu tcy 113 8,394 29,621 2 650 12 0
83 Faroese fo 79 611 3,852 1 2,618 2 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 11,774,066 31,873,992 87,674,229 324 5,396,220 4,074 80,027

Wikisources in Wikipedia

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Seven Wikisources are hosted as seperate namespaces within their appropriate language's Wikipedia.

The following language Wikipedias have adopted the Text: namespace for their Wikisource projects:

The Swahili Wikipedia has adopted the Wikichanzo: namespace for its Wikisource.

Historical discussion

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Please see the talk page.

See also

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