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Wikiquote be multilingual online open-content compendium of quotations. Dem dey release all content but copyrighted quotations under de GFDL den CC-BY-SA for de same manner insyd as oda Wikimedia Foundation projects.

De beginning

E begin plus post by Fonzy for June 27, 2003.

idea dem propose: Wikiquotionary Encyclopedia of Quotes. Dem fi find de temp page hie – fonzy.

E start as quote.wikipedia.org for July 10, 2003 wey later e get ein own domain, wikiquote.org for August 25, 2003.

Development

Wikiquote get quotations plus ova 2,500 articles for six languages for June 2004 insyd, one year afta ein first proposal under de domain wikiquote.org. Sam language-speakers oda dan English request dema own subdomain den for July 17, dem create dem, dey start Wikiquotes for languages insyd lyk German, French, Italian den Polish.

De Wikiquote project dey expand slowly buh steadily. For de end of September na dem get about 15 Wikiquotes, both large den small. For December 1, na dem get 24 Wikiquote projects. Na dem get almost 6,500 articles in total for December 2004 insyd. For de end of May 2005 de total number of articles reach 14,000. E include nearly 30,000 articles for ova 30 languages for February 2006 insyd, ova 60,000 articles for 87 languages for May 2007 insyd den ova 80,000 articles for 89 languages for June 2008 insyd.

Since de last update for June 2008, de number of languages remain stable, while de number of articles double. As for 10 May 2014, about eleven years afta ein creation, de Wikiquote project now dey include ova 168,000 articles for 89 languages insyd. Twenty-eight language versions get more dan 1,000 articles. Fifty-six language versions get 100 anaa more articles.

De largest Wikiquotes be Italian den English, plus ova 48,000 den 46,000 articles respectively. Third be Polish Wikiquote, plus more dan 24,000 articles.

Challenge

Samtyms de Wikiquote project dey face troubles den challenges. Na one of de most remarkable challenges be copyright issues for de French Wikiquote top. To avoid problems, for March 2006 de Foundation decide to take am down, erase all ein material den relaunch am. For details, spy de announcement from de Foundation.

Howeva, devoted editors rescue de situation. Dem settle dema charter den polices, wey na dem relaunch French Wikiquote for December 4, 2006.

List of Wikiquotes

Spy dis page for complete statistics.

Dem transclude table from Wikiquote/Table.

