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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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.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 3,876,073 7,321,040 9,654,544 9 123,456 260 230
2 Polish pl 1,327,650 1,368,907 4,179,256 14 42,306 70 127
3 English en 1,129,177 4,868,575 16,288,685 20 3,309,528 616 16,675
4 French fr 711,225 4,816,458 16,035,702 17 165,761 293 4,449
5 German de 654,147 713,024 5,046,497 16 91,525 146 6,933
6 Russian ru 623,712 1,143,420 5,746,270 5 136,036 99 33,425
7 Ukrainian uk 401,499 570,868 1,106,925 5 22,643 119 139
8 Hebrew he 261,297 1,681,809 3,081,146 16 46,348 126 594
9 Italian it 224,985 879,537 3,898,132 9 82,037 82 675
10 Arabic ar 94,358 290,999 619,028 5 72,922 58 4,023
11 Spanish es 90,112 343,874 1,677,285 8 97,281 105 231
12 Gujarati gu 66,091 72,389 224,543 2 4,650 17 0
13 Multilingual www 65,859 260,350 1,359,464 13 497,236 174 730
14 Czech cs 62,535 92,337 337,909 2 20,132 29 7
15 Serbian sr 43,880 48,726 145,936 7 16,461 21 360
16 Portuguese pt 39,313 168,614 562,261 2 43,657 79 50
17 Bangla bn 39,086 614,557 1,998,778 4 22,272 44 5,478
18 Tamil ta 37,919 643,772 1,960,997 4 16,939 142 33
19 Armenian hy 36,908 147,455 395,158 4 14,029 22 62
20 Persian fa 33,966 85,535 299,357 3 39,932 19 0
21 Swedish sv 32,766 220,570 658,298 5 18,923 26 8
22 Belarusian be 30,560 125,388 297,369 2 5,420 22 0
23 Korean ko 25,503 90,340 459,445 5 19,658 44 209
24 Telugu te 24,043 217,727 575,526 4 7,244 27 496
25 Hungarian hu 21,822 39,120 103,607 3 12,360 8 27
26 Dutch nl 21,726 82,611 226,652 2 17,403 18 0
27 Latin la 21,390 82,401 280,717 7 32,900 51 45
28 Malayalam ml 20,833 81,679 239,700 3 13,550 39 620
29 Sanskrit sa 20,431 164,321 418,564 2 10,709 24 64
30 Turkish tr 20,025 31,586 174,443 2 26,747 27 122
31 Vietnamese vi 19,105 66,783 206,114 3 20,565 59 2
32 Japanese ja 18,695 49,500 245,754 4 46,484 70 0
33 Slovenian sl 18,340 36,276 224,498 5 10,681 14 340
34 Welsh cy 16,608 85,154 170,976 2 4,217 22 3
35 Romanian ro 15,739 44,997 152,096 3 22,653 22 221
36 Norwegian no 14,853 140,031 333,000 2 6,311 11 815
37 Indonesian id 14,041 106,301 317,692 9 27,593 71 306
38 Finnish fi 13,860 22,322 131,134 3 8,123 13 46
39 Esperanto eo 13,518 40,670 126,540 3 5,469 20 29
40 Neapolitan nap 12,945 14,626 91,027 3 2,723 5 0
41 Greek el 12,882 46,209 167,524 6 22,893 30 4
42 Urdu ur 11,921 13,928 35,876 1 302 13 0
43 Azerbaijani az 11,849 24,978 96,948 2 12,798 36 1
44 Breton br 10,584 65,667 209,192 3 3,002 5 0
45 Catalan ca 10,508 56,819 185,578 3 12,061 11 5
46 Thai th 9,680 65,515 295,378 2 12,517 26 2
47 Croatian hr 9,624 15,776 63,582 3 7,507 7 433
48 Georgian ka 7,018 8,247 78,404 1 880 3 0
49 Hindi hi 6,049 188,158 653,526 5 6,172 54 0
50 Venetian vec 5,798 19,381 86,735 2 4,774 3 0
51 Balinese ban 5,242 36,510 123,537 2 1,774 8 0
52 Burmese my 4,879 6,215 21,886 1 886 11 0
53 Icelandic is 4,758 6,412 30,071 1 3,725 4 8
54 Marathi mr 4,735 109,859 236,978 2 6,203 16 15
55 Piedmontese pms 4,414 5,314 38,003 2 1,453 5 0
56 Ligurian lij 4,397 16,880 47,898 1 1,235 15 0
57 Assamese as 4,312 92,606 259,097 4 4,512 15 240
58 Danish da 3,994 122,002 481,614 2 11,284 11 6
59 Macedonian mk 3,373 8,237 22,390 2 4,042 8 4
60 Estonian et 3,340 23,250 60,186 1 4,193 7 48
61 Javanese jv 3,295 26,337 82,648 3 2,018 20 149
62 Yiddish yi 2,639 5,463 20,564 1 3,489 4 1,056
63 Walloon wa 2,626 6,466 36,742 1 1,005 6 0
64 Punjabi pa 2,529 72,986 234,803 6 2,738 28 212
65 Bulgarian bg 2,338 4,046 18,794 1 6,285 12 7
66 Limburgish li 1,885 3,370 7,314 1 2,313 4 1
67 Lithuanian lt 1,806 3,253 13,007 1 3,962 7 1
68 Kannada kn 1,555 112,706 315,099 2 8,622 17 18
69 Basque eu 1,547 7,047 28,976 1 1,576 5 0
70 Odia or 1,313 12,514 59,657 1 3,070 10 0
71 Malay ms 1,308 9,022 24,581 2 1,363 12 0
72 Galician gl 712 3,704 21,948 2 3,848 5 64
73 Yakut sah 701 2,203 10,334 2 2,374 4 3
74 Bosnian bs 646 3,342 12,179 1 3,633 5 61
75 Slovak sk 501 1,594 9,590 1 3,970 4 1
76 Minangkabau min 415 9,242 30,822 2 412 10 0
77 Sundanese su 410 12,887 47,880 1 1,150 6 0
78 Tagalog tl 338 2,328 15,750 3 436 5 0
79 Madurese mad 207 1,169 4,483 2 382 5 0
80 Minnan zh-min-nan 160 3,594 11,226 1 2,912 5 2
81 Central Bikol bcl 137 2,480 10,335 0 488 6 0
82 Tulu tcy 113 4,773 21,881 2 630 7 0
83 Faroese fo 79 611 3,845 1 2,603 4 0
Totals Text units All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikisources 10,383,212 29,117,749 84,287,886 321 5,366,376 3,593 79,915

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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