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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.

Statistics

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 51,025 206,442 3,483,597 16 3,179,895 496 0
2 Italian it 50,380 196,505 1,326,764 11 98,486 122 268
3 Polish pl 25,936 53,392 569,813 9 57,419 96 1
4 Russian ru 16,722 43,059 415,149 5 104,972 91 0
5 Czech cs 12,924 17,454 156,201 2 19,366 46 1
6 Estonian et 12,716 21,263 125,091 3 4,613 24 2
7 Portuguese pt 11,576 35,360 206,532 4 41,445 37 15
8 Ukrainian uk 9,753 37,838 135,313 6 18,592 29 0
9 Persian fa 9,282 33,226 185,934 2 30,716 28 39
10 Hebrew he 9,276 19,087 210,729 3 24,837 31 506
11 French fr 8,549 33,298 379,684 7 75,055 81 0
12 German de 7,908 20,363 521,213 3 65,766 43 17
13 Spanish es 7,891 32,198 471,326 4 90,017 43 0
14 Turkish tr 5,731 32,679 225,426 5 34,701 51 1
15 Esperanto eo 5,226 10,737 49,812 3 5,225 10 1
16 Azerbaijani az 4,649 10,817 190,732 6 7,895 30 0
17 Slovak sk 4,507 7,410 99,503 2 7,517 7 2
18 Serbian sr 4,194 10,432 50,281 4 5,834 39 1
19 Bosnian bs 4,166 8,140 61,060 1 8,452 11 284
20 Catalan ca 3,964 12,323 138,408 4 14,862 12 8
21 Chinese zh 3,956 16,143 145,630 7 52,222 38 0
22 Finnish fi 3,414 7,060 99,081 3 9,239 7 2
23 Arabic ar 2,998 49,248 235,268 4 30,670 23 1
24 Lithuanian lt 2,969 6,373 83,454 2 4,920 15 2
25 Slovenian sl 2,953 7,368 42,333 2 5,464 5 0
26 Indonesian id 2,488 5,887 37,334 2 19,098 24 5
27 Sundanese su 2,336 3,514 11,812 1 1,925 5 9
28 Bulgarian bg 2,321 11,246 90,683 3 10,922 15 5
29 Armenian hy 2,200 9,026 177,828 1 5,796 14 99
30 Croatian hr 2,149 4,089 32,733 2 5,780 19 4
31 Greek el 1,845 3,987 35,419 1 8,902 7 2
32 Norwegian Nynorsk nn 1,755 4,114 19,159 2 2,994 0 2
33 Swedish sv 1,538 4,002 36,217 2 12,750 9 1
34 Limburgish li 1,472 3,114 7,109 2 2,412 12 0
35 Hungarian hu 1,366 5,195 56,062 3 15,151 13 89
36 Dutch nl 1,158 5,790 92,612 4 15,887 17 1
37 Korean ko 1,096 4,207 32,946 2 6,608 22 9
38 Yakut sah 1,072 1,753 8,316 1 882 2 0
39 Japanese ja 1,063 4,814 40,419 2 21,265 12 3
40 Latin la 997 2,267 13,768 1 3,693 0 1
41 Bangla bn 982 7,047 37,391 2 1,916 266 0
42 Tamil ta 978 3,943 38,188 1 4,331 8 8
43 Igbo ig 866 5,276 18,761 1 749 17 0
44 Hindi hi 717 5,677 28,207 1 4,929 16 0
45 Telugu te 682 3,974 22,036 1 2,760 8 2
46 Vietnamese vi 679 4,985 58,633 3 13,774 19 1
47 Assamese as 663 2,040 15,888 2 499 15 0
48 Galician gl 551 2,988 22,106 1 3,353 7 0
49 Gujarati gu 548 2,924 18,339 1 2,603 2 0
50 Gun guw 529 973 5,087 1 455 10 0
51 Urdu ur 519 2,953 11,975 2 2,668 5 9
52 Banjar bjn 502 751 3,445 3 216 13 0
53 Tagalog tl 497 4,295 30,224 1 452 3 0
54 Belarusian be 460 2,145 13,277 1 4,435 4 0
55 Welsh cy 368 1,405 8,510 1 2,655 1 0
56 Norwegian no 363 3,050 27,719 1 5,419 8 3
57 Thai th 324 8,063 53,802 3 5,848 13 0
58 Albanian sq 319 3,169 25,175 2 2,833 1 2
59 Malayalam ml 315 3,432 21,889 2 5,236 5 1
60 Uzbek uz 310 1,869 8,150 4 2,287 4 2
61 Basque eu 261 1,292 12,001 1 2,785 5 0
62 Kannada kn 261 1,099 9,287 1 2,092 1 0
63 Romanian ro 259 3,464 22,799 2 6,461 7 16
64 Kurdish ku 247 1,150 11,912 1 3,958 2 1
65 Georgian ka 182 4,445 31,712 1 5,036 5 25
66 Danish da 165 2,068 19,099 3 9,697 6 1
67 Sanskrit sa 134 4,763 18,068 1 2,357 0 0
68 Icelandic is 133 1,280 12,707 1 2,514 6 1
69 Central Bikol bcl 109 1,845 18,688 1 514 1 0
70 Breton br 50 917 5,438 1 2,078 0 0
71 Marathi mr 44 926 8,854 1 2,328 3 1
72 Afrikaans af 35 1,299 10,408 1 3,009 7 0
73 Kyrgyz ky 1 489 4,074 1 1,946 1 0
Totals Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikiquotes 320,574 1,097,216 10,954,600 197 4,244,438 2,055 1,454

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.

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