Wikiquote
Wikiquote is a multilingual online open-content compendium of quotations. All content but copyrighted quotations is released under the GFDL and CC-BY-SA in the same manner as other Wikimedia Foundation projects.
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Le début
Tout a commencé avec un post anonyme sur Meta le 27 juin 2003.
a proposed idea: Wikiqoutionary an Enyclopedia of Quotes. The temp page can be found here: [1] - fonzy.
It started as quote.wikipedia.org on July 10, 2003 and later got its own domain, wikiquote.org on August 25, 2003.
Développement
Wikiquote had quotations with over 2,500 articles in six languages in June 2004, one year after its first proposal under the domain wikiquote.org. Some language-speakers other than English requested their own subdomain and on July 17, they were created, starting Wikiquotes in languages like German, French, Italian and Polish.
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 in December 2004. At the end of May 2005 the total number of articles reached 14,000. It included nearly 30,000 articles in over 30 languages in February 2006, over 60,000 articles in 87 languages in May 2007 and over 80,000 articles in 89 languages in June 2008.
Since the last update of June 2008, the number of languages has remained stable, while the number of articles has doubled. As of 10 May 2014, about eleven years after its creation, the Wikiquote project now includes over 168,000 articles in 89 languages. Twenty-eight language versions have more than 1,000 articles. Fifty-six language versions have 100 or more articles.
The largest Wikiquotes are Polish and English, with over 23,000 articles each. The next largest are Italian and Russian with over 10,000 articles, followed by German, Portuguese, French, Spanish and Czech; all of which have over 5,000 articles.
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.
Statistiques
See Wikimedia in figures - Wikiquote and this page for complete statistics.
Table transcluded from Wikiquote/Table.
List of Wikiquotes
External Source, dynamically sortable to any criteria, self-updating every six hours by cronjob.
External Source, generated wikisyntax, which manually is being pasted below.
Grand Total
| Articles | Total | Edits | Admins | Users | Files |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 224,664 | 856,068 | 8,461,638 | 222 | 3,820,791 | 1,370 |
Milestones
Recommended article-count milestones are 100, 500, 1k, 2k, 5k increments to 50k, 10k increments to 100k, 25k increments to 250k, 50k increments to 500k, and 100k increments to 1000k.
Reporting to Wikimedia News is also recommended.
Past milestones can be found in the archives.
2015
- October 1, 2015
- 2,000 articles – Catalan Wikiquote with Rellotge
- February 13, 2015
- 20,000 articles – Italian Wikiquote with Ai confini della realtà (serie televisiva 1959) (seconda stagione) by SunOfErat
- February 2, 2015
- 1,000 articles – Armenian Wikiquote with Ակսել Բակունց (Aksel Bakunts) by Voskanyan
2013
- August 22, 2013
- A Rhine Franconian Wikiquote has been created as separate namespace within Rhine Franconian Wikipedia: Rheifränggische Schbrischsommlung (Wikiquote)
- May 28, 2013
- 1,000 articles – Catalan Wikiquote with Biblioteca
- February 4, 2013
- 2,000 articles – Ukrainian Wikiquote with Огненне коло
- January 4, 2013
- A Bavarian Wikiquote has been created as separate namespace within Bavarian Wikipedia: Boarische Sprich (Wikiquote)
2012
- August 14, 2012
- 15,000 articles – Italian Wikiquote with Pierre-Charles Roy
- 6 juillet 2012
- 1,000 articles – Wikiquote Limbourgeois avec Aesóp
2010
- 14 novembre 2010
- 1,000 articles – Wikiquote Suédois avec William Ewart Gladstone
- 19 octobre 2010
- 500 articles – Wikiquote Limbourgeois avec Walter Nita
- Mai? 2010
- 10,000 articles – Wikiquote Polonais
- 21 mars 2010
- 10,000 articles – Wikiquote Italien avec Fazio degli Uberti
- 26 février 2010
- 2,000 articles – Wikiquote Français avec Wajdi Mouawad
- 4,000 articles – Wikiquote Espanol
- February, 2010
- Wikiquote has over 100,000 articles in total. Not known when the milestone has reached.
2009
- October - Novermber 2009
- 1,000 articles – Ukrainian Wikiquote
- October 8, 2009
- Alemannic Wikiquote reached 500 quotes, collected on 3 pages
- An Alemannic Wikiquote has been created as separate namespace within Alemannic Wikipedia: Alemannischi Spruchsammlig (Wikiquote).
- September 10, 2009
- 500 articles – Armenian Wikiquote with Սպանված Աղավնի (ֆիլմ) (Killed Dove (film)) by Chaojoker
- August - September, 2009
- 1,000 articles – Persian Wikiquote
- August 20, 2009
- 1,000 articles – Βικιφθέγματα (Greek Wikiquote)
Nouveau Wikiquote
If you want to launch a Wikiquote project in your favorite language, you can request it, filling some requirements. See Requests for new languages for further information.
Project-wide communications
Most of language projects of Wikiquote have its discussion place on their wikis. If it is hard for you to find it, try talk:Main Page on each wiki.
The global Wikiquote community utilizes some communication channels.
- Talk:Wikiquote
- #wikiquote IRC channel
- wikiquote-l mailing list
Related pages
Coordination des Wikiquote
- Wikiquote Requests and proposals
- Administrators of Wikiquotes
- WWW (International Portal settings)
- Statistics of articles without interwiki
- Milestones logo suggestions (on Wikimedia Commons)
