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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 54,579 214,724 3,599,173 16 3,200,909 599 0
2 Italian it 51,758 200,138 1,351,890 10 100,413 191 265
3 Polish pl 28,772 53,671 590,088 10 58,097 55 1
4 Russian ru 17,037 43,738 420,729 5 107,031 68 0
5 Czech cs 13,678 18,208 159,579 2 19,710 31 1
6 Estonian et 13,386 22,428 128,998 3 4,891 18 2
7 Portuguese pt 11,811 36,103 220,785 4 42,168 42 1
8 Ukrainian uk 10,569 39,307 142,468 5 19,315 51 0
9 Hebrew he 9,927 19,879 217,981 3 25,461 40 502
10 Persian fa 9,394 33,576 188,342 1 31,654 36 37
11 French fr 9,179 34,974 398,577 6 77,269 193 0
12 Spanish es 8,127 32,611 477,736 4 91,732 51 0
13 German de 7,913 20,404 521,899 3 67,052 33 16
14 Turkish tr 5,732 33,067 228,006 5 35,460 28 1
15 Serbian sr 5,515 12,431 53,735 4 6,020 18 1
16 Azerbaijani az 5,447 11,767 203,882 5 8,112 17 0
17 Esperanto eo 5,229 10,744 50,390 3 5,352 10 1
18 Slovak sk 4,514 7,423 100,697 2 7,618 13 2
19 Bosnian bs 4,166 8,148 62,145 1 8,585 10 278
20 Catalan ca 4,069 12,494 140,183 3 15,175 13 4
21 Chinese zh 3,960 16,209 146,716 5 53,272 43 0
22 Arabic ar 3,788 51,571 246,030 4 31,680 54 0
23 Finnish fi 3,416 7,065 99,399 3 9,442 16 2
24 Lithuanian lt 2,969 6,380 83,620 2 5,022 11 2
25 Slovenian sl 2,955 7,373 42,462 2 5,577 9 0
26 Indonesian id 2,590 6,124 39,057 3 19,464 28 5
27 Sundanese su 2,338 3,524 11,878 1 1,988 6 9
28 Bulgarian bg 2,315 11,242 90,893 3 11,096 12 5
29 Armenian hy 2,211 9,037 178,049 1 5,911 12 99
30 Croatian hr 2,160 4,173 33,136 2 5,906 12 4
31 Greek el 1,858 4,015 35,710 1 9,041 8 2
32 Norwegian Nynorsk nn 1,755 4,115 19,198 2 3,058 7 2
33 Swedish sv 1,539 4,025 36,567 2 12,955 14 1
34 Limburgish li 1,501 3,150 7,194 2 2,471 8 0
35 Hungarian hu 1,367 5,183 56,499 3 15,356 11 54
36 Igbo ig 1,356 6,981 22,237 1 899 16 0
37 Bangla bn 1,287 8,387 48,688 2 2,525 34 0
38 Dutch nl 1,194 5,868 93,447 4 16,288 21 1
39 Assamese as 1,160 2,710 20,138 3 676 27 0
40 Korean ko 1,109 4,262 33,706 2 6,779 14 4
41 Japanese ja 1,097 4,891 40,932 2 21,678 20 2
42 Yakut sah 1,078 1,762 8,373 1 931 7 0
43 Latin la 1,007 2,332 14,764 2 3,791 8 1
44 Tamil ta 983 3,971 38,355 1 4,438 8 8
45 Vietnamese vi 857 5,253 59,714 2 14,028 24 1
46 Telugu te 787 4,182 23,545 1 2,840 11 1
47 Hindi hi 769 5,929 29,606 1 5,068 17 0
48 Uzbek uz 686 2,648 12,046 5 2,453 13 2
49 Gun guw 578 1,027 5,644 1 539 8 0
50 Galician gl 552 2,989 22,187 1 3,409 7 0
51 Romanian ro 549 3,512 23,350 2 6,574 14 1
52 Gujarati gu 547 2,991 18,459 1 2,661 6 0
53 Banjar bjn 541 967 4,286 2 323 17 0
54 Urdu ur 519 2,970 12,099 3 2,744 12 9
55 Tagalog tl 502 4,326 30,566 1 533 6 0
56 Belarusian be 462 2,154 13,325 1 4,532 7 0
57 Welsh cy 369 1,409 8,551 1 2,717 7 0
58 Norwegian no 364 3,054 27,803 1 5,520 10 3
59 Thai th 328 8,051 54,414 2 5,984 14 0
60 Malayalam ml 322 3,457 22,057 2 5,341 9 1
61 Albanian sq 317 3,170 25,256 1 2,905 5 2
62 Basque eu 263 1,298 12,096 1 2,848 7 0
63 Kannada kn 261 1,113 9,375 2 2,142 8 0
64 Kurdish ku 248 1,155 11,973 1 4,012 7 1
65 Georgian ka 194 4,515 32,982 1 5,132 11 22
66 Danish da 166 2,070 19,193 3 9,820 7 1
67 Sanskrit sa 135 4,783 18,272 1 2,455 9 0
68 Icelandic is 133 1,281 12,738 1 2,566 5 1
69 Central Bikol bcl 110 1,847 18,767 1 609 8 0
70 Gorontalo gor 91 1,541 15,161 3 141 12 0
71 Breton br 50 919 5,471 1 2,127 5 0
72 Marathi mr 44 927 8,897 1 2,379 7 1
73 Afrikaans af 35 1,304 10,473 1 3,083 11 0
74 Kyrgyz ky 1 506 4,151 1 1,998 8 0
Totals Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikiquotes 338,575 1,131,533 11,276,788 195 4,289,751 2,215 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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2012

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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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