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Wikiquote be multilingual online open-content compendium of quotations. Dem dey release all content but copyrighted quotations under de GFDL den CC-BY-SA for de same manner insyd as oda Wikimedia Foundation projects.

De beginning

E begin plus post by Fonzy for June 27, 2003.

idea dem propose: Wikiquotionary Encyclopedia of Quotes. Dem fi find de temp page hie – fonzy.

E start as quote.wikipedia.org for July 10, 2003 wey later e get ein own domain, wikiquote.org for August 25, 2003.

Development

Wikiquote get quotations plus ova 2,500 articles for six languages for June 2004 insyd, one year afta ein first proposal under de domain wikiquote.org. Sam language-speakers oda dan English request dema own subdomain den for July 17, dem create dem, dey start Wikiquotes for languages insyd lyk German, French, Italian den Polish.

De Wikiquote project dey expand slowly buh steadily. For de end of September na dem get about 15 Wikiquotes, both large den small. For December 1, na dem get 24 Wikiquote projects. Na dem get almost 6,500 articles in total for December 2004 insyd. For de end of May 2005 de total number of articles reach 14,000. E include nearly 30,000 articles for ova 30 languages for February 2006 insyd, ova 60,000 articles for 87 languages for May 2007 insyd den ova 80,000 articles for 89 languages for June 2008 insyd.

Since de last update for June 2008, de number of languages remain stable, while de number of articles double. As for 10 May 2014, about eleven years afta ein creation, de Wikiquote project now dey include ova 168,000 articles for 89 languages insyd. Twenty-eight language versions get more dan 1,000 articles. Fifty-six language versions get 100 anaa more articles.

De largest Wikiquotes be Italian den English, plus ova 48,000 den 46,000 articles respectively. Third be Polish Wikiquote, plus more dan 24,000 articles.

Challenge

Samtyms de Wikiquote project dey face troubles den challenges. Na one of de most remarkable challenges be copyright issues for de French Wikiquote top. To avoid problems, for March 2006 de Foundation decide to take am down, erase all ein material den relaunch am. For details, spy de announcement from de Foundation.

Howeva, devoted editors rescue de situation. Dem settle dema charter den polices, wey na dem relaunch French Wikiquote for December 4, 2006.

List of Wikiquotes

Spy Wikimedia in figures – Wikiquote den dis page for complete statistics.

