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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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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 54,249 214,063 3,592,517 16 3,199,368 605 0
2 Italian it 51,669 199,906 1,350,406 10 100,240 155 265
3 Polish pl 28,611 53,661 589,676 10 58,044 59 1
4 Russian ru 17,031 43,711 420,456 5 106,962 68 0
5 Czech cs 13,589 18,115 158,985 2 19,699 29 1
6 Estonian et 13,375 22,402 128,844 3 4,882 18 2
7 Portuguese pt 11,802 36,177 220,560 4 42,141 37 1
8 Ukrainian uk 10,538 39,270 142,177 5 19,263 38 0
9 Hebrew he 9,891 19,827 217,504 3 25,441 34 502
10 Persian fa 9,390 33,568 188,272 1 31,622 33 37
11 French fr 9,109 34,719 396,284 6 77,117 207 0
12 Spanish es 8,113 32,595 477,345 4 91,544 52 0
13 German de 7,912 20,399 521,839 3 66,936 26 16
14 Turkish tr 5,729 33,050 227,870 5 35,435 25 1
15 Serbian sr 5,512 12,426 53,586 4 6,013 11 1
16 Azerbaijani az 5,438 11,721 203,555 5 8,102 14 0
17 Esperanto eo 5,229 10,744 50,378 3 5,343 10 1
18 Slovak sk 4,514 7,424 100,667 2 7,611 11 2
19 Bosnian bs 4,166 8,148 62,144 1 8,582 10 278
20 Catalan ca 4,069 12,494 140,178 3 15,157 9 4
21 Chinese zh 3,959 16,207 146,598 5 53,233 36 0
22 Arabic ar 3,709 51,466 245,498 4 31,618 61 0
23 Finnish fi 3,416 7,068 99,371 3 9,439 12 2
24 Lithuanian lt 2,969 6,382 83,613 2 5,020 11 2
25 Slovenian sl 2,955 7,373 42,461 2 5,567 7 0
26 Indonesian id 2,568 6,095 38,896 3 19,436 25 5
27 Sundanese su 2,338 3,525 11,877 1 1,987 5 9
28 Bulgarian bg 2,315 11,245 90,885 3 11,093 13 5
29 Armenian hy 2,210 9,037 178,043 1 5,909 13 99
30 Croatian hr 2,158 4,168 33,128 2 5,900 9 4
31 Greek el 1,857 4,012 35,695 1 9,040 8 2
32 Norwegian Nynorsk nn 1,755 4,116 19,197 2 3,056 5 2
33 Swedish sv 1,539 4,029 36,557 2 12,947 14 1
34 Limburgish li 1,501 3,151 7,193 2 2,466 5 0
35 Hungarian hu 1,373 5,189 56,486 3 15,348 11 54
36 Igbo ig 1,356 6,981 22,231 1 889 18 0
37 Bangla bn 1,283 8,378 48,444 2 2,493 29 0
38 Dutch nl 1,194 5,865 93,419 4 16,227 20 1
39 Assamese as 1,160 2,709 20,125 3 667 25 0
40 Korean ko 1,109 4,263 33,704 2 6,776 18 4
41 Japanese ja 1,096 4,890 40,923 2 21,659 16 2
42 Yakut sah 1,078 1,764 8,369 1 929 4 0
43 Latin la 1,007 2,332 14,764 2 3,786 9 1
44 Tamil ta 983 3,971 38,354 1 4,435 8 8
45 Vietnamese vi 847 5,243 59,644 1 14,008 21 1
46 Telugu te 787 4,176 23,523 1 2,832 8 1
47 Hindi hi 770 5,922 29,565 1 5,065 14 0
48 Uzbek uz 672 2,599 11,912 5 2,446 14 2
49 Gun guw 577 1,024 5,635 1 536 7 0
50 Galician gl 552 2,989 22,182 1 3,408 6 0
51 Romanian ro 549 3,512 23,349 2 6,572 12 1
52 Gujarati gu 548 2,990 18,454 1 2,660 4 0
53 Banjar bjn 539 932 4,125 2 317 15 0
54 Urdu ur 520 2,967 12,081 2 2,740 12 9
55 Tagalog tl 502 4,328 30,563 1 529 7 0
56 Belarusian be 461 2,153 13,322 1 4,523 8 0
57 Welsh cy 369 1,410 8,548 1 2,714 4 0
58 Norwegian no 363 3,054 27,799 1 5,516 7 3
59 Thai th 338 8,144 54,398 2 5,978 10 0
60 Malayalam ml 322 3,458 22,053 2 5,337 6 1
61 Albanian sq 319 3,172 25,247 2 2,900 5 2
62 Basque eu 263 1,297 12,084 1 2,845 5 0
63 Kannada kn 261 1,114 9,371 2 2,142 5 0
64 Kurdish ku 247 1,155 11,968 1 4,007 5 1
65 Georgian ka 194 4,517 32,980 1 5,128 11 22
66 Danish da 166 2,076 19,186 3 9,815 6 1
67 Sanskrit sa 135 4,782 18,250 1 2,454 8 0
68 Icelandic is 133 1,282 12,737 1 2,564 5 1
69 Central Bikol bcl 110 1,846 18,764 1 604 7 0
70 Gorontalo gor 83 1,336 14,006 3 135 16 0
71 Breton br 50 919 5,470 1 2,125 4 0
72 Marathi mr 44 928 8,895 1 2,377 4 1
73 Afrikaans af 35 1,303 10,472 1 3,081 10 0
74 Kyrgyz ky 1 506 4,143 1 1,997 4 0
Totals Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikiquotes 337,581 1,129,770 11,259,800 194 4,286,777 2,083 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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