Wikiquote
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Wikiquote is part of a family of wiki-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation using MediaWiki software. The project's objective is to collaboratively produce a vast reference of quotations from prominent people, books, films, proverbs, etc. and writings about them. The website aims to be as accurate as possible regarding the provenance and sourcing of the quotations.
Initially, the project operated only in English from July 2003, expanding to include other languages in July 2004.[1] As of December 2025, there are active Wikiquote sites for Template:NUMBEROF languages[2] comprising a total of Template:NUMBEROF articles and Template:NUMBEROF recently active editors.[3]
History
The Wikiquote site originated in 2003.[4] The article creation milestones are taken from WikiStats.[1]
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27 June 2003 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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Temporarily put on the Wolof language Wikipedia (wo.wikipedia.org). |
10 July 2003 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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Own subdomain created (quote.wikipedia.org). |
25 August 2003 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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Own domain created (wikiquote.org). |
17 July 2004 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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New languages added. |
13 November 2004 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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English edition reaches 2,000 pages. |
November 2004 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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Reaches 24 languages. |
March 2005 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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Reaches 10,000 pages in total. English edition has close to 3,000 pages. |
June 2005 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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Reaches 34 languages, including one classical (Latin) and one artificial (Esperanto) |
4 November 2005 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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English Wikiquote reaches 5,000 pages. |
April 2006 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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French Wikiquote taken down for legal reasons. |
4 December 2006 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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French Wikiquote restarted. |
7 May 2007 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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English Wikiquote reaches 10,000 pages. |
July 2007 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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Reaches 40 languages. |
February 2010 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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Reaches a total of 100,000 articles among all languages. |
May 2016 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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Reaches a total of 200,000 articles among all languages. |
January 2018 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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Introduced in the curriculum of national partnerships between schools and non-profits (Italy[5]) |
Operation
Wikiquote is one of few online quotation collections that provides the opportunity for visitors to contribute[6] 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.[7]
Multi-lingual cooperation
As of December 2025, there are Wikiquote sites for Template:NUMBEROF languages of which Template:NUMBEROF are active and Template:NUMBEROF are closed.[2] The active sites have Template:NUMBEROF articles and the closed sites have Template:NUMBEROF articles.[3] There are Template:NUMBEROF registered users of which Template:NUMBEROF are recently active.[3]
The top ten Wikiquote language projects by mainspace article count:[3]
| No. | Language | ISO | Good | Total | Edits | Admins | Users | Active users | Files |
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For a complete list with totals see Wikimedia Statistics: [8]
Use in experiments
It can be possible to utilise Wikiquote as a text corpus for language experiments.[9] The University of Wroclaw team entering Conversational Intelligence Challenge of the 2017 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017) used Wikiquote to produce a conversational talker module for extraction of rare words.[10] Researchers have used Wikiquote to train language models to detect extremist quotes.[11]
Reception
Wikiquote has been suggested as "a great starting point for a quotation search" with only quotes with sourced citations being available. It is also noted as a source for frequent misquotes and their possible origins.[12][13] It can be used for analysis to produce claims such as "Albert Einstein is probably the most quoted figure of our time".[14]Template:Primary source inline
See also
References
External links
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- ↑ a b Wikimedia's MediaWiki API:Sitematrix. Retrieved December 2025 from Data:Wikipedia statistics/meta.tab
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