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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 four times a day. See commons:Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab for the date/time of last update. This page may need to be purged to see the latest numbers.
№
Language
Wiki
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
1
Polish
pl
1,156,308
1,194,667
3,677,006
16
38,378
56
128
2
English
en
1,067,411
4,424,404
14,495,913
23
3,141,258
446
16,212
3
Russian
ru
623,325
1,092,012
5,181,426
5
123,081
97
33,024
4
German
de
575,861
629,100
4,410,588
17
84,579
97
6,922
5
French
fr
552,173
4,293,140
14,576,829
16
149,266
221
3,663
6
Chinese
zh
467,762
1,114,822
2,426,668
8
109,274
119
231
7
Ukrainian
uk
253,245
401,679
776,944
6
18,094
63
135
8
Hebrew
he
246,353
1,650,760
2,881,860
16
40,631
97
546
9
Italian
it
201,272
794,545
3,401,526
9
73,651
86
760
10
Arabic
ar
84,214
236,082
506,740
9
68,186
38
4,043
11
Spanish
es
84,103
279,569
1,473,552
9
90,815
44
232
12
Multilingual
www
83,473
221,202
1,065,367
13
408,562
166
981
13
Gujarati
gu
62,748
68,573
211,542
2
4,114
9
0
14
Czech
cs
58,768
86,859
304,674
3
18,719
23
7
15
Serbian
sr
42,783
47,201
137,509
4
15,206
13
362
16
Portuguese
pt
36,604
151,247
516,501
3
39,343
48
17
17
Bangla
bn
33,782
696,552
1,832,784
4
19,604
66
6,365
18
Swedish
sv
28,962
187,475
572,780
4
17,759
21
9
19
Persian
fa
27,733
68,981
247,005
3
37,434
27
0
20
Tamil
ta
25,449
552,018
1,686,020
4
14,875
147
41
21
Belarusian
be
24,687
94,145
231,057
2
4,597
20
0
22
Korean
ko
24,274
76,241
340,863
5
17,597
49
613
23
Hungarian
hu
21,746
38,968
102,453
4
11,711
13
27
24
Malayalam
ml
20,495
72,985
218,954
3
12,431
16
591
25
Sanskrit
sa
20,051
161,265
404,339
2
9,206
16
64
26
Telugu
te
19,891
148,137
444,572
4
6,204
16
551
27
Turkish
tr
18,749
29,656
167,380
2
23,593
22
121
28
Latin
la
18,338
65,404
221,558
7
28,537
23
48
29
Slovenian
sl
17,981
35,747
220,525
5
9,843
16
342
30
Dutch
nl
17,134
64,140
190,998
3
16,296
16
0
31
Vietnamese
vi
17,123
57,229
179,345
3
18,327
16
2
32
Armenian
hy
16,249
125,043
357,170
3
12,690
28
64
33
Japanese
ja
15,067
41,221
222,709
4
41,734
33
0
34
Romanian
ro
14,383
38,949
139,021
3
20,892
18
227
35
Finnish
fi
13,282
20,383
126,634
4
7,403
9
53
36
Neapolitan
nap
12,752
14,405
89,038
3
2,309
5
0
37
Greek
el
12,308
41,993
156,213
6
20,326
22
4
38
Azerbaijani
az
10,800
22,382
88,522
2
11,528
14
1
39
Breton
br
9,879
61,190
185,997
3
2,657
8
0
40
Catalan
ca
9,783
51,430
172,630
3
11,141
14
5
41
Croatian
hr
9,469
15,181
61,051
3
6,816
9
434
42
Welsh
cy
8,287
51,509
112,081
3
3,733
7
3
43
Thai
th
7,991
48,898
234,575
3
11,222
24
28
44
Norwegian
no
7,650
93,753
235,057
2
5,753
11
825
45
Indonesian
id
7,500
61,477
200,440
6
24,703
116
301
46
Kannada
kn
7,247
93,741
263,810
2
7,684
47
18
47
Esperanto
eo
6,624
29,417
98,402
2
4,906
12
27
48
Hindi
hi
5,843
174,020
617,341
5
5,180
77
3
49
Venetian
vec
5,661
17,847
78,166
3
4,431
5
0
50
Balinese
ban
4,988
33,804
115,519
1
1,303
20
0
51
Marathi
mr
4,827
102,507
209,481
2
5,422
13
15
52
Icelandic
is
4,690
5,954
29,375
2
3,325
8
9
53
Piedmontese
pms
4,326
5,193
34,053
1
1,149
7
0
54
Ligurian
lij
4,080
15,159
42,862
1
939
4
0
55
Danish
da
3,477
32,208
79,752
1
10,529
7
6
56
Estonian
et
3,253
22,689
59,210
2
3,764
4
48
57
Assamese
as
3,155
69,695
190,385
2
3,734
24
78
58
Macedonian
mk
2,990
7,725
20,910
2
3,558
4
4
59
Yiddish
yi
2,632
5,462
20,445
1
3,132
5
1,056
60
Javanese
jv
2,339
14,540
48,496
1
1,360
8
149
61
Bulgarian
bg
2,288
3,986
18,300
3
5,776
6
7
62
Walloon
wa
2,242
5,928
33,735
2
766
4
0
63
Limburgish
li
1,885
3,366
7,231
1
2,108
4
1
64
Lithuanian
lt
1,756
3,136
12,064
2
3,556
5
1
65
Punjabi
pa
1,641
62,741
176,782
6
2,115
27
212
66
Basque
eu
1,367
6,378
26,400
1
1,269
6
0
67
Odia
or
1,288
11,648
56,851
1
2,658
6
0
68
Georgian
ka
746
927
5,606
0
285
1
0
69
Galician
gl
694
3,719
21,346
2
3,484
8
64
70
Malay
ms
618
3,526
12,769
2
663
23
0
71
Bosnian
bs
613
3,272
11,908
1
3,281
5
62
72
Yakut
sah
600
1,661
7,634
1
2,092
7
2
73
Slovak
sk
487
1,503
9,217
2
3,660
5
1
74
Sundanese
su
275
6,560
26,714
2
729
7
0
75
Minnan
zh-min-nan
55
3,403
10,225
1
2,616
7
2
76
Faroese
fo
9
554
3,522
1
2,328
6
0
77
Burmese
my
0
8
12
0
167
0
0
Totals
Text units
All pages
Edits
Admins
Users
Active users
Files
All active Wikisources
6,170,894
20,474,896
67,834,939
318
4,952,047
2,797
79,747
Alemannic, North Frisian, Bavarian, Rhine Franconian, Pennsylvania Dutch Wikisources
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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 the Text
namespace: Nordfriisk Bibleteek , Boarische Text , Rheifränggische Tegschdsommlung , Pennsylvanische Wikisource .