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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 55,112 215,883 3,615,523 16 3,205,995 559 0
2 Italian it 52,004 200,888 1,356,195 10 100,923 218 265
3 Polish pl 29,277 53,733 592,100 10 58,261 72 1
4 Russian ru 17,081 43,818 421,637 5 107,300 69 0
5 Czech cs 13,958 18,518 161,967 2 19,757 34 1
6 Estonian et 13,417 22,519 129,404 3 4,931 18 2
7 Portuguese pt 11,830 36,187 221,356 4 42,255 33 1
8 Ukrainian uk 10,639 39,398 143,334 5 19,472 38 0
9 Hebrew he 9,995 19,978 219,091 3 25,538 33 502
10 French fr 9,499 35,546 404,352 6 77,786 179 0
11 Persian fa 9,397 33,593 188,609 1 31,769 37 37
12 Spanish es 8,194 32,729 479,062 4 92,247 57 0
13 German de 7,917 20,415 522,026 3 67,396 29 16
14 Turkish tr 5,749 33,088 228,518 4 35,548 27 1
15 Serbian sr 5,593 12,529 55,207 4 6,059 20 1
16 Azerbaijani az 5,472 11,882 204,681 5 8,142 15 0
17 Esperanto eo 5,229 10,745 50,468 3 5,371 11 1
18 Slovak sk 4,514 7,422 100,739 2 7,634 8 2
19 Bosnian bs 4,166 8,147 62,148 1 8,601 9 278
20 Catalan ca 4,075 12,501 140,268 3 15,230 11 4
21 Arabic ar 4,041 52,384 248,267 4 31,964 57 0
22 Chinese zh 3,964 16,217 146,828 5 53,414 42 0
23 Finnish fi 3,416 7,065 99,418 3 9,463 10 2
24 Lithuanian lt 2,969 6,379 83,653 2 5,040 12 2
25 Slovenian sl 2,956 7,372 42,475 2 5,594 6 0
26 Indonesian id 2,604 6,177 39,250 3 19,516 19 5
27 Sundanese su 2,361 3,590 11,965 1 2,006 13 9
28 Bulgarian bg 2,315 11,243 90,908 3 11,129 14 5
29 Armenian hy 2,212 9,037 178,058 1 5,930 8 99
30 Croatian hr 2,163 4,178 33,186 2 5,926 13 4
31 Greek el 1,858 4,014 35,729 1 9,062 10 2
32 Norwegian Nynorsk nn 1,755 4,114 19,200 2 3,068 6 2
33 Swedish sv 1,541 4,031 36,636 2 12,976 18 1
34 Limburgish li 1,505 3,153 7,203 2 2,484 8 0
35 Hungarian hu 1,370 5,186 56,536 3 15,388 12 54
36 Igbo ig 1,356 6,977 22,244 1 925 9 0
37 Bangla bn 1,290 8,450 49,184 2 2,685 27 0
38 Dutch nl 1,196 5,869 93,473 4 16,400 14 1
39 Assamese as 1,162 2,753 20,472 3 698 15 0
40 Korean ko 1,109 4,261 33,728 2 6,799 12 4
41 Japanese ja 1,106 4,896 40,978 2 21,732 19 2
42 Yakut sah 1,080 1,763 8,382 1 940 5 0
43 Latin la 1,007 2,331 14,765 2 3,808 6 1
44 Tamil ta 983 3,970 38,357 1 4,451 5 8
45 Vietnamese vi 871 5,266 59,783 2 14,084 12 1
46 Uzbek uz 795 2,861 12,605 5 2,488 10 2
47 Telugu te 787 4,182 23,559 1 2,865 8 1
48 Hindi hi 773 5,951 29,732 1 5,091 11 0
49 Gun guw 589 1,067 5,899 1 556 22 0
50 Banjar bjn 571 1,111 4,543 2 346 16 0
51 Galician gl 552 2,988 22,191 1 3,423 6 0
52 Romanian ro 550 3,513 23,370 2 6,597 13 1
53 Gujarati gu 547 3,005 18,477 1 2,676 4 0
54 Urdu ur 519 2,979 12,193 3 2,757 8 9
55 Tagalog tl 501 4,357 30,857 1 547 11 0
56 Belarusian be 464 2,158 13,353 1 4,549 8 0
57 Welsh cy 369 1,408 8,552 1 2,728 5 0
58 Norwegian no 365 3,057 27,854 1 5,538 7 3
59 Thai th 329 8,070 55,199 2 6,004 14 0
60 Malayalam ml 322 3,456 22,063 2 5,353 6 1
61 Albanian sq 317 3,169 25,262 1 2,918 7 2
62 Basque eu 263 1,297 12,101 1 2,861 5 0
63 Kannada kn 261 1,113 9,383 2 2,153 7 0
64 Kurdish ku 248 1,155 11,978 1 4,024 6 1
65 Georgian ka 194 4,514 32,993 1 5,146 7 22
66 Danish da 167 2,071 19,198 3 9,839 8 1
67 Sanskrit sa 135 4,783 18,292 1 2,478 6 0
68 Icelandic is 133 1,280 12,739 1 2,576 5 1
69 Central Bikol bcl 109 1,854 18,792 1 628 10 0
70 Gorontalo gor 92 1,582 15,488 3 165 11 0
71 Breton br 50 918 5,477 1 2,138 6 0
72 Marathi mr 44 924 8,899 1 2,388 6 1
73 Afrikaans af 35 1,303 10,474 1 3,100 5 0
74 Kyrgyz ky 1 505 4,152 1 2,008 5 0
Totals Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikiquotes 341,390 1,136,826 11,323,038 194 4,299,637 2,092 1,359

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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