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'''Wikiquote''' is a multilingual online open-content compendium of quotations. All content but copyrighted quotations is released under the [[<tvar name=gfdl>Special:MyLanguage/GNU Free Documentation License</tvar>|GFDL]] and [[:en:CC-BY-SA|CC-BY-SA]] in the [[<tvar name=wmf-terms>WMF:Terms of Use</tvar>|same manner]] as other [[<tvar name=wmf>Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation</tvar>|Wikimedia Foundation]] projects.


==The beginning== <!--T:3-->
<small>Languages: {{Wikiquote/Languages}}</small>


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'''Wikiquote''' is a multilingual online open-content compendium of quotations. All contents but copyrighted quotations are released under the [[GNU Free Documentation License|GFDL]] and [[CC-BY-SA]] in the [[wmf:Terms of Use|same manner]] as other [[Wikimedia Foundation]] projects.
It began with [[<tvar name="post">Special:PermanentLink/8180</tvar>|a post]] by [[<tvar name="user-fonzy">User:Fonzy~metawiki</tvar>|Fonzy]] on June 27, 2003.


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== The beginning ==
''a proposed idea: Wikiquotionary an Encyclopedia of Quotes. The temp page can be found [<tvar name=temp-home>//wo.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?HomePage</tvar> here] – fonzy''.


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It began with an anonymous post on [[Meta:About|Meta]] on June 27, 2003.
It started as <tvar name=wq-original><nowiki>quote.wikipedia.org</nowiki></tvar> on July 10, 2003 and later got its own domain, '''[[<tvar name=wq>Wikiquote:</tvar>|wikiquote.org]]''' on August 25, 2003.


== Development == <!--T:7-->
''a proposed idea: Wikiqoutionary an Enyclopeadia of Quotes. The temp page can be found here: [http://wo.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?HomePage] - fonzy''.


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It started as <nowiki>quote.wikipedia.org</nowiki> on July 2003 and later got its own domain, '''[[Wikiquote:|wikiquote.org]]'''.
[[<tvar name=wq>q:</tvar>|Wikiquote]] had quotations with over 2,500 articles in six languages in June 2004, one year after its first proposal under the domain ''<tvar name=url>wikiquote.org</tvar>''. 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.


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== Development ==
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.
[[www.wikiquote.org portal|Wikiquote]] had quotations with over 2,500 articles in six languages in June 2004, one year after its first proposal under a domain ''wikiquote org''. Some language-speakers other than English requested their own subdomain and in July they were created. Then Wikiquotes in languages like German, French, Italian and Polish started.


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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 on December 2004. At the end of May 2005 the number of articles in total reached 14,000. As of February 2006, it included nearly 30,000 pages in over 30 languages. As of May 2007, it included over 60,000 pages in 87 languages. As of June 2008, it included over 80,000 pages in 89 languages.
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.


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The largest Wikiquote is English with over 15,000 articles at June 2008. The next largest are German, Italian, Polish, Slovak, Portuguese and Russian; all six have over 4,000 articles.
The largest Wikiquotes are Italian and English, with over <tvar name="1">{{FORMATNUM:48000}}</tvar> and <tvar name="2">{{FORMATNUM:46000}}</tvar> articles respectively. Third is Polish Wikiquote, with more than <tvar name="3">{{FORMATNUM:24000}}</tvar> articles.


== Challenge == <!--T:12-->
An Alemannic Wikiquote has been created as separate namespace within Alemannic Wikipedia: [[:w:als:Spruch:Houptsyte|Alemannischi Spruchsammlig (Wikiquote)]].


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== Challenge ==
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 [[Wikiquote FR/Closure of French Wikiquote|take it down]], erase all its material and relaunch it. For details, see [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-March/019857.html the announcement from the Foundation].
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 [[<tvar name=fr-rfc>Wikiquote FR/Closure of French Wikiquote</tvar>|take it down]], erase all its material and relaunch it. For details, see [<tvar name=announcement>//lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-March/019857.html</tvar> the announcement from the Foundation].


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However, devoted editors rescued the situation. They settled their charter and polices, and [[q:fr:Accueil|French Wikiquote]] was relaunched on December 4, 2006.
However, devoted editors rescued the situation. They settled their charter and polices, and [[<tvar name=wq-fr>q:fr:</tvar>|French Wikiquote]] was relaunched on December 4, 2006.


