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Wikisource – The Free Library, for primary and secondary source texts. A collection of wikis of the Wikimedia Foundation.

List of Wikisources – 61, as of January 2012.

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Wikisource original base logo

Wikisource current base logo

Wikisource – The Free Library — is a collection of wiki sites, known as a linguistic edition 'project' of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), for primary-source and secondary-source texts, in many different languages. Launched in 2003 and originally known as 'Project Sourceberg', it was a single multilingual wiki site; consisting of a library of free texts. In 2005, it branched out into separate wiki sites for each of its various language versions. Wikisource was subsequently expanded in its scope, and now includes house books, essays, poems, novels, historical documents, letters, speeches, and other documents; as long as they are able be made available under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike (CC-BY-SA) open content license.

See also

• Kiwix

External links

• Wikisource.org — Wikisource portal to all available language versions
• Wikisource — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• Wikisource — Wikidata:Wikisource portal for discussing integration of Wikisource and Wikidata, www.Wikidata.org at Wikimedia Wikidata
• Statistics and Tools for Wikisource — Phetools.Toolforge.org at Wikimedia Toolforge
  • Wikisource: ProofreadPage statistics — live proofread data, Phetools.Toolforge.org at Wikimedia Toolforge
• Wikisource: ProofreadPage statistics — historical proofread graphs, Wikisource.org at Multilingual Portal Wikisource
• Wikisource Statistics – site map — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Wikisource Statistics – all languages at a glance (October 2018) — Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Wikisource Statistics – tables – overview — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Wikisource Statistics – all languages – tables — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Wikisource Statistics – all languages – charts — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
• Wikistats v2 – All Wikisources – Wikimedia Statistics — monthly overviews of reading, contributing, and content; from Wikistats v2 (data available under CC0 1.0); Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
• WikiStats v2.2 – List of Wikisources — sortable list table of Wikisource wiki sites from Wikistats v2.2 at WikiStats.WMCloud.org; independent MediaWiki statistics from mutante, hosted by Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS)
• Wikiscan Wikisource statistics — independent statistics website about Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) hosted wiki sites (CC-BY-SA 3.0), at Wikiscan.org (founded 2011)
• Wikisource Interactive Statistics — from Martin Poljak at Wikistatistics.net (public domain), via Archive.org from 2015
• WikiStats by S23 – List of Wikisources — sortable list table of Wikisource wiki sites, created by mutante at S23.org, archived snapshot on 2020-11-29, via Archive.org
• Wikisource database list — NOC.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia NOC
• Wikisource-l — mailing list for Wikisource, Lists.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Lists
• Wikisource.org site info^{[dead link]} — from Alexa.com, archived snapshot on 2022-04-23, via Archive.org
• Twitter feed for Wikisource

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All Wikisource wiki sites in these languages: ^{(view / edit / talk)}

As of December 2022, Wikimedia Wikidata indicates that there are 75 Wikisource language editions, including the Multilingual Portal. Wikimedia Meta-Wiki indicates that there are 63 Wikisources of different languages, and lists them by size.

1,000,000+: French / Français (fr)
100,000+: German / Deutsch (de) • English (en) • Italian / Italiano (it) • Polish / Polski (pl) • Russian / Русский (ru) • Chinese / 中文 (zh)
10,000+: Multilingual Portal (www) • Arabic / العربية (ar) • Bengali / বাংলা (bn) • Catalan / Català (ca) • Czech / Čeština (cs) • Spanish / Español (es) • Persian / فارسی (fa) • Hebrew / עברית (he) • Hungarian / Magyar (hu) • Korean / 한국어 (ko) • Portuguese / Português (pt) • Swedish / Svenska (sv)
1,000+: Belarusian / Беларуская (be) • Breton / Brezhoneg (br) • Danish / Dansk (da) • Greek / Ελληνικά (el) • Esperanto (eo) • Finnish / Suomi (fi) • Gujarati / ગુજરાતી (gu) • Croatian / Hrvatski (hr) • Armenian / Հայերեն (hy) • Indonesian / Bahasa Indonesia (id) • Icelandic / Íslenska (is) • Japanese / 日本語 (ja) • Latin / Latina (la) • Limburgian / Limburgs (li) • Macedonian / Македонски (mk) • Malayalam / മലയാളം (ml) • Dutch / Nederlands (nl) • Norwegian / Norsk (Bokmål) (no) • Romanian / Română (ro) • Sanskrit / संस्कृत (sa) • Slovenian / Slovenščina (sl) • Serbian / Српски (sr) • Tamil / தமிழ் (ta) • Telugu / తెలుగు (te) • Thai / ไทย (th) • Turkish / Türkçe (tr) • Ukrainian / Українська (uk) • Venetian / Vèneto (vec) • Vietnamese / Tiếng Việt (vi) • Yiddish / ייִדיש (yi)
100+: Alemannic (als) • Azerbaijani / Azərbaycan (az) • Bulgarian / Български (bg) • Bosnian / Bosanski (bs) • Welsh / Cymraeg (cy) • Estonian / Eesti (et) • Galician / Galego (gl) • Kannada / ಕನ್ನಡ (kn) • Lithuanian / Lietuvių (lt) • Sakha / Сахалыы (sah)
<100: Anglo-Saxon / Englisc (ang) • Faroese / Føroyskt (fo) • Haitian / Krèyol ayisyen (ht) • Slovak / Slovenčina (sk) • Min Nan / Bân-lâm-gú (zh-min-nan)

The red links above need the {{Wiki}} infobox template, their Wikisource URLs, the {{Wikimedia-stub}} template (if appropriate), and the {{Wikisource}} navigation template added.

See also: Wikilivres (previously known as Bibliowiki), a complimentary site hosted in Canada and run by Wikimedia Canada to host materials which are not public domain in the United States.