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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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
1,135,396
1,173,170
3,605,336
14
37,818
49
130
2
English
en
1,045,528
4,320,929
14,208,457
23
3,126,729
405
16,395
3
Russian
ru
621,394
1,083,678
5,136,804
5
121,179
88
32,733
4
German
de
567,326
620,128
4,375,550
17
83,562
95
6,922
5
French
fr
538,824
4,215,547
14,291,136
17
147,016
252
3,604
6
Chinese
zh
459,460
1,103,072
2,381,905
8
106,951
137
231
7
Hebrew
he
243,962
1,689,243
2,857,435
16
39,600
98
543
8
Ukrainian
uk
226,754
373,627
727,796
7
17,574
53
135
9
Italian
it
198,009
783,450
3,355,553
9
72,439
106
964
10
Arabic
ar
84,159
233,060
498,243
9
67,245
28
4,050
11
Spanish
es
83,736
275,139
1,462,260
9
89,759
46
233
12
Multilingual
www
81,704
206,599
1,034,077
13
394,842
122
858
13
Gujarati
gu
62,520
68,224
210,268
2
4,022
11
0
14
Czech
cs
58,340
86,119
300,746
3
18,508
24
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,733
47,132
137,202
4
14,997
16
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,396
149,361
509,313
3
38,665
27
15
17
Bangla
bn
32,974
726,897
1,818,241
4
19,115
28
6,377
18
Swedish
sv
28,411
181,934
558,264
4
17,532
24
9
19
Persian
fa
27,317
63,189
216,576
3
36,852
48
1
20
Tamil
ta
23,734
469,510
1,554,190
4
14,266
33
42
21
Korean
ko
23,725
69,519
324,943
5
17,286
30
615
22
Belarusian
be
21,915
82,082
202,771
2
4,486
14
0
23
Hungarian
hu
21,724
38,718
101,709
4
11,609
8
34
24
Malayalam
ml
20,482
72,956
218,709
3
12,285
7
605
25
Sanskrit
sa
19,685
160,847
402,511
2
8,987
13
64
26
Telugu
te
19,142
143,711
434,410
4
6,042
11
545
27
Turkish
tr
18,680
29,550
166,734
2
23,044
30
121
28
Slovenian
sl
17,932
35,650
219,705
5
9,662
17
346
29
Latin
la
17,904
64,181
217,597
7
27,872
22
48
30
Vietnamese
vi
16,779
55,459
174,305
3
18,069
22
2
31
Dutch
nl
16,405
59,332
182,190
4
16,140
23
0
32
Armenian
hy
15,797
124,030
353,280
3
12,497
12
64
33
Japanese
ja
14,727
40,484
219,677
4
41,035
32
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,224
38,542
138,101
3
20,699
12
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,174
20,218
126,092
4
7,294
8
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,401
89,001
3
2,261
3
0
37
Greek
el
12,535
41,627
155,492
6
19,963
14
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,421
21,535
85,464
2
11,304
33
1
39
Breton
br
9,757
60,539
183,741
3
2,606
5
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,665
50,799
171,146
3
11,008
13
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,423
15,031
60,584
3
6,727
8
434
42
Indonesian
id
8,035
59,440
194,947
6
24,227
87
305
43
Thai
th
7,781
46,307
226,067
3
10,994
20
29
44
Norwegian
no
7,447
90,820
230,463
2
5,658
11
825
45
Kannada
kn
7,355
91,526
245,891
2
7,493
16
6
46
Welsh
cy
7,226
46,161
99,825
3
3,680
7
3
47
Esperanto
eo
6,545
27,834
93,986
2
4,823
9
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,771
173,184
608,276
5
4,847
15
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,190
16,084
74,986
3
4,380
4
1
50
Icelandic
is
4,793
6,664
23,693
2
3,263
3
9
51
Marathi
mr
4,673
100,912
206,672
2
5,308
19
15
52
Balinese
ban
4,643
33,374
114,330
1
1,237
6
0
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,306
5,164
31,767
1
1,103
3
0
54
Ligurian
lij
4,067
15,072
42,423
1
904
3
0
55
Danish
da
3,467
32,103
79,256
1
10,400
8
14
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,193
2
3,704
3
48
57
Assamese
as
3,132
67,508
185,663
1
3,617
21
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,981
7,711
20,742
2
3,507
3
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,631
5,460
20,417
1
3,080
4
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,326
14,388
48,055
1
1,280
8
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,286
3,977
18,244
3
5,688
2
9
62
Walloon
wa
2,227
5,893
33,315
2
731
2
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,214
1
2,079
1
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,029
2
3,505
4
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,587
59,334
166,427
6
2,036
17
204
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,377
26,289
1
1,218
4
0
67
Odia
or
1,241
11,572
56,606
1
2,595
3
0
68
Georgian
ka
779
924
5,594
0
201
7
0
69
Galician
gl
693
3,708
21,292
2
3,432
4
64
70
Bosnian
bs
612
3,268
11,869
1
3,222
6
62
71
Yakut
sah
595
1,654
7,578
1
2,047
2
2
72
Slovak
sk
487
1,496
9,181
2
3,610
6
1
73
Malay
ms
278
1,706
7,685
0
519
21
0
74
Sundanese
su
257
6,243
25,942
2
675
8
0
75
Minnan
zh-min-nan
54
3,396
10,089
1
2,574
3
2
76
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,501
1
2,291
3
0
77
Burmese
my
0
7
9
0
75
5
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,047,260
20,088,231
66,497,030
316
4,899,550
2,375
79,697
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 .