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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 53,680 213,142 3,582,063 16 3,196,335 605 0
2 Italian it 51,532 199,536 1,347,914 10 99,955 97 265
3 Polish pl 28,372 53,636 588,773 10 57,945 65 1
4 Russian ru 16,977 43,633 419,900 5 106,834 81 0
5 Czech cs 13,405 17,924 157,928 2 19,668 30 1
6 Estonian et 13,351 22,337 128,583 3 4,857 17 2
7 Portuguese pt 11,775 36,137 220,292 4 42,083 26 1
8 Ukrainian uk 10,495 39,202 141,724 5 19,152 29 0
9 Hebrew he 9,852 19,768 216,878 3 25,411 36 501
10 Persian fa 9,373 33,520 188,067 1 31,562 36 37
11 French fr 8,897 34,299 392,449 6 76,684 118 0
12 Spanish es 8,100 32,556 476,876 4 91,174 46 0
13 German de 7,911 20,396 521,797 3 66,706 25 16
14 Turkish tr 5,726 32,977 227,370 5 35,387 20 1
15 Serbian sr 5,512 12,417 53,560 4 6,001 7 1
16 Azerbaijani az 5,429 11,702 203,305 5 8,085 11 0
17 Esperanto eo 5,229 10,744 50,326 3 5,331 6 1
18 Slovak sk 4,514 7,421 100,623 2 7,600 7 2
19 Bosnian bs 4,167 8,147 62,127 1 8,574 5 278
20 Catalan ca 4,069 12,494 140,166 3 15,131 6 4
21 Chinese zh 3,958 16,198 146,514 3 53,158 33 0
22 Arabic ar 3,692 51,277 244,953 4 31,471 68 0
23 Finnish fi 3,416 7,067 99,346 3 9,429 6 2
24 Lithuanian lt 2,970 6,380 83,601 2 5,014 9 2
25 Slovenian sl 2,955 7,373 42,432 2 5,558 5 0
26 Indonesian id 2,550 6,062 38,696 3 19,416 28 5
27 Sundanese su 2,338 3,523 11,869 1 1,982 5 9
28 Bulgarian bg 2,314 11,244 90,868 3 11,075 10 5
29 Armenian hy 2,212 9,039 178,000 1 5,900 7 99
30 Croatian hr 2,158 4,162 33,099 2 5,890 5 4
31 Greek el 1,856 4,011 35,673 1 9,030 7 2
32 Norwegian Nynorsk nn 1,755 4,114 19,187 2 3,049 3 2
33 Swedish sv 1,540 4,026 36,537 2 12,931 10 1
34 Limburgish li 1,498 3,146 7,181 2 2,463 3 0
35 Hungarian hu 1,373 5,186 56,468 3 15,337 11 54
36 Igbo ig 1,286 6,723 21,630 1 875 14 0
37 Bangla bn 1,273 8,347 47,075 2 2,413 27 0
38 Dutch nl 1,183 5,851 93,316 4 16,160 15 1
39 Assamese as 1,158 2,689 19,927 3 653 26 0
40 Korean ko 1,108 4,264 33,680 2 6,764 16 4
41 Japanese ja 1,097 4,888 40,897 2 21,630 14 2
42 Yakut sah 1,077 1,761 8,363 1 926 3 0
43 Latin la 1,007 2,333 14,755 2 3,780 8 1
44 Tamil ta 984 3,971 38,342 1 4,428 5 8
45 Vietnamese vi 838 5,231 59,594 1 13,992 15 1
46 Telugu te 787 4,175 23,502 1 2,828 5 1
47 Hindi hi 771 5,947 29,468 1 5,053 6 0
48 Uzbek uz 653 2,559 11,755 5 2,438 9 2
49 Gun guw 577 1,024 5,621 1 529 3 0
50 Galician gl 552 2,989 22,168 1 3,402 3 0
51 Gujarati gu 548 2,985 18,439 1 2,657 5 0
52 Banjar bjn 531 910 4,064 2 312 15 0
53 Urdu ur 521 2,956 12,030 2 2,734 7 9
54 Romanian ro 508 3,515 23,283 2 6,560 6 9
55 Tagalog tl 502 4,325 30,552 1 524 22 0
56 Belarusian be 461 2,150 13,316 1 4,516 6 0
57 Welsh cy 369 1,408 8,540 1 2,710 3 0
58 Norwegian no 363 3,053 27,787 1 5,510 4 3
59 Thai th 341 8,210 54,234 2 5,964 5 0
60 Albanian sq 319 3,170 25,233 2 2,896 3 2
61 Malayalam ml 315 3,456 22,035 2 5,333 5 1
62 Basque eu 263 1,295 12,072 1 2,840 3 0
63 Kannada kn 261 1,112 9,363 2 2,139 3 0
64 Kurdish ku 247 1,153 11,957 1 4,004 3 1
65 Georgian ka 194 4,518 32,961 1 5,119 7 25
66 Danish da 166 2,076 19,172 3 9,807 6 1
67 Sanskrit sa 136 4,779 18,221 1 2,447 5 0
68 Icelandic is 133 1,280 12,729 1 2,559 3 1
69 Central Bikol bcl 110 1,846 18,760 1 597 4 0
70 Gorontalo gor 68 1,165 13,176 3 123 28 0
71 Breton br 50 917 5,463 1 2,122 3 0
72 Marathi mr 44 926 8,886 1 2,373 5 1
73 Afrikaans af 35 1,301 10,460 1 3,073 4 0
74 Kyrgyz ky 1 504 4,135 1 1,993 4 0
Totals Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikiquotes 335,788 1,126,558 11,232,106 192 4,280,961 1,811 1,369

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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