Editing Wikisource (section)

===Language subdomains===
A separate [[:s:he:עמוד ראשי|Hebrew version]] of Wikisource ([[:s:he:עמוד ראשי|he.wikisource.org]]) was created in August 2004. The need for a language-specific [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] website derived from the difficulty of typing and editing Hebrew texts in a [[Bi-directional text|left-to-right]] environment (Hebrew is written right-to-left). In the ensuing months, contributors in other languages including [[German language|German]] requested their own wikis, but a December vote on the creation of separate language domains was inconclusive. Finally, a [[:oldwikisource:Wikisource:New vote on language subdomains|second vote]] that ended May 12, 2005, supported the adoption of separate language subdomains at Wikisource by a large margin, allowing each language to host its texts on its own wiki.

An initial wave of 14 languages was set up on August 23, 2005.<ref>[//wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Server_admin_log/Archive_5#August_23 Server admin log for August 23, 2005]; a fifteenth language (sr:) was created on August 25 (above).</ref> The new languages did not include English, but the code en: was temporarily set to redirect to the main website ([[oldwikisource:|wikisource.org]]). At this point the Wikisource community, through a mass project of manually sorting thousands of pages and categories by language, prepared for a second wave of page imports to local wikis. On September 11, 2005, the wikisource.org wiki was reconfigured to enable the [[:s:|English version]], along with 8 other languages that were created early that morning and late the night before.<ref>See the [//wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Server_admin_log/Archive_5&oldid=6091#September_11 Server admin log for September 11, 2005, at 01:20 and below (September 10) at 22:49.]</ref> Three more languages were created on March 29, 2006,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Server_admin_log/Archive_7#March_29 |title=Server Admin Log/Archive 7 - March 29 |publisher=Wikitech |access-date=2011-07-05 |archive-date=2015-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402075225/https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Server_admin_log%2FArchive_7#March_29 |url-status=live }}</ref> and then another large wave of 14 language domains was created on June 2, 2006.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Server_admin_log/Archive_7#June_2 |title=Server Admin Log/Archive 7 - June 2 |publisher=Wikitech |access-date=2011-07-05 |archive-date=2015-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402075225/https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Server_admin_log%2FArchive_7#June_2 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Languages without subdomains are locally incubated. {{as of|September 2020}}, 182 languages are [[:oldwikisource:Category:Main Pages|hosted locally]].

As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, there are Wikisource subdomains for {{NUMBEROF|languages|wikisource}} languages of which {{NUMBEROF|active|wikisource}} are active and {{NUMBEROF|closed|wikisource}} are closed.<ref name="Sitematrix" /> The active sites have {{NUMBEROF|articles|totalactive.wikisource|N}} articles and the closed sites have {{NUMBEROF|articles|totalclosed.wikisource|N}} articles.<ref name="Siteinfo" /> There are {{NUMBEROF|users|totalactive.wikisource|N}} registered users of which {{NUMBEROF|activeusers|totalactive.wikisource|N}} are recently active.<ref name="Siteinfo" />

The top ten Wikisource language projects by mainspace article count:<ref name="Siteinfo" />
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!No.!!Language!!Wiki!!Good!!Total!!Edits!!Admins!!Users!!Active users!!Files
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| {{{i}}}
| {{Mw lang|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikisource}}}} 
| [[:s:{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikisource}}:|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikisource}}]]
| {{NUMBEROF|articles|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikisource}}.wikisource|N}}
| {{NUMBEROF|pages|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikisource}}.wikisource|N}}
| {{NUMBEROF|edits|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikisource}}.wikisource|N}}
| {{NUMBEROF|admins|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikisource}}.wikisource|N}}
| {{NUMBEROF|users|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikisource}}.wikisource|N}}
| {{NUMBEROF|activeusers|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikisource}}.wikisource|N}}
| {{NUMBEROF|files|{{Wikipedia rank by size|{{{i}}}|wikisource}}.wikisource|N}}</nowiki>|count=10 }} 
|}
For a complete list with totals see Wikimedia Statistics:<ref name="Wikimedia Statistics">{{cite web|url= https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource#List_of_Wikisources |title=Wikisource Statistics|work=[[WP:Meta|Meta-Wiki]] |access-date=11 September 2020|archive-date=13 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713065136/http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource#Statistics|url-status=live}}</ref>