== Statistics ==
== Statistics == <!--T:15-->


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See [[Wikimedia in figures - Wikiquote]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/wikiquote/EN/Sitemap.htm this page] for complete statistics.
See [[<tvar name="1">Wikimedia in figures/Wikiquote</tvar>|Wikimedia in figures – Wikiquote]] and [<tvar name="2">//stats.wikimedia.org/wikiquote/EN/Sitemap.htm</tvar> this page] for complete statistics.


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== Milestones ==
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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.


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Report to [[Wikimedia News]] are also recommended.
== Milestones == <!--T:18-->


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Past milestones are found at [[/Archive|archives]].
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.


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Reporting to [[<tvar name="1">Wikimedia News</tvar>|Wikimedia News]] is also recommended.

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Past milestones can be found in the [[<tvar name="1">Wikiquote/Archive</tvar>|archives]].
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==== {{DateT|2024}} ====
* {{DateT|2024|04|23}}
** {{FORMATNUM:1000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:it:|{{int|Project-localized-name-bnwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2024|02|25}}
** {{FORMATNUM:50000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:it:|{{int|Project-localized-name-itwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2024|02|07}}
** {{FORMATNUM:500}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:vi:|{{int|Project-localized-name-viwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2024|02|04}}
** {{FORMATNUM:50000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:en:|{{int|Project-localized-name-enwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2024|01|24}}
** {{FORMATNUM:200}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:th:|{{int|Project-localized-name-thwikiquote}}]]

==== {{DateT|2023}} ====

* {{DateT|2023|12|18}}
** {{FORMATNUM:500}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:guw:|{{int|Project-localized-name-guwwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2023|11|28}}
** {{FORMATNUM:500}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:tl:|{{int|Project-localized-name-tewikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2023|11|23}}
** {{FORMATNUM:500}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:bn:|{{int|Project-localized-name-bnwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2023|11|08}}{{colon}} <translate><!--T:109--> One new Wikiquote was created</translate>
** [[q:bjn:|{{int|Project-localized-name-bjnwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2023|10|12}}
** {{FORMATNUM:100}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:th:|{{int|Project-localized-name-thwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2023|08|23}}
** {{FORMATNUM:500}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:as:|{{int|Project-localized-name-aswikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2023|07|21}}
** {{FORMATNUM:100}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:bcl:|{{int|Project-localized-name-bclwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2023|05|05}}
** {{FORMATNUM:500}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:ig:|{{int|Project-localized-name-igwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2023|04|25}}
** {{FORMATNUM:2000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:id:|{{int|Project-localized-name-idwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2023|02|14}}
** {{FORMATNUM:2000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:su:|{{int|Project-localized-name-suwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2023|01|31}}
** {{FORMATNUM:5000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:tr:|{{int|Project-localized-name-trwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2023|01|14}}
** {{FORMATNUM:500}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:hi:|{{int|Project-localized-name-hiwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2023|01|04}}{{colon}} <translate><!--T:110--> Two new Wikiquotes were created</translate>
** [[q:as:|{{int|Project-localized-name-aswikiquote}}]]
** [[q:guw:|{{int|Project-localized-name-guwwikiquote}}]]

==== {{DateT|2022}} ====

* {{DateT|2022|12|03}}
** {{FORMATNUM:10000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:pt:|{{int|Project-localized-name-ptwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2022|10|18}}
** {{FORMATNUM:5000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:eo:|{{int|Project-localized-name-eowikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2022|10|10}}{{colon}} <translate><!--T:73--> Four new Wikiquotes were created</translate>
** [[q:bcl:|{{int|Project-localized-name-bclwikiquote}}]]
** [[q:bn:|{{int|Project-localized-name-bnwikiquote}}]]
** [[q:ig:|{{int|Project-localized-name-igwikiquote}}]]
** [[q:tl:|{{int|Project-localized-name-tlwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2022|07|02}}
** {{FORMATNUM:1000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:sah:|{{int|Project-localized-name-sahwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2022|01|15}}
** {{FORMATNUM:1000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:ja:|{{int|Project-localized-name-jawikiquote}}]]

