Wikiquote
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.
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.
2024
- 20 August 2024
- 500 articles – Uzbek Wikiquote
- 8 July 2024
- 10,000 articles – Ukrainian Wikiquote
- 17 June 2024
- 5,000 articles – Serbian Wikiquote
- 13 June 2024
- 1,000 articles – Latin Wikiquote
- 31 May 2024
- 1,000 articles – Assamese Wikiquote
- 29 May 2024
- 5,000 articles – Azerbaijani Wikiquote
- 23 April 2024
- 1,000 articles – Bengali Wikiquote
- 25 February 2024
- 50,000 articles – Italian Wikiquote
- 7 February 2024
- 500 articles – Vietnamese Wikiquote
- 4 February 2024
- 50,000 articles – English Wikiquote
- 24 January 2024
- 200 articles – Thai Wikiquote
2023
- 18 December 2023
- 500 articles – Gun Wikiquote
- 28 November 2023
- 500 articles – Telugu Wikiquote
- 23 November 2023
- 500 articles – Bengali Wikiquote
- 8 November 2023: One new Wikiquote was created
- 12 October 2023
- 100 articles – Thai Wikiquote
- 23 August 2023
- 500 articles – Assamese Wikiquote
- 21 July 2023
- 100 articles – Central Bikol Wikiquote
- 5 May 2023
- 500 articles – Igbo Wikiquote
- 25 April 2023
- 2,000 articles – Indonesian Wikiquote
- 14 February 2023
- 2,000 articles – Sundanese Wikiquote
- 31 January 2023
- 5,000 articles – Turkish Wikiquote
- 14 January 2023
- 500 articles – Hindi Wikiquote
- 4 January 2023: Two new Wikiquotes were created
2022
- 3 December 2022
- 10,000 articles – Portuguese Wikiquote
- 18 October 2022
- 5,000 articles – Esperanto Wikiquote
- 10 October 2022: Na dem create four fresh Wikiquotes
- 2 July 2022
- 1,000 articles – Sakha Wikiquote
- 15 January 2022
- 1,000 articles – Japanese Wikiquote
2021
- 26 August 2021
- 500 articles – Urdu Wikiquote
- 1 February 2021
- 1,000 articles – Dutch Wikiquote
2020
- 6 December 2020
- 5,000 articles – Hebrew Wikiquote
2019
- 18 November 2019
- 2,000 articles – Croatian Wikiquote
2015
- 1 October 2015
- 2,000 articles – Catalan Wikiquote
- 13 February 2015
- 20,000 articles – Italian Wikiquote
- 2 February 2015
- 1,000 articles – Armenian Wikiquote
2013
- August 22, 2013
- Dem create Rhine Franconian Wikiquote as separate namespace within Rhine Franconian Wikipedia: Rheifränggische Schbrischsommlung (Wikiquote)
- 28 May 2013
- 1,000 articles – Catalan Wikiquote
- 4 February 2013
- 2,000 articles – Ukrainian Wikiquote
- January 4, 2013
- Dem create Bavarian Wikiquote as separate namespace within Bavarian Wikipedia: Boarische Sprich (Wikiquote)
2012
- 14 August 2012
- 15,000 articles – Italian Wikiquote
- 6 July 2012
- 1,000 articles – Limburgish Wikiquote
2010
- 14 November 2010
- 1,000 articles – Swedish Wikiquote
- 19 October 2010
- 500 articles – Limburgish Wikiquote
- May 2010
- 10,000 articles – Polish Wikiquote
- 21 March 2010
- 10,000 articles – Italian Wikiquote
- 26 February 2010
- 2,000 articles – French Wikiquote
- 4,000 articles – Spanish Wikiquote
- February, 2010
- Wikiquote get ova 100,000 articles in total. Dem no know wen dem reach de milestone.
2009
- October – November 2009
- 1,000 articles – Ukrainian Wikiquote
- October 8, 2009
- Alemannic Wikiquote reach 500 quotes, dem collect for 3 pages top
- Dem create Alemannic Wikiquote as separate namespace within Alemannic Wikipedia: Alemannischi Spruchsammlig (Wikiquote).
- 10 September 2009
- 500 articles – Armenian Wikiquote
- August – September 2009
- 1,000 articles – Persian Wikiquote
- 20 August 2009
- 1,000 articles – Greek 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
- Wikiquote Requests den proposals
- Administrators of Wikiquotes
- WWW (International Portal settings)
- Statistics of articles widout interwiki
- Milestones logo suggestions (for Wikimedia Commons top)