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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 4,582,404 8,681,091 11,092,332 9 124,076 285 230
2 Polish pl 1,334,346 1,375,711 4,195,081 14 42,441 74 127
3 English en 1,133,095 4,886,048 16,337,148 20 3,313,101 726 16,662
4 French fr 717,757 4,834,927 16,082,252 17 166,756 372 4,459
5 German de 655,538 714,488 5,069,120 16 91,779 184 6,933
6 Russian ru 624,201 1,144,441 5,754,409 5 136,496 110 33,432
7 Ukrainian uk 402,855 573,063 1,112,901 5 22,845 127 139
8 Hebrew he 261,881 1,682,690 3,085,862 17 46,536 115 594
9 Italian it 225,344 882,816 3,906,940 9 82,409 81 675
10 Arabic ar 94,649 298,162 627,365 5 73,128 70 4,023
11 Spanish es 90,164 345,247 1,684,675 8 97,560 111 231
12 Gujarati gu 66,353 72,663 225,141 2 4,671 12 0
13 Multilingual www 65,915 261,115 1,361,875 13 501,376 195 731
14 Czech cs 62,719 92,679 344,555 2 20,170 28 7
15 Serbian sr 44,016 48,909 147,344 7 16,506 20 360
16 Portuguese pt 39,461 169,657 565,183 2 43,845 88 52
17 Bangla bn 39,251 615,482 2,001,484 4 22,412 32 5,479
18 Tamil ta 38,317 652,178 1,973,605 4 17,259 222 33
19 Armenian hy 37,677 148,294 397,513 4 14,072 27 62
20 Persian fa 34,990 86,779 302,453 3 40,026 24 0
21 Swedish sv 32,811 220,793 659,223 5 18,962 35 8
22 Belarusian be 30,877 126,181 299,230 2 5,448 21 0
23 Korean ko 25,571 91,009 465,039 5 19,742 65 209
24 Telugu te 24,137 221,289 580,493 4 7,293 29 509
25 Dutch nl 21,875 83,201 227,653 2 17,430 21 0
26 Hungarian hu 21,823 39,122 103,621 3 12,383 13 27
27 Latin la 21,388 82,809 282,653 7 33,088 45 45
28 Malayalam ml 20,840 82,523 241,090 3 13,593 36 620
29 Sanskrit sa 20,442 164,360 418,721 2 10,754 34 64
30 Turkish tr 20,043 31,612 174,615 2 26,864 25 122
31 Vietnamese vi 19,103 66,799 206,213 3 20,665 53 2
32 Japanese ja 18,893 49,756 246,236 4 46,642 56 0
33 Slovenian sl 18,341 36,279 224,533 5 10,706 19 340
34 Welsh cy 16,626 85,277 171,398 2 4,227 11 3
35 Romanian ro 15,766 45,097 152,491 3 22,746 25 221
36 Norwegian no 15,043 141,840 338,477 2 6,325 10 815
37 Indonesian id 14,103 107,396 319,845 9 27,771 96 306
38 Finnish fi 13,861 22,351 131,177 3 8,146 13 46
39 Esperanto eo 13,573 40,923 127,250 3 5,489 24 29
40 Neapolitan nap 12,945 14,627 91,036 3 2,728 5 0
41 Greek el 12,888 46,269 167,761 6 22,981 31 4
42 Urdu ur 11,920 13,928 35,948 1 323 11 0
43 Azerbaijani az 11,857 25,010 97,051 2 12,857 23 1
44 Breton br 10,633 65,966 209,961 3 3,009 7 0
45 Catalan ca 10,509 56,826 185,680 3 12,080 15 5
46 Thai th 9,713 67,297 301,395 2 12,552 31 2
47 Croatian hr 9,627 15,780 63,608 3 7,524 10 433
48 Georgian ka 7,018 8,248 78,408 1 894 4 0
49 Hindi hi 6,048 188,220 653,773 5 6,236 45 0
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,384 86,743 2 4,788 6 0
51 Balinese ban 5,292 36,634 123,805 2 1,856 57 0
52 Burmese my 4,779 6,114 21,898 1 908 8 0
53 Icelandic is 4,758 6,412 30,074 1 3,739 4 8
54 Marathi mr 4,739 110,076 237,688 2 6,227 12 15
55 Piedmontese pms 4,414 5,319 38,011 2 1,460 6 0
56 Assamese as 4,402 92,795 261,543 4 4,542 27 242
57 Ligurian lij 4,397 16,880 47,915 1 1,241 5 0
58 Danish da 4,062 122,379 482,506 3 11,299 16 6
59 Macedonian mk 3,384 8,265 22,522 2 4,058 10 4
60 Estonian et 3,341 23,252 60,197 1 4,209 11 48
61 Javanese jv 3,295 26,361 82,736 3 2,031 12 149
62 Walloon wa 2,643 6,495 36,863 1 1,010 9 0
63 Yiddish yi 2,639 5,463 20,568 1 3,501 6 1,056
64 Punjabi pa 2,524 74,314 238,763 6 2,757 30 212
65 Bulgarian bg 2,341 4,050 18,808 1 6,301 10 7
66 Lithuanian lt 2,103 3,592 14,865 2 3,977 9 1
67 Limburgish li 1,885 3,371 7,319 1 2,321 3 1
68 Kannada kn 1,555 112,715 315,133 2 8,639 11 18
69 Basque eu 1,548 7,051 28,994 1 1,585 7 0
70 Malay ms 1,331 9,209 25,093 2 1,382 19 0
71 Odia or 1,317 12,537 59,684 1 3,089 10 0
72 Galician gl 712 3,705 21,959 2 3,855 7 64
73 Yakut sah 700 2,202 10,366 2 2,385 5 4
74 Bosnian bs 648 3,344 12,188 1 3,641 8 61
75 Slovak sk 501 1,594 9,593 1 3,979 5 1
76 Minangkabau min 416 9,308 31,069 2 425 8 0
77 Sundanese su 412 12,903 47,909 1 1,159 5 0
78 Tagalog tl 338 2,329 15,752 3 449 3 0
79 Madurese mad 207 1,172 4,493 2 389 3 0
80 Minnan zh-min-nan 160 3,595 11,231 1 2,921 4 2
81 Central Bikol bcl 137 2,481 10,337 0 496 4 0
82 Tulu tcy 113 4,774 21,914 2 639 8 0
83 Faroese fo 79 612 3,850 1 2,608 3 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 11,116,177 30,567,915 85,984,206 324 5,380,788 4,067 79,939

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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