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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 5,369,041 10,186,733 12,711,107 9 124,918 255 230
2 Polish pl 1,343,470 1,384,942 4,220,150 14 42,625 73 127
3 English en 1,137,365 4,908,660 16,434,883 20 3,317,712 625 16,699
4 French fr 721,602 4,854,274 16,230,650 17 168,126 484 4,465
5 German de 656,904 715,938 5,087,850 16 92,118 104 6,933
6 Russian ru 624,919 1,146,381 5,761,128 5 137,090 103 33,445
7 Ukrainian uk 416,682 581,736 1,133,156 6 23,066 104 146
8 Hebrew he 262,218 1,683,326 3,099,851 17 46,752 126 596
9 Italian it 226,291 886,147 3,918,345 9 82,902 76 675
10 Arabic ar 94,748 302,806 640,906 5 73,616 84 4,022
11 Spanish es 90,275 346,651 1,693,129 8 97,948 120 231
12 Gujarati gu 66,563 72,888 225,750 2 4,709 14 0
13 Multilingual www 66,042 262,168 1,364,247 13 506,629 152 735
14 Czech cs 63,190 93,264 345,965 2 20,232 26 7
15 Serbian sr 44,079 49,020 148,120 7 16,564 13 360
16 Portuguese pt 39,525 170,583 567,414 2 44,092 72 52
17 Bangla bn 39,462 615,768 2,006,374 4 22,599 40 5,483
18 Tamil ta 38,506 658,095 1,983,984 4 17,489 269 33
19 Armenian hy 37,800 148,545 398,117 4 14,148 32 62
20 Persian fa 35,076 87,223 305,716 3 40,144 23 0
21 Swedish sv 32,835 222,448 661,625 5 19,003 23 8
22 Belarusian be 31,500 127,314 302,874 2 5,487 19 0
23 Korean ko 25,606 92,226 468,861 5 19,837 29 209
24 Telugu te 24,757 239,499 601,722 5 7,337 21 564
25 Dutch nl 22,165 83,900 229,066 2 17,458 18 0
26 Hungarian hu 21,823 39,122 103,625 3 12,405 9 27
27 Latin la 21,705 84,402 286,456 7 33,308 70 45
28 Malayalam ml 20,867 83,179 242,948 3 13,672 65 620
29 Sanskrit sa 20,451 164,381 418,890 2 10,827 21 64
30 Turkish tr 20,182 31,808 175,608 2 26,991 32 123
31 Japanese ja 19,231 50,166 247,148 4 46,854 61 0
32 Vietnamese vi 19,110 66,855 206,520 3 20,801 60 2
33 Slovenian sl 18,342 36,284 224,577 5 10,750 27 340
34 Welsh cy 16,627 85,335 172,114 2 4,249 14 3
35 Romanian ro 15,817 45,255 153,059 3 22,839 35 221
36 Norwegian no 15,074 142,190 341,082 2 6,347 9 815
37 Indonesian id 14,258 109,654 325,706 9 27,909 130 305
38 Finnish fi 13,864 22,364 131,222 3 8,170 12 46
39 Esperanto eo 13,610 41,000 127,490 3 5,510 7 29
40 Neapolitan nap 12,945 14,627 91,038 3 2,740 2 0
41 Greek el 12,944 46,388 168,127 6 23,075 23 4
42 Azerbaijani az 11,924 25,137 97,384 2 12,912 16 1
43 Urdu ur 11,918 13,930 36,024 1 342 8 0
44 Breton br 10,654 66,302 210,670 3 3,021 5 0
45 Catalan ca 10,513 56,848 185,762 3 12,116 11 5
46 Thai th 9,902 68,185 303,868 2 12,609 20 2
47 Croatian hr 9,628 15,781 63,655 3 7,550 7 433
48 Georgian ka 7,024 8,260 78,438 1 922 9 0
49 Hindi hi 6,047 188,224 653,893 5 6,278 19 0
50 Venetian vec 5,799 19,395 86,769 2 4,801 6 0
51 Balinese ban 5,292 36,637 123,811 2 1,873 21 0
52 Burmese my 4,784 6,119 21,912 1 940 6 0
53 Marathi mr 4,766 110,668 238,760 2 6,263 13 15
54 Icelandic is 4,758 6,412 30,077 1 3,752 4 8
55 Assamese as 4,465 93,551 265,050 4 4,722 135 243
56 Piedmontese pms 4,414 5,319 38,011 2 1,471 1 0
57 Ligurian lij 4,398 16,883 47,967 1 1,249 4 0
58 Danish da 4,064 122,397 482,625 3 11,326 10 6
59 Macedonian mk 3,384 8,265 22,529 2 4,073 3 4
60 Estonian et 3,341 23,252 60,199 1 4,226 2 48
61 Javanese jv 3,297 26,460 83,035 2 2,047 20 149
62 Walloon wa 2,669 6,522 37,063 1 1,020 3 0
63 Punjabi pa 2,647 74,674 242,396 6 2,780 20 214
64 Yiddish yi 2,639 5,463 20,571 1 3,512 2 1,056
65 Lithuanian lt 2,430 4,770 16,519 2 3,987 1 1
66 Bulgarian bg 2,344 4,053 18,821 1 6,322 7 7
67 Limburgish li 1,885 3,371 7,320 1 2,328 1 1
68 Kannada kn 1,560 112,719 316,204 2 8,775 101 18
69 Basque eu 1,548 7,056 29,017 1 1,592 2 0
70 Malay ms 1,351 9,469 25,476 2 1,407 12 0
71 Odia or 1,317 12,563 59,720 1 3,099 4 0
72 Galician gl 712 3,707 21,967 2 3,865 3 64
73 Yakut sah 699 2,215 10,413 2 2,398 4 4
74 Bosnian bs 648 3,344 12,189 1 3,653 1 61
75 Slovak sk 501 1,594 9,597 1 3,989 5 1
76 Minangkabau min 413 9,421 31,433 2 435 3 0
77 Sundanese su 412 12,906 47,921 1 1,169 4 0
78 Tagalog tl 329 2,349 15,803 2 461 1 0
79 Madurese mad 206 1,171 4,510 1 396 4 0
80 Minnan zh-min-nan 160 3,595 11,232 1 2,931 1 2
81 Central Bikol bcl 137 2,481 10,340 0 502 2 0
82 Tulu tcy 115 8,770 30,597 2 653 27 0
83 Faroese fo 79 611 3,852 1 2,621 2 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 11,942,644 32,194,394 88,070,000 323 5,399,436 4,012 80,069

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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