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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 Polish pl 1,289,320 1,329,981 4,084,479 14 41,521 81 127
2 English en 1,141,156 4,881,226 15,885,420 19 3,255,276 835 16,622
3 French fr 665,577 4,686,438 15,746,332 17 161,956 322 4,202
4 German de 632,570 689,454 4,882,845 16 89,985 118 6,932
5 Russian ru 621,025 1,134,811 5,705,904 5 133,678 97 33,192
6 Chinese zh 506,311 1,199,645 2,674,749 8 120,191 276 230
7 Ukrainian uk 375,148 538,314 1,046,599 5 21,560 122 136
8 Hebrew he 253,912 1,666,538 3,005,372 16 45,199 154 575
9 Italian it 218,984 867,264 3,666,597 9 80,078 87 676
10 Arabic ar 93,768 286,724 607,604 5 71,889 60 4,025
11 Spanish es 89,386 336,597 1,649,740 8 95,753 100 230
12 Multilingual www 69,444 257,111 1,330,981 14 476,961 210 736
13 Gujarati gu 65,233 71,470 221,403 2 4,519 15 0
14 Czech cs 61,050 89,918 321,615 3 19,862 27 7
15 Serbian sr 43,367 48,081 142,685 5 16,216 28 361
16 Portuguese pt 38,722 164,028 550,862 1 42,572 63 32
17 Bangla bn 37,408 619,215 1,943,312 4 21,514 35 5,568
18 Armenian hy 36,006 146,474 392,718 4 13,837 27 62
19 Tamil ta 34,789 630,941 1,923,256 4 16,530 53 33
20 Swedish sv 32,237 214,874 649,091 5 18,710 31 8
21 Persian fa 29,115 76,713 283,987 3 39,546 12 0
22 Belarusian be 29,114 117,953 282,085 2 5,271 13 0
23 Korean ko 25,499 92,936 425,133 5 19,218 26 209
24 Telugu te 22,948 206,221 551,001 4 7,001 29 467
25 Hungarian hu 21,817 39,109 103,510 3 12,254 7 27
26 Dutch nl 20,628 79,427 220,174 2 17,228 17 0
27 Latin la 20,494 78,059 263,338 5 31,990 75 45
28 Sanskrit sa 20,390 162,596 415,676 2 10,399 24 64
29 Malayalam ml 20,302 77,523 232,188 3 13,233 35 602
30 Turkish tr 19,863 31,339 173,583 2 26,131 38 122
31 Vietnamese vi 19,066 66,459 204,714 3 20,046 45 2
32 Slovenian sl 18,198 36,087 223,728 5 10,523 19 340
33 Japanese ja 17,656 47,537 240,674 4 45,498 55 0
34 Welsh cy 15,727 80,660 163,484 2 4,087 11 3
35 Romanian ro 15,588 44,341 150,630 3 22,315 38 227
36 Finnish fi 13,780 21,973 129,882 3 7,965 18 46
37 Neapolitan nap 12,941 14,615 90,593 3 2,622 7 0
38 Greek el 12,666 45,500 165,638 6 22,305 29 4
39 Norwegian no 12,633 132,041 317,872 2 6,195 11 815
40 Urdu ur 12,347 12,903 31,922 2 170 17 0
41 Azerbaijani az 11,558 24,482 95,557 2 12,579 19 1
42 Breton br 10,526 65,464 207,962 3 2,948 13 0
43 Catalan ca 10,458 56,257 184,203 3 11,926 14 5
44 Thai th 9,608 63,942 289,251 3 12,234 22 28
45 Croatian hr 9,594 15,733 63,182 3 7,382 12 434
46 Indonesian id 9,102 87,783 268,070 9 26,924 56 303
47 Esperanto eo 6,890 33,261 114,917 2 5,363 20 29
48 Georgian ka 6,751 7,859 77,427 0 788 6 0
49 Hindi hi 5,994 183,513 640,469 5 5,827 18 0
50 Kannada kn 5,975 97,059 276,414 2 8,469 25 19
51 Venetian vec 5,798 19,384 80,516 2 4,726 7 0
52 Marathi mr 5,373 108,704 229,392 2 5,983 18 15
53 Balinese ban 5,186 36,441 123,397 2 1,685 5 0
54 Burmese my 4,745 6,070 21,533 1 695 8 0
55 Icelandic is 4,707 6,166 29,750 1 3,657 7 8
56 Piedmontese pms 4,414 5,308 37,684 2 1,405 3 0
57 Ligurian lij 4,382 16,762 46,811 1 1,164 15 0
58 Danish da 3,838 102,924 403,584 2 11,147 10 6
59 Assamese as 3,736 89,870 247,957 4 4,392 19 224
60 Macedonian mk 3,351 8,206 22,296 2 3,973 8 4
61 Estonian et 3,299 22,932 59,682 1 4,124 8 48
62 Javanese jv 3,114 22,775 72,585 3 1,905 12 149
63 Yiddish yi 2,638 5,461 20,546 1 3,450 9 1,056
64 Walloon wa 2,478 6,279 35,735 1 972 4 0
65 Punjabi pa 2,341 70,564 215,819 6 2,598 34 212
66 Bulgarian bg 2,306 4,009 18,651 1 6,183 7 7
67 Limburgish li 1,885 3,368 7,292 1 2,282 7 1
68 Lithuanian lt 1,800 3,190 12,768 1 3,876 7 1
69 Basque eu 1,549 7,029 28,914 1 1,529 6 0
70 Odia or 1,302 12,338 59,449 1 2,994 8 0
71 Malay ms 1,101 7,907 22,853 2 1,188 12 0
72 Yakut sah 752 2,105 9,336 2 2,325 8 2
73 Minangkabau min 735 4,357 15,352 2 312 4 0
74 Galician gl 711 3,702 21,886 2 3,784 12 64
75 Bosnian bs 613 3,271 12,036 1 3,579 6 62
76 Slovak sk 492 1,538 9,472 2 3,922 6 1
77 Sundanese su 405 12,792 47,607 1 1,084 10 0
78 Tagalog tl 328 2,311 15,695 3 360 7 0
79 Madurese mad 207 1,115 4,306 2 317 8 0
80 Minnan zh-min-nan 159 3,569 11,182 1 2,857 5 2
81 Central Bikol bcl 137 2,455 10,244 0 435 5 0
82 Tulu tcy 113 4,768 21,824 2 583 22 0
83 Faroese fo 71 607 3,773 1 2,547 7 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 6,846,707 22,566,726 75,298,755 317 5,258,277 3,786 79,408

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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