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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 3,415,564 6,428,187 8,701,688 9 122,932 280 230
2 Polish pl 1,318,967 1,360,123 4,161,752 14 42,169 73 127
3 English en 1,125,640 4,851,289 16,236,006 20 3,304,943 613 16,661
4 French fr 706,797 4,795,876 15,987,914 17 164,961 277 4,422
5 German de 652,615 711,447 5,014,294 16 91,248 143 6,933
6 Russian ru 623,206 1,142,681 5,740,143 5 135,630 110 33,404
7 Ukrainian uk 400,023 568,653 1,101,791 5 22,446 141 139
8 Hebrew he 260,820 1,681,099 3,075,956 16 46,144 112 594
9 Italian it 222,266 875,047 3,873,630 9 81,695 68 675
10 Arabic ar 94,278 290,518 617,803 5 72,725 59 4,024
11 Spanish es 89,736 340,639 1,671,440 8 96,952 65 231
12 Gujarati gu 65,980 72,267 224,160 2 4,621 16 0
13 Multilingual www 65,751 258,578 1,355,880 14 493,417 146 731
14 Czech cs 62,413 91,824 335,851 2 20,090 25 7
15 Serbian sr 43,910 48,726 145,426 7 16,414 17 360
16 Portuguese pt 39,081 167,182 559,277 2 43,484 73 32
17 Bangla bn 38,749 614,032 1,994,183 4 22,099 43 5,474
18 Tamil ta 37,385 641,847 1,956,469 4 16,758 58 33
19 Armenian hy 36,172 146,653 393,801 4 13,992 19 62
20 Persian fa 33,784 84,728 297,166 3 39,859 31 0
21 Swedish sv 32,624 219,928 657,081 5 18,875 23 8
22 Belarusian be 30,169 124,585 295,657 2 5,389 21 0
23 Korean ko 25,457 89,834 458,025 5 19,586 44 209
24 Telugu te 23,813 212,236 567,928 4 7,202 31 494
25 Hungarian hu 21,822 39,120 103,604 3 12,348 9 27
26 Dutch nl 21,492 81,595 225,133 2 17,375 17 0
27 Latin la 21,314 81,570 276,657 7 32,739 43 45
28 Malayalam ml 20,834 81,638 239,319 3 13,510 46 620
29 Sanskrit sa 20,428 163,912 418,057 2 10,653 29 64
30 Turkish tr 20,025 31,564 174,361 2 26,659 33 122
31 Vietnamese vi 19,100 66,737 205,969 3 20,479 49 2
32 Japanese ja 18,545 49,255 245,173 4 46,335 48 0
33 Slovenian sl 18,329 36,265 224,437 5 10,653 16 340
34 Welsh cy 16,607 84,999 170,645 2 4,202 28 3
35 Romanian ro 15,673 44,665 151,449 3 22,599 22 221
36 Norwegian no 14,744 139,222 330,982 2 6,292 10 815
37 Indonesian id 13,863 105,647 314,817 9 27,463 77 303
38 Finnish fi 13,843 22,273 131,018 3 8,100 12 46
39 Esperanto eo 13,515 40,649 126,414 3 5,448 12 29
40 Neapolitan nap 12,945 14,626 91,026 3 2,718 8 0
41 Greek el 12,869 46,044 167,095 6 22,802 36 4
42 Urdu ur 11,922 13,917 35,755 1 282 15 0
43 Azerbaijani az 11,839 24,940 96,825 2 12,764 38 1
44 Breton br 10,540 65,525 208,803 3 2,989 7 0
45 Catalan ca 10,507 56,816 185,521 3 12,040 10 5
46 Croatian hr 9,623 15,769 63,403 3 7,487 11 433
47 Thai th 9,619 65,357 295,001 2 12,466 27 27
48 Georgian ka 7,018 8,247 78,404 1 866 5 0
49 Hindi hi 6,049 188,151 649,656 5 6,109 47 0
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,381 86,735 2 4,768 4 0
51 Balinese ban 5,186 36,448 123,468 2 1,757 7 0
52 Marathi mr 5,146 109,822 235,819 2 6,143 16 15
53 Burmese my 4,881 6,219 21,880 1 851 10 0
54 Icelandic is 4,758 6,411 30,070 1 3,716 6 8
55 Piedmontese pms 4,414 5,315 38,002 2 1,445 7 0
56 Ligurian lij 4,395 16,874 47,791 1 1,219 14 0
57 Assamese as 4,198 92,370 257,677 4 4,483 17 239
58 Danish da 3,973 121,784 480,964 2 11,268 22 6
59 Macedonian mk 3,371 8,232 22,381 2 4,027 6 4
60 Estonian et 3,340 23,249 60,184 1 4,181 6 48
61 Javanese jv 3,294 26,295 82,577 3 2,004 27 149
62 Yiddish yi 2,639 5,463 20,564 1 3,483 6 1,056
63 Walloon wa 2,616 6,454 36,700 1 997 11 0
64 Punjabi pa 2,529 72,743 232,666 6 2,717 34 212
65 Bulgarian bg 2,336 4,042 18,779 1 6,268 9 7
66 Limburgish li 1,885 3,370 7,314 1 2,308 6 1
67 Lithuanian lt 1,802 3,201 12,838 1 3,946 9 1
68 Kannada kn 1,555 112,691 315,016 2 8,600 18 18
69 Basque eu 1,547 7,045 28,970 1 1,571 6 0
70 Odia or 1,309 12,487 59,625 1 3,054 10 0
71 Malay ms 1,257 8,832 24,239 2 1,338 14 0
72 Galician gl 712 3,703 21,942 2 3,836 6 64
73 Yakut sah 698 2,194 10,262 2 2,364 8 3
74 Bosnian bs 646 3,342 12,179 1 3,625 8 61
75 Slovak sk 501 1,594 9,589 1 3,963 5 1
76 Minangkabau min 414 9,228 30,791 2 394 23 0
77 Sundanese su 410 12,885 47,872 1 1,140 12 0
78 Tagalog tl 338 2,328 15,737 3 414 10 0
79 Madurese mad 207 1,164 4,471 2 371 6 0
80 Minnan zh-min-nan 159 3,592 11,224 1 2,903 5 2
81 Central Bikol bcl 137 2,469 10,264 0 478 3 0
82 Tulu tcy 113 4,773 21,872 2 619 9 0
83 Faroese fo 79 611 3,844 1 2,594 5 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 9,894,908 28,143,093 83,077,151 322 5,351,854 3,508 79,852

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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