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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 55,181 216,016 3,617,302 16 3,206,602 561 0
2 Italian it 52,048 201,010 1,356,891 10 100,987 210 265
3 Polish pl 29,316 53,774 592,437 10 58,269 75 1
4 Russian ru 17,087 43,825 421,777 5 107,325 70 0
5 Czech cs 13,975 18,537 162,030 2 19,762 29 1
6 Estonian et 13,428 22,536 129,456 3 4,935 14 2
7 Portuguese pt 11,832 36,199 221,405 4 42,265 33 1
8 Ukrainian uk 10,663 39,429 143,621 5 19,486 40 0
9 Hebrew he 10,004 19,994 219,256 3 25,545 31 502
10 French fr 9,508 35,560 404,726 6 77,858 170 0
11 Persian fa 9,397 33,598 188,650 1 31,787 36 37
12 Spanish es 8,201 32,747 479,188 4 92,305 55 0
13 German de 7,915 20,414 522,038 3 67,442 26 16
14 Turkish tr 5,765 33,104 228,664 4 35,560 27 1
15 Serbian sr 5,593 12,530 55,219 4 6,066 19 1
16 Azerbaijani az 5,472 11,891 204,715 5 8,146 13 0
17 Esperanto eo 5,229 10,746 50,472 3 5,375 9 1
18 Slovak sk 4,514 7,422 100,752 2 7,636 6 2
19 Bosnian bs 4,166 8,147 62,148 1 8,603 6 278
20 Catalan ca 4,075 12,501 140,269 3 15,235 8 4
21 Arabic ar 4,041 52,426 248,327 4 32,003 55 0
22 Chinese zh 3,964 16,218 146,846 5 53,425 38 0
23 Finnish fi 3,416 7,064 99,419 3 9,465 7 2
24 Lithuanian lt 2,969 6,379 83,653 2 5,043 8 2
25 Slovenian sl 2,956 7,372 42,475 2 5,596 4 0
26 Indonesian id 2,604 6,177 39,251 3 19,521 15 5
27 Sundanese su 2,361 3,590 11,965 1 2,008 10 9
28 Bulgarian bg 2,315 11,243 90,908 3 11,134 10 5
29 Armenian hy 2,212 9,037 178,067 1 5,932 5 99
30 Croatian hr 2,164 4,181 33,189 2 5,930 11 4
31 Greek el 1,858 4,014 35,736 1 9,066 7 2
32 Norwegian Nynorsk nn 1,755 4,114 19,200 2 3,070 3 2
33 Swedish sv 1,541 4,032 36,638 2 12,980 14 1
34 Limburgish li 1,506 3,154 7,205 2 2,487 5 0
35 Hungarian hu 1,370 5,186 56,538 3 15,396 9 54
36 Igbo ig 1,356 6,977 22,244 1 927 6 0
37 Bangla bn 1,291 8,457 49,219 2 2,697 29 0
38 Dutch nl 1,196 5,870 93,475 4 16,414 13 1
39 Assamese as 1,162 2,758 20,484 3 701 14 0
40 Korean ko 1,109 4,261 33,728 2 6,804 9 4
41 Japanese ja 1,106 4,897 40,981 2 21,745 14 2
42 Yakut sah 1,080 1,763 8,383 1 942 4 0
43 Latin la 1,007 2,331 14,765 2 3,810 3 1
44 Tamil ta 983 3,970 38,357 1 4,454 2 8
45 Vietnamese vi 874 5,269 59,786 2 14,089 10 1
46 Uzbek uz 800 2,869 12,657 5 2,490 8 2
47 Telugu te 786 4,184 23,565 1 2,869 5 1
48 Hindi hi 773 5,956 29,758 1 5,095 9 0
49 Gun guw 589 1,067 5,899 1 556 21 0
50 Banjar bjn 571 1,111 4,547 2 347 13 0
51 Galician gl 552 2,989 22,195 1 3,425 4 0
52 Romanian ro 550 3,513 23,370 2 6,599 12 1
53 Gujarati gu 547 3,009 18,483 1 2,679 3 0
54 Urdu ur 518 2,970 12,197 3 2,758 6 9
55 Tagalog tl 501 4,357 30,858 2 549 9 0
56 Belarusian be 464 2,158 13,353 1 4,554 7 0
57 Welsh cy 369 1,408 8,552 1 2,730 2 0
58 Norwegian no 365 3,057 27,855 1 5,542 5 3
59 Thai th 329 8,074 55,210 2 6,008 11 0
60 Malayalam ml 322 3,456 22,063 2 5,355 3 1
61 Albanian sq 317 3,169 25,262 1 2,920 2 2
62 Basque eu 263 1,297 12,103 1 2,863 2 0
63 Kannada kn 261 1,113 9,400 2 2,155 4 0
64 Kurdish ku 248 1,155 11,978 1 4,026 3 1
65 Georgian ka 194 4,514 32,993 1 5,148 4 22
66 Danish da 167 2,071 19,198 3 9,842 4 1
67 Sanskrit sa 135 4,783 18,292 1 2,482 4 0
68 Icelandic is 133 1,280 12,739 1 2,578 2 1
69 Central Bikol bcl 109 1,854 18,792 1 630 7 0
70 Gorontalo gor 92 1,582 15,488 3 166 8 0
71 Breton br 50 918 5,477 1 2,140 4 0
72 Marathi mr 44 924 8,901 1 2,390 3 1
73 Afrikaans af 35 1,303 10,474 1 3,103 2 0
74 Kyrgyz ky 1 505 4,154 1 2,010 3 0
Totals Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikiquotes 341,650 1,137,366 11,327,668 195 4,300,837 1,913 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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