Wikiquote

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Wikiquote

URL	http://www.wikiquote.org/
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Quotation repository
Registration	Optional
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Jimmy Wales and the Wikimedia Community

Wikiquote is a sister project of Wikipedia, using the same MediaWiki software. It is one of a family of wiki-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation. 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 and proverbs, and to give details about them.

Initially the project was created in English, but in July 2004, more languages were added.

[edit] History, step by step

• June 27, 2003 - Temporarily put on the Wolof language Wikipedia: wo.wikipedia.com
• July 10, 2003 - Own subdomain: quote.wikipedia.org
• August 25, 2003 - Own domain: wikiquote.org
• July 17, 2004 - New languages added
• November 13, 2004 - English edition reaches 2,000 pages.
• November 2004 - 24 languages
• March 2005 - Wikiquote reaches 10,000 pages in total. English edition has close to 3,000 pages.
• June 2005 - 34 languages including one classic (Latin) and one artificial (Esperanto)
• November 4, 2005 - The English Wikiquote reaches 5,000 pages.
• April 2006 - French Wikiquote taken down for legal reasons.
• 4 December 2006 - French Wikiquote restarted

[edit] Multilingual cooperation

In July 2004, about 70 subdomains were set up. The followings are parts of subdomains which had been created in July 2004.

Afrikaans language http://af.wikiquote.org/ Arabic language http://ar.wikiquote.org/ Bulgarian language http://bg.wikiquote.org/ Catalan language http://ca.wikiquote.org/ Chinese language http://zh.wikiquote.org/ Danish language http://da.wikiquote.org/ Dutch language http://nl.wikiquote.org/ English language http://en.wikiquote.org/ French language http://fr.wikiquote.org/ German language http://de.wikiquote.org/ Greek language http://el.wikiquote.org/ Hindi language http://hn.wikiquote.org/ Hebrew language http://he.wikiquote.org Hungarian language http://hu.wikiquote.org Italian language http://it.wikiquote.org/ Japanese language http://ja.wikiquote.org/

Korean language http://ko.wikiquote.org/ Latin language http://la.wikiquote.org/ Malayalam language http://ma.wikiquote.org/ Punjabi language http://pu.wikiquote.org/ Pushto language http://pa.wikiquote.org/ Persian language http://fa.wikiquote.org Polish language http://pl.wikiquote.org/ Portuguese language http://pt.wikiquote.org/ Romanian language http://ro.wikiquote.org/ Spanish language http://es.wikiquote.org/ Tamil language http://ta.wikiquote.org/ Telugu language http://te.wikiquote.org Thai language http://th.wikiquote.org/ Turkish language http://tr.wikiquote.org/ Urdu language http://ur.wikiquote.org/

As of January 5 2007, ten versions have more than 2,000 articles. The largest Wikiquote is the English project with over 8,500 articles, followed closely by German, then the Polish, Italian, Slovak, Russian, Portuguese, Bosnian, Bulgarian and Slovenian versions. The French project, which was restarted in December 2006, has 175. Thirty-one language versions (including the largest seven) have more than 100 articles.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] External links

• Main page
• English Wikiquote

Projects of the Wikimedia Foundation
Wikibooks (Wikijunior) • Wikiversity • Wikimedia Commons • Wiktionary • Wikinews • Wikipedia • Wikiquote • Wikisource • Wikispecies