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Wikisource is a free library currently comprising over 430,000 free-sourced texts. It first began in 2003, and branched into multilingual subdivisions by 2005. Novels, books, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and documents are all included, so long as they are not encompassed by copyright or are under the GNU Free Documentation License. The English Wikisource is the largest Wikisource to date, with around 114,000 texts as of September 9, 2008.

Name and Slogan

See multilingual chart for: «Wikisource — The Free Library». Logo has changed throughout the history of the project - was originally a .jpg image, as seen to the right, but is now the .svg image of the iceberg, as seen above.

List of Wikisources by size

Template:Project lists External Source, dynamically sortable to any criteria, self-updating every six hours by cronjob.

External Source, generated wikisyntax, which manually is being pasted below.

№	Language	Language (local)	Wiki	Good	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Images	Updated
1	English	English	en	113729	203924	753997	35	22089	1662	2008-08-25 03:15:02
2	French	Français	fr	42816	147786	520133	12	4008	24386	2008-08-25 03:15:04
3	Chinese	中文	zh	37286	47434	119854	7	3624	243	2008-08-25 03:15:05
4	Spanish	Español	es	37168	50424	164614	8	3415	963	2008-08-25 03:15:04
5	German	Deutsch	de	23510	74561	417490	24	2806	2917	2008-08-25 03:15:03
6	Italian	Italiano	it	19420	68951	490780	10	1994	1077	2008-08-25 03:15:12
7	Russian	Русский	ru	17355	29943	107415	6	1564	291	2008-08-25 03:15:16
8	Persian	فارسی	fa	16771	17297	21888	4	517	2	2008-08-25 03:15:09
9	Portuguese	Português	pt	16369	33102	96366	7	1805	616	2008-08-25 03:15:15
10	Thai	ไทย	th	11659	12988	30608	3	456	65	2008-08-25 03:15:28
11	Polish	Polski	pl	11622	15881	79327	7	1579	43	2008-08-25 03:15:05
12	Multilingual	(Portal)	www	6983	15417	238598	23	8020	693	2008-08-25 03:15:30
13	Romanian	Română	ro	6979	10805	38656	3	1254	109	2008-08-25 03:15:15
14	Telugu	తెలుగు	te	6693	7055	18469	2	275	141	2008-08-25 03:15:28
15	Croatian	Hrvatski	hr	6368	8333	35774	7	342	408	2008-08-25 03:15:10
16	Hebrew	עברית	he	5828	160767	252218	13	1105	152	2008-08-25 03:15:18
17	Czech	Čeština	cs	5384	8219	24661	3	560	14	2008-08-25 03:15:20
18	Hungarian	Magyar	hu	4603	6836	22250	3	403	59	2008-08-25 03:15:26
19	Finnish	Suomi	fi	4414	6146	20615	7	489	33	2008-08-25 03:15:23
20	Turkish	Türkçe	tr	4114	7791	32481	4	1675	35	2008-08-25 03:15:18
21	Dutch	Nederlands	nl	3312	5505	21447	9	587	32	2008-08-25 03:15:14
22	Serbian	Српски / Srpski	sr	2748	3711	22425	8	409	94	2008-08-25 03:15:16
23	Latin	Latina	la	2475	8292	28765	5	628	51	2008-08-25 03:15:13
24	Swedish	Svenska	sv	2433	4137	19624	3	454	3	2008-08-25 03:15:17
25	Arabic	العربية	ar	2334	3785	17247	4	1888	3	2008-08-25 03:15:06
26	Japanese	日本語	ja	1984	3951	17887	4	955	0	2008-08-25 03:15:14
27	Malayalam	മലയാളം	ml	1826	2695	7735	3	408	89	2008-08-25 03:15:20
28	Icelandic	Íslenska	is	1697	2535	6141	6	223	1	2008-08-25 03:15:11
29	Bosnian	Bosanski	bs	1619	2069	7838	2	244	56	2008-08-25 03:15:22
30	Ukrainian	Українська	uk	1576	2228	6025	1	281	5	2008-08-25 03:15:28
31	Greek	Ελληνικά	el	1550	7507	28414	5	547	9	2008-08-25 03:15:09
32	Catalan	Català	ca	1314	3074	9359	2	314	1	2008-08-25 03:15:22
33	Korean	한국어	ko	1183	3109	16778	4	605	17	2008-08-25 03:15:12
34	Slovenian	Slovenščina	sl	943	1699	9321	3	292	20	2008-08-25 03:15:27
35	Bengali	বাংলা	bn	901	1353	3022	1	214	9	2008-08-25 03:15:31
36	Armenian	Հայերեն	hy	695	2219	10130	0	166	31	2008-08-25 03:15:32
37	Norwegian (Bokmål)	Norsk (Bokmål)	no	658	1280	5600	4	297	0	2008-08-25 03:15:27
38	Limburgian	Limburgs	li	602	799	3243	0	106	0	2008-08-25 03:15:32
39	Danish	Dansk	da	587	2096	7694	2	348	51	2008-08-25 03:15:08
40	Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesia	id	547	1184	7262	4	606	13	2008-08-25 03:15:07
41	Tamil	தமிழ்	ta	409	700	1527	2	192	5	2008-08-25 03:15:31
42	Macedonian	Македонски	mk	372	454	697	0	173	0	2008-08-25 03:15:30
43	Azeri	Azərbaycan	az	367	639	2924	0	223	2	2008-08-25 03:15:21
44	Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt	vi	329	1376	4583	1	781	12	2008-08-25 03:15:29
45	Estonian	Eesti	et	328	521	2868	1	218	19	2008-08-25 03:15:23
46	Kannada	ಕನ್ನಡ	kn	309	578	3389	2	215	4	2008-08-25 03:15:26
47	Bulgarian	Български	bg	279	626	3682	6	312	9	2008-08-25 03:15:21
48	Slovak	Slovenčina	sk	196	487	3864	2	242	0	2008-08-25 03:15:19
49	Lithuanian	Lietuvių	lt	184	406	3163	1	218	1	2008-08-25 03:15:26
50	Welsh	Cymraeg	cy	166	331	2569	2	218	1	2008-08-25 03:15:07
51	Galician	Galego	gl	153	1181	5020	7	259	62	2008-08-25 03:15:09
52	Min Nan	Bân-lâm-gú	zh-min-nan	59	228	3651	1	177	2	2008-08-25 03:15:29
53	Yiddish	ייִדיש	yi	40	352	3654	3	191	6	2008-08-25 03:15:19
54	Haitian	Krèyol ayisyen	ht	26	93	2034	0	106	5	2008-08-25 03:15:25
55	Faroese	Føroyskt	fo	11	72	1920	0	187	0	2008-08-25 03:15:24
56	Anglo-Saxon	Englisc	ang	4	15	1620	1	98	0	2008-08-25 03:15:21

Grand Total

Articles	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Images
433 287	1 004 947	3 789 316	287	71 362	34 522

Historical discussion

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+'''Wikisource''' is a free library currently comprising over 430,000 free-sourced texts. It first began in 2003, and branched into multilingual subdivisions by 2005. Novels, books, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and documents are all included, so long as they are not encompassed by copyright or are under the [[GNU Free Documentation License]]. The English Wikisource is the largest Wikisource to date, with around 114,000 texts as of September 9, 2008.
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