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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.

The beginning

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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.

Development

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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.

Challenge

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

List of Wikiquotes

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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 English en 55,302 216,211 3,620,005 16 3,207,359 539 0
2 Italian it 52,102 201,137 1,357,481 10 101,063 196 265
3 Polish pl 29,369 53,784 592,824 10 58,288 75 1
4 Russian ru 17,090 43,833 421,889 5 107,365 74 0
5 Czech cs 14,050 18,584 162,178 2 19,774 34 1
6 Estonian et 13,433 22,550 129,550 3 4,937 17 2
7 Portuguese pt 11,835 36,204 221,453 4 42,287 37 1
8 Ukrainian uk 10,694 39,465 143,949 5 19,509 44 0
9 Hebrew he 10,016 20,015 219,465 3 25,551 34 502
10 French fr 9,542 35,628 405,392 6 77,947 112 0
11 Persian fa 9,401 33,605 188,688 1 31,800 39 37
12 Spanish es 8,218 32,763 479,338 4 92,373 49 0
13 German de 7,917 20,417 522,048 3 67,508 28 16
14 Turkish tr 5,770 33,107 228,728 4 35,577 26 1
15 Serbian sr 5,594 12,531 55,222 4 6,069 21 1
16 Azerbaijani az 5,472 11,897 204,750 5 8,149 12 0
17 Esperanto eo 5,229 10,746 50,487 3 5,378 12 1
18 Slovak sk 4,514 7,422 100,753 2 7,637 8 2
19 Bosnian bs 4,166 8,147 62,148 1 8,605 7 278
20 Catalan ca 4,076 12,503 140,280 3 15,236 10 4
21 Arabic ar 4,041 52,488 248,460 4 32,042 45 0
22 Chinese zh 3,965 16,219 146,861 5 53,444 40 0
23 Finnish fi 3,416 7,064 99,420 3 9,467 9 2
24 Lithuanian lt 2,969 6,379 83,653 2 5,044 10 2
25 Slovenian sl 2,956 7,372 42,475 2 5,597 6 0
26 Indonesian id 2,604 6,177 39,251 3 19,525 14 5
27 Sundanese su 2,361 3,590 11,965 1 2,009 12 9
28 Bulgarian bg 2,315 11,244 90,917 3 11,136 12 5
29 Armenian hy 2,212 9,037 178,067 1 5,933 8 99
30 Croatian hr 2,164 4,181 33,189 2 5,932 13 4
31 Greek el 1,859 4,017 35,759 1 9,069 9 2
32 Norwegian Nynorsk nn 1,755 4,114 19,200 2 3,071 5 2
33 Swedish sv 1,541 4,032 36,640 2 12,984 16 1
34 Limburgish li 1,507 3,155 7,206 2 2,488 6 0
35 Hungarian hu 1,370 5,186 56,539 3 15,402 8 54
36 Igbo ig 1,356 6,977 22,244 1 930 5 0
37 Bangla bn 1,292 8,460 49,275 2 2,724 26 0
38 Dutch nl 1,198 5,872 93,481 4 16,424 15 1
39 Assamese as 1,162 2,758 20,484 3 708 12 0
40 Korean ko 1,109 4,261 33,728 2 6,807 10 4
41 Japanese ja 1,106 4,897 40,986 2 21,751 13 2
42 Yakut sah 1,080 1,763 8,383 1 944 7 0
43 Latin la 1,007 2,331 14,765 2 3,813 5 1
44 Tamil ta 983 3,972 38,367 1 4,456 5 8
45 Vietnamese vi 875 5,271 59,789 2 14,096 11 1
46 Uzbek uz 824 2,903 12,768 5 2,496 12 2
47 Telugu te 786 4,186 23,581 1 2,871 7 1
48 Hindi hi 773 5,963 29,781 1 5,099 10 0
49 Gun guw 589 1,069 5,911 1 559 21 0
50 Banjar bjn 571 1,111 4,550 2 352 11 0
51 Galician gl 552 2,989 22,195 1 3,426 6 0
52 Romanian ro 550 3,514 23,372 2 6,601 12 1
53 Gujarati gu 547 3,010 18,484 1 2,680 5 0
54 Urdu ur 518 2,970 12,197 3 2,759 7 9
55 Tagalog tl 501 4,357 30,858 2 551 8 0
56 Belarusian be 464 2,158 13,353 1 4,555 8 0
57 Welsh cy 369 1,408 8,552 1 2,731 4 0
58 Norwegian no 365 3,057 27,855 1 5,545 7 3
59 Thai th 329 8,079 55,222 2 6,010 12 0
60 Malayalam ml 322 3,456 22,065 2 5,356 5 1
61 Albanian sq 317 3,169 25,262 1 2,921 4 2
62 Basque eu 263 1,297 12,103 1 2,865 4 0
63 Kannada kn 261 1,113 9,400 2 2,156 6 0
64 Kurdish ku 248 1,155 11,978 1 4,028 4 1
65 Georgian ka 194 4,514 32,998 1 5,149 7 22
66 Danish da 167 2,071 19,198 3 9,845 6 1
67 Sanskrit sa 135 4,783 18,292 1 2,483 5 0
68 Icelandic is 133 1,280 12,739 1 2,579 4 1
69 Central Bikol bcl 109 1,854 18,795 1 634 7 0
70 Gorontalo gor 92 1,582 15,488 3 174 6 0
71 Breton br 50 918 5,477 1 2,141 5 0
72 Marathi mr 44 924 8,901 1 2,392 6 1
73 Afrikaans af 35 1,303 10,474 1 3,104 4 0
74 Kyrgyz ky 1 505 4,155 1 2,011 8 0
Totals Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikiquotes 342,102 1,138,064 11,333,736 195 4,302,281 1,907 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

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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

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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

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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.

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Wikiquote coordination

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History

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Essays

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