Wikisource
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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 Novels, books, essays, historical documents, poems, letters, speeches and documents are all included, so long as they are not encompassed by copyright or are under the GNU Free Documentation License.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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[edit] 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.
[edit] List of Wikisources by size
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| Wikipedias | Wikibooks | Wiktionary | Wikiquote | Wikinews | Wikispecies | Wikisource | Wikiversity |
| Table of Wikimedia Projects by Size |
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 | 115359 | 217190 | 784041 | 38 | 31895 | 1667 | 2008-09-24 03:15:02 |
| 2 | French | Français | fr | 44104 | 156585 | 539116 | 12 | 4363 | 24408 | 2008-09-24 03:15:04 |
| 3 | Spanish | Español | es | 38760 | 52326 | 171476 | 8 | 3809 | 967 | 2008-09-24 03:15:04 |
| 4 | Chinese | 中文 | zh | 38332 | 49632 | 124795 | 7 | 4319 | 245 | 2008-09-24 03:15:05 |
| 5 | German | Deutsch | de | 24104 | 78342 | 442228 | 24 | 3114 | 2917 | 2008-09-24 03:15:03 |
| 6 | Italian | Italiano | it | 19588 | 72354 | 550418 | 10 | 2179 | 1082 | 2008-09-24 03:15:11 |
| 7 | Russian | Русский | ru | 18122 | 31004 | 110720 | 6 | 1834 | 292 | 2008-09-24 03:15:15 |
| 8 | Persian | فارسی | fa | 16780 | 17328 | 22034 | 4 | 566 | 2 | 2008-09-24 03:15:09 |
| 9 | Portuguese | Português | pt | 16442 | 39487 | 106167 | 6 | 1962 | 17 | 2008-09-24 03:15:14 |
| 10 | Thai | ไทย | th | 11701 | 13009 | 31035 | 3 | 489 | 65 | 2008-09-24 03:15:30 |
| 11 | Polish | Polski | pl | 11674 | 15965 | 79839 | 7 | 1784 | 47 | 2008-09-24 03:15:05 |
| 12 | Romanian | Română | ro | 7070 | 10950 | 39344 | 3 | 1339 | 109 | 2008-09-24 03:15:15 |
| 13 | Multilingual | (Portal) | www | 6984 | 15874 | 241193 | 23 | 8497 | 693 | 2008-09-24 03:15:32 |
| 14 | Telugu | తెలుగు | te | 6695 | 7057 | 18520 | 2 | 299 | 141 | 2008-09-24 03:15:29 |
| 15 | Croatian | Hrvatski | hr | 6424 | 8421 | 36036 | 7 | 375 | 420 | 2008-09-24 03:15:10 |
| 16 | Hebrew | עברית | he | 6058 | 163204 | 257825 | 13 | 1161 | 155 | 2008-09-24 03:15:18 |
| 17 | Czech | Čeština | cs | 5779 | 8654 | 25348 | 3 | 624 | 14 | 2008-09-24 03:15:20 |
| 18 | Hungarian | Magyar | hu | 5076 | 7816 | 24690 | 3 | 454 | 63 | 2008-09-24 03:15:27 |
| 19 | Finnish | Suomi | fi | 4520 | 6340 | 21879 | 8 | 526 | 33 | 2008-09-24 03:15:25 |
| 20 | Turkish | Türkçe | tr | 4262 | 7998 | 33351 | 4 | 1787 | 35 | 2008-09-24 03:15:18 |
| 21 | Dutch | Nederlands | nl | 3352 | 5567 | 21626 | 9 | 650 | 32 | 2008-09-24 03:15:13 |
| 22 | Serbian | Српски / Srpski | sr | 2774 | 3770 | 22567 | 8 | 451 | 124 | 2008-09-24 03:15:16 |
| 23 | Latin | Latina | la | 2480 | 8361 | 28917 | 5 | 737 | 51 | 2008-09-24 03:15:12 |
| 24 | Swedish | Svenska | sv | 2479 | 4215 | 19895 | 3 | 505 | 3 | 2008-09-24 03:15:16 |
| 25 | Arabic | العربية | ar | 2452 | 3891 | 17806 | 4 | 2006 | 3 | 2008-09-24 03:15:06 |
