Wikiquote

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Wikiquote is a multilingual online open-content compendium of quotations. All contents are released under the GNU Free Documentation License in the same manner as other Wikimedia Foundation projects.

Contents 1 The beginning 2 Development 3 Challenge 4 Statistics 4.1 List of Wikiquotes 4.2 Grand Total 5 Milestones 6 New Wikiquote 7 Project-wide communications 8 Related pages 8.1 Wikiquote coordination 8.2 History

[edit] 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.

• Wo Wikipedia was a not used Wiki which would host Wolof Wikipedia, an African language.

And it was so. It started as quote.wikipedia.org on July 2003 and later got its own domain, wikiquote.org.

[edit] 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.

The largest Wikiquote is English with over 13,000 articles at October 2007. The next largest are German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Slovak; all six have over 4,000 articles.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Statistics

See this page for complete statistics.

Lists of Wikimedia Foundation projects:
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