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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under theCC-BY-SA open content license.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). List of Wikisources[ edit ] This is a list of Wikisource language subdomains. SeeWikisource:Languages for a list of languages without their own subdomains; these are housed at theMultilingual Wikisource .
These statistics areupdated several times a day . You might need topurge the cache to see the latest numbers. № Language Wiki Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files 1 Polish pl 1,275,411 1,315,856 4,046,947 14 41,177 77 127 2 English en 1,132,909 4,835,668 15,718,786 19 3,236,136 603 16,639 3 French fr 652,660 4,635,680 15,622,421 17 160,243 318 4,145 4 German de 620,777 676,681 4,827,932 17 89,335 138 6,922 5 Russian ru 620,109 1,130,206 5,692,703 5 132,516 104 33,005 6 Chinese zh 493,082 1,172,703 2,621,352 8 118,911 237 230 7 Ukrainian uk 370,602 531,864 1,029,292 5 21,146 107 136 8 Hebrew he 252,542 1,663,898 2,989,259 16 44,663 165 570 9 Italian it 217,014 855,880 3,634,151 9 79,288 94 677 10 Arabic ar 93,651 285,650 604,687 5 71,541 39 4,027 11 Spanish es 88,843 333,083 1,626,987 8 95,163 73 230 12 Multilingual www 80,841 267,230 1,322,708 13 468,545 237 740 13 Gujarati gu 64,756 70,965 220,105 2 4,489 9 0 14 Czech cs 60,506 89,294 313,098 3 19,740 21 7 15 Serbian sr 43,208 47,896 141,666 5 16,079 32 361 16 Portuguese pt 38,753 163,831 550,011 1 42,182 57 32 17 Bangla bn 37,273 619,199 1,938,295 4 21,309 35 5,556 18 Armenian hy 35,909 146,364 392,328 4 13,681 28 62 19 Tamil ta 33,801 624,294 1,904,547 4 16,355 76 32 20 Swedish sv 31,902 211,665 629,787 5 18,611 24 8 21 Persian fa 29,097 76,625 283,608 3 39,406 23 0 22 Belarusian be 28,528 115,253 276,037 2 5,200 16 0 23 Korean ko 25,376 92,707 422,952 5 19,056 30 209 24 Telugu te 22,859 203,147 543,978 4 6,947 44 465 25 Hungarian hu 21,813 39,097 103,477 3 12,193 6 27 26 Sanskrit sa 20,387 162,523 415,047 2 10,284 42 64 27 Malayalam ml 20,208 77,166 231,349 4 13,161 18 602 28 Dutch nl 20,147 78,128 217,642 2 17,133 16 0 29 Latin la 20,047 75,947 256,984 5 31,567 42 45 30 Turkish tr 19,856 31,328 173,344 2 25,839 29 122 31 Vietnamese vi 19,040 66,234 203,754 3 19,821 58 2 32 Slovenian sl 18,142 36,018 223,485 5 10,450 28 341 33 Japanese ja 17,028 46,230 236,900 4 45,131 56 0 34 Romanian ro 15,516 43,976 149,739 3 22,132 30 227 35 Welsh cy 15,065 78,027 159,380 2 4,057 4 3 36 Finnish fi 13,683 20,845 127,907 3 7,904 10 53 37 Neapolitan nap 12,939 14,613 90,560 3 2,589 5 0 38 Greek el 12,621 45,222 164,859 6 22,085 25 4 39 Azerbaijani az 11,491 24,351 95,198 2 12,446 25 1 40 Norwegian no 11,327 126,659 307,729 2 6,146 7 815 41 Breton br 10,458 65,125 206,774 3 2,921 6 0 42 Catalan ca 10,430 55,937 183,156 3 11,854 16 5 43 Croatian hr 9,582 15,720 62,963 3 7,307 13 434 44 Thai th 9,511 62,789 285,358 3 12,144 20 28 45 Indonesian id 8,811 85,537 264,254 9 26,771 100 303 46 Kannada kn 7,076 94,270 269,588 2 8,374 21 19 47 Esperanto eo 6,857 33,022 114,131 2 5,324 14 29 48 Georgian ka 6,751 7,856 77,414 1 737 4 0 49 Hindi hi 5,993 183,502 638,808 5 5,763 25 0 50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,384 80,460 2 4,697 4 0 51 Marathi mr 5,356 108,241 228,020 2 5,929 12 15 52 Balinese ban 5,186 36,424 123,357 2 1,644 10 0 53 Icelandic is 4,707 6,166 29,743 1 3,616 3 8 54 Burmese my 4,603 5,916 21,279 1 632 3 0 55 Piedmontese pms 4,410 5,299 37,568 2 1,385 5 0 56 Ligurian lij 4,319 16,280 45,682 1 1,137 6 0 57 Danish da 3,708 95,519 282,929 2 11,087 10 6 58 Assamese as 3,602 84,372 235,097 4 4,340 30 184 59 Macedonian mk 3,346 8,199 22,279 2 3,931 7 4 60 Estonian et 3,299 22,936 59,671 2 4,080 7 48 61 Javanese jv 3,107 22,715 72,418 3 1,850 14 149 62 Yiddish yi 2,633 5,463 20,525 1 3,419 5 1,056 63 Walloon wa 2,449 6,247 35,576 1 957 6 0 64 Punjabi pa 2,334 69,482 212,884 6 2,563 23 212 65 Bulgarian bg 2,306 4,009 18,646 1 6,148 8 7 66 Limburgish li 1,885 3,369 7,287 1 2,269 1 1 67 Lithuanian lt 1,799 3,188 12,736 2 3,849 12 1 68 Basque eu 1,547 7,020 28,871 1 1,503 6 0 69 Odia or 1,299 12,273 59,375 2 2,976 4 0 70 Malay ms 1,091 7,847 22,270 2 1,158 8 0 71 Yakut sah 747 2,053 9,005 1 2,304 7 2 72 Minangkabau min 735 4,345 15,326 2 282 30 0 73 Galician gl 712 3,702 21,799 2 3,743 8 64 74 Bosnian bs 613 3,271 12,031 1 3,550 7 62 75 Slovak sk 492 1,536 9,463 2 3,903 2 1 76 Sundanese su 386 12,765 47,523 1 1,066 8 0 77 Tagalog tl 326 2,302 15,659 3 331 4 0 78 Madurese mad 208 1,112 4,246 2 290 16 0 79 Minnan zh-min-nan 159 3,569 11,177 1 2,832 3 2 80 Central Bikol bcl 137 2,454 10,240 0 411 2 0 81 Tulu tcy 109 4,676 21,267 1 551 19 0 82 Faroese fo 9 589 3,669 1 2,519 2 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files All active Wikisources 6,768,605 22,328,484 74,451,515 318 5,216,804 3,499 79,126
Wikisources in Wikipedia[ edit ] An Alemannic Wikisource has been created as separate namespace within Alemannic Wikipedia:Alemannischi Textsammlig (Wikisource) and similarly, the North Frisian Wikipedia, the Bavarian Wikipedia, the Rhine Franconian Wikipedia, and the Pennsylvania Dutch Wikipedia have also adopted Wikisource projects in theText namespace:Nordfriisk Bibleteek ,Boarische Text ,Rheifränggische Tegschdsommlung ,Pennsylvanische Wikisource .
The Swahili Wikipedia has adopted a Wikichanzo namespace for its Wikisource:Swahili Wikisource .
Historical discussion[ edit ] Please seethe talk page .