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Wikiquote is a multilingual online open-content compendium of quotations. All content but copyrighted quotations is released under the GFDL and CC-BY-SA in the same manner as other Wikimedia Foundation projects.

The beginning

It began with a post by Fonzy on June 27, 2003.

a proposed idea: Wikiquotionary an Encyclopedia of Quotes. The temp page can be found here – fonzy.

It started as quote.wikipedia.org on July 10, 2003 and later got its own domain, wikiquote.org on August 25, 2003.

Development

Wikiquote had quotations with over 2,500 articles in six languages in June 2004, one year after its first proposal under the domain wikiquote.org. Some language-speakers other than English requested their own subdomain and on July 17, they were created, starting Wikiquotes in languages like German, French, Italian and Polish.

The Wikiquote project is expanding slowly but steadily. At the end of September there were about 15 Wikiquotes, both large and small. On December 1, there were 24 Wikiquote projects. There were almost 6,500 articles in total in December 2004. At the end of May 2005 the total number of articles reached 14,000. It included nearly 30,000 articles in over 30 languages in February 2006, over 60,000 articles in 87 languages in May 2007 and over 80,000 articles in 89 languages in June 2008.

Since the last update of June 2008, the number of languages has remained stable, while the number of articles has doubled. As of 10 May 2014, about eleven years after its creation, the Wikiquote project now includes over 168,000 articles in 89 languages. Twenty-eight language versions have more than 1,000 articles. Fifty-six language versions have 100 or more articles.

The largest Wikiquotes are Italian and English, with over 48,000 and 46,000 articles respectively. Third is Polish Wikiquote, with more than 24,000 articles.

Challenge

Sometimes the Wikiquote project faces troubles and challenges. One of the most remarkable challenges was copyright issues on the French Wikiquote. To avoid problems, on March 2006 the Foundation decided to take it down, erase all its material and relaunch it. For details, see the announcement from the Foundation.

However, devoted editors rescued the situation. They settled their charter and polices, and French Wikiquote was relaunched on December 4, 2006.

List of Wikiquotes

See this page for complete statistics.

Table transcluded from Wikiquote/Table.

