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{{Infobox website
| name = Wikiquote
| logo = [[File:Wikiquote-logo-en.svg|100px|center|Wikiquote logo]]
| screenshot = Wikiquote screenshot 2008.png
| caption = Screenshot of the wikiquote.org home page
| url = {{URL|https://www.wikiquote.org/}}
| commercial = No
| type = Quotation repository
| registration = Optional
| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]
| author = Daniel Alston, Brion Vibber and the Wikimedia community
| launch date = {{start date and age|df=yes|2003|07|10}}
| language = [[Multilingual]]
| current status = active
| alexa = {{IncreaseNegative}} 4,222 ({{as of|2018|10|01|alt=October 2018}})<ref name="alexa">{{cite web |title=Wikiquote.org Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa |url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikiquote.org |website=www.alexa.com |accessdate=1 October 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
| revenue =
}}
'''Wikiquote''' is one of a family of [[wiki]]-based [[Wikimedia project|project]]s 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 [[quotation]]s 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<ref>{{cite news
| author=DeVinney, Gemma | title = Wikiquote: Another source for quotes on the Web |url=http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/archives/vol38/vol38n19/columns/eh.html | work=UB Reporter | publisher=University of Buffalo | date = 18 January 2007| accessdate =29 November 2010}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archives.dawn.com/weekly/science/archive/070127/science15.htm|title=It's all about Wikis|author=Ahsan, Hafsa |date= 27 January 2007|work=[[Dawn (newspaper)|DAWN]] |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504164927/http://archives.dawn.com/weekly/science/archive/070127/science15.htm |archivedate=May 4, 2018}}</ref>
Initially, the project was created solely in English; a later expansion to include additional [[language]]s was started in July 2004.{{fact|date=February 2015}}
== History ==
[[File:Wikiquote growth.png|thumb|right|Growth of the largest eight Wikiquotes]]
The article creation milestones are taken from WikiStats.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikiquote/EN/TablesArticlesTotal.htm | title=Wikiquote Statistics - Article count (official) | publisher=Wikimedia }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Date
! Event
|-
| <center>27 June 2003</center>
| Temporarily put on the [[Wolof language]] Wikipedia (wo.wikipedia.com).
|-
| <center>10 July 2003</center>
| Own subdomain created (quote.wikipedia.org).
|-
| <center>25 August 2003</center>
| Own domain created (wikiquote.org).
|-
| <center>17 July 2004</center>
| New languages added.
|-
| <center>13 November 2004</center>
| English edition reaches 2,000 pages.
|-
| <center>November 2004</center>
| Reaches 24 languages.
|-
| <center>March 2005</center>
| Reaches 10,000 pages in total. English edition has close to 3,000 pages.
|-
| <center>June 2005</center>
| Reaches 34 languages, including one classical (Latin) and one artificial (Esperanto)
|-
| <center>4 November 2005</center>
| English Wikiquote reaches 5,000 pages.
|-
| <center>April 2006</center>
| French Wikiquote taken down for legal reasons.
|-
| <center>4 December 2006</center>
| French Wikiquote restarted.
|-
| <center>7 May 2007</center>
| English Wikiquote reaches 10,000 pages.
|-
| <center>July 2007</center>
| Reaches 40 languages.
|-
| <center>February 2010</center>
| Reaches a total of 100,000 articles among all languages.
|-
| <center>October 2011</center>
| Enters the global [[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] top 2500 ranking.<ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111029065500/http://www.alexa.com:80/siteinfo/wikiquote.org|url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikiquote.org|title=Statistics Summary for wikiquote.org|archive-date=2011-10-29}}</ref>
|-
| <center>May 2016</center>
| Reaches a total of 200,000 articles among all languages.
|-
| <center>January 2018</center>
| Introduced in the [[curriculum]] of national partnerships between schools and non-profits ([[Ministero dell'istruzione, dell'università e della ricerca|Italy]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.istruzione.it/allegati/2018/Protocollo%20MIUR%20WIKIMEDIA.zip|title=Protocollo MIUR-Wikimedia|date=2018-01-26|language=it|publisher=Ministero dell'istruzione, dell'università e della ricerca}}</ref>)
|}
== Multi-lingual cooperation ==
As of September 2016, there are a total of 89 language versions of Wikiquote<ref name=":0" /> with 31 of those containing over 1,000 articles. Sixty of the 89 versions of Wikiquote have over 100 articles.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiquote#Statistics|title=Wikiquote Statistics|work=[[Wikipedia:Meta]]|accessdate=9 September 2016}}</ref> The ten largest Wikiquote language projects with over 5,000 articles each are listed here in descending order:
#English (31,000+ articles)<ref>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Statistics</ref>
#Italian
#Polish
#Russian
#Czech
#German
#Portuguese
#Persian
#Spanish
#Ukrainian
== See also ==
* [[Wikimedia Foundation]]
* [[m:List of Wikiquotes|List of Wikiquote Projects by Language]]
== References ==
{{reflist|colwidth=50em}}
==External links==
{{commonscat}}{{Wikiquote}}
*{{Official website|https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page}}
{{Wikimedia Foundation}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2012}}
[[Category:American websites]]
[[Category:Internet properties established in 2003]]
[[Category:Multilingual websites]]
[[Category:Quotations]]
[[Category:Wikimedia projects]]
