Wikiquote
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Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
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Created by | Daniel Alston, Brion Vibber and the Wikimedia community |
URL | wikiquote |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | 10 July 2003 |
Current status | active |
Wikiquote is part of a family of
Initially, the project operated only in English from July 2003, expanding to include other languages in July 2004.[2] As of April 2024, there are active Wikiquote sites for 73 languages[1] comprising a total of 320,349 articles and 2,036 recently active editors.[3]
History
The Wikiquote site originated in 2003.[4] The article creation milestones are taken from WikiStats.[2]
Date | Event |
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27 June 2003
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Temporarily put on the Wolof language Wikipedia (wo.wikipedia.org). |
10 July 2003
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Own subdomain created (quote.wikipedia.org). |
25 August 2003
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Own domain created (wikiquote.org). |
17 July 2004
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New languages added. |
13 November 2004
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English edition reaches 2,000 pages. |
November 2004
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Reaches 24 languages. |
March 2005
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Reaches 10,000 pages in total. English edition has close to 3,000 pages. |
June 2005
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Reaches 34 languages, including one classical (Latin) and one artificial (Esperanto) |
4 November 2005
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English Wikiquote reaches 5,000 pages. |
April 2006
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French Wikiquote taken down for legal reasons. |
4 December 2006
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French Wikiquote restarted. |
7 May 2007
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English Wikiquote reaches 10,000 pages. |
July 2007
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Reaches 40 languages. |
February 2010
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Reaches a total of 100,000 articles among all languages. |
May 2016
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Reaches a total of 200,000 articles among all languages. |
January 2018
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Introduced in the Italy[5] )
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Operation
Though there are many online collections of quotations, Wikiquote is distinguished by being among the few that provide an 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 April 2024, there are Wikiquote sites for 96 languages of which 73 are active and 23 are closed.[1] The active sites have 320,349 articles and the closed sites have 638 articles.[3] There are 4,243,880 registered users of which 2,036 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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1 | English | en | 50,964 | 206,338 | 3,482,300 | 16 | 3,179,648 | 493 | 0 |
2 | Italian | it | 50,358 | 196,474 | 1,326,486 | 11 | 98,460 | 125 | 268 |
3 | Polish | pl | 25,935 | 53,322 | 569,502 | 9 | 57,414 | 100 | 1 |
4 | Russian | ru | 16,723 | 43,058 | 415,117 | 5 | 104,936 | 91 | 0 |
5 | Czech | cs | 12,924 | 17,453 | 156,177 | 2 | 19,361 | 43 | 1 |
6 | Estonian | et | 12,715 | 21,253 | 125,036 | 3 | 4,608 | 24 | 2 |
7 | Portuguese | pt | 11,570 | 35,352 | 206,503 | 4 | 41,440 | 38 | 15 |
8 | Ukrainian | uk | 9,750 | 37,815 | 135,255 | 6 | 18,583 | 28 | 0 |
9 | Persian | fa | 9,280 | 33,216 | 185,827 | 2 | 30,708 | 27 | 39 |
10 | Hebrew | he | 9,271 | 19,080 | 210,677 | 3 | 24,830 | 27 | 506 |
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
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 from 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][non-primary source needed]
See also
References
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- ^ a b "Wikiquote Statistics - Article count (official)". Wikimedia. Archived from the original on 29 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
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- ^ "Protocollo MIUR-Wikimedia" (in Italian). Ministero dell'istruzione, dell'università e della ricerca. 26 January 2018. Archived from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
- ^ DeVinney, Gemma (18 January 2007). "Wikiquote: Another source for quotes on the Web". UB Reporter. University of Buffalo. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
- ^ Ahsan, Hafsa (27 January 2007). "It's all about Wikis". DAWN. Archived from the original on 4 May 2012.
- ^ "Wikiquote Statistics". Meta.Wikimedia.org. Archived from the original on 1 July 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- ISBN 978-3-540-73399-7.
- arXiv:1805.08032v1.
- ^ Lane, R.O.; Holmes, W.J.; Taylor, C.J.; State-Davey, H.M.; Wragge, A.J. (30 March 2021). Predicting the Descent into Extremism and Terrorism (PDF). 6th IMA Conference on Mathematics in Defence and Security. Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
- ^ Rickson, Sharon (22 November 2013). "How to Research a Quotation". New York Public Library. On the Web. Archived from the original on 18 October 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
- ^ Rentoul, John (11 May 2013). "The top ten:Misquotations". The Independent. Independent Digital News & Media Ltd. Archived from the original on 11 December 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
- ^ Robinson, Andrew (4 December 2019). "5 things you (probably) didn't know about Albert Einstein". History extra - BBC. Albert Einstein is probably the most quoted figure of our time. Archived from the original on 5 December 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2019.