Dem transclude table 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 55,204 216,051 3,617,745 16 3,206,769 554 0
2 Italian it 52,061 201,038 1,357,017 10 101,009 199 265
3 Polish pl 29,359 53,780 592,541 10 58,271 77 1
4 Russian ru 17,088 43,826 421,804 5 107,331 74 0
5 Czech cs 13,988 18,554 162,076 2 19,766 32 1
6 Estonian et 13,428 22,537 129,458 3 4,935 17 2
7 Portuguese pt 11,832 36,199 221,407 4 42,267 36 1
8 Ukrainian uk 10,668 39,434 143,683 5 19,489 40 0
9 Hebrew he 10,005 19,995 219,267 3 25,546 35 502
10 French fr 9,513 35,568 404,813 6 77,875 115 0
11 Persian fa 9,398 33,600 188,654 1 31,790 41 37
12 Spanish es 8,206 32,752 479,222 4 92,316 57 0
13 German de 7,915 20,414 522,041 3 67,453 29 16
14 Turkish tr 5,767 33,106 228,674 4 35,566 26 1
15 Serbian sr 5,593 12,530 55,219 4 6,068 20 1
16 Azerbaijani az 5,472 11,891 204,721 5 8,147 13 0
17 Esperanto eo 5,229 10,746 50,485 3 5,376 12 1
18 Slovak sk 4,514 7,422 100,753 2 7,636 8 2
19 Bosnian bs 4,166 8,147 62,148 1 8,604 7 278
20 Catalan ca 4,075 12,501 140,269 3 15,235 10 4
21 Arabic ar 4,041 52,426 248,330 4 32,011 54 0
22 Chinese zh 3,964 16,218 146,849 5 53,428 42 0
23 Finnish fi 3,416 7,064 99,420 3 9,465 9 2
24 Lithuanian lt 2,969 6,379 83,653 2 5,043 10 2
25 Slovenian sl 2,956 7,372 42,475 2 5,596 6 0
26 Indonesian id 2,604 6,177 39,251 3 19,523 16 5
27 Sundanese su 2,361 3,590 11,965 1 2,008 12 9
28 Bulgarian bg 2,315 11,244 90,917 3 11,134 12 5
29 Armenian hy 2,212 9,037 178,067 1 5,932 8 99
30 Croatian hr 2,164 4,181 33,189 2 5,931 13 4
31 Greek el 1,858 4,014 35,736 1 9,066 9 2
32 Norwegian Nynorsk nn 1,755 4,114 19,200 2 3,070 5 2
33 Swedish sv 1,541 4,032 36,640 2 12,982 15 1
34 Limburgish li 1,506 3,154 7,205 2 2,487 6 0
35 Hungarian hu 1,370 5,186 56,538 3 15,397 11 54
36 Igbo ig 1,356 6,977 22,244 1 928 5 0
37 Bangla bn 1,291 8,457 49,243 2 2,704 27 0
38 Dutch nl 1,196 5,870 93,477 4 16,415 15 1
39 Assamese as 1,162 2,758 20,484 3 704 13 0
40 Korean ko 1,109 4,261 33,728 2 6,804 10 4
41 Japanese ja 1,106 4,897 40,981 2 21,747 16 2
42 Yakut sah 1,080 1,763 8,383 1 943 7 0
43 Latin la 1,007 2,331 14,765 2 3,811 5 1
44 Tamil ta 983 3,970 38,357 1 4,454 4 8
45 Vietnamese vi 875 5,270 59,788 2 14,092 10 1
46 Uzbek uz 802 2,872 12,679 5 2,492 10 2
47 Telugu te 786 4,186 23,581 1 2,869 7 1
48 Hindi hi 773 5,956 29,758 1 5,095 10 0
49 Gun guw 589 1,067 5,899 1 557 21 0
50 Banjar bjn 571 1,111 4,548 2 348 11 0
51 Galician gl 552 2,989 22,195 1 3,425 6 0
52 Romanian ro 550 3,513 23,370 2 6,600 14 1
53 Gujarati gu 547 3,009 18,483 1 2,679 5 0
54 Urdu ur 518 2,970 12,197 3 2,758 7 9
55 Tagalog tl 501 4,357 30,858 2 550 8 0
56 Belarusian be 464 2,158 13,353 1 4,554 8 0
57 Welsh cy 369 1,408 8,552 1 2,730 4 0
58 Norwegian no 365 3,057 27,855 1 5,542 7 3
59 Thai th 329 8,074 55,210 2 6,008 11 0
60 Malayalam ml 322 3,456 22,064 2 5,355 5 1
61 Albanian sq 317 3,169 25,262 1 2,920 4 2
62 Basque eu 263 1,297 12,103 1 2,863 4 0
63 Kannada kn 261 1,113 9,400 2 2,155 6 0
64 Kurdish ku 248 1,155 11,978 1 4,026 5 1
65 Georgian ka 194 4,514 32,993 1 5,148 6 22
66 Danish da 167 2,071 19,198 3 9,842 6 1
67 Sanskrit sa 135 4,783 18,292 1 2,482 6 0
68 Icelandic is 133 1,280 12,739 1 2,578 4 1
69 Central Bikol bcl 109 1,854 18,792 1 631 7 0
70 Gorontalo gor 92 1,582 15,488 3 169 6 0
71 Breton br 50 918 5,477 1 2,140 6 0
72 Marathi mr 44 924 8,901 1 2,390 6 1
73 Afrikaans af 35 1,303 10,474 1 3,104 4 0
74 Kyrgyz ky 1 505 4,154 1 2,010 7 0
Totals Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikiquotes 341,765 1,137,484 11,328,735 195 4,301,144 1,953 1,359

The Alemannic and Bavarian Wikipedias have a namespace dedicated to quotations (als:Spruch:Start, bar:Spruch:Start) rather than using a standalone Wikiquote project.

Milestones

Article-count milestones dem recommend be 100, 500, 1k, 2k, 5k increments go 50k, 10k increments go 100k, 25k increments go 250k, 50k increments go 500k, den 100k increments go 1000k.

Dey sanso dey recommend reporting go Wikimedia News.

Dem fi find past milestones for de archives insyd.

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Dem create Alemannic Wikiquote as separate namespace within Alemannic Wikipedia: Alemannischi Spruchsammlig (Wikiquote).

Fresh Wikiquote

If you wan make you launch Wikiquote project for your favorite language insyd, you fi request am, dey fill sam requirements. Spy Requests for fresh languages for further information.

Project-wide communications

Chaw language projects of Wikiquote get ein discussion place for dema wikis top. If e be hard give you make you find am, try talk:Main Page for each wiki top.

De global Wikiquote community dey utilize sam communication channels.

Pages dem relate

Wikiquote coordination

History

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