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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 policies, 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.
No Language Wiki Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
1 English en 55,663 216,939 3,634,149 15 3,209,594 514 0
2 Italian it 52,329 201,749 1,362,226 10 101,463 226 264
3 Polish pl 29,569 53,791 594,588 10 58,424 61 1
4 Russian ru 17,087 43,839 422,872 5 107,706 91 0
5 Czech cs 14,242 18,807 163,626 2 19,831 27 1
6 Estonian et 13,476 22,710 130,308 2 4,968 24 2
7 Portuguese pt 11,853 36,231 221,664 4 42,367 41 1
8 Ukrainian uk 10,815 39,627 145,546 5 19,601 56 0
9 Hebrew he 10,081 20,108 220,348 3 25,623 41 502
10 French fr 9,625 35,836 409,457 6 78,132 97 0
11 Persian fa 9,443 33,670 189,040 1 31,919 49 37
12 Spanish es 8,284 32,860 480,264 4 92,496 46 0
13 German de 7,917 20,421 522,202 3 67,626 35 16
14 Turkish tr 5,771 33,212 229,212 4 35,677 39 1
15 Serbian sr 5,597 12,535 55,285 4 6,094 15 1
16 Azerbaijani az 5,477 11,942 205,043 5 8,178 15 0
17 Esperanto eo 5,234 10,754 50,575 3 5,398 12 1
18 Slovak sk 4,514 7,423 100,866 2 7,657 8 2
19 Bosnian bs 4,167 8,144 62,156 1 8,621 9 278
20 Catalan ca 4,087 12,518 140,415 3 15,275 11 4
21 Arabic ar 4,045 52,607 248,714 4 32,102 31 0
22 Chinese zh 3,964 16,229 147,273 5 53,562 38 0
23 Finnish fi 3,416 7,065 99,448 3 9,497 13 2
24 Lithuanian lt 2,969 6,380 83,664 2 5,059 8 2
25 Slovenian sl 2,957 7,374 42,493 2 5,615 7 0
26 Indonesian id 2,613 6,232 39,415 3 19,576 21 5
27 Sundanese su 2,361 3,590 11,966 1 2,023 3 9
28 Bulgarian bg 2,315 11,244 90,938 3 11,168 9 5
29 Armenian hy 2,214 9,041 178,097 1 5,957 9 99
30 Croatian hr 2,166 4,184 33,210 2 5,951 12 4
31 Greek el 1,860 4,019 35,856 1 9,094 10 2
32 Norwegian Nynorsk nn 1,755 4,115 19,203 2 3,085 3 2
33 Swedish sv 1,541 4,032 36,655 2 13,014 11 1
34 Limburgish li 1,510 3,158 7,211 2 2,500 5 0
35 Hungarian hu 1,370 5,185 56,553 3 15,435 9 54
36 Igbo ig 1,356 6,977 22,248 1 948 5 0
37 Bangla bn 1,310 8,527 49,866 2 2,769 24 0
38 Dutch nl 1,213 5,889 93,666 4 16,458 17 1
39 Assamese as 1,165 2,820 20,745 3 758 19 0
40 Korean ko 1,110 4,264 33,743 2 6,824 10 4
41 Japanese ja 1,107 4,900 41,046 2 21,835 12 2
42 Yakut sah 1,080 1,765 8,388 1 953 3 0
43 Latin la 1,007 2,331 14,767 2 3,825 5 1
44 Tamil ta 983 3,972 38,390 1 4,471 6 8
45 Vietnamese vi 899 5,295 59,836 2 14,134 11 1
46 Uzbek uz 899 3,041 13,208 5 2,518 9 2
47 Telugu te 789 4,191 23,599 1 2,882 4 1
48 Hindi hi 783 5,986 29,954 1 5,119 14 0
49 Gun guw 589 1,073 5,951 1 572 7 0
50 Banjar bjn 573 1,118 4,593 2 367 5 0
51 Galician gl 552 2,989 22,203 1 3,439 5 0
52 Romanian ro 550 3,516 23,380 2 6,620 8 1
53 Gujarati gu 547 3,019 18,499 1 2,690 6 0
54 Urdu ur 516 2,969 12,204 3 2,769 5 9
55 Tagalog tl 501 4,357 30,861 2 563 2 0
56 Belarusian be 482 2,177 13,392 1 4,573 10 0
57 Welsh cy 369 1,408 8,556 1 2,745 5 0
58 Norwegian no 365 3,058 27,868 1 5,556 8 3
59 Thai th 348 8,129 55,329 2 6,031 10 0
60 Malayalam ml 322 3,457 22,074 2 5,367 5 1
61 Albanian sq 317 3,169 25,272 1 2,934 6 2
62 Basque eu 263 1,297 12,105 1 2,876 4 0
63 Kannada kn 261 1,113 9,405 2 2,170 4 0
64 Kurdish ku 248 1,155 11,981 1 4,038 5 1
65 Danish da 208 2,317 20,662 3 9,877 7 1
66 Georgian ka 194 4,514 33,001 1 5,164 7 22
67 Sanskrit sa 136 4,793 18,310 1 2,500 5 0
68 Icelandic is 133 1,281 12,743 1 2,589 4 1
69 Central Bikol bcl 109 1,854 18,801 2 653 8 0
70 Gorontalo gor 92 1,593 15,529 3 195 4 0
71 Breton br 50 918 5,479 1 2,152 5 0
72 Marathi mr 44 924 8,903 1 2,402 4 1
73 Afrikaans af 35 1,304 10,488 1 3,124 7 0
74 Kyrgyz ky 1 505 4,157 1 2,022 4 0
Totals Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikiquotes 343,793 1,141,536 11,371,740 194 4,307,770 1,895 1,358

The Alemannic, Bavarian and Rhine Franconian Wikipedias have a namespace dedicated to quotations (als:Spruch:Start, bar:Spruch:Start, pfl: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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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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