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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 3,786,026 7,148,284 9,472,527 9 123,412 260 230
2 Polish pl 1,327,077 1,368,332 4,178,166 14 42,300 70 127
3 English en 1,128,912 4,867,579 16,286,385 20 3,309,363 616 16,675
4 French fr 710,717 4,814,140 16,030,832 17 165,720 293 4,449
5 German de 654,048 712,922 5,044,480 16 91,514 146 6,933
6 Russian ru 623,232 1,143,374 5,745,740 5 136,010 99 33,423
7 Ukrainian uk 401,429 570,694 1,106,584 5 22,627 119 139
8 Hebrew he 261,297 1,681,809 3,081,141 16 46,345 126 594
9 Italian it 224,966 879,515 3,897,879 9 82,018 82 675
10 Arabic ar 94,356 291,002 619,008 5 72,914 58 4,023
11 Spanish es 90,142 343,823 1,677,028 8 97,262 105 231
12 Gujarati gu 66,077 72,374 224,502 2 4,648 17 0
13 Multilingual www 65,845 260,299 1,359,363 14 497,022 174 730
14 Czech cs 62,524 92,289 337,716 2 20,128 29 7
15 Serbian sr 43,886 48,732 145,919 7 16,460 21 360
16 Portuguese pt 39,308 168,520 562,093 2 43,642 79 50
17 Bangla bn 39,050 614,477 1,998,494 4 22,264 44 5,477
18 Tamil ta 37,881 643,652 1,960,646 4 16,934 142 33
19 Armenian hy 36,890 147,428 395,103 4 14,028 22 62
20 Persian fa 33,966 85,534 299,344 3 39,929 19 0
21 Swedish sv 32,761 220,526 658,138 5 18,921 26 8
22 Belarusian be 30,533 125,344 297,217 2 5,417 22 0
23 Korean ko 25,502 90,326 459,404 5 19,656 44 209
24 Telugu te 24,031 217,358 574,997 4 7,243 27 496
25 Hungarian hu 21,822 39,120 103,607 3 12,360 8 27
26 Dutch nl 21,725 82,587 226,602 2 17,403 18 0
27 Latin la 21,388 82,398 280,590 7 32,894 51 45
28 Malayalam ml 20,833 81,679 239,693 3 13,549 39 620
29 Sanskrit sa 20,431 164,320 418,552 2 10,707 24 64
30 Turkish tr 20,025 31,586 174,442 2 26,744 27 122
31 Vietnamese vi 19,104 66,783 206,114 3 20,561 59 2
32 Japanese ja 18,678 49,483 245,734 4 46,480 70 0
33 Slovenian sl 18,340 36,276 224,493 5 10,679 14 340
34 Welsh cy 16,608 85,154 170,946 2 4,217 22 3
35 Romanian ro 15,739 44,996 152,083 3 22,649 22 221
36 Norwegian no 14,853 139,998 332,959 2 6,311 11 815
37 Indonesian id 14,041 106,298 317,677 9 27,591 71 306
38 Finnish fi 13,857 22,317 131,126 3 8,122 13 46
39 Esperanto eo 13,518 40,670 126,534 3 5,469 20 29
40 Neapolitan nap 12,945 14,626 91,027 3 2,723 5 0
41 Greek el 12,882 46,209 167,509 6 22,888 30 4
42 Urdu ur 11,921 13,927 35,873 1 301 13 0
43 Azerbaijani az 11,849 24,977 96,947 2 12,798 36 1
44 Breton br 10,577 65,649 209,127 3 3,002 5 0
45 Catalan ca 10,508 56,819 185,577 3 12,060 11 5
46 Thai th 9,679 65,519 295,377 2 12,516 26 8
47 Croatian hr 9,624 15,776 63,577 3 7,506 7 433
48 Georgian ka 7,018 8,247 78,404 1 880 3 0
49 Hindi hi 6,049 188,158 653,501 5 6,162 54 0
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,381 86,735 2 4,774 3 0
51 Balinese ban 5,242 36,510 123,537 2 1,774 8 0
52 Burmese my 4,879 6,215 21,886 1 882 11 0
53 Icelandic is 4,758 6,412 30,071 1 3,725 4 8
54 Marathi mr 4,735 109,841 236,936 2 6,198 16 15
55 Piedmontese pms 4,414 5,314 38,003 2 1,452 5 0
56 Ligurian lij 4,397 16,880 47,898 1 1,235 15 0
57 Assamese as 4,298 92,590 258,944 4 4,511 15 240
58 Danish da 3,986 121,977 481,549 2 11,284 11 6
59 Macedonian mk 3,371 8,235 22,386 2 4,040 8 4
60 Estonian et 3,340 23,250 60,186 1 4,193 7 48
61 Javanese jv 3,295 26,334 82,645 3 2,018 20 149
62 Yiddish yi 2,639 5,463 20,564 1 3,488 4 1,056
63 Walloon wa 2,621 6,461 36,737 1 1,005 6 0
64 Punjabi pa 2,529 72,957 234,515 6 2,737 28 212
65 Bulgarian bg 2,337 4,045 18,792 1 6,285 12 7
66 Limburgish li 1,885 3,370 7,314 1 2,313 4 1
67 Lithuanian lt 1,806 3,253 13,007 1 3,962 7 1
68 Kannada kn 1,555 112,706 315,098 2 8,622 17 18
69 Basque eu 1,547 7,047 28,976 1 1,576 5 0
70 Odia or 1,313 12,513 59,656 1 3,070 10 0
71 Malay ms 1,307 9,021 24,573 2 1,363 12 0
72 Galician gl 712 3,704 21,948 2 3,848 5 64
73 Yakut sah 701 2,202 10,332 2 2,373 4 3
74 Bosnian bs 646 3,342 12,179 1 3,633 5 61
75 Slovak sk 501 1,594 9,590 1 3,970 4 1
76 Minangkabau min 415 9,242 30,822 2 412 10 0
77 Sundanese su 410 12,887 47,880 1 1,150 6 0
78 Tagalog tl 338 2,328 15,750 3 436 5 0
79 Madurese mad 207 1,169 4,483 2 382 5 0
80 Minnan zh-min-nan 160 3,594 11,226 1 2,912 5 2
81 Central Bikol bcl 137 2,480 10,335 0 488 6 0
82 Tulu tcy 113 4,773 21,881 2 630 7 0
83 Faroese fo 79 611 3,845 1 2,603 4 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 10,290,941 28,939,606 84,091,056 322 5,365,693 3,593 79,918

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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