Wikiquote
Year Three. And for every language projects the 1st anniversary of subdomain creation.
Wikiquote is a multilingual online open-content compendium of quotations. All contents are released under GFDL in the same manner as other Wikimedia projects.
It began with an anonymous post on meta on June 27, 2003.
a proposed idea: Wikiqoutionary an Enyclopeadia of Quotes. The temp page can be found here: [1] - fonzy.
- Wo Wikipedia was a not used Wiki which would host Wolof Wikipedia, an African language.
And it was so. It started as quote.wikipedia.org on July 2003 and later got its own domain, wikiquote.org.
Development
Wikiquote had quotations with over 2,500 articles in six languages on June 2004, six months after its first proposal under a domain wikiquote org. Some language-speakers other than English requested their own subdomain and in July it was so. Then some languages like German, French, Italian, Polish Wikiquote started.
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 are 24 Wikiquote projects. There were almost 6,500 articles in total on December 2004. At the end of May 2005 the number of articles in total reached 14,000.
The largest Wikiquote is English with over 5,000 articles currently, following German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Bulgarian, all six has over 2,000 articles.
Statistics
See this page for complete statistics.
Wikiquotes with over 1000 articles
On 20:45, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
| Language | Wiki | Articles | Registered users |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | en | 5,813 articles | 7,139 users |
| German (Deutsch) | de | 4,771 articles | 1,480 users |
| French (Français) | fr | 2,880 articles | 579 users |
| Italian (Italiano) | it | 2,429 articles | 383 users |
| Polish (Polski) | pl | 2,391 articles | 495 users |
| Bulgarian (Български) | bg | 2,286 articles | 151 users |
| Portuguese (Português) | pt | 2,285 articles | 252 users |
| Russian (Русский) | ru | 1,068 articles | 135 users |
| Spanish (Español) | es | 1,057 articles | 641 users |
| Slovenian (Slovenščina) | sl | 1.002 articles | 14 users |
Wikiquotes with over 100 articles
On January 26, 2006
| Language | Wiki | Articles | Registered users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bosnian (Bosanski) | bs | 908 articles | 22 users |
| Slovak (Slovenčina) | sk | 746 articles | 30 users |
| Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) | id | 569 articles | 32 users |
| Hebrew (עברית) | he | 507 articles | 247 users |
| Japanese (日本語) | ja | 488 articles | 247 users |
| Norwegian (Norsk) | no | 314 articles | 56 users |
| Hungarian (Magyar) | hu | 306 articles | 56 users |
| Chinese (中文) | zh | 256 articles | 344 users |
| Dutch (Nederlands) | nl | 250 articles | 140 users |
| Swedish (Svenska) | sv | 196 articles | 83 users |
| Esperanto | eo | 191 articles | 30 users |
| Arabic (العربي) | ar | 179 articles | 52 users |
| Czech (Ceská) | cs | 146 articles | 62 users |
| Finnish (Suomeksi) | fi | 135 articles | 91 users |
| Persian (فارسی) | fa | 119 articles | 47 users |
| Galician (Galego) | gl | 116 articles | 25 users |
Others
On January 18, 2006
Milestones
Recomended article-count milestones are 100, 500, 1k, 2k, 5k increments to 20k, 10k increments to 100k, 25k increments to 250k, 50k increments to 500k, and 100k increments to 1000k.
Report to Wikimedia News are also recommended.
- End of March, 2005 - reached 10 000 in total
- June 17, 2005
- 1,000 articles - Bulgarian Wikiquote
- 100 articles - Russian Wikiquote
- June 23, 2005
- 2,500 articles - French Wikiquote with fr:Paolo Cohelo by an anon.
- June 29, 2005
- In this day, Wikiquote was ranked one of top 5,000 sites on Alexa.com; its highest rank as ever as reached.
- August 21, 2005
- 1,000 articles - Italian Wikiquote with Silvio Pellico
- September 23, 2005
- 2,000 articles - Bulgarian Wikiquote with Таралежите се раждат без бодли
- November 4, 2005
- 5000 articles - English wikiquote
- November 11, 2005
- 100 articles - Hungarian Wikiquote with Star Trek
- 2,000 articles - Polish Wikiquote with Krąg
- November 26, 2005
- 2,000 articles - Italian Wikiquote with Emilio Cecchi
- December 23, 2005
- 2,000 articles - Portuguese Wikiquote with Conspiração
- December 28, 2005
- 1,000 articles - Spanish Wikquote with Andre Guide
- January 8, 2006
- 500 articles - Slovak Wikiquote
- January 11, 2006
- 500 articles - Bosnian Wikiquote
- January 12, 2006
- 100 articles - Galician Wikiquote with Baudelaire
- January 15, 2006
- 500 articles - Hebrew Wikiquote