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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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

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№ Language Wiki Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
1 Chinese zh 3,010,366 5,645,539 7,880,305 9 122,220 271 230
2 Polish pl 1,311,043 1,352,102 4,143,882 14 42,011 70 127
3 English en 1,119,382 4,823,973 16,146,943 19 3,296,856 611 16,616
4 French fr 699,698 4,772,938 15,930,912 17 164,189 289 4,361
5 German de 649,333 707,797 4,954,712 16 90,967 160 6,933
6 Russian ru 622,807 1,140,807 5,730,364 5 135,171 97 33,373
7 Ukrainian uk 390,116 557,747 1,084,440 5 22,206 110 139
8 Hebrew he 257,374 1,671,597 3,024,279 16 45,918 125 582
9 Italian it 221,944 873,667 3,863,700 9 81,322 89 675
10 Arabic ar 94,014 289,041 613,349 5 72,501 56 4,024
11 Spanish es 89,147 339,892 1,669,166 8 96,631 87 231
12 Gujarati gu 65,728 71,995 223,416 2 4,593 13 0
13 Multilingual www 65,597 257,004 1,342,611 14 489,322 154 731
14 Czech cs 62,216 91,159 334,592 2 20,052 25 7
15 Serbian sr 43,896 48,705 145,248 6 16,370 14 360
16 Portuguese pt 38,933 165,811 555,967 1 43,237 58 32
17 Bangla bn 38,474 617,678 1,989,752 4 21,922 45 5,440
18 Tamil ta 37,355 640,060 1,952,609 4 16,682 53 33
19 Armenian hy 36,172 146,651 393,646 4 13,953 13 62
20 Swedish sv 32,512 218,716 655,161 5 18,825 32 8
21 Belarusian be 29,889 123,550 293,211 2 5,359 13 0
22 Persian fa 29,487 80,133 291,404 3 39,775 20 0
23 Korean ko 25,453 89,517 456,764 5 19,513 47 209
24 Telugu te 23,455 210,566 563,100 4 7,148 49 470
25 Hungarian hu 21,819 39,116 103,568 3 12,332 5 27
26 Dutch nl 21,338 80,949 224,098 2 17,343 17 0
27 Latin la 20,991 80,707 273,973 7 32,576 65 45
28 Malayalam ml 20,830 81,263 238,495 3 13,429 62 620
29 Sanskrit sa 20,428 163,895 417,866 2 10,576 25 64
30 Turkish tr 19,894 31,425 174,082 2 26,536 25 122
31 Vietnamese vi 19,098 66,710 205,775 3 20,374 48 2
32 Japanese ja 18,353 48,858 244,315 4 46,141 57 0
33 Slovenian sl 18,317 36,243 224,364 5 10,624 14 340
34 Welsh cy 16,123 83,219 167,331 2 4,169 28 3
35 Romanian ro 15,639 44,484 151,048 3 22,546 17 227
36 Norwegian no 14,294 136,487 326,358 2 6,268 8 815
37 Finnish fi 13,821 22,117 130,701 3 8,072 12 46
38 Esperanto eo 13,514 40,499 125,523 3 5,427 13 29
39 Neapolitan nap 12,941 14,618 90,776 3 2,659 7 0
40 Greek el 12,776 45,920 166,657 6 22,669 35 4
41 Indonesian id 12,411 101,118 306,401 9 27,361 113 303
42 Urdu ur 11,927 13,825 35,393 1 261 18 0
43 Azerbaijani az 11,654 24,707 96,346 2 12,710 19 1
44 Breton br 10,534 65,492 208,689 3 2,981 7 0
45 Catalan ca 10,492 56,590 185,148 3 12,009 10 5
46 Croatian hr 9,596 15,742 63,337 3 7,462 8 434
47 Thai th 9,577 64,911 293,205 2 12,399 21 28
48 Georgian ka 7,018 8,237 78,392 1 849 8 0
49 Hindi hi 6,049 186,407 646,247 5 6,029 56 0
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,381 86,726 2 4,759 6 0
51 Marathi mr 5,441 109,564 233,386 2 6,096 21 15
52 Balinese ban 5,186 36,446 123,457 2 1,739 8 0
53 Burmese my 4,879 6,210 21,854 1 797 7 0
54 Icelandic is 4,758 6,405 30,061 1 3,696 5 8
55 Piedmontese pms 4,414 5,315 37,993 2 1,439 5 0
56 Ligurian lij 4,395 16,873 47,505 1 1,208 21 0
57 Assamese as 4,107 92,075 255,924 4 4,461 21 228
58 Danish da 3,938 118,880 470,902 2 11,227 16 6
59 Macedonian mk 3,371 8,232 22,373 2 4,017 5 4
60 Estonian et 3,334 23,199 60,102 1 4,172 6 48
61 Javanese jv 3,283 26,216 82,331 3 1,985 16 149
62 Yiddish yi 2,638 5,462 20,553 1 3,468 4 1,056
63 Walloon wa 2,535 6,354 36,243 1 990 6 0
64 Punjabi pa 2,531 72,397 227,772 6 2,688 37 212
65 Bulgarian bg 2,331 4,036 18,757 1 6,247 9 7
66 Limburgish li 1,885 3,369 7,299 1 2,300 4 1
67 Lithuanian lt 1,802 3,198 12,821 1 3,927 6 1
68 Kannada kn 1,555 112,609 314,868 2 8,569 21 18
69 Basque eu 1,547 7,040 28,955 1 1,563 5 0
70 Odia or 1,306 12,455 59,582 1 3,032 8 0
71 Malay ms 1,185 8,388 23,672 2 1,304 14 0
72 Yakut sah 734 2,195 9,923 2 2,356 10 1
73 Galician gl 712 3,703 21,923 2 3,823 5 64
74 Bosnian bs 613 3,272 12,043 1 3,610 4 62
75 Slovak sk 498 1,568 9,530 1 3,954 5 1
76 Minangkabau min 413 9,145 30,483 2 372 15 0
77 Sundanese su 409 12,877 47,803 1 1,120 11 0
78 Tagalog tl 328 2,313 15,715 3 395 4 0
79 Madurese mad 207 1,154 4,445 2 362 28 0
80 Minnan zh-min-nan 159 3,592 11,215 1 2,891 5 2
81 Central Bikol bcl 137 2,465 10,259 0 466 4 0
82 Tulu tcy 113 4,769 21,854 2 606 16 0
83 Faroese fo 79 611 3,835 1 2,585 5 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 9,440,446 27,241,952 81,839,785 319 5,332,769 3,562 79,641

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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