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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 4,582,594 8,681,554 11,093,357 9 124,124 288 230
2 Polish pl 1,334,666 1,376,035 4,196,168 14 42,449 65 127
3 English en 1,133,237 4,887,074 16,340,673 20 3,313,344 736 16,662
4 French fr 717,870 4,835,843 16,085,572 17 166,832 405 4,459
5 German de 655,601 714,553 5,069,297 16 91,794 179 6,933
6 Russian ru 624,273 1,144,560 5,754,843 5 136,527 106 33,433
7 Ukrainian uk 403,367 573,683 1,113,670 5 22,856 128 139
8 Hebrew he 261,900 1,682,733 3,086,130 17 46,548 120 594
9 Italian it 225,413 883,008 3,907,556 9 82,432 82 675
10 Arabic ar 94,649 298,167 627,398 5 73,142 70 4,023
11 Spanish es 90,165 345,280 1,684,751 8 97,576 102 231
12 Gujarati gu 66,450 72,764 225,282 2 4,676 11 0
13 Multilingual www 65,923 261,151 1,361,996 13 501,686 164 731
14 Czech cs 62,736 92,696 344,590 2 20,173 28 7
15 Serbian sr 44,025 48,919 147,512 7 16,510 20 360
16 Portuguese pt 39,466 169,698 565,252 2 43,856 87 52
17 Bangla bn 39,263 615,555 2,001,712 4 22,421 34 5,479
18 Tamil ta 38,372 653,374 1,975,086 4 17,289 272 33
19 Armenian hy 37,684 148,301 397,523 4 14,081 27 62
20 Persian fa 34,990 86,791 302,502 3 40,032 24 0
21 Swedish sv 32,812 220,798 659,288 5 18,963 31 8
22 Belarusian be 30,898 126,230 299,324 2 5,450 21 0
23 Korean ko 25,572 91,061 465,117 5 19,746 62 209
24 Telugu te 24,141 221,710 581,008 4 7,296 28 511
25 Dutch nl 21,883 83,219 227,682 2 17,432 23 0
26 Hungarian hu 21,823 39,122 103,621 3 12,383 12 27
27 Latin la 21,392 82,828 282,682 7 33,092 49 45
28 Malayalam ml 20,841 82,538 241,249 3 13,595 33 620
29 Sanskrit sa 20,442 164,360 418,729 2 10,755 31 64
30 Turkish tr 20,046 31,616 174,640 2 26,868 29 122
31 Vietnamese vi 19,105 66,837 206,261 3 20,671 56 2
32 Japanese ja 18,935 49,806 246,337 4 46,660 43 0
33 Slovenian sl 18,342 36,280 224,539 5 10,710 21 340
34 Welsh cy 16,626 85,277 171,440 2 4,228 12 3
35 Romanian ro 15,767 45,100 152,518 3 22,750 22 221
36 Norwegian no 15,042 141,840 338,666 2 6,327 9 815
37 Indonesian id 14,109 107,486 320,013 9 27,786 89 306
38 Finnish fi 13,861 22,351 131,178 3 8,149 11 46
39 Esperanto eo 13,573 40,923 127,250 3 5,490 21 29
40 Neapolitan nap 12,945 14,627 91,036 3 2,728 4 0
41 Greek el 12,888 46,270 167,772 6 22,989 31 4
42 Urdu ur 11,920 13,928 35,951 1 326 13 0
43 Azerbaijani az 11,857 25,012 97,059 2 12,859 25 1
44 Breton br 10,633 65,978 209,974 3 3,011 7 0
45 Catalan ca 10,509 56,826 185,680 3 12,083 14 5
46 Thai th 9,706 67,392 301,525 2 12,554 30 2
47 Croatian hr 9,627 15,780 63,608 3 7,526 9 433
48 Georgian ka 7,018 8,248 78,408 1 896 4 0
49 Hindi hi 6,048 188,223 653,788 5 6,237 42 0
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,384 86,743 2 4,789 6 0
51 Balinese ban 5,292 36,635 123,807 2 1,857 56 0
52 Burmese my 4,779 6,114 21,898 1 910 8 0
53 Icelandic is 4,758 6,412 30,074 1 3,740 4 8
54 Marathi mr 4,739 110,091 237,732 2 6,230 11 15
55 Piedmontese pms 4,414 5,319 38,011 2 1,461 5 0
56 Assamese as 4,404 92,801 261,673 4 4,542 31 242
57 Ligurian lij 4,397 16,882 47,957 1 1,242 6 0
58 Danish da 4,062 122,381 482,524 3 11,301 14 6
59 Macedonian mk 3,384 8,265 22,522 2 4,060 9 4
60 Estonian et 3,341 23,252 60,197 1 4,211 9 48
61 Javanese jv 3,295 26,362 82,738 3 2,033 12 149
62 Walloon wa 2,643 6,495 36,863 1 1,011 9 0
63 Yiddish yi 2,639 5,463 20,568 1 3,502 5 1,056
64 Punjabi pa 2,524 74,318 238,997 6 2,758 30 212
65 Bulgarian bg 2,341 4,050 18,808 1 6,304 9 7
66 Lithuanian lt 2,103 3,592 14,876 2 3,979 8 1
67 Limburgish li 1,885 3,371 7,319 1 2,322 3 1
68 Kannada kn 1,555 112,717 315,135 2 8,642 11 18
69 Basque eu 1,548 7,052 29,002 1 1,585 6 0
70 Malay ms 1,331 9,211 25,109 2 1,383 19 0
71 Odia or 1,317 12,538 59,685 1 3,089 7 0
72 Galician gl 712 3,705 21,959 2 3,857 6 64
73 Yakut sah 700 2,203 10,367 2 2,387 5 4
74 Bosnian bs 648 3,344 12,188 1 3,641 7 61
75 Slovak sk 501 1,594 9,593 1 3,980 4 1
76 Minangkabau min 415 9,310 31,188 2 426 7 0
77 Sundanese su 412 12,903 47,909 1 1,160 4 0
78 Tagalog tl 338 2,329 15,752 3 451 3 0
79 Madurese mad 207 1,172 4,493 2 390 3 0
80 Minnan zh-min-nan 160 3,595 11,231 1 2,922 4 2
81 Central Bikol bcl 137 2,481 10,337 0 497 3 0
82 Tulu tcy 113 4,774 21,914 2 640 7 0
83 Faroese fo 79 612 3,850 1 2,609 3 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 11,117,976 30,574,132 86,000,232 324 5,381,819 4,064 79,942

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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