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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 54,620 214,821 3,600,598 16 3,201,239 605 0
2 Italian it 51,771 200,190 1,352,161 10 100,450 207 265
3 Polish pl 28,877 53,672 590,262 10 58,126 61 1
4 Russian ru 17,040 43,744 420,797 5 107,051 67 0
5 Czech cs 13,705 18,235 159,742 2 19,712 32 1
6 Estonian et 13,387 22,433 129,016 3 4,891 20 2
7 Portuguese pt 11,812 36,105 220,801 4 42,172 42 1
8 Ukrainian uk 10,579 39,321 142,577 5 19,322 54 0
9 Hebrew he 9,931 19,886 218,064 3 25,467 40 502
10 Persian fa 9,394 33,577 188,354 1 31,660 32 37
11 French fr 9,330 35,139 399,955 6 77,324 203 0
12 Spanish es 8,135 32,617 477,813 4 91,764 52 0
13 German de 7,913 20,404 521,902 3 67,081 32 16
14 Turkish tr 5,732 33,068 228,020 5 35,463 29 1
15 Serbian sr 5,526 12,449 53,842 4 6,022 19 1
16 Azerbaijani az 5,451 11,774 203,986 5 8,113 19 0
17 Esperanto eo 5,229 10,744 50,392 3 5,353 13 1
18 Slovak sk 4,514 7,423 100,699 2 7,618 15 2
19 Bosnian bs 4,166 8,148 62,146 1 8,586 12 278
20 Catalan ca 4,069 12,495 140,184 3 15,185 14 4
21 Chinese zh 3,959 16,209 146,732 5 53,282 41 0
22 Arabic ar 3,788 51,603 246,098 4 31,694 54 0
23 Finnish fi 3,416 7,065 99,406 3 9,443 19 2
24 Lithuanian lt 2,969 6,380 83,624 2 5,025 15 2
25 Slovenian sl 2,955 7,373 42,462 2 5,577 10 0
26 Indonesian id 2,590 6,124 39,059 3 19,467 32 5
27 Sundanese su 2,338 3,524 11,879 1 1,988 9 9
28 Bulgarian bg 2,315 11,242 90,895 3 11,098 15 5
29 Armenian hy 2,211 9,037 178,050 1 5,912 14 99
30 Croatian hr 2,161 4,175 33,145 2 5,906 13 4
31 Greek el 1,858 4,015 35,715 1 9,042 12 2
32 Norwegian Nynorsk nn 1,755 4,115 19,199 2 3,058 9 2
33 Swedish sv 1,539 4,025 36,572 2 12,956 14 1
34 Limburgish li 1,502 3,151 7,198 2 2,472 10 0
35 Hungarian hu 1,367 5,183 56,501 3 15,358 13 54
36 Igbo ig 1,356 6,981 22,240 1 901 18 0
37 Bangla bn 1,291 8,394 48,774 2 2,531 33 0
38 Dutch nl 1,194 5,868 93,449 4 16,300 23 1
39 Assamese as 1,160 2,714 20,145 3 677 28 0
40 Korean ko 1,109 4,262 33,709 2 6,780 14 4
41 Japanese ja 1,097 4,891 40,939 2 21,680 21 2
42 Yakut sah 1,078 1,762 8,373 1 931 7 0
43 Latin la 1,007 2,332 14,765 2 3,791 9 1
44 Tamil ta 983 3,971 38,357 1 4,439 10 8
45 Vietnamese vi 859 5,255 59,718 2 14,037 23 1
46 Telugu te 787 4,182 23,546 1 2,840 14 1
47 Hindi hi 770 5,931 29,613 1 5,069 19 0
48 Uzbek uz 687 2,648 12,050 5 2,455 14 2
49 Gun guw 578 1,029 5,657 1 540 10 0
50 Galician gl 552 2,989 22,190 1 3,409 9 0
51 Romanian ro 549 3,512 23,351 2 6,574 16 1
52 Gujarati gu 547 2,992 18,461 1 2,662 7 0
53 Banjar bjn 546 1,028 4,404 2 323 16 0
54 Urdu ur 519 2,970 12,102 3 2,744 14 9
55 Tagalog tl 502 4,326 30,573 1 533 7 0
56 Belarusian be 462 2,154 13,326 1 4,532 9 0
57 Welsh cy 369 1,409 8,552 1 2,717 9 0
58 Norwegian no 364 3,055 27,805 1 5,521 11 3
59 Thai th 327 8,052 54,689 2 5,985 16 0
60 Malayalam ml 322 3,457 22,058 2 5,341 12 1
61 Albanian sq 317 3,170 25,257 1 2,905 9 2
62 Basque eu 263 1,298 12,099 1 2,849 9 0
63 Kannada kn 261 1,113 9,376 2 2,142 10 0
64 Kurdish ku 248 1,155 11,976 1 4,013 9 1
65 Georgian ka 194 4,515 32,983 1 5,132 11 22
66 Danish da 166 2,070 19,194 3 9,821 10 1
67 Sanskrit sa 135 4,785 18,283 1 2,459 12 0
68 Icelandic is 133 1,281 12,739 1 2,566 7 1
69 Central Bikol bcl 110 1,847 18,768 1 613 10 0
70 Gorontalo gor 91 1,558 15,288 3 141 13 0
71 Breton br 50 919 5,472 1 2,127 7 0
72 Marathi mr 44 927 8,898 1 2,379 9 1
73 Afrikaans af 35 1,304 10,474 1 3,084 11 0
74 Kyrgyz ky 1 506 4,152 1 1,998 8 0
Totals Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikiquotes 338,967 1,132,078 11,281,651 195 4,290,418 2,352 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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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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