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.<ref name="WikiStats" /> As of August 2025, there are active Wikiquote sites for Template:NUMBEROF languages<ref name="Sitematrix">Wikimedia's MediaWiki API:Sitematrix. Retrieved August 2025 from Data:Wikipedia statistics/meta.tab</ref> comprising a total of Template:NUMBEROF articles and Template:NUMBEROF recently active editors.<ref name="Siteinfo">Wikimedia's MediaWiki API:Siteinfo. Retrieved August 2025 from Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab</ref>
HistoryEdit
The Wikiquote site originated in 2003.<ref name="Dummy">Template:Cite book</ref> The article creation milestones are taken from WikiStats.<ref name="WikiStats">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
| Date | Event | |
|---|---|---|
| check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }} | Temporarily put on the Wolof language Wikipedia (wo.wikipedia.org). | |
| check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }} | Own subdomain created (quote.wikipedia.org). | |
| check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }} | Own domain created (wikiquote.org). | |
| check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }} | New languages added. | |
| check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }} | English edition reaches 2,000 pages. | |
| check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }} | Reaches 24 languages. | |
| check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }} | Reaches 10,000 pages in total. English edition has close to 3,000 pages. | |
| check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }} | Reaches 34 languages, including one classical (Latin) and one artificial (Esperanto) | |
| check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }} | English Wikiquote reaches 5,000 pages. | |
| check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }} | French Wikiquote taken down for legal reasons. | |
| check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }} | French Wikiquote restarted. | |
| check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }} | English Wikiquote reaches 10,000 pages. | |
| check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }} | Reaches 40 languages. | |
| check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }} | Reaches a total of 100,000 articles among all languages. | |
| check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }} | Reaches a total of 200,000 articles among all languages. | |
| check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }} | Introduced in the curriculum of national partnerships between schools and non-profits (Italy<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref>) |
OperationEdit
Wikiquote is one of few online quotation collections that provides the opportunity for visitors to contribute<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Multi-lingual cooperationEdit
As of August 2025, there are Wikiquote sites for Template:NUMBEROF languages of which Template:NUMBEROF are active and Template:NUMBEROF are closed.<ref name="Sitematrix" /> The active sites have Template:NUMBEROF articles and the closed sites have Template:NUMBEROF articles.<ref name="Siteinfo" /> There are Template:NUMBEROF registered users of which Template:NUMBEROF are recently active.<ref name="Siteinfo" />
The top ten Wikiquote language projects by mainspace article count:<ref name="Siteinfo" />
| No. | Language | ISO | Good | Total | Edits | Admins | Users | Active users | Files |
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For a complete list with totals see Wikimedia Statistics: <ref name="Wikimedia Statistics">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Use in experimentsEdit
It can be possible to utilise Wikiquote as a text corpus for language experiments.<ref name="Icorpus">Template:Cite conference</ref> 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.<ref name="NIPS2017">Template:Cite report</ref> Researchers have used Wikiquote to train language models to detect extremist quotes.<ref>Template:Cite conference</ref>
ReceptionEdit
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.<ref name="NYPL">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Rentoul">Template:Cite news</ref> It can be used for analysis to produce claims such as "Albert Einstein is probably the most quoted figure of our time".<ref name="H-Albert">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Primary source inline