| 26 | Japanese | 日本語 | ja | 1997 | 3999 | 18421 | 4 | 1037 | 0 | 2008-09-24 03:15:13 |
| 27 | Malayalam | മലയാളം | ml | 1902 | 3045 | 8520 | 3 | 436 | 91 | 2008-09-24 03:15:21 |
| 28 | Icelandic | Íslenska | is | 1698 | 2538 | 6146 | 6 | 239 | 1 | 2008-09-24 03:15:10 |
| 29 | Bosnian | Bosanski | bs | 1619 | 2070 | 7861 | 2 | 265 | 56 | 2008-09-24 03:15:23 |
| 30 | Ukrainian | Українська | uk | 1578 | 2237 | 6069 | 1 | 315 | 5 | 2008-09-24 03:15:30 |
| 31 | Greek | Ελληνικά | el | 1553 | 7517 | 28954 | 5 | 618 | 9 | 2008-09-24 03:15:08 |
| 32 | Catalan | Català | ca | 1334 | 3145 | 9625 | 2 | 348 | 1 | 2008-09-24 03:15:23 |
| 33 | Korean | 한국어 | ko | 1193 | 3124 | 17012 | 4 | 655 | 18 | 2008-09-24 03:15:12 |
| 34 | Bengali | বাংলা | bn | 991 | 1473 | 3282 | 1 | 231 | 11 | 2008-09-24 03:15:33 |
| 35 | Slovenian | Slovenščina | sl | 968 | 1737 | 9837 | 3 | 315 | 20 | 2008-09-24 03:15:29 |
| 36 | Armenian | Հայերեն | hy | 714 | 2247 | 10221 | 0 | 178 | 33 | 2008-09-24 03:15:34 |
| 37 | Norwegian (Bokmål) | Norsk (Bokmål) | no | 670 | 1324 | 5687 | 4 | 325 | 0 | 2008-09-24 03:15:28 |
| 38 | Indonesian | Bahasa Indonesia | id | 621 | 1352 | 8020 | 4 | 641 | 13 | 2008-09-24 03:15:07 |
| 39 | Limburgian | Limburgs | li | 602 | 799 | 3243 | 0 | 117 | 0 | 2008-09-24 03:15:35 |
| 40 | Danish | Dansk | da | 588 | 2100 | 7720 | 2 | 372 | 51 | 2008-09-24 03:15:08 |
| 41 | Vietnamese | Tiếng Việt | vi | 437 | 1544 | 4953 | 1 | 854 | 12 | 2008-09-24 03:15:30 |
| 42 | Tamil | தமிழ் | ta | 428 | 760 | 1697 | 2 | 212 | 12 | 2008-09-24 03:15:33 |
| 43 | Macedonian | Македонски | mk | 373 | 458 | 703 | 0 | 186 | 0 | 2008-09-24 03:15:32 |
| 44 | Estonian | Eesti | et | 367 | 547 | 2940 | 1 | 234 | 19 | 2008-09-24 03:15:24 |
| 45 | Azeri | Azərbaycan | az | 367 | 639 | 2947 | 0 | 241 | 2 | 2008-09-24 03:15:22 |
| 46 | Kannada | ಕನ್ನಡ | kn | 309 | 582 | 3400 | 2 | 232 | 4 | 2008-09-24 03:15:27 |
| 47 | Bulgarian | Български | bg | 297 | 648 | 3732 | 6 | 340 | 9 | 2008-09-24 03:15:21 |
| 48 | Lithuanian | Lietuvių | lt | 242 | 465 | 3272 | 1 | 234 | 1 | 2008-09-24 03:15:28 |
| 49 | Slovak | Slovenčina | sk | 196 | 499 | 3879 | 2 | 261 | 0 | 2008-09-24 03:15:20 |
| 50 | Welsh | Cymraeg | cy | 168 | 349 | 2742 | 2 | 235 | 1 | 2008-09-24 03:15:07 |
| 51 | Galician | Galego | gl | 159 | 1192 | 5054 | 7 | 272 | 62 | 2008-09-24 03:15:09 |
| 52 | Min Nan | Bân-lâm-gú | zh-min-nan | 59 | 236 | 3680 | 1 | 194 | 2 | 2008-09-24 03:15:31 |
| 53 | Yiddish | ייִדיש | yi | 40 | 352 | 3654 | 3 | 202 | 6 | 2008-09-24 03:15:19 |
| 54 | Haitian | Krèyol ayisyen | ht | 26 | 93 | 2034 | 0 | 106 | 5 | 2008-09-24 03:15:26 |
| 55 | Faroese | Føroyskt | fo | 11 | 72 | 1920 | 0 | 201 | 0 | 2008-09-24 03:15:26 |
| 56 | Anglo-Saxon | Englisc | ang | 4 | 15 | 1620 | 1 | 98 | 0 | 2008-09-24 03:15:22 |
[edit] Grand Total
| Articles | Total | Edits | Admins | Users | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 442 882 | 1 052 498 | 3 969 711 | 290 | 85 919 | 34 029 |
[edit] Historical discussion
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