Wikiquote

For linking to or citing Wikiquote, see Wikipedia:Wikiquote.

Wikiquote

Screenshot of the wikiquote.org home page
Type of site	Quotation repository
Available in	Multilingual
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Daniel Alston, Brion Vibber and the Wikimedia community
Website	www.wikiquote.org
Alexa rank	4,222 (October 2018)
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Launched	10 July 2003 (2003-07-10)
Current status	active

Wikiquote is one of a family of wiki-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation, running on MediaWiki software. Based on an idea by Daniel Alston and implemented by Brion Vibber, the goal of the project which began as an outgrowth to Wikipedia Famous Quotations is to produce collaboratively a vast reference of quotations from prominent people, books, films, proverbs, etc. and to be as proper as possible in regard to the details of the quotations and also providing the appropriate human reference of the quotation. Though there are many online collections of quotations, Wikiquote is distinguished by being among the few that provide an opportunity for visitors to contribute 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.

Initially, the project was created solely in English; a later expansion to include additional languages was started in July 2004.

History

Growth of the largest eight Wikiquotes

The article creation milestones are taken from WikiStats.

Date	Event
27 June 2003	Temporarily put on the Wolof language Wikipedia (wo.wikipedia.com).
10 July 2003	Own subdomain created (quote.wikipedia.org).
25 August 2003	Own domain created (wikiquote.org).
17 July 2004	New languages added.
13 November 2004	English edition reaches 2,000 pages.
November 2004	Reaches 24 languages.
March 2005	Reaches 10,000 pages in total. English edition has close to 3,000 pages.
June 2005	Reaches 34 languages, including one classical (Latin) and one artificial (Esperanto)
4 November 2005	English Wikiquote reaches 5,000 pages.
April 2006	French Wikiquote taken down for legal reasons.
4 December 2006	French Wikiquote restarted.
7 May 2007	English Wikiquote reaches 10,000 pages.
July 2007	Reaches 40 languages.
February 2010	Reaches a total of 100,000 articles among all languages.
October 2011	Enters the global Alexa top 2500 ranking.
May 2016	Reaches a total of 200,000 articles among all languages.
January 2018	Introduced in the curriculum of national partnerships between schools and non-profits (Italy)

Multi-lingual cooperation

As of September 2016, there are a total of 89 language versions of Wikiquote with 31 of those containing over 1,000 articles. Sixty of the 89 versions of Wikiquote have over 100 articles. The ten largest Wikiquote language projects with over 5,000 articles each are listed here in descending order:

1. English (31,000+ articles)
2. Italian
3. Polish
4. Russian
5. Czech
6. German
7. Portuguese
8. Persian
9. Spanish
10. Ukrainian

See also

• Wikimedia Foundation
• List of Wikiquote Projects by Language

External links

• Official website