Wikiquote

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

Wikiquote

Screenshot of the wikiquote.org home page
Web address	www.wikiquote.org
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Quotation repository
Registration	Optional
Available in	Multilingual
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Jimmy Wales and the Wikimedia Community
Launched	July 10, 2003 (2003-07-10)
Alexa rank	4,390 (January 2016)
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. 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

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.

Multi-lingual cooperation

In July 2004, about 70 subdomains were set up. As of 28 November 2010, twenty-five versions each have more than 1,000 articles. The largest Wikiquote is the Polish project with over 22,600 articles, followed by the English, Italian, German, Portuguese and Russian sites with over 5,000 articles each, and then by the Slovak, Spanish, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Turkish, Slovenian and French (which was restarted in December 2006, after being taken down for legal reasons). Fifty-three language versions have 100 or more articles.

See also

• Wikimedia Foundation
• List of Wikiquote Projects by Language

External links

• Official website