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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

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

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

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

See this page for complete statistics.

Table transcluded 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 англисче en 67,811 239,133 3,957,895 15 3,352,942 1,156 0
2 италиянча it 55,716 210,320 1,421,043 8 107,722 168 262
3 полякча pl 31,822 56,455 645,402 9 61,651 89 1
4 орусча ru 18,015 45,754 445,713 5 113,632 102 0
5 чехче cs 15,909 20,530 168,373 2 20,777 36 1
6 эстончо et 13,698 23,524 135,618 2 5,639 15 2
7 украинче uk 12,365 42,353 160,930 5 21,188 30 0
8 португалча pt 12,074 36,615 226,161 4 44,184 62 1
9 ивритче he 11,449 21,827 238,486 3 27,488 50 513
10 французча fr 10,942 39,209 462,182 6 83,342 74 0
11 фарсча fa 9,558 33,994 192,519 1 33,423 34 37
12 испанча es 8,840 33,211 503,629 3 96,769 55 0
13 немисче de 7,932 20,563 524,006 3 69,674 20 16
14 сербче sr 6,075 13,456 68,065 5 6,631 16 1
15 түркчө tr 5,874 34,864 239,282 3 37,709 42 1
16 эсперанто eo 5,501 11,509 53,743 2 5,720 7 1
17 азербайжанча az 5,501 12,598 206,635 5 8,700 9 0
18 словакча sk 4,539 7,467 101,268 2 7,957 7 2
19 каталончо ca 4,256 14,212 146,223 3 16,100 8 4
20 боснийче bs 4,157 8,112 62,383 1 8,989 9 271
21 кытайча zh 4,007 16,529 154,622 5 56,181 59 0
22 арабча ar 3,781 56,829 263,326 4 34,524 50 0
23 индонезияча id 3,639 10,526 55,696 5 21,139 29 5
24 финче fi 3,420 7,128 100,420 3 10,082 20 2
25 литовчо lt 2,984 6,404 84,331 2 5,362 7 2
26 словенче sl 2,979 7,410 42,951 2 5,903 5 0
27 бангладешче bn 2,896 13,525 84,082 2 5,995 26 0
28 сунданча su 2,449 4,058 16,635 1 2,233 4 6
29 армянча hy 2,378 9,245 179,315 1 6,296 6 99
30 болгарча bg 2,307 11,382 91,976 3 11,632 12 5
31 хорватча hr 2,183 4,214 33,616 2 6,265 10 1
32 игбочо ig 2,146 11,918 33,217 1 1,464 47 0
33 грекче el 1,921 4,142 38,484 1 9,487 6 2
34 өзбекче uz 1,919 9,565 31,665 5 2,954 7 2
35 норвежче (нинорск) nn 1,755 4,117 19,276 2 3,317 3 2
36 лимбургиче li 1,591 3,256 7,400 2 2,695 7 0
37 шведче sv 1,550 4,063 37,275 2 13,697 8 1
38 вьетнамча 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 венгерче hu 1,372 5,149 56,974 3 15,885 7 54
41 ассамча as 1,345 3,414 27,327 1 1,211 6 0
42 голландча nl 1,306 6,018 94,953 3 17,043 9 1
43 жапончо ja 1,182 5,003 42,583 3 23,258 20 2
44 корейче ko 1,121 4,299 34,719 2 7,216 10 4
45 сахача sah 1,100 1,801 8,610 1 1,126 4 0
46 латынча la 1,015 2,353 14,887 1 4,043 4 1
47 тамилче ta 984 3,990 38,536 1 4,823 4 8
48 хиндиче hi 935 6,763 33,115 1 5,511 13 0
49 телугуча te 884 4,952 26,561 1 3,205 5 1
50 Gun guw 812 1,372 10,092 3 773 6 0
51 румынча ro 645 3,671 24,137 2 6,931 10 1
52 тайча th 634 8,307 57,736 3 6,427 8 0
53 урдуча ur 614 3,609 15,059 3 3,031 11 2
54 галисияча gl 556 2,962 22,339 1 3,625 4 0
55 Tagalog tl 512 4,418 32,018 1 792 7 0
56 гужаратча gu 511 3,186 18,760 1 2,864 3 0
57 грузинче ka 504 5,004 56,231 1 5,435 12 22
58 беларусча be 492 2,178 14,023 1 4,856 7 0
59 каннадача kn 380 2,285 15,551 2 2,385 4 0
60 норвежче no 375 3,109 28,439 1 5,851 6 3
61 уелшче cy 371 1,407 8,635 1 2,935 3 0
62 аргындашкан тил (Нигерия) pcm 363 591 7,559 4 260 6 0
63 малайаламча ml 335 3,708 26,472 3 5,695 22 0
64 албанча sq 317 3,175 25,568 1 3,120 3 2
65 баскча eu 271 1,301 12,288 1 3,066 6 0
66 курдча ku 253 1,159 12,057 1 4,223 4 0
67 малайча ms 236 1,517 7,259 2 591 9 0
68 датча 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 санскритче sa 139 4,814 18,439 1 2,759 3 0
71 исландча is 134 1,285 12,810 1 2,775 3 1
72 горонталочо gor 125 1,651 15,853 1 512 6 0
73 бретончо br 50 920 5,531 1 2,386 4 0
74 маратиче mr 44 923 8,957 1 2,575 4 1
75 африкаанча af 35 1,309 10,750 1 3,373 4 0
76 минанкабауча min 2 1,678 3,933 1 101 13 0
77 кыргызча ky 1 508 4,221 1 2,218 5 0
Totals Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikiquotes 379,250 1,233,963 12,202,188 197 4,518,960 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

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 Alemannisch Wikiquote has been created as separate namespace within Alemannisch Wikipedia: Alemannischi Spruchsammlig (Wikiquote).

New Wikiquote

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

Most of language projects of Wikiquote have its discussion place on their wikis. If it is hard for you to find it, try visiting "Talk:Main Page" on each wiki.

The global Wikiquote community utilizes some communication channels.

Wikiquote coordination

History

Essays

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