Wikiquote
Screenshot of the wikiquote.org home page | |
Type of site | Quotation repository |
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Available in | Multilingual |
Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
Created by | Daniel Alston, Brion Vibber and the Wikimedia community |
Website | www |
Alexa rank | 3,877 (February 2019[update])[1] |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | 10 July 2003 |
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[2] and the very few which strive to provide exact sources for each quotation as well as corrections of misattributed quotations. Wikiquote pages are cross-linked to articles about the notable personalities on Wikipedia.[3]
Initially, the project was created solely in English; a later expansion to include additional languages was started in July 2004.[citation needed]
History[edit]
The article creation milestones are taken from WikiStats.[4]
Date | Event |
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Temporarily put on the Wolof language Wikipedia (wo.wikipedia.com). | |
Own subdomain created (quote.wikipedia.org). | |
Own domain created (wikiquote.org). | |
New languages added. | |
English edition reaches 2,000 pages. | |
Reaches 24 languages. | |
Reaches 10,000 pages in total. English edition has close to 3,000 pages. | |
Reaches 34 languages, including one classical (Latin) and one artificial (Esperanto) | |
English Wikiquote reaches 5,000 pages. | |
French Wikiquote taken down for legal reasons. | |
French Wikiquote restarted. | |
English Wikiquote reaches 10,000 pages. | |
Reaches 40 languages. | |
Reaches a total of 100,000 articles among all languages. | |
Enters the global Alexa top 2500 ranking.[5] | |
Reaches a total of 200,000 articles among all languages. | |
Introduced in the curriculum of national partnerships between schools and non-profits (Italy[6]) |
Multi-lingual cooperation[edit]
As of September 2016, there are a total of 89 language versions of Wikiquote[7] with 31 of those containing over 1,000 articles. Sixty of the 89 versions of Wikiquote have over 100 articles.[7] The ten largest Wikiquote language projects with over 5,000 articles each are listed here in descending order:
- English (31,000+ articles)[8]
- Italian
- Polish
- Russian
- Czech
- German
- Portuguese
- Persian
- Spanish
- Ukrainian
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Wikiquote.org Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ DeVinney, Gemma (18 January 2007). "Wikiquote: Another source for quotes on the Web". UB Reporter. University of Buffalo. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
- ^ Ahsan, Hafsa (27 January 2007). "It's all about Wikis". DAWN. Archived from the original on 4 May 2018.
- ^ "Wikiquote Statistics - Article count (official)". Wikimedia.
- ^ "Statistics Summary for wikiquote.org". Archived from the original on 29 October 2011.
- ^ "Protocollo MIUR-Wikimedia" (in Italian). Ministero dell'istruzione, dell'università e della ricerca. 26 January 2018.
- ^ a b "Wikiquote Statistics". Wikipedia:Meta. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
- ^ "Statistics - Wikiquote". en.wikiquote.org.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikiquote. |
Wikiquote has quotations related to: Wikiquote |