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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 53,989 213,650 3,588,739 16 3,198,094 578 0
2 Italian it 51,611 199,745 1,349,204 10 100,112 108 265
3 Polish pl 28,510 53,655 589,305 10 58,011 54 1
4 Russian ru 16,988 43,649 420,226 5 106,922 69 0
5 Czech cs 13,507 18,028 158,594 2 19,687 27 1
6 Estonian et 13,357 22,368 128,749 3 4,875 17 2
7 Portuguese pt 11,796 36,167 220,486 4 42,124 26 1
8 Ukrainian uk 10,525 39,248 142,029 5 19,215 35 0
9 Hebrew he 9,873 19,796 217,215 3 25,428 32 501
10 Persian fa 9,374 33,531 188,137 1 31,594 36 37
11 French fr 9,010 34,517 394,428 6 76,936 171 0
12 Spanish es 8,103 32,577 477,156 4 91,407 53 0
13 German de 7,912 20,397 521,818 3 66,849 26 16
14 Turkish tr 5,729 33,044 227,805 5 35,421 23 1
15 Serbian sr 5,512 12,417 53,566 4 6,010 5 1
16 Azerbaijani az 5,437 11,710 203,462 5 8,098 9 0
17 Esperanto eo 5,229 10,742 50,362 3 5,337 6 1
18 Slovak sk 4,514 7,421 100,649 2 7,608 7 2
19 Bosnian bs 4,166 8,146 62,136 1 8,580 5 278
20 Catalan ca 4,069 12,494 140,169 3 15,150 5 4
21 Chinese zh 3,958 16,200 146,554 5 53,209 36 0
22 Arabic ar 3,703 51,398 245,276 4 31,563 64 0
23 Finnish fi 3,416 7,066 99,351 3 9,435 7 2
24 Lithuanian lt 2,969 6,380 83,607 2 5,020 8 2
25 Slovenian sl 2,955 7,373 42,450 2 5,565 3 0
26 Indonesian id 2,566 6,092 38,850 3 19,430 25 5
27 Sundanese su 2,338 3,523 11,871 1 1,986 3 9
28 Bulgarian bg 2,314 11,244 90,873 3 11,089 6 5
29 Armenian hy 2,210 9,036 178,016 1 5,906 9 99
30 Croatian hr 2,158 4,166 33,109 2 5,898 4 4
31 Greek el 1,856 4,011 35,675 1 9,036 5 2
32 Norwegian Nynorsk nn 1,755 4,114 19,191 2 3,055 2 2
33 Swedish sv 1,539 4,025 36,547 2 12,942 10 1
34 Limburgish li 1,500 3,148 7,186 2 2,466 2 0
35 Hungarian hu 1,373 5,187 56,480 3 15,344 10 54
36 Igbo ig 1,357 6,982 22,220 1 884 13 0
37 Bangla bn 1,276 8,361 47,281 2 2,462 30 0
38 Dutch nl 1,193 5,862 93,394 4 16,199 21 1
39 Assamese as 1,159 2,697 20,068 3 667 26 0
40 Korean ko 1,108 4,259 33,690 2 6,772 16 4
41 Japanese ja 1,095 4,888 40,909 2 21,649 13 2
42 Yakut sah 1,078 1,762 8,365 1 929 3 0
43 Latin la 1,007 2,332 14,756 2 3,785 8 1
44 Tamil ta 983 3,970 38,346 1 4,434 4 8
45 Vietnamese vi 840 5,229 59,604 1 14,004 18 1
46 Telugu te 787 4,176 23,505 1 2,832 2 1
47 Hindi hi 769 5,916 29,536 1 5,062 11 0
48 Uzbek uz 659 2,574 11,823 5 2,444 9 2
49 Gun guw 577 1,024 5,635 1 535 4 0
50 Galician gl 552 2,989 22,172 1 3,407 2 0
51 Gujarati gu 548 2,988 18,445 1 2,660 2 0
52 Banjar bjn 532 920 4,096 2 316 14 0
53 Urdu ur 521 2,963 12,046 2 2,739 5 9
54 Romanian ro 508 3,509 23,295 2 6,570 9 1
55 Tagalog tl 502 4,326 30,553 1 527 19 0
56 Belarusian be 461 2,150 13,317 1 4,520 4 0
57 Welsh cy 369 1,408 8,542 1 2,714 2 0
58 Norwegian no 363 3,053 27,792 1 5,514 4 3
59 Thai th 338 8,138 54,350 2 5,975 7 0
60 Malayalam ml 322 3,456 22,046 2 5,337 2 1
61 Albanian sq 319 3,170 25,239 2 2,900 2 2
62 Basque eu 263 1,295 12,076 1 2,844 3 0
63 Kannada kn 261 1,112 9,365 2 2,142 2 0
64 Kurdish ku 247 1,153 11,962 1 4,007 2 1
65 Georgian ka 194 4,515 32,971 1 5,128 6 22
66 Danish da 166 2,074 19,180 3 9,813 2 1
67 Sanskrit sa 135 4,780 18,244 1 2,454 6 0
68 Icelandic is 133 1,280 12,731 1 2,564 2 1
69 Central Bikol bcl 110 1,847 18,762 1 604 4 0
70 Gorontalo gor 77 1,259 13,576 3 132 23 0
71 Breton br 50 917 5,464 1 2,125 1 0
72 Marathi mr 44 926 8,889 1 2,376 2 1
73 Afrikaans af 35 1,301 10,465 1 3,081 7 0
74 Kyrgyz ky 1 504 4,137 1 1,997 3 0
Totals Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikiquotes 336,760 1,128,330 11,248,118 194 4,284,506 1,799 1,358

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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2020

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2019

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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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