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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 54,272 214,110 3,592,858 16 3,199,454 605 0
2 Italian it 51,673 199,910 1,350,537 10 100,247 155 265
3 Polish pl 28,614 53,661 589,694 10 58,045 59 1
4 Russian ru 17,031 43,712 420,465 5 106,965 68 0
5 Czech cs 13,594 18,120 159,028 2 19,700 29 1
6 Estonian et 13,376 22,402 128,852 3 4,882 18 2
7 Portuguese pt 11,803 36,174 220,569 4 42,145 37 1
8 Ukrainian uk 10,539 39,271 142,182 5 19,267 38 0
9 Hebrew he 9,894 19,828 217,537 3 25,441 34 502
10 Persian fa 9,390 33,569 188,274 1 31,622 33 37
11 French fr 9,112 34,729 396,419 6 77,131 207 0
12 Spanish es 8,113 32,595 477,345 4 91,551 52 0
13 German de 7,912 20,399 521,840 3 66,942 26 16
14 Turkish tr 5,729 33,050 227,870 5 35,435 25 1
15 Serbian sr 5,512 12,426 53,586 4 6,013 11 1
16 Azerbaijani az 5,438 11,723 203,574 5 8,102 14 0
17 Esperanto eo 5,229 10,744 50,378 3 5,343 10 1
18 Slovak sk 4,514 7,424 100,676 2 7,611 11 2
19 Bosnian bs 4,166 8,148 62,144 1 8,582 10 278
20 Catalan ca 4,069 12,494 140,178 3 15,158 9 4
21 Chinese zh 3,960 16,208 146,608 5 53,234 36 0
22 Arabic ar 3,709 51,466 245,498 4 31,620 61 0
23 Finnish fi 3,416 7,068 99,371 3 9,439 12 2
24 Lithuanian lt 2,969 6,382 83,613 2 5,021 11 2
25 Slovenian sl 2,955 7,373 42,461 2 5,567 7 0
26 Indonesian id 2,568 6,096 38,897 3 19,436 25 5
27 Sundanese su 2,338 3,525 11,877 1 1,987 5 9
28 Bulgarian bg 2,315 11,245 90,885 3 11,093 13 5
29 Armenian hy 2,211 9,037 178,048 1 5,909 13 99
30 Croatian hr 2,158 4,168 33,128 2 5,900 9 4
31 Greek el 1,858 4,013 35,698 1 9,040 8 2
32 Norwegian Nynorsk nn 1,755 4,116 19,197 2 3,056 5 2
33 Swedish sv 1,539 4,029 36,557 2 12,948 14 1
34 Limburgish li 1,501 3,151 7,193 2 2,466 5 0
35 Hungarian hu 1,373 5,189 56,486 3 15,349 11 54
36 Igbo ig 1,356 6,981 22,232 1 889 18 0
37 Bangla bn 1,285 8,387 48,532 2 2,498 29 0
38 Dutch nl 1,194 5,865 93,420 4 16,231 20 1
39 Assamese as 1,160 2,709 20,125 3 667 25 0
40 Korean ko 1,109 4,263 33,704 2 6,776 18 4
41 Japanese ja 1,096 4,890 40,923 2 21,659 16 2
42 Yakut sah 1,078 1,764 8,369 1 929 4 0
43 Latin la 1,007 2,332 14,764 2 3,786 9 1
44 Tamil ta 983 3,971 38,354 1 4,435 8 8
45 Vietnamese vi 847 5,243 59,644 1 14,009 21 1
46 Telugu te 787 4,176 23,523 1 2,832 8 1
47 Hindi hi 770 5,922 29,568 1 5,065 14 0
48 Uzbek uz 672 2,599 11,914 5 2,447 14 2
49 Gun guw 577 1,024 5,635 1 536 7 0
50 Galician gl 552 2,989 22,182 1 3,408 6 0
51 Romanian ro 549 3,512 23,349 2 6,572 12 1
52 Gujarati gu 548 2,990 18,454 1 2,660 4 0
53 Banjar bjn 539 939 4,150 2 317 15 0
54 Urdu ur 520 2,968 12,085 2 2,740 12 9
55 Tagalog tl 502 4,328 30,564 1 529 7 0
56 Belarusian be 461 2,153 13,322 1 4,523 8 0
57 Welsh cy 369 1,410 8,548 1 2,714 4 0
58 Norwegian no 363 3,054 27,799 1 5,516 7 3
59 Thai th 338 8,145 54,400 2 5,979 10 0
60 Malayalam ml 322 3,458 22,053 2 5,337 6 1
61 Albanian sq 319 3,172 25,247 2 2,900 5 2
62 Basque eu 263 1,297 12,084 1 2,845 5 0
63 Kannada kn 261 1,114 9,371 2 2,142 5 0
64 Kurdish ku 247 1,155 11,968 1 4,008 5 1
65 Georgian ka 194 4,517 32,980 1 5,128 11 22
66 Danish da 166 2,076 19,186 3 9,815 6 1
67 Sanskrit sa 135 4,782 18,250 1 2,454 8 0
68 Icelandic is 133 1,282 12,737 1 2,564 5 1
69 Central Bikol bcl 110 1,846 18,764 1 604 7 0
70 Gorontalo gor 83 1,343 14,070 3 135 16 0
71 Breton br 50 919 5,470 1 2,125 4 0
72 Marathi mr 44 928 8,895 1 2,377 4 1
73 Afrikaans af 35 1,303 10,472 1 3,081 10 0
74 Kyrgyz ky 1 506 4,143 1 1,997 4 0
Totals Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikiquotes 337,630 1,129,867 11,260,773 194 4,286,930 2,083 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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