Wikiquote
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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.
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History
- 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.
Multilingual cooperation
In July 2004, about 70 subdomains were set up, but most of them have no contributors. The followings are parts of subdomains which had been created in July 2004: all of them were attracted by editors' interest at the time and soon became active.
- Afrikaans language http://af.wikiquote.org/
- Arabic language http://ar.wikiquote.org/
- Bulgarian language http://bg.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/
- 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/
- 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/
- Main page
The number of active Wikiquote projects is growing. As of January 2005, 26 language projects were active. Here, "active" means the project has at least one legitimate article and one edit within a month. After a half year, 34 language projects are known as active.
As of 21 August 2006, seven projects have more than 2,000 articles. The biggest Wikiquote is the English project with over 7,800 articles, followed closely by German, then the Polish, Italian, Portuguese, and Bulgarian projects. (The French project is currently suspended.) Seventeen projects (including the largest seven) have more than 100 articles.
See also
External link
| Projects of the Wikimedia Foundation |  |
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| Wikibooks (Wikijunior) • Wikiversity • Wikimedia Commons • Wiktionary • Wikinews • Wikipedia • Wikiquote • Wikisource • Wikispecies • Meta-Wiki • Wikimedia Incubator |