==== {{DateT|2021}} ====


* {{DateT|2021|08|26}}
*March 21, 2010
** {{FORMATNUM:500}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:ur:|{{int|Project-localized-name-urwikiquote}}]]
** 10,000 articles – [[:q:it:Pagina_principale|Italian Wikiquote]] (with [[:q:it:Fazio degli Uberti‎|Fazio degli Uberti‎]])
* {{DateT|2021|02|01}}
** {{FORMATNUM:1000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:nl:|{{int|Project-localized-name-nlwikiquote}}]]


==== {{DateT|2020}} ====
* February 26, 2010
** 2,000 articles - [[:q:fr:Accueil|French Wikiquote]] (with [[:q:fr:Wajdi Mouawad|Wajdi Mouawad]])


* {{DateT|2020|12|06}}
* February 26, 2010
** 4,000 articles - [[:q:es:Portada|Spanish Wikiquote]]
** {{FORMATNUM:5000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:he:|{{int|Project-localized-name-hewikiquote}}]]


==== {{DateT|2019}} ====
*February, 2010
** Wikiquote has over 100,000 articles in a sum. Not known when the milestone has reached.


* {{DateT|2019|11|18}}
*October - Novermber 2009
** {{FORMATNUM:2000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:hr:|{{int|Project-localized-name-hrwikiquote}}]]
** 1,000 articles - [[q:uka:Головна стаття|Ukranian Wikiquote]]


==== {{DateT|2015}} ====
*October 8, 2009
* {{DateT|2015|10|01}}
**[[:w:als:Spruch:Houptsyte|Alemannic Wikiquote]] reached 500 quotes, collected on 3 pages.
** {{FORMATNUM:2000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:ca:|{{int|Project-localized-name-cawikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2015|02|13}}
** {{FORMATNUM:20000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:it:|{{int|Project-localized-name-itwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2015|02|02}}
** {{FORMATNUM:1000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:hy:|{{int|Project-localized-name-hywikiquote}}]]


==== {{DateT|2013}} ====
*September 10, 2009
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** 500 articles – [[q:hy:Գլխավոր Էջ|Armenian Wikiquote]] with [[q:hy:Սպանված Աղավնի (ֆիլմ)]] (Killed Dove (film)) by [[q:hy:User:‏Chaojoker|‏Chaojoker]]
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*August 22, 2013
** A Rhine Franconian Wikiquote has been created as separate namespace within Rhine Franconian Wikipedia: [[<tvar name=pfl-wq1>w:pfl:Spruch:Hauptseite</tvar>|Rheifränggische Schbrischsommlung (Wikiquote)]]
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* {{DateT|2013|05|28}}
** {{FORMATNUM:1000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:ca:|{{int|Project-localized-name-cawikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2013|02|04}}
** {{FORMATNUM:2000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:uk:|{{int|Project-localized-name-ukwikiquote}}]]
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*January 4, 2013
** A Bavarian Wikiquote has been created as separate namespace within Bavarian Wikipedia: [[<tvar name=bar-wq1>w:bar:Spruch:Start</tvar>|Boarische Sprich (Wikiquote)]]
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==== {{DateT|2012}} ====
*August - September, 2009
** 1,000 articles - [[q:fa:صفحهٔ اصلی|Persian Wikiquote]]


* {{DateT|2012|08|14}}
* August 20, 2009
** {{FORMATNUM:15000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:it:|{{int|Project-localized-name-itwikiquote}}]]
** 1,000 articles - [[q:el:Κύρια Σελίδα |Greek Wikiquote or "Βικιφθέγματα"]]
* {{DateT|2012|07|06}}
** {{FORMATNUM:1000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:li:|{{int|Project-localized-name-liwikiquote}}]]


==== {{DateT|2010}} ====
* March 21, 2008
** 15,000 articles - [[q:en:Main Page|English Wikiquote]] with [[q:en:Nicholas Roerich|Nicholas Roerich]] posted by [[q:en:user:Kalki|Kalki]].