These statistics are updated several times a day. You might need to purge the cache to see the latest numbers.
No Language Wiki Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
1 English en 67,817 239,146 3,957,976 15 3,352,962 1,156 0
2 Italian it 55,716 210,320 1,421,075 8 107,724 168 262
3 Polish pl 31,822 56,455 645,408 9 61,651 89 1
4 Russian ru 18,015 45,754 445,714 5 113,632 102 0
5 Czech cs 15,909 20,530 168,374 2 20,777 36 1
6 Estonian et 13,698 23,524 135,619 2 5,639 15 2
7 Ukrainian uk 12,365 42,353 160,930 5 21,188 30 0
8 Portuguese pt 12,073 36,628 226,201 4 44,185 62 1
9 Hebrew he 11,449 21,827 238,489 3 27,488 50 513
10 French fr 10,942 39,209 462,183 6 83,343 74 0
11 Persian fa 9,558 33,994 192,519 1 33,423 34 37
12 Spanish es 8,840 33,212 503,630 3 96,770 55 0
13 German de 7,932 20,563 524,006 3 69,674 20 16
14 Serbian sr 6,075 13,456 68,065 5 6,631 16 1
15 Turkish tr 5,874 34,864 239,282 3 37,710 42 1
16 Esperanto eo 5,501 11,509 53,743 2 5,720 7 1
17 Azerbaijani az 5,501 12,598 206,635 5 8,700 9 0
18 Slovak sk 4,539 7,467 101,268 2 7,957 7 2
19 Catalan ca 4,256 14,212 146,223 3 16,100 8 4
20 Bosnian bs 4,157 8,112 62,383 1 8,989 9 271
21 Chinese zh 4,007 16,529 154,622 5 56,181 59 0
22 Arabic ar 3,781 56,829 263,422 4 34,524 50 0
23 Indonesian id 3,639 10,526 55,696 5 21,139 29 5
24 Finnish fi 3,420 7,128 100,420 3 10,082 20 2
25 Lithuanian lt 2,984 6,404 84,331 2 5,362 7 2
26 Slovenian sl 2,979 7,410 42,951 2 5,903 5 0
27 Bangla bn 2,896 13,525 84,082 2 5,996 26 0
28 Sundanese su 2,449 4,058 16,635 1 2,233 4 6
29 Armenian hy 2,378 9,245 179,315 1 6,296 6 99
30 Bulgarian bg 2,307 11,382 91,976 3 11,632 12 5
31 Croatian hr 2,183 4,214 33,623 2 6,265 10 1
32 Igbo ig 2,146 11,919 33,220 1 1,464 47 0
33 Greek el 1,921 4,142 38,484 1 9,487 6 2
34 Uzbek uz 1,919 9,565 31,665 5 2,954 7 2
35 Norwegian Nynorsk nn 1,755 4,117 19,276 2 3,317 3 2
36 Limburgish li 1,591 3,256 7,400 2 2,695 7 0
37 Swedish sv 1,550 4,063 37,275 2 13,698 8 1
38 Vietnamese vi 1,526 5,970 63,144 3 14,709 13 1
39 Banjar bjn 1,439 3,441 10,759 3 813 6 0
40 Hungarian hu 1,372 5,149 56,974 3 15,885 7 54
41 Assamese as 1,345 3,414 27,327 1 1,211 6 0
42 Dutch nl 1,306 6,018 94,953 3 17,043 9 1
43 Japanese ja 1,182 5,003 42,583 3 23,258 20 2
44 Korean ko 1,121 4,299 34,719 2 7,216 10 4
45 Yakut sah 1,100 1,801 8,610 1 1,126 4 0
46 Latin la 1,015 2,353 14,887 1 4,043 4 1
47 Tamil ta 984 3,990 38,536 1 4,823 4 8
48 Hindi hi 935 6,763 33,115 1 5,511 13 0
49 Telugu te 884 4,952 26,561 1 3,205 5 1
50 Gun guw 812 1,372 10,092 3 773 6 0
51 Romanian ro 645 3,671 24,137 2 6,931 10 1
52 Thai th 634 8,307 57,736 3 6,427 8 0
53 Urdu ur 614 3,609 15,060 3 3,031 11 2
54 Galician gl 556 2,962 22,339 1 3,625 4 0
55 Tagalog tl 512 4,418 32,018 1 792 7 0
56 Gujarati gu 511 3,186 18,760 1 2,864 3 0
57 Georgian ka 504 5,004 56,231 1 5,435 12 22
58 Belarusian be 492 2,178 14,023 1 4,856 7 0
59 Kannada kn 380 2,285 15,551 2 2,385 4 0
60 Norwegian no 375 3,109 28,439 1 5,851 6 3
61 Welsh cy 371 1,407 8,635 1 2,935 3 0
62 Nigerian Pidgin pcm 363 591 7,559 4 260 6 0
63 Malayalam ml 335 3,708 26,472 3 5,695 22 0
64 Albanian sq 317 3,175 25,568 1 3,120 3 2
65 Basque eu 271 1,301 12,288 1 3,066 6 0
66 Kurdish ku 253 1,159 12,057 1 4,223 4 0
67 Malay ms 236 1,517 7,259 2 591 9 0
68 Danish da 232 2,361 21,047 3 10,179 4 1
69 Central Bikol bcl 159 2,385 20,413 1 916 7 0
70 Sanskrit sa 139 4,814 18,439 1 2,759 3 0
71 Icelandic is 134 1,285 12,810 1 2,775 3 1
72 Gorontalo gor 125 1,651 15,853 1 512 6 0
73 Breton br 50 920 5,531 1 2,386 4 0
74 Marathi mr 44 923 8,957 1 2,575 4 1
75 Afrikaans af 35 1,309 10,750 1 3,373 4 0
76 Minangkabau min 2 1,681 3,947 1 102 13 0
77 Kyrgyz ky 1 508 4,221 1 2,218 5 0
Totals Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikiquotes 379,255 1,233,994 12,202,476 197 4,518,989 2,580 1,345

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

Article-count milestones dem recommend be 100, 500, 1k, 2k, 5k increments go 50k, 10k increments go 100k, 25k increments go 250k, 50k increments go 500k, den 100k increments go 1000k.

Dey sanso dey recommend reporting go Wikimedia News.

Dem fi find past milestones for de archives insyd.

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Dem create Alemannic Wikiquote as separate namespace within Alemannic Wikipedia: [[Alemannischi Spruchsammlig (Wikiquote)|Alemannischi Spruchsammlig (Wikiquote)]].

Fresh Wikiquote

If you wan make you launch Wikiquote project for your favorite language insyd, you fi request am, dey fill sam requirements. Spy Requests for fresh languages for further information.

Project-wide communications

Chaw language projects of Wikiquote get ein discussion place for dema wikis top. If e be hard give you make you find am, try talk:Main Page for each wiki top.

De global Wikiquote community dey utilize sam communication channels.

Pages dem relate

Wikiquote coordination

History

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