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| Type of site | Quotation repository |
|---|---|
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | Jimmy Wales and the Wikimedia Community |
| URL | www.wikiquote.org |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
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 is to produce collaboratively a vast reference of quotations from prominent people, books, films and proverbs, and to give details about them with appropriate attribution. Though there are many online collections of quotations, Wikiquote is distinguished by being among the few that provide an opportunity for visitors to contribute. Wikiquote pages are cross-linked to articles about the notable personalities on Misplaced Pages.
Initially, the project was created solely in English; a later expansion to include additional languages was started in July 2004.
History
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| Temporarily put on the Wolof language Misplaced Pages (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. |
Multilingual cooperation
In July 2004, about 70 subdomains were set up. As of 28 November 2010, twenty-five versions each have more than 1,000 articles. The largest Wikiquote is the English project with over 19,300 articles, followed by the Polish, Italian, German, Portuguese and Russian sites with over 5,000 articles each, and then by the Slovak, Spanish, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Turkish, Slovenian and French (which was restarted in December 2006). Fifty-three language versions have 100 or more articles.
See also
References
- "Wikiquote.org Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
- 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.
- "Wikiquote Statistics". Misplaced Pages:Meta. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
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