| Wikiquote | |
| Collapsible: | yes |
| Commercial: | No |
| Type: | Quotation repository |
| Language: | Multilingual (active) |
| Registration: | Optional |
| Owner: | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Author: | Daniel Alston, Brion Vibber and the Wikimedia community |
| Current Status: | active |
Wikiquote is part of a family of wiki-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation using MediaWiki software. The project's objective is to produce collaboratively a vast reference of quotations from prominent people, books, films, proverbs, etc. and writings about them. The website aims to be as accurate as possible regarding the provenance and sourcing of the quotations.
Initially, the project operated only in English from July 2003, expanding to include other languages in July 2004. As of, there are active Wikiquote sites for languages[1] comprising a total of articles and recently active editors.[2]
The Wikiquote site originated in 2003.[3] The article creation milestones are taken from WikiStats.[4]
| Date | Event | |
|---|---|---|
| Temporarily put on the Wolof language Wikipedia (wo.wikipedia.org). | ||
| Own subdomain created (quote.wikipedia.org). | ||
| Own domain created (wikiquote.org). | ||
| New languages added. | ||
| English edition reaches 2,000 pages. | ||
| Reaches 24 languages. | ||
| Reaches 10,000 pages in total. English edition has close to 3,000 pages. | ||
| Reaches 34 languages, including one classical (Latin) and one artificial (Esperanto) | ||
| English Wikiquote reaches 5,000 pages. | ||
| French Wikiquote taken down for legal reasons. | ||
| French Wikiquote restarted. | ||
| English Wikiquote reaches 10,000 pages. | ||
| Reaches 40 languages. | ||
| Reaches a total of 100,000 articles among all languages. | ||
| Reaches a total of 200,000 articles among all languages. | ||
| Introduced in the curriculum of national partnerships between schools and non-profits (Italy[5]) |
Wikiquote is one of few online quotation collections that provides the opportunity for visitors to contribute[6] and the very few which strive to provide exact sources for each quotation as well as corrections of misattributed quotations. Wikiquote pages are cross-linked to articles about the notable personalities on Wikipedia.[7]
As of, there are Wikiquote sites for languages of which are active and are closed. The active sites have articles and the closed sites have articles. There are registered users of which are recently active.
The top ten Wikiquote language projects by mainspace article count:
| No. | Language | ISO | Good | Total | Edits | Admins | Users | Active users | Files |
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