Wikiquote

Screenshot o the wikiquote.org home page
Teep o steid	Quotation repository
Available in	Multilingual
Awner	Wikimedia Foondation
Creatit bi	Jimmy Wales an the Wikimedia Community
Wabsteid	www.wikiquote.org
Alexa rank	2,991 (October 2013[update])[1]
Commercial	Na
Registration	Optional
Launched	10 Julie 2003 (2003-07-10)
Current status	active

Wikiquote is a sister project o Wikipaedia, uisin the same MediaWiki saftware. It is ane o a faimly o wiki-based projecks rin bi the Wikimedia Foondation. Based on a consait bi Daniel Alston an implemented bi Brion Vibber, the aim o the projeck is for fowk ti produce thegither a muckle reference o quotations frae prominent fowk, beuks an saws, an ti gie details anent them.

Ti stairt wi, the projeck wis aa in English, but fae Julie 2004, mair leids war eikit.

• 27 Juin, 2003 - Pit on the wolof leid wikipaedia for a while: wo.wikipedia.com
• 10 Julie, 2003 - Ain subdomain: quote.wikipedia.org
• 25 August, 2003 - Ain domain: wikiquote.org
• 17 Julie, 2004 - Neow leids eikit
• 13 November, 2004 - English edeition raxes 2000 page.
• November, 2004 - 24 leids
• Mairch, 2005 - Wikiquote raxes 10,000 page in total. English edeition haes near 3,000 page.
• Juin, 2005 - 34 leids wi ae classical leid (Latin) an ae artifeicial ane (Esperanto).

In Julie 2004, aroon 70 subdomains wis set up, but maist o them hinna onie contreibutors. Them ablo are pairts o subdomains that haed been created in Julie 2004: aa o them wis attracted by editors' interest at the time an suin becam active.

• Inglis leid http://en.wikiquote.org/
• Bulgarian leid http://bg.wikiquote.org/
• Cheenese leid http://zh.wikiquote.org/
• Dutch leid http://nl.wikiquote.org/
• German leid http://de.wikiquote.org/
• Greek leid http://el.wikiquote.org/
• French leid http://fr.wikiquote.org/
• Pols leid http://pl.wikiquote.org/
• Italian leid http://it.wikiquote.org/
• Japanese leid http://ja.wikiquote.org/
• Korean leid http://ko.wikiquote.org/
• Romanian leid http://ro.wikiquote.org/
• Spainish leid http://es.wikiquote.org/
• Tamil leid http://ta.wikiquote.org/
• Thai leid http://th.wikiquote.org/
• Afrikaans leid http://af.wikiquote.org/
• Portuguese leid http://pt.wikiquote.org/
• Turkish leid http://tr.wikiquote.org/
• Hebrew leid http://he.wikiquote.org

The nummer o active Wikiquote projecks is growing. On January 2005 26 projects for different leids wis active. Here 'active' means the projeck haes mair not the ae legeitimate airticle an ae edit a month. Aifter a sixmonth, 34 projecks are kent ti be active.

As o the 13 August, 2005, fower projecks hae mair nor 1,000 airticles. The mucklest Wikiquote is the English projeck wi ower 25,000 airticles as o the 4 December, 2015. Neist come the German, French, Polish an Bulgarian projecks. Aboot ten projecks, coontin thae fower, hae mair nor 100 airticles.