* {{DateT|2010|11|14}}
** {{FORMATNUM:1000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:sv:|{{int|Project-localized-name-svwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2010|10|19}}
** {{FORMATNUM:500}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:li:|{{int|Project-localized-name-liwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2010|05}}
** {{FORMATNUM:10000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:pl:|{{int|Project-localized-name-plwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2010|03|21}}
** {{FORMATNUM:10000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:it:|{{int|Project-localized-name-itwikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2010|02|26}}
** {{FORMATNUM:2000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:fr:|{{int|Project-localized-name-frwikiquote}}]]
** {{FORMATNUM:4000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:es:|{{int|Project-localized-name-eswikiquote}}]]
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* February, 2010
** Wikiquote has over 100,000 articles in total. Not known when the milestone has reached.
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==== {{DateT|2009}} ====


* {{DateT||10}} – {{DateT|2009|11}}
*January 15, 2008
** {{FORMATNUM:1000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:uk:|{{int|Project-localized-name-ukwikiquote}}]]
** 100 articles - [[q:sq:Main Page|Albanian Wikiquote]] with [[q:sq:Per qualche dollaro in più|sq:Per qualche dollaro in più]] by [[q:sq:User:Puntori|sq:User:Puntori]].
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* October 8, 2009
**[[<tvar name=als-wq1>w:als:Spruch:Houptsyte</tvar>|Alemannic Wikiquote]] reached 500 quotes, collected on 3 pages
::<small>An Alemannic Wikiquote has been created as separate namespace within Alemannic Wikipedia: [[<tvar name=als-wq1>w:als:Spruch:Houptsyte</tvar>|Alemannischi Spruchsammlig (Wikiquote)]].</small>
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* {{DateT|2009|09|10}}
** {{FORMATNUM:500}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:hy:|{{int|Project-localized-name-hywikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT||08}} – {{DateT|2009|09}}
** {{FORMATNUM:1000}} {{Tunit|75|articles}} – [[q:fa:|{{int|Project-localized-name-fawikiquote}}]]
* {{DateT|2009|08|20}}
** {{FORMATNUM:1000}} <translate><!--T:75--> articles</translate> – [[q:el:|{{int|Project-localized-name-elwikiquote}}]]


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*January 13, 2008
== New Wikiquote == <!--T:44-->
** 500 articles – [[q:fa:صفحهٔ اصلی|Persian Wikiquote]] with [[q:fa:منیرو روانی‌پور|منیرو روانی‌پور]] by [[q:fa:User:‏Taranet|‏Taranet]]


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*October 1, 2007
If you want to launch a Wikiquote project in your favorite language, you can request it, filling some requirements. See [[<tvar name="1">Requests for new languages</tvar>|Requests for new languages]] for further information.
** [[q:nl:Main Page|Dutch Wikiquote]] reached 500 pages.
*August 2007
** Wikiquote reaches 70,000 articles in total.
** [[q:ml:Main Page|Malayalam]] Wikiquote reached 100 articles this month or earlier.
*August 19, 2007
** 5000 articles – [[q:it:Pagina_principale|Italian Wikiquote]] with [[q:it:Monogamia|Monogamia]] by [[q:it:Utente:OrbiliusMagister|OrbiliusMagister]]


== Project-wide communications == <!--T:46-->
*July 27, 2007
** 100 article - [[q:is:Main Page|Icelandic Wikiquote]] with [[q:is:List|List]] (art) by [[q:is:User:Cessator|Cessator]]


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*July 22, 2007
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.
** 100 articles - [[q:th:‎Main Page|Thai Wikiquote]] with [[q:th:มิตร ชัยบัญชา|‎มิตร ชัยบัญชา]] by an anonymous editor.


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*July 10, 2007
The global Wikiquote community utilizes some communication channels.
** 100 articles - [[q:af:Tuisblad|Afrikaans Wikiquote]] with [[q:af:Clarence Darrow|Clarence Darrow]] by [[q:af:Gebruiker:Adriaan|Adriaan]].
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*July 9, 2007
** 100 articles - [[q:la:Pagina prima|Latin Wikiquote]] with [[q:la:Confucius|Confucius]] by an anonymous editor.


