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Wikiquote be multilingual online open-content compendium of quotations. Dem dey release all content but copyrighted quotations under de GFDL den CC-BY-SA for de same manner insyd as oda Wikimedia Foundation projects.

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De beginning

E begin plus post by Fonzy for June 27, 2003.

idea dem propose: Wikiquotionary Encyclopedia of Quotes. Dem fi find de temp page hie – fonzy.

E start as quote.wikipedia.org for July 10, 2003 wey later e get ein own domain, wikiquote.org for August 25, 2003.

Development

Wikiquote get quotations plus ova 2,500 articles for six languages for June 2004 insyd, one year afta ein first proposal under de domain wikiquote.org. Sam language-speakers oda dan English request dema own subdomain den for July 17, dem create dem, dey start Wikiquotes for languages insyd lyk German, French, Italian den Polish.

De Wikiquote project dey expand slowly buh steadily. For de end of September na dem get about 15 Wikiquotes, both large den small. For December 1, na dem get 24 Wikiquote projects. Na dem get almost 6,500 articles in total for December 2004 insyd. For de end of May 2005 de total number of articles reach 14,000. E include nearly 30,000 articles for ova 30 languages for February 2006 insyd, ova 60,000 articles for 87 languages for May 2007 insyd den ova 80,000 articles for 89 languages for June 2008 insyd.

Since de last update for June 2008, de number of languages remain stable, while de number of articles double. As for 10 May 2014, about eleven years afta ein creation, de Wikiquote project now dey include ova 168,000 articles for 89 languages insyd. Twenty-eight language versions get more dan 1,000 articles. Fifty-six language versions get 100 anaa more articles.

De largest Wikiquotes be Italian den English, plus ova 48,000 den 46,000 articles respectively. Third be Polish Wikiquote, plus more dan 24,000 articles.

Challenge

Samtyms de Wikiquote project dey face troubles den challenges. Na one of de most remarkable challenges be copyright issues for de French Wikiquote top. To avoid problems, for March 2006 de Foundation decide to take am down, erase all ein material den relaunch am. For details, spy de announcement from de Foundation.

Howeva, devoted editors rescue de situation. Dem settle dema charter den polices, wey na dem relaunch French Wikiquote for December 4, 2006.

List of Wikiquotes

Spy Wikimedia in figures – Wikiquote den dis page for complete statistics.

Dem transclude table 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 55,171 216,001 3,617,110 16 3,206,527 561 0
2 Italian it 52,044 200,991 1,356,836 10 100,980 210 265
3 Polish pl 29,316 53,774 592,432 10 58,268 75 1
4 Russian ru 17,087 43,825 421,763 5 107,324 70 0
5 Czech cs 13,974 18,536 162,029 2 19,762 29 1
6 Estonian et 13,426 22,534 129,443 3 4,934 14 2
7 Portuguese pt 11,832 36,199 221,402 4 42,263 33 1
8 Ukrainian uk 10,659 39,424 143,575 5 19,486 40 0
9 Hebrew he 10,002 19,991 219,224 3 25,545 31 502
10 French fr 9,506 35,557 404,709 6 77,849 170 0
11 Persian fa 9,397 33,598 188,649 1 31,785 36 37
12 Spanish es 8,201 32,740 479,171 4 92,300 55 0
13 German de 7,915 20,414 522,034 3 67,437 26 16
14 Turkish tr 5,765 33,104 228,662 4 35,557 27 1
15 Serbian sr 5,593 12,530 55,218 4 6,063 19 1
16 Azerbaijani az 5,472 11,891 204,715 5 8,146 13 0
17 Esperanto eo 5,229 10,746 50,470 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 32,000 55 0
22 Chinese zh 3,964 16,218 146,846 5 53,424 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 35,734 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 15,395 9 54
36 Igbo ig 1,356 6,977 22,244 1 927 6 0
37 Bangla bn 1,290 8,451 49,204 2 2,694 29 0
38 Dutch nl 1,196 5,869 93,473 4 16,413 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 12,206 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 4,553 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 55,211 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 8,900 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 341,624 1,137,304 11,327,253 195 4,300,713 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

Article-count milestones dem recommend be 100, 500, 1k, 2k, 5k increments go 50k, 10k increments go 100k, 25k increments go 250k, 50k increments go 500k, den 100k increments go 1000k.

Dey sanso dey recommend reporting go Wikimedia News.

Dem fi find past milestones for de archives insyd.

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Dem create Alemannic Wikiquote as separate namespace within Alemannic Wikipedia: Alemannischi Spruchsammlig (Wikiquote).

Fresh Wikiquote

If you wan make you launch Wikiquote project for your favorite language insyd, you fi request am, dey fill sam requirements. Spy Requests for fresh languages for further information.

Project-wide communications

Chaw language projects of Wikiquote get ein discussion place for dema wikis top. If e be hard give you make you find am, try talk:Main Page for each wiki top.

De global Wikiquote community dey utilize sam communication channels.

Pages dem relate

Wikiquote coordination

History

Essays

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