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Wikiquote is a multilingual online open-content compendium of quotations. All contents but copyrighted quotations are released under the GFDL and CC-BY-SA in the same manner as other Wikimedia Foundation projects.

The beginning

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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	51,688	208,040	3,507,047	16	3,184,149	486	0
2	Italian	it	50,743	197,443	1,333,013	11	98,918	85	268
3	Polish	pl	26,132	53,458	581,083	10	57,537	65	1
4	Russian	ru	16,789	43,198	416,305	5	105,577	81	0
5	Estonian	et	13,087	21,815	126,585	3	4,679	21	2
6	Czech	cs	12,925	17,462	156,358	2	19,472	27	1
7	Portuguese	pt	11,719	35,539	207,937	4	41,696	64	15
8	Ukrainian	uk	9,935	38,474	137,563	6	18,738	39	0
9	Hebrew	he	9,421	19,257	212,206	3	25,031	44	507
10	Persian	fa	9,334	33,399	186,991	2	31,046	40	37
11	French	fr	8,616	33,488	382,383	7	75,355	56	0
12	Spanish	es	7,958	32,283	472,569	4	90,281	38	0
13	German	de	7,908	20,369	521,358	3	65,988	33	17
14	Turkish	tr	5,722	32,749	226,133	5	34,958	52	1
15	Esperanto	eo	5,226	10,739	50,005	3	5,250	8	1
16	Azerbaijani	az	5,187	11,218	195,613	6	7,948	15	0
17	Serbian	sr	4,905	11,434	51,713	4	5,888	14	1
18	Slovak	sk	4,510	7,414	99,612	2	7,538	7	2
19	Bosnian	bs	4,166	8,149	62,076	2	8,498	11	284
20	Catalan	ca	4,052	12,439	139,624	3	14,954	11	4
21	Chinese	zh	3,964	16,163	145,856	7	52,492	47	0
22	Finnish	fi	3,415	7,060	99,201	3	9,281	14	2
23	Arabic	ar	3,001	49,427	235,550	4	30,801	20	1
24	Lithuanian	lt	2,969	6,375	83,498	2	4,944	11	2
25	Slovenian	sl	2,955	7,372	42,384	2	5,490	7	0
26	Indonesian	id	2,516	5,961	37,773	2	19,242	42	5
27	Sundanese	su	2,336	3,514	11,819	1	1,935	4	9
28	Bulgarian	bg	2,321	11,246	90,731	3	10,979	12	5
29	Armenian	hy	2,202	9,028	177,882	1	5,830	10	99
30	Croatian	hr	2,154	4,096	32,832	2	5,821	10	4
31	Greek	el	1,849	4,002	35,542	1	8,931	9	2
32	Norwegian Nynorsk	nn	1,755	4,114	19,163	2	3,004	4	2
33	Swedish	sv	1,538	4,007	36,272	2	12,809	11	1
34	Limburgish	li	1,478	3,124	7,133	2	2,430	6	0
35	Hungarian	hu	1,372	5,203	56,196	3	15,222	15	89
36	Bangla	bn	1,184	7,919	43,157	2	2,147	33	0
37	Dutch	nl	1,166	5,808	92,908	4	15,957	17	1
38	Korean	ko	1,106	4,257	33,292	2	6,664	19	9
39	Japanese	ja	1,075	4,846	40,623	2	21,366	17	3
40	Yakut	sah	1,073	1,755	8,332	1	889	1	0
41	Assamese	as	1,044	2,468	18,506	2	553	18	0
42	Latin	la	998	2,270	13,779	1	3,713	6	1
43	Tamil	ta	983	3,956	38,259	1	4,352	5	8
44	Igbo	ig	909	5,587	19,482	1	784	12	0
45	Vietnamese	vi	739	5,105	58,967	2	13,834	15	1
46	Hindi	hi	733	5,735	28,489	1	4,961	11	0
47	Telugu	te	728	4,066	22,688	1	2,772	5	2
48	Galician	gl	551	2,988	22,118	1	3,363	3	0
49	Gujarati	gu	548	2,931	18,351	1	2,610	3	0
50	Gun	guw	533	979	5,144	1	470	5	0
51	Urdu	ur	520	2,955	11,984	2	2,683	7	9
52	Banjar	bjn	504	769	3,487	3	236	11	0
53	Tagalog	tl	499	4,298	30,248	1	468	1	0
54	Belarusian	be	460	2,145	13,282	1	4,455	4	0
55	Welsh	cy	369	1,409	8,523	1	2,670	4	0
56	Norwegian	no	363	3,052	27,752	1	5,447	7	3
57	Uzbek	uz	360	1,992	8,444	4	2,331	12	2
58	Thai	th	338	8,107	53,921	3	5,880	8	0
59	Albanian	sq	319	3,169	25,185	2	2,851	3	2
60	Malayalam	ml	315	3,432	21,899	2	5,257	3	1
61	Basque	eu	263	1,295	12,014	1	2,799	4	0
62	Kannada	kn	261	1,099	9,291	1	2,100	3	0
63	Romanian	ro	260	3,470	22,894	2	6,485	7	16
64	Kurdish	ku	247	1,150	11,916	1	3,964	3	1
65	Georgian	ka	187	4,457	31,796	1	5,054	6	25
66	Danish	da	165	2,074	19,120	3	9,724	9	1
67	Sanskrit	sa	136	4,774	18,128	1	2,375	3	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	7	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			325,155	1,106,135	11,032,210	197	4,254,381	1,707	1,449

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.

Past milestones are found at archives.

2012

• July 6, 2012
  • 1,000 articles – Limburgish Wikiquote with Aesóp

2010

• November 14, 2010
  • 1,000 articles – Swedish Wikiquote with William Ewart Gladstone

• October 19, 2010
  • 500 articles – Limburgish Wikiquote with Walter Nita

• May? 2010
  • 10,000 articles – Polish Wikiquote

• March 21, 2010
  • 10,000 articles – Italian Wikiquote with Fazio degli Uberti‎

• February 26, 2010
  • 2,000 articles – French Wikiquote with Wajdi Mouawad
  • 4,000 articles – Spanish Wikiquote

• February, 2010
  • Wikiquote has over 100,000 articles in total. Not known when the milestone has reached.

2009

• October - Novermber 2009
  • 1,000 articles – Ukrainian Wikiquote

• October 8, 2009
  • Alemannic Wikiquote reached 500 quotes, collected on 3 pages

An Alemannic Wikiquote has been created as separate namespace within Alemannic Wikipedia: Alemannischi Spruchsammlig (Wikiquote).

• September 10, 2009
  • 500 articles – Armenian Wikiquote with Սպանված Աղավնի (ֆիլմ) (Killed Dove (film)) by ‏Chaojoker

• August - September, 2009
  • 1,000 articles – Persian Wikiquote

• August 20, 2009
  • 1,000 articles – Βικιφθέγματα (Greek Wikiquote)

New Wikiquote

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

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 utlizes some communication channels.

• Talk:Wikiquote
• #wikiquote IRC channel
• wikiquote-l mailing list

Related pages

Wikiquote coordination

• Meta:Index/Requests and proposals#Wikiquote
• Administrators of Wikiquotes
• WWW (International Portal settings)
• Statistics of articles without interwiki

History

• Wikiquote FR
• Closure of French Wikiquote

Essays

• Neutral point of view on Wikiquote