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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.

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  • 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 2,077,005 4,016,595 5,949,441 9 121,120 275 230
2 Polish pl 1,298,859 1,339,738 4,110,968 14 41,755 64 127
3 English en 1,104,651 4,771,963 15,987,101 19 3,277,939 658 16,645
4 French fr 672,790 4,717,340 15,817,851 17 163,005 296 4,211
5 German de 638,466 695,991 4,910,504 16 90,445 160 6,933
6 Russian ru 621,745 1,137,012 5,718,421 5 134,428 98 33,275
7 Ukrainian uk 378,999 543,842 1,057,585 5 21,871 106 136
8 Hebrew he 254,457 1,670,578 3,016,834 16 45,568 142 577
9 Italian it 220,112 868,272 3,842,389 9 80,712 80 676
10 Arabic ar 93,851 287,459 609,414 5 72,170 45 4,024
11 Spanish es 88,928 338,404 1,663,259 8 96,152 90 231
12 Multilingual www 69,532 257,889 1,334,988 14 482,749 142 736
13 Gujarati gu 65,415 71,667 222,332 2 4,551 8 0
14 Czech cs 61,609 90,518 333,376 3 19,960 26 7
15 Serbian sr 43,520 48,297 143,872 5 16,294 21 360
16 Portuguese pt 38,855 164,840 553,435 1 42,908 107 32
17 Bangla bn 37,719 619,059 1,952,267 4 21,703 57 5,527
18 Tamil ta 36,134 634,963 1,936,721 4 16,598 41 33
19 Armenian hy 36,047 146,523 392,981 4 13,904 14 62
20 Swedish sv 32,337 216,986 652,326 5 18,773 22 8
21 Belarusian be 29,392 121,012 288,512 2 5,317 14 0
22 Persian fa 29,159 76,973 284,371 3 39,627 14 0
23 Korean ko 25,563 88,291 427,727 5 19,348 37 209
24 Telugu te 23,031 207,572 554,822 4 7,067 33 468
25 Hungarian hu 21,819 39,111 103,535 3 12,301 12 27
26 Dutch nl 21,113 80,222 222,340 2 17,284 17 0
27 Latin la 20,831 79,383 268,063 5 32,278 63 45
28 Sanskrit sa 20,391 162,626 415,953 2 10,478 27 64
29 Malayalam ml 20,314 77,649 233,030 3 13,297 23 606
30 Turkish tr 19,883 31,397 173,897 2 26,335 45 122
31 Vietnamese vi 19,084 66,612 205,425 3 20,200 58 2
32 Slovenian sl 18,219 36,114 224,001 5 10,576 18 340
33 Japanese ja 18,178 48,511 242,877 4 45,791 46 0
34 Welsh cy 15,894 82,195 165,731 2 4,128 9 3
35 Romanian ro 15,616 44,410 150,828 3 22,444 31 227
36 Norwegian no 14,050 134,978 323,380 2 6,237 13 815
37 Finnish fi 13,795 22,047 130,517 3 8,024 19 46
38 Neapolitan nap 12,941 14,615 90,640 3 2,645 3 0
39 Greek el 12,687 45,779 166,196 6 22,469 23 4
40 Esperanto eo 11,941 38,361 121,806 2 5,397 10 29
41 Urdu ur 11,915 13,688 34,743 2 211 18 0
42 Azerbaijani az 11,608 24,593 95,830 2 12,652 13 1
43 Breton br 10,534 65,487 208,517 3 2,967 4 0
44 Catalan ca 10,472 56,301 184,452 3 11,976 7 5
45 Indonesian id 10,102 96,714 297,052 9 27,176 169 303
46 Croatian hr 9,595 15,736 63,216 3 7,426 8 434
47 Thai th 9,536 64,309 290,337 2 12,304 20 28
48 Georgian ka 6,812 7,942 77,565 1 823 8 0
49 Hindi hi 5,994 183,515 640,505 5 5,876 8 0
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,376 86,712 2 4,747 4 0
51 Marathi mr 5,405 109,042 230,552 2 6,027 11 15
52 Balinese ban 5,186 36,439 123,427 2 1,722 9 0
53 Burmese my 4,769 6,095 21,605 1 739 7 0
54 Icelandic is 4,711 6,215 29,812 1 3,684 5 8
55 Piedmontese pms 4,414 5,310 37,810 2 1,430 5 0
56 Ligurian lij 4,393 16,858 46,952 1 1,181 6 0
57 Assamese as 3,896 90,685 251,774 4 4,429 18 225
58 Danish da 3,862 103,419 427,061 2 11,193 9 6
59 Macedonian mk 3,352 8,211 22,327 2 4,003 8 4
60 Estonian et 3,299 22,934 59,697 1 4,153 10 48
61 Javanese jv 3,172 25,781 81,570 3 1,950 16 149
62 Yiddish yi 2,638 5,461 20,550 1 3,458 3 1,056
63 Walloon wa 2,502 6,318 36,013 1 981 6 0
64 Punjabi pa 2,372 71,722 220,113 6 2,639 38 212
65 Bulgarian bg 2,327 4,031 18,696 1 6,216 5 7
66 Limburgish li 1,885 3,368 7,296 1 2,296 2 1
67 Lithuanian lt 1,800 3,193 12,803 1 3,915 14 1
68 Basque eu 1,547 7,033 28,940 1 1,551 6 0
69 Kannada kn 1,531 112,392 313,476 2 8,528 25 18
70 Odia or 1,304 12,398 59,519 1 3,015 7 0
71 Malay ms 1,153 8,135 23,245 2 1,235 14 0
72 Yakut sah 752 2,124 9,370 2 2,342 5 2
73 Galician gl 712 3,704 21,906 2 3,810 4 64
74 Bosnian bs 613 3,271 12,040 1 3,599 2 62
75 Slovak sk 492 1,539 9,478 2 3,937 3 1
76 Sundanese su 408 12,861 47,748 1 1,107 11 0
77 Minangkabau min 385 7,795 26,247 2 358 15 0
78 Tagalog tl 328 2,311 15,701 3 380 4 0
79 Madurese mad 207 1,145 4,387 2 351 28 0
80 Minnan zh-min-nan 159 3,569 11,188 1 2,879 2 2
81 Central Bikol bcl 137 2,462 10,253 0 458 2 0
82 Tulu tcy 113 4,768 21,844 2 598 16 0
83 Faroese fo 79 611 3,831 1 2,573 5 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 8,417,201 25,394,655 79,245,876 318 5,296,743 3,547 79,489

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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