[[Category:Advertising-free websites]]
{{Infobox website
| name = Wikiquote
| logo = [[File:Wikiquote-logo-en.svg|100px|center|Wikiquote logo]]
| screenshot = Wikiquote screenshot 2008.png
| caption = Screenshot of the wikiquote.org home page
| url = {{URL|https://www.wikiquote.org/}}
| commercial = No
| type = Quotation repository
| registration = Optional
| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]
| author = Daniel Alston, Brion Vibber and the Wikimedia community
| launch date = {{start date and age|df=yes|2003|07|10}}
| language = [[Multilingual]]
| current status = active
| alexa = {{IncreaseNegative}} 4,222 ({{as of|2018|10|01|alt=October 2018}})<ref name="alexa">{{cite web |title=Wikiquote.org Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa |url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikiquote.org |website=www.alexa.com |accessdate=1 October 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
| revenue =
}}
'''Wikiquote''' is one of a family of [[wiki]]-based [[Wikimedia project|project]]s 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 [[quotation]]s 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<ref>{{cite news
| author=DeVinney, Gemma | title = Wikiquote: Another source for quotes on the Web |url=http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/archives/vol38/vol38n19/columns/eh.html | work=UB Reporter | publisher=University of Buffalo | date = 18 January 2007| accessdate =29 November 2010}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archives.dawn.com/weekly/science/archive/070127/science15.htm|title=It's all about Wikis|author=Ahsan, Hafsa |date= 27 January 2007|work=[[Dawn (newspaper)|DAWN]] |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504164927/http://archives.dawn.com/weekly/science/archive/070127/science15.htm |archivedate=May 4, 2018}}</ref>
Initially, the project was created solely in English; a later expansion to include additional [[language]]s was started in July 2004.{{fact|date=February 2015}}
== History ==
[[File:Wikiquote growth.png|thumb|right|Growth of the largest eight Wikiquotes]]
The article creation milestones are taken from WikiStats.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikiquote/EN/TablesArticlesTotal.htm | title=Wikiquote Statistics - Article count (official) | publisher=Wikimedia }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Date
! Event
|-
| <center>27 June 2003</center>
| Temporarily put on the [[Wolof language]] Wikipedia (wo.wikipedia.com).
|-
| <center>10 July 2003</center>
| Own subdomain created (quote.wikipedia.org).
|-
| <center>25 August 2003</center>
| Own domain created (wikiquote.org).
|-
| <center>17 July 2004</center>
| New languages added.
|-
| <center>13 November 2004</center>
| English edition reaches 2,000 pages.
|-
| <center>November 2004</center>
| Reaches 24 languages.
|-
| <center>March 2005</center>
| Reaches 10,000 pages in total. English edition has close to 3,000 pages.
|-
| <center>June 2005</center>
| Reaches 34 languages, including one classical (Latin) and one artificial (Esperanto)
|-
| <center>4 November 2005</center>
| English Wikiquote reaches 5,000 pages.
|-
| <center>April 2006</center>
| French Wikiquote taken down for legal reasons.
|-
| <center>4 December 2006</center>
| French Wikiquote restarted.
|-
| <center>7 May 2007</center>
| English Wikiquote reaches 10,000 pages.
|-
| <center>July 2007</center>
| Reaches 40 languages.
|-
| <center>February 2010</center>
| Reaches a total of 100,000 articles among all languages.
|-
| <center>October 2011</center>
| Enters the global [[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] top 2500 ranking.<ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111029065500/http://www.alexa.com:80/siteinfo/wikiquote.org|url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikiquote.org|title=Statistics Summary for wikiquote.org|archive-date=2011-10-29}}</ref>
|-
| <center>May 2016</center>
| Reaches a total of 200,000 articles among all languages.
|-
| <center>January 2018</center>
| Introduced in the [[curriculum]] of national partnerships between schools and non-profits ([[Ministero dell'istruzione, dell'università e della ricerca|Italy]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.istruzione.it/allegati/2018/Protocollo%20MIUR%20WIKIMEDIA.zip|title=Protocollo MIUR-Wikimedia|date=2018-01-26|language=it|publisher=Ministero dell'istruzione, dell'università e della ricerca}}</ref>)
|}
== Multi-lingual cooperation ==
As of September 2016, there are a total of 89 language versions of Wikiquote<ref name=":0" /> with 31 of those containing over 1,000 articles. Sixty of the 89 versions of Wikiquote have over 100 articles.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiquote#Statistics|title=Wikiquote Statistics|work=[[Wikipedia:Meta]]|accessdate=9 September 2016}}</ref> The ten largest Wikiquote language projects with over 5,000 articles each are listed here in descending order:
#English (31,000+ articles)<ref>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Statistics</ref>
#Italian
#Polish
#Russian
#Czech
#German
#Portuguese
#Persian
#Spanish
#Ukrainian
== See also ==
* [[Wikimedia Foundation]]
* [[m:List of Wikiquotes|List of Wikiquote Projects by Language]]
== References ==
{{reflist|colwidth=50em}}
==External links==
{{commonscat}}{{Wikiquote}}
*{{Official website|https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page}}
{{Wikimedia Foundation}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2012}}
[[Category:American websites]]
[[Category:Internet properties established in 2003]]
[[Category:Multilingual websites]]
[[Category:Quotations]]
[[Category:Wikimedia projects]]
[[Category:Advertising-free websites]]