* <translate><!--T:63--> [[<tvar name="1">Talk:Wikiquote</tvar>|Talk:Wikiquote]]</translate>
*July 3, 2007
* <translate><!--T:49--> [<tvar name="1">irc://irc.freenode.org/#wikiquote </tvar> #wikiquote IRC channel]</translate>
* <translate><!--T:50--> [<tvar name="1">//lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiquote-l</tvar> wikiquote-l mailing list]</translate>


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** 100 articles - [[q:ko:Main Page|Korean Wikiquote]] with [[q:ko:브랜다이스|브랜다이스]] by [[q:ko:User:Wundermacht|Wundermacht]].
== Related pages == <!--T:51-->


== New Wikiquote ==
=== Wikiquote coordination === <!--T:52-->
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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.


* <translate><!--T:53--> [[<tvar name="1">Meta:Index/Requests and proposals#Wikiquote</tvar>|Wikiquote Requests and proposals]]</translate>
== Project-wide communications ==
* <translate><!--T:54--> [[<tvar name="1">Administrators of Wikimedia projects/Wikiquotes</tvar>|Administrators of Wikiquotes]]</translate>
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.
* <translate><!--T:55--> [[<tvar name="1">www</tvar>|WWW]] (International Portal settings)</translate>
* <translate><!--T:56--> [[<tvar name="1">q:it:Utente:Italoautoma/without interwiki</tvar>|Statistics of articles without interwiki]]</translate>
* <translate><!--T:57--> [[<tvar name="1">c:Wikiquote#Milestones logo suggestions</tvar>|Milestones logo suggestions]] (on Wikimedia Commons)</translate>


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The global Wikiquote community utlizes some communication channels.
=== History === <!--T:58-->
*[[Talk:Wikiquote]]
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*[irc://irc.freenode.org/#wikiquote #wikiquote] IRC channel
*[http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiquote-l wikiquote-l mailing list]


* <translate><!--T:59--> [[<tvar name="1">Wikiquote FR</tvar>|Wikiquote FR]]</translate>
== Related pages ==
* <translate><!--T:60--> [[<tvar name="1">Closure of French Wikiquote</tvar>|Closure of French Wikiquote]]</translate>
=== Wikiquote coordination ===
*[[Meta:Index/Requests and proposals#Wikiquote]]
*[[Administrators of Wikimedia projects/Wikiquotes|Administrators of Wikiquotes]]
*[[www|WWW]] (International Portal settings)


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=== History ===
=== Essays === <!--T:61-->
*[[Wikiquote FR]]
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*[[Closure of French Wikiquote]]


* <translate><!--T:62--> [[<tvar name="1">Neutral point of view on Wikiquote</tvar>|Neutral point of view on Wikiquote]]</translate>
===Essays===
*[[Neutral point of view on Wikiquote]]


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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

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

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

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.

