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 Now Wikisource libraries house books, novels, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and other documents, so long as they can be made available under the CC-BY-SA open content license.

Name, Slogan, 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

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	5,373,532	10,246,964	12,798,626	9	125,235	260	228
2	Polish	pl	1,346,052	1,387,550	4,226,551	14	42,688	73	127
3	English	en	1,138,927	4,915,271	16,452,163	20	3,318,940	643	16,703
4	French	fr	722,310	4,858,338	16,242,371	17	168,455	353	4,469
5	German	de	657,245	716,316	5,092,009	16	92,213	125	6,939
6	Russian	ru	624,926	1,146,824	5,771,327	5	137,290	113	33,457
7	Ukrainian	uk	418,990	584,747	1,139,573	6	23,135	114	150
8	Hebrew	he	262,344	1,683,511	3,101,032	17	46,810	126	596
9	Italian	it	226,693	887,699	3,954,340	9	83,045	84	675
10	Arabic	ar	94,783	303,168	641,684	5	73,804	88	4,021
11	Spanish	es	90,264	346,772	1,693,765	8	98,054	110	231
12	Gujarati	gu	66,563	72,890	225,795	2	4,715	14	0
13	Multilingual	www	66,057	262,460	1,365,132	13	508,126	181	736
14	Czech	cs	63,235	93,344	346,192	2	20,253	30	7
15	Serbian	sr	44,084	49,028	148,182	7	16,578	13	360
16	Portuguese	pt	39,560	170,812	568,122	2	44,150	87	52
17	Bangla	bn	39,479	615,937	2,007,860	4	22,642	43	5,482
18	Tamil	ta	38,529	661,462	1,988,216	4	17,516	171	33
19	Armenian	hy	37,799	148,546	398,137	4	14,168	36	62
20	Persian	fa	35,085	87,255	306,159	3	40,182	28	0
21	Swedish	sv	32,839	222,315	661,789	5	19,024	23	8
22	Belarusian	be	31,917	127,816	303,923	2	5,493	22	0
23	Korean	ko	25,616	92,282	470,332	5	19,850	30	209
24	Telugu	te	25,057	249,379	613,690	5	7,400	25	591
25	Dutch	nl	22,212	83,965	229,368	2	17,468	14	0
26	Hungarian	hu	21,823	39,122	103,625	3	12,413	7	27
27	Latin	la	21,730	84,575	287,194	7	33,355	69	45
28	Malayalam	ml	20,868	83,410	243,243	3	13,692	60	620
29	Sanskrit	sa	20,453	165,461	420,134	2	10,853	22	64
30	Turkish	tr	20,183	31,811	175,657	2	27,024	32	123
31	Japanese	ja	19,305	50,266	247,536	4	46,912	67	0
32	Vietnamese	vi	19,114	66,898	206,595	3	20,836	52	2
33	Slovenian	sl	18,342	36,284	224,583	5	10,760	24	340
34	Welsh	cy	16,627	85,390	172,438	2	4,251	11	3
35	Romanian	ro	15,822	45,278	153,119	3	22,879	43	221
36	Norwegian	no	15,325	142,771	342,005	2	6,355	8	815
37	Indonesian	id	14,266	109,813	326,277	9	27,985	97	305
38	Finnish	fi	13,863	22,368	131,334	3	8,183	15	46
39	Esperanto	eo	13,623	41,126	127,853	3	5,519	12	29
40	Neapolitan	nap	12,945	14,627	91,038	3	2,741	4	0
41	Greek	el	12,944	46,388	168,134	6	23,104	21	4
42	Azerbaijani	az	11,925	25,149	97,416	2	12,926	15	1
43	Urdu	ur	11,917	13,930	36,040	1	345	6	0
44	Breton	br	10,657	66,337	210,826	3	3,021	5	0
45	Catalan	ca	10,517	56,864	185,795	3	12,119	12	5
46	Thai	th	9,911	68,312	304,563	2	12,625	23	2
47	Croatian	hr	9,628	15,784	63,687	3	7,559	7	433
48	Georgian	ka	7,024	8,260	78,438	1	926	9	0
49	Hindi	hi	6,047	188,223	653,896	5	6,286	18	0
50	Venetian	vec	5,799	19,395	86,771	2	4,805	6	0
51	Balinese	ban	5,292	36,637	123,811	2	1,876	6	0
52	Burmese	my	4,809	6,144	21,950	1	945	5	0
53	Marathi	mr	4,766	110,830	239,009	2	6,267	15	15
54	Icelandic	is	4,758	6,412	30,077	1	3,754	4	8
55	Assamese	as	4,525	94,311	267,475	4	4,735	133	244
56	Piedmontese	pms	4,414	5,319	38,011	2	1,474	1	0
57	Ligurian	lij	4,399	16,884	47,970	1	1,252	5	0
58	Danish	da	4,065	122,398	482,696	3	11,331	9	6
59	Macedonian	mk	3,384	8,265	22,529	2	4,076	3	4
60	Estonian	et	3,341	23,252	60,200	1	4,230	4	48
61	Javanese	jv	3,297	26,546	83,209	3	2,053	26	149
62	Punjabi	pa	2,827	74,932	242,999	6	2,786	19	214
63	Walloon	wa	2,671	6,524	37,088	1	1,023	4	0
64	Yiddish	yi	2,639	5,463	20,571	1	3,514	2	1,056
65	Lithuanian	lt	2,430	4,771	16,572	2	3,994	2	1
66	Bulgarian	bg	2,344	4,053	18,823	1	6,326	9	7
67	Limburgish	li	1,885	3,371	7,320	1	2,330	1	1
68	Kannada	kn	1,560	112,725	316,215	2	8,789	64	18
69	Basque	eu	1,548	7,057	29,019	1	1,598	4	0
70	Malay	ms	1,351	9,625	25,729	2	1,416	10	0
71	Odia	or	1,317	12,571	59,728	1	3,106	5	0
72	Galician	gl	712	3,707	21,969	2	3,867	2	64
73	Yakut	sah	699	2,219	10,425	2	2,402	5	4
74	Bosnian	bs	648	3,344	12,189	1	3,654	1	61
75	Slovak	sk	501	1,594	9,597	1	3,992	5	1
76	Minangkabau	min	413	9,421	31,435	2	438	3	0
77	Sundanese	su	412	12,906	47,922	1	1,172	3	0
78	Tagalog	tl	329	2,359	15,818	2	466	2	0
79	Madurese	mad	206	1,171	4,510	1	401	4	0
80	Minnan	zh-min-nan	160	3,595	11,232	1	2,934	1	2
81	Central Bikol	bcl	137	2,481	10,354	0	503	7	0
82	Tulu	tcy	118	8,867	31,501	2	660	32	0
83	Faroese	fo	79	611	3,852	1	2,623	2	0

Totals	Text units	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikisources	11,956,792	32,292,858	88,286,340	324	5,404,695	3,849	80,124

Wikisources in Wikipedia

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:

Alemannic Wikipedia: Alemannischi Textsammlig (Wikisource)
North Frisian Wikipedia: Nordfriisk Bibleteek
Bavarian Wikipedia: Boarische Text
Rhine Franconian Wikipedia: Rheifränggische Tegschdsommlung
Pennsylvania Dutch Wikipedia: Pennsylvanische Wikisource.

The Swahili Wikipedia has adopted the Wikichanzo: namespace for its Wikisource.

Swahili Wikipedia: Wikichanzo:Mwanzo.

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