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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 3,010,114 5,645,163 7,879,252 9 122,062 250 230
2 Polish pl 1,309,154 1,350,184 4,139,163 14 41,965 64 127
3 English en 1,117,830 4,817,447 16,116,343 19 3,294,812 600 16,610
4 French fr 699,174 4,768,859 15,916,932 17 164,034 308 4,361
5 German de 647,720 706,044 4,947,222 16 90,895 159 6,933
6 Russian ru 622,770 1,140,391 5,729,236 5 135,064 89 33,354
7 Ukrainian uk 384,896 552,150 1,075,462 5 22,162 107 139
8 Hebrew he 257,262 1,671,435 3,022,730 16 45,859 123 582
9 Italian it 221,767 872,858 3,860,645 9 81,231 83 675
10 Arabic ar 93,994 288,362 611,822 5 72,442 56 4,024
11 Spanish es 89,130 339,745 1,668,659 8 96,567 88 231
12 Gujarati gu 65,678 71,941 223,293 2 4,587 16 0
13 Multilingual www 65,495 256,397 1,341,303 14 488,411 180 731
14 Czech cs 62,169 91,112 334,493 2 20,037 33 7
15 Serbian sr 43,887 48,690 145,139 6 16,364 13 360
16 Portuguese pt 38,918 165,681 555,640 1 43,185 49 32
17 Bangla bn 38,435 617,555 1,989,116 4 21,890 47 5,439
18 Tamil ta 37,126 639,673 1,951,486 4 16,673 60 33
19 Armenian hy 36,169 146,648 393,618 4 13,943 13 62
20 Swedish sv 32,490 218,515 654,908 5 18,816 32 8
21 Belarusian be 29,816 123,103 292,195 2 5,353 13 0
22 Persian fa 29,406 80,008 291,069 3 39,747 15 0
23 Korean ko 25,421 89,392 456,512 5 19,498 53 209
24 Telugu te 23,361 209,921 561,610 4 7,138 55 469
25 Hungarian hu 21,819 39,116 103,568 3 12,329 7 27
26 Dutch nl 21,318 80,888 224,026 2 17,337 19 0
27 Latin la 20,987 80,643 273,798 7 32,535 60 45
28 Malayalam ml 20,804 80,659 237,532 3 13,412 82 617
29 Sanskrit sa 20,429 163,890 417,799 2 10,561 25 64
30 Turkish tr 19,894 31,424 174,079 2 26,516 25 122
31 Vietnamese vi 19,098 66,694 205,751 3 20,354 53 2
32 Japanese ja 18,350 48,825 244,252 4 46,090 57 0
33 Slovenian sl 18,317 36,242 224,337 5 10,619 17 340
34 Welsh cy 16,110 83,153 167,215 2 4,161 26 3
35 Romanian ro 15,637 44,478 151,031 3 22,530 18 227
36 Norwegian no 14,288 136,426 326,216 2 6,262 8 815
37 Finnish fi 13,816 22,091 130,663 3 8,065 12 46
38 Esperanto eo 13,514 40,490 125,451 3 5,424 12 29
39 Neapolitan nap 12,941 14,617 90,655 3 2,656 7 0
40 Greek el 12,775 45,914 166,615 6 22,634 35 4
41 Urdu ur 11,927 13,822 35,361 2 258 18 0
42 Azerbaijani az 11,654 24,699 96,321 2 12,697 18 1
43 Indonesian id 11,582 99,968 303,434 9 27,336 112 303
44 Breton br 10,534 65,492 208,689 3 2,979 7 0
45 Catalan ca 10,476 56,450 184,927 3 12,007 11 5
46 Croatian hr 9,596 15,742 63,330 3 7,454 7 434
47 Thai th 9,576 64,695 292,405 2 12,388 25 28
48 Georgian ka 7,018 8,236 78,387 1 846 8 0
49 Hindi hi 6,049 186,407 645,475 5 6,022 64 0
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,380 86,725 2 4,757 5 0
51 Marathi mr 5,441 109,474 233,137 2 6,078 16 15
52 Balinese ban 5,186 36,446 123,457 2 1,736 9 0
53 Burmese my 4,879 6,213 21,848 1 790 7 0
54 Icelandic is 4,758 6,405 30,061 1 3,695 5 8
55 Piedmontese pms 4,414 5,315 37,993 2 1,438 5 0
56 Ligurian lij 4,395 16,873 47,371 1 1,202 18 0
57 Assamese as 4,104 92,019 255,700 4 4,453 20 228
58 Danish da 3,935 118,746 469,980 2 11,220 16 6
59 Macedonian mk 3,371 8,232 22,373 2 4,013 5 4
60 Estonian et 3,329 23,159 60,053 1 4,169 6 48
61 Javanese jv 3,278 26,133 82,235 3 1,979 16 149
62 Yiddish yi 2,638 5,462 20,553 1 3,467 4 1,056
63 Punjabi pa 2,529 72,372 226,068 6 2,684 40 212
64 Walloon wa 2,520 6,336 36,168 1 989 6 0
65 Bulgarian bg 2,330 4,035 18,751 1 6,243 8 7
66 Limburgish li 1,885 3,369 7,299 1 2,299 4 1
67 Lithuanian lt 1,802 3,198 12,821 1 3,924 6 1
68 Kannada kn 1,555 112,607 314,866 2 8,563 23 18
69 Basque eu 1,547 7,039 28,952 1 1,560 5 0
70 Odia or 1,306 12,448 59,575 1 3,031 8 0
71 Malay ms 1,183 8,359 23,623 2 1,300 14 0
72 Yakut sah 729 2,154 9,709 2 2,354 9 0
73 Galician gl 712 3,704 21,919 2 3,821 4 64
74 Bosnian bs 613 3,272 12,043 1 3,609 4 62
75 Slovak sk 497 1,567 9,529 1 3,952 6 1
76 Minangkabau min 412 9,142 30,477 2 371 15 0
77 Sundanese su 408 12,866 47,781 1 1,118 11 0
78 Tagalog tl 328 2,313 15,706 3 391 4 0
79 Madurese mad 207 1,154 4,439 2 359 28 0
80 Minnan zh-min-nan 159 3,592 11,215 1 2,887 5 2
81 Central Bikol bcl 137 2,465 10,259 0 464 4 0
82 Tulu tcy 113 4,769 21,854 2 605 16 0
83 Faroese fo 79 611 3,835 1 2,583 5 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 9,427,268 27,213,564 81,747,540 320 5,328,311 3,596 79,610

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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