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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.
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).
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
3,415,568
6,428,195
8,701,721
9
122,937
280
230
2
Polish
pl
1,319,004
1,360,161
4,161,866
14
42,169
73
127
3
English
en
1,125,706
4,851,632
16,236,801
20
3,305,031
613
16,661
4
French
fr
706,980
4,796,216
15,988,460
17
164,971
277
4,422
5
German
de
652,639
711,471
5,014,870
16
91,253
143
6,933
6
Russian
ru
623,209
1,142,685
5,740,182
5
135,636
110
33,404
7
Ukrainian
uk
400,117
568,745
1,101,942
5
22,447
141
139
8
Hebrew
he
260,820
1,681,101
3,076,009
16
46,146
112
594
9
Italian
it
222,271
875,060
3,873,682
9
81,699
68
675
10
Arabic
ar
94,276
290,536
617,836
5
72,727
59
4,024
11
Spanish
es
89,729
340,648
1,671,511
8
96,954
65
231
12
Gujarati
gu
65,980
72,267
224,164
2
4,621
16
0
13
Multilingual
www
65,751
258,578
1,355,881
14
493,449
146
731
14
Czech
cs
62,413
91,829
335,862
2
20,090
25
7
15
Serbian
sr
43,911
48,727
145,430
7
16,415
17
360
16
Portuguese
pt
39,090
167,289
559,459
2
43,488
73
32
17
Bangla
bn
38,750
614,042
1,994,235
4
22,104
43
5,475
18
Tamil
ta
37,386
641,848
1,956,475
4
16,758
58
33
19
Armenian
hy
36,172
146,653
393,801
4
13,993
19
62
20
Persian
fa
33,870
84,832
297,310
3
39,860
31
0
21
Swedish
sv
32,624
219,929
657,088
5
18,875
23
8
22
Belarusian
be
30,172
124,593
295,666
2
5,392
21
0
23
Korean
ko
25,457
89,841
458,043
5
19,590
44
209
24
Telugu
te
23,813
212,241
567,948
4
7,202
31
494
25
Hungarian
hu
21,822
39,120
103,604
3
12,348
9
27
26
Dutch
nl
21,509
81,613
225,161
2
17,375
17
0
27
Latin
la
21,314
81,570
276,663
7
32,740
43
45
28
Malayalam
ml
20,834
81,638
239,321
3
13,511
46
620
29
Sanskrit
sa
20,428
163,913
418,059
2
10,656
29
64
30
Turkish
tr
20,025
31,564
174,362
2
26,662
33
122
31
Vietnamese
vi
19,100
66,737
205,972
3
20,480
49
2
32
Japanese
ja
18,548
49,258
245,181
4
46,341
48
0
33
Slovenian
sl
18,329
36,265
224,437
5
10,654
16
340
34
Welsh
cy
16,607
84,999
170,701
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
105,665
314,837
9
27,463
77
303
38
Finnish
fi
13,844
22,274
131,021
3
8,100
12
46
39
Esperanto
eo
13,515
40,649
126,431
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
167,109
6
22,803
36
4
42
Urdu
ur
11,922
13,917
35,759
1
282
15
0
43
Azerbaijani
az
11,839
24,940
96,827
2
12,765
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
15,771
63,421
3
7,487
11
433
47
Thai
th
9,619
65,357
295,002
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
649,691
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
123,469
2
1,757
7
0
52
Marathi
mr
5,125
109,814
235,832
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
4,213
92,385
257,720
4
4,483
17
239
58
Danish
da
3,973
121,787
480,972
2
11,268
22
6
59
Macedonian
mk
3,371
8,232
22,381
2
4,028
6
4
60
Estonian
et
3,340
23,249
60,184
1
4,182
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
232,669
6
2,717
34
212
65
Bulgarian
bg
2,336
4,042
18,779
1
6,269
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
315,017
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
1,262
8,841
24,249
2
1,338
14
0
72
Galician
gl
712
3,703
21,943
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
2,904
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
9,895,436
28,144,295
83,080,372
322
5,352,052
3,508
79,853
Wikisources in Wikipedia[ edit ]
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.
Please see the talk page .