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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

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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 54,824 215,466 3,610,658 16 3,204,160 554 0
2 Italian it 51,924 200,662 1,354,868 10 100,766 219 265
3 Polish pl 29,139 53,695 591,455 10 58,217 63 1
4 Russian ru 17,075 43,797 421,363 5 107,197 72 0
5 Czech cs 13,851 18,393 161,402 2 19,739 35 1
6 Estonian et 13,411 22,499 129,282 3 4,920 18 2
7 Portuguese pt 11,841 36,169 221,207 4 42,226 41 1
8 Ukrainian uk 10,616 39,366 142,952 5 19,402 47 0
9 Hebrew he 9,977 19,947 218,721 3 25,514 30 502
10 French fr 9,429 35,433 403,025 6 77,600 190 0
11 Persian fa 9,398 33,590 188,528 1 31,732 40 37
12 Spanish es 8,174 32,699 478,709 4 92,074 58 0
13 German de 7,913 20,408 521,967 3 67,249 31 16
14 Turkish tr 5,739 33,069 228,375 4 35,511 31 1
15 Serbian sr 5,567 12,502 54,346 4 6,037 19 1
16 Azerbaijani az 5,463 11,816 204,330 5 8,126 17 0
17 Esperanto eo 5,229 10,745 50,455 3 5,362 11 1
18 Slovak sk 4,514 7,422 100,725 2 7,627 12 2
19 Bosnian bs 4,166 8,147 62,148 1 8,594 9 278
20 Catalan ca 4,069 12,496 140,202 3 15,217 13 4
21 Arabic ar 4,024 52,246 248,048 4 31,854 53 0
22 Chinese zh 3,961 16,213 146,789 5 53,365 39 0
23 Finnish fi 3,416 7,065 99,416 3 9,454 13 2
24 Lithuanian lt 2,969 6,379 83,647 2 5,033 15 2
25 Slovenian sl 2,955 7,372 42,475 2 5,586 7 0
26 Indonesian id 2,604 6,175 39,236 3 19,496 26 5
27 Sundanese su 2,361 3,590 11,965 1 2,001 14 9
28 Bulgarian bg 2,315 11,241 90,899 3 11,113 14 5
29 Armenian hy 2,212 9,037 178,056 1 5,921 9 99
30 Croatian hr 2,162 4,178 33,169 2 5,917 16 4
31 Greek el 1,858 4,014 35,729 1 9,052 11 2
32 Norwegian Nynorsk nn 1,755 4,114 19,199 2 3,062 7 2
33 Swedish sv 1,541 4,028 36,621 2 12,968 18 1
34 Limburgish li 1,504 3,152 7,201 2 2,478 10 0
35 Hungarian hu 1,369 5,185 56,518 3 15,376 14 54
36 Igbo ig 1,356 6,977 22,242 1 916 9 0
37 Bangla bn 1,287 8,436 49,045 2 2,630 34 0
38 Dutch nl 1,194 5,867 93,454 4 16,361 15 1
39 Assamese as 1,162 2,728 20,352 3 690 15 0
40 Korean ko 1,109 4,261 33,725 2 6,790 10 4
41 Japanese ja 1,104 4,896 40,970 2 21,710 22 2
42 Yakut sah 1,080 1,763 8,382 1 935 6 0
43 Latin la 1,007 2,331 14,765 2 3,799 5 1
44 Tamil ta 983 3,970 38,357 1 4,444 6 8
45 Vietnamese vi 860 5,254 59,763 2 14,067 13 1
46 Telugu te 787 4,181 23,555 1 2,852 10 1
47 Uzbek uz 770 2,802 12,464 5 2,474 10 2
48 Hindi hi 768 5,943 29,669 1 5,082 11 0
49 Gun guw 586 1,063 5,869 1 549 20 0
50 Banjar bjn 571 1,106 4,534 2 335 17 0
51 Galician gl 552 2,988 22,191 1 3,415 7 0
52 Romanian ro 549 3,512 23,368 2 6,586 12 1
53 Gujarati gu 547 2,998 18,470 1 2,669 6 0
54 Urdu ur 519 2,979 12,151 3 2,750 10 9
55 Tagalog tl 503 4,350 30,776 1 538 8 0
56 Belarusian be 463 2,157 13,349 1 4,543 8 0
57 Welsh cy 369 1,408 8,552 1 2,723 7 0
58 Norwegian no 365 3,056 27,814 1 5,529 8 3
59 Thai th 328 8,056 55,182 2 5,994 16 0
60 Malayalam ml 322 3,456 22,062 2 5,347 8 1
61 Albanian sq 317 3,169 25,259 1 2,912 7 2
62 Basque eu 263 1,297 12,101 1 2,856 7 0
63 Kannada kn 261 1,112 9,378 2 2,146 8 0
64 Kurdish ku 248 1,155 11,978 1 4,019 7 1
65 Georgian ka 194 4,514 32,991 1 5,139 8 22
66 Danish da 167 2,071 19,198 3 9,833 9 1
67 Sanskrit sa 135 4,783 18,292 1 2,468 7 0
68 Icelandic is 133 1,280 12,739 1 2,571 5 1
69 Central Bikol bcl 110 1,853 18,785 1 620 10 0
70 Gorontalo gor 92 1,577 15,455 3 153 12 0
71 Breton br 50 918 5,477 1 2,134 7 0
72 Marathi mr 44 924 8,899 1 2,382 7 1
73 Afrikaans af 35 1,303 10,474 1 3,093 6 0
74 Kyrgyz ky 1 505 4,152 1 2,001 7 0
Totals Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikiquotes 340,516 1,135,309 11,309,925 194 4,296,001 2,176 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.

2024

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2023

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2022

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2021

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2020

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2019

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2015

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2013

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2012

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2010

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2009

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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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