Statistics

See Wikimedia in figures – Wikiquote and 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 51,581 207,792 3,504,009 16 3,183,637 494 0
2 Italian it 50,701 197,339 1,332,170 11 98,875 83 268
3 Polish pl 25,979 53,453 571,916 10 57,519 58 1
4 Russian ru 16,786 43,189 416,220 5 105,506 87 0
5 Estonian et 13,064 21,785 126,465 3 4,673 21 2
6 Czech cs 12,925 17,461 156,353 2 19,465 29 1
7 Portuguese pt 11,699 35,511 207,695 4 41,656 60 15
8 Ukrainian uk 9,918 38,457 137,450 6 18,730 37 0
9 Hebrew he 9,398 19,235 212,035 3 25,007 40 507
10 Persian fa 9,334 33,389 186,949 2 31,024 43 37
11 French fr 8,621 33,483 381,938 7 75,335 67 0
12 Spanish es 7,948 32,273 472,370 4 90,251 41 0
13 German de 7,908 20,369 521,350 3 65,974 37 17
14 Turkish tr 5,723 32,749 226,063 5 34,928 55 1
15 Esperanto eo 5,226 10,739 49,992 3 5,248 8 1
16 Azerbaijani az 5,072 11,154 194,743 6 7,943 16 0
17 Serbian sr 4,822 11,314 51,525 4 5,884 17 1
18 Slovak sk 4,510 7,413 99,605 2 7,537 9 2
19 Bosnian bs 4,166 8,149 62,073 2 8,496 14 284
20 Catalan ca 4,051 12,436 139,602 3 14,947 11 4
21 Chinese zh 3,964 16,164 145,841 7 52,464 43 0
22 Finnish fi 3,415 7,060 99,200 3 9,278 13 2
23 Arabic ar 3,001 49,411 235,522 4 30,785 20 1
24 Lithuanian lt 2,969 6,375 83,497 2 4,944 10 2
25 Slovenian sl 2,955 7,372 42,384 2 5,488 7 0
26 Indonesian id 2,513 5,957 37,686 2 19,231 46 5
27 Sundanese su 2,336 3,514 11,819 1 1,935 4 9
28 Bulgarian bg 2,321 11,246 90,724 3 10,974 12 5
29 Armenian hy 2,202 9,028 177,876 1 5,828 11 99
30 Croatian hr 2,154 4,096 32,825 2 5,818 13 4
31 Greek el 1,849 4,002 35,539 1 8,929 10 2
32 Norwegian Nynorsk nn 1,755 4,114 19,163 2 3,004 3 2
33 Swedish sv 1,538 4,007 36,269 2 12,806 11 1
34 Limburgish li 1,478 3,124 7,133 2 2,430 6 0
35 Hungarian hu 1,372 5,202 56,189 3 15,210 14 89
36 Bangla bn 1,182 7,910 43,092 2 2,142 39 0
37 Dutch nl 1,166 5,807 92,824 4 15,948 18 1
38 Korean ko 1,106 4,257 33,288 2 6,661 19 9
39 Japanese ja 1,075 4,845 40,593 2 21,350 17 3
40 Yakut sah 1,073 1,755 8,332 1 889 2 0
41 Assamese as 1,005 2,456 18,356 2 552 20 0
42 Latin la 997 2,267 13,772 1 3,709 4 1
43 Tamil ta 983 3,956 38,256 1 4,350 4 8
44 Igbo ig 906 5,458 19,214 1 782 11 0
45 Vietnamese vi 732 5,094 58,943 2 13,829 13 1
46 Hindi hi 731 5,730 28,460 1 4,958 12 0
47 Telugu te 723 4,054 22,608 1 2,772 5 2
48 Galician gl 551 2,988 22,118 1 3,362 3 0
49 Gujarati gu 548 2,931 18,351 1 2,610 3 0
50 Gun guw 532 978 5,132 1 469 5 0
51 Urdu ur 520 2,954 11,982 2 2,683 6 9
52 Banjar bjn 504 767 3,485 3 235 11 0
53 Tagalog tl 499 4,298 30,248 1 466 1 0
54 Belarusian be 460 2,145 13,282 1 4,454 4 0
55 Welsh cy 369 1,409 8,523 1 2,669 4 0
56 Norwegian no 363 3,052 27,751 1 5,445 10 3
57 Uzbek uz 358 1,983 8,429 4 2,330 12 2
58 Thai th 338 8,102 53,914 3 5,875 8 0
59 Albanian sq 319 3,169 25,183 2 2,851 3 2
60 Malayalam ml 315 3,432 21,898 2 5,257 3 1
61 Basque eu 263 1,295 12,014 1 2,798 5 0
62 Kannada kn 261 1,099 9,291 1 2,100 3 0
63 Romanian ro 260 3,469 22,892 2 6,483 9 16
64 Kurdish ku 247 1,150 11,916 1 3,964 3 1
65 Georgian ka 187 4,453 31,761 1 5,052 6 25
66 Danish da 165 2,074 19,120 3 9,724 10 1
67 Sanskrit sa 136 4,774 18,127 1 2,372 4 0
68 Icelandic is 133 1,280 12,712 1 2,527 3 1
69 Central Bikol bcl 108 1,845 18,704 1 527 2 0
70 Breton br 50 917 5,446 1 2,087 5 0
71 Marathi mr 44 926 8,859 1 2,335 3 1
72 Afrikaans af 35 1,302 10,426 1 3,024 6 0
73 Kyrgyz ky 1 489 4,078 1 1,955 3 0
Totals Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikiquotes 324,499 1,105,232 11,015,570 197 4,253,355 1,749 1,449

Milestones

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Project-wide communications

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