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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 policies, and French Wikiquote was relaunched on December 4, 2006.

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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 ⵜⴰⵏⴳⵍⵉⵣⵜ en 55,416 216,371 3,623,194 15 3,208,057 545 0
2 ⵜⴰⵟⴰⵍⵢⴰⵏⵜ it 52,157 201,273 1,358,480 10 101,156 197 265
3 ⵜⴰⴱⵓⵍⵓⵏⵉⵜ pl 29,479 53,791 593,315 10 58,318 74 1
4 ⵜⴰⵔⵓⵙⵉⵜ ru 17,095 43,845 422,257 5 107,449 80 0
5 ⵜⴰⵜⵛⵉⴽⵉⵜ cs 14,100 18,653 162,880 2 19,792 36 1
6 Estonian et 13,442 22,627 129,845 2 4,945 24 2
7 ⵜⴰⴱⵕⵟⵇⵉⵣⵜ pt 11,846 36,215 221,519 4 42,307 38 1
8 ⵜⵓⴽⵔⴰⵏⵉⵜ uk 10,736 39,519 144,302 5 19,528 54 0
9 Hebrew he 10,030 20,043 219,759 3 25,567 41 502
10 ⵜⴰⴼⵔⴰⵏⵙⵉⵙⵜ fr 9,594 35,703 406,778 6 78,013 119 0
11 ⵜⴰⴼⵓⵔⵙⵉⵜ fa 9,409 33,621 188,786 1 31,821 50 37
12 ⵜⴰⵙⴱⵏⵢⵓⵍⵉⵜ es 8,237 32,797 479,558 4 92,424 47 0
13 ⵜⴰⵍⵉⵎⴰⵏⵜ de 7,917 20,417 522,100 3 67,561 34 16
14 ⵜⴰⵜⵓⵔⴽⵉⵜ tr 5,771 33,115 228,817 4 35,599 32 1
15 Serbian sr 5,594 12,531 55,238 4 6,074 20 1
16 Azerbaijani az 5,474 11,916 204,882 5 8,155 16 0
17 Esperanto eo 5,229 10,746 50,490 3 5,380 16 1
18 Slovak sk 4,514 7,422 100,779 2 7,640 9 2
19 Bosnian bs 4,166 8,146 62,149 1 8,608 7 278
20 Catalan ca 4,077 12,504 140,282 3 15,247 12 4
21 ⵜⴰⵄⵔⴰⴱⵜ ar 4,047 52,511 248,524 4 32,063 45 0
22 ⵜⴰⵛⵉⵏⵡⵉⵜ zh 3,965 16,220 146,898 5 53,471 42 0
23 Finnish fi 3,416 7,064 99,433 3 9,474 11 2
24 Lithuanian lt 2,969 6,380 83,654 2 5,045 8 2
25 Slovenian sl 2,956 7,372 42,477 2 5,599 6 0
26 ⵜⴰⵏⴷⵓⵏⵉⵙⵉⵜ id 2,604 6,191 39,312 3 19,537 17 5
27 Sundanese su 2,361 3,590 11,965 1 2,013 12 9
28 ⵜⴰⴱⵍⵖⴰⵔⵉⵜ bg 2,315 11,244 90,919 3 11,145 14 5
29 Armenian hy 2,212 9,037 178,067 1 5,937 9 99
30 Croatian hr 2,164 4,181 33,189 2 5,935 13 4
31 ⵜⴰⴳⵔⵉⴳⵉⵜ el 1,860 4,019 35,788 1 9,076 11 2
32 Norwegian Nynorsk nn 1,755 4,115 19,201 2 3,073 5 2
33 ⵜⴰⵙⵡⵉⴷⵉⵜ sv 1,541 4,032 36,646 2 12,990 15 1
34 Limburgish li 1,508 3,156 7,207 2 2,491 6 0
35 ⵜⴰⵀⵏⵖⴰⵔⵉⵜ hu 1,370 5,185 56,543 3 15,411 7 54
36 ⵜⵉⴳⴱⵓⵜ ig 1,356 6,977 22,246 1 933 4 0
37 ⵜⴰⴱⵏⵖⴰⵍⵉⵜ bn 1,300 8,490 49,427 2 2,737 31 0
38 ⵜⴰⵀⵓⵍⴰⵏⴷⵉⵜ nl 1,203 5,877 93,591 4 16,432 19 1
39 Assamese as 1,162 2,759 20,507 3 713 12 0
40 ⵜⴰⴽⵓⵔⵉⵜ ko 1,110 4,263 33,732 2 6,812 11 4
41 ⵜⴰⵊⴰⴱⴱⵓⵏⵉⵜ ja 1,106 4,898 41,000 2 21,764 13 2
42 Yakut sah 1,080 1,763 8,383 1 945 8 0
43 Latin la 1,007 2,331 14,765 2 3,814 6 1
44 ⵜⴰⵜⴰⵎⵉⵍⵜ ta 983 3,971 38,369 1 4,457 6 8
45 ⵜⴰⴱⵉⵜⵏⴰⵎⵉⵜ vi 878 5,273 59,794 2 14,106 12 1
46 Uzbek uz 873 2,965 12,979 5 2,503 13 2
47 Telugu te 786 4,187 23,582 1 2,873 6 1
48 ⵜⴰⵀⵉⵏⴷⵉⵜ hi 779 5,966 29,857 1 5,102 15 0
49 Gun guw 589 1,073 5,939 1 564 21 0
50 Banjar bjn 572 1,116 4,568 2 356 7 0
51 Galician gl 552 2,989 22,195 1 3,429 7 0
52 ⵜⴰⵔⵓⵎⴰⵏⵉⵜ ro 550 3,515 23,375 2 6,603 12 1
53 Gujarati gu 547 3,011 18,490 1 2,682 7 0
54 ⵜⵓⵔⴷⵓⵜ ur 518 2,970 12,197 3 2,760 8 9
55 Tagalog tl 501 4,357 30,859 2 554 8 0
56 ⵜⴰⴱⵉⵍⴰⵔⵓⵙⵜ be 465 2,159 13,364 1 4,559 11 0
57 Welsh cy 369 1,408 8,552 1 2,733 4 0
58 Norwegian no 365 3,057 27,856 1 5,546 9 3
59 ⵜⴰⵜⴰⵢⵍⴰⵏⴷⵉⵜ th 331 8,090 55,240 2 6,018 11 0
60 Malayalam ml 322 3,456 22,065 2 5,357 5 1
61 Albanian sq 317 3,169 25,262 1 2,923 5 2
62 Basque eu 263 1,297 12,103 1 2,867 5 0
63 Kannada kn 261 1,113 9,400 2 2,158 6 0
64 Kurdish ku 248 1,155 11,978 1 4,029 4 1
65 Georgian ka 194 4,514 32,998 1 5,152 9 22
66 Danish da 180 2,246 20,321 3 9,854 6 1
67 Sanskrit sa 136 4,784 18,295 1 2,485 8 0
68 Icelandic is 133 1,280 12,739 1 2,580 4 1
69 Central Bikol bcl 109 1,854 18,796 1 638 8 0
70 Gorontalo gor 92 1,593 15,527 3 178 7 0
71 Breton br 50 918 5,477 1 2,142 5 0
72 Marathi mr 44 924 8,901 1 2,393 7 1
73 Afrikaans af 35 1,303 10,474 1 3,109 5 0
74 Kyrgyz ky 1 505 4,155 1 2,012 9 0
Totals Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikiquotes 342,693 1,139,128 11,344,591 193 4,303,773 2,026 1,359

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

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