These statistics are updated four times a day. See c:Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab for the date/time of last update. This page may need to be purged to see the latest numbers.
№ Language Wiki Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
1 English en 53,517 212,787 3,578,278 16 3,195,312 572 0
2 Italian it 51,501 199,430 1,347,217 10 99,893 91 265
3 Polish pl 28,269 53,630 588,463 10 57,921 72 1
4 Russian ru 16,977 43,627 419,796 5 106,786 82 0
5 Czech cs 13,369 17,886 157,818 2 19,658 30 1
6 Estonian et 13,347 22,330 128,508 3 4,854 16 2
7 Portuguese pt 11,763 36,113 219,849 4 42,069 26 1
8 Ukrainian uk 10,481 39,186 141,625 5 19,124 32 0
9 Hebrew he 9,822 19,734 216,593 3 25,394 35 501
10 Persian fa 9,371 33,516 188,019 1 31,545 33 37
11 French fr 8,859 34,205 391,630 6 76,557 104 0
12 Spanish es 8,091 32,543 476,634 4 91,044 40 0
13 German de 7,911 20,392 521,778 3 66,640 23 16
14 Turkish tr 5,724 32,971 227,318 5 35,370 23 1
15 Serbian sr 5,511 12,416 53,554 4 6,000 8 1
16 Azerbaijani az 5,427 11,690 202,908 5 8,081 12 0
17 Esperanto eo 5,229 10,744 50,311 3 5,327 4 1
18 Slovak sk 4,515 7,422 100,595 2 7,600 8 2
19 Bosnian bs 4,167 8,147 62,126 1 8,572 5 278
20 Catalan ca 4,069 12,493 140,164 3 15,125 6 4
21 Chinese zh 3,958 16,198 146,475 4 53,130 33 0
22 Arabic ar 3,689 51,197 244,526 4 31,407 70 0
23 Finnish fi 3,415 7,063 99,318 3 9,425 4 2
24 Lithuanian lt 2,970 6,380 83,593 2 5,014 9 2
25 Slovenian sl 2,955 7,373 42,430 2 5,558 4 0
26 Indonesian id 2,549 6,057 38,650 3 19,408 29 5
27 Sundanese su 2,338 3,523 11,869 1 1,982 6 9
28 Bulgarian bg 2,314 11,243 90,864 3 11,072 13 5
29 Armenian hy 2,212 9,039 177,996 1 5,900 7 99
30 Croatian hr 2,157 4,161 33,095 2 5,890 5 4
31 Greek el 1,855 4,010 35,671 1 9,028 7 2
32 Norwegian Nynorsk nn 1,755 4,114 19,186 2 3,045 2 2
33 Swedish sv 1,540 4,026 36,532 2 12,930 11 1
34 Limburgish li 1,497 3,145 7,179 2 2,463 3 0
35 Hungarian hu 1,372 5,184 56,424 3 15,334 10 54
36 Bangla bn 1,271 8,337 46,895 2 2,391 27 0
37 Dutch nl 1,182 5,849 93,300 4 16,142 18 1
38 Assamese as 1,151 2,677 19,800 3 650 27 0
39 Igbo ig 1,112 6,356 20,822 1 872 13 0
40 Korean ko 1,107 4,263 33,668 2 6,762 10 5
41 Japanese ja 1,097 4,888 40,879 2 21,619 10 2
42 Yakut sah 1,077 1,761 8,360 1 923 2 0
43 Latin la 1,007 2,333 14,753 2 3,779 7 1
44 Tamil ta 984 3,971 38,340 1 4,426 8 8
45 Vietnamese vi 838 5,229 59,583 1 13,978 12 1
46 Telugu te 787 4,175 23,497 1 2,828 5 1
47 Hindi hi 771 5,943 29,454 1 5,050 7 0
48 Uzbek uz 651 2,554 11,723 5 2,437 7 2
49 Gun guw 576 1,022 5,610 1 525 2 0
50 Galician gl 552 2,989 22,165 1 3,402 3 0
51 Gujarati gu 548 2,984 18,436 1 2,657 5 0
52 Banjar bjn 528 879 3,965 2 310 14 0
53 Urdu ur 522 2,957 12,029 2 2,733 6 9
54 Romanian ro 505 3,514 23,275 2 6,558 6 9
55 Tagalog tl 502 4,325 30,552 1 523 21 0
56 Belarusian be 461 2,150 13,316 1 4,516 6 0
57 Welsh cy 369 1,408 8,539 1 2,710 3 0
58 Norwegian no 363 3,054 27,784 1 5,509 4 3
59 Thai th 341 8,209 54,231 2 5,963 6 0
60 Albanian sq 319 3,170 25,229 2 2,895 4 2
61 Malayalam ml 315 3,456 22,032 2 5,333 5 1
62 Basque eu 263 1,295 12,069 1 2,840 3 0
63 Kannada kn 261 1,113 9,361 2 2,139 3 0
64 Kurdish ku 247 1,153 11,956 1 4,003 3 1
65 Georgian ka 194 4,516 32,952 1 5,119 7 25
66 Danish da 166 2,076 19,170 3 9,804 6 1
67 Sanskrit sa 135 4,778 18,217 1 2,445 3 0
68 Icelandic is 133 1,280 12,728 1 2,559 3 1
69 Central Bikol bcl 110 1,846 18,759 1 594 4 0
70 Gorontalo gor 57 1,010 12,145 1 116 27 0
71 Breton br 50 917 5,463 1 2,122 3 0
72 Marathi mr 44 926 8,885 1 2,373 5 1
73 Afrikaans af 35 1,303 10,454 1 3,072 3 0
74 Kyrgyz ky 1 504 4,133 1 1,992 4 0
Totals Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikiquotes 335,128 1,125,145 11,221,521 191 4,279,127 1,747 1,370

The Alemannic and Bavarian Wikipedias have a namespace dedicated to quotations (als:Spruch:Start, bar:Spruch:Start) rather than using a standalone Wikiquote project.

Milestones

Recommended article-count milestones are 100, 500, 1k, 2k, 5k increments to 50k, 10k increments to 100k, 25k increments to 250k, 50k increments to 500k, and 100k increments to 1000k.

Reporting to Wikimedia News is also recommended.

Past milestones can be found in the archives.

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An Alemannic Wikiquote has been created as separate namespace within Alemannic Wikipedia: Alemannischi Spruchsammlig (Wikiquote).

New Wikiquote

If you want to launch a Wikiquote project in your favorite language, you can request it, filling some requirements. See Requests for new languages for further information.

Project-wide communications

Most of language projects of Wikiquote have its discussion place on their wikis. If it is hard for you to find it, try talk:Main Page on each wiki.

The global Wikiquote community utilizes some communication channels.

Wikiquote coordination

History

Essays

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