Wikiquote

frie collection ae quotes hostit bé Wikimedia an' chaingit bé voluntiers.

Wikiquote is a sister project o Wikipaedia, uisin the same MediaWiki saftware. It is ane o a faimly o wiki-based projecks rin bi the Wikimedia Foondation. Based on a consait bi Daniel Alston an implemented bi Brion Vibber, the aim o the projeck is for fowk ti produce thegither a muckle reference o quotations frae prominent fowk, beuks an saws, an ti gie details anent them.

Wikiquote
Wikiquote logo
Wikiquote logo
Detail o the Wikiquote multilingual portal main page.
Screenshot o the wikiquote.org home page
Teep o steid
Quotation repository
Available inMultilingual
AwnerWikimedia Foondation
Creatit biJimmy Wales an the Wikimedia Community
Wabsteidwww.wikiquote.org
Alexa rankpositive decrease 2,991 (October 2013)[1]
CommercialNa
RegistrationOptional
Launched10 Julie 2003 (2003-07-10)
Current statusactive

Ti stairt wi, the projeck wis aa in English, but fae Julie 2004, mair leids war eikit.

Historie

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Multilingual cooperation

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In Julie 2004, aroon 70 subdomains wis set up, but maist o them hinna onie contreibutors. Them ablo are pairts o subdomains that haed been created in Julie 2004: aa o them wis attracted by editors' interest at the time an suin becam active.

The nummer o active Wikiquote projecks is growing. On January 2005 26 projects for different leids wis active. Here 'active' means the projeck haes mair not the ae legeitimate airticle an ae edit a month. Aifter a sixmonth, 34 projecks are kent ti be active.

As o the 13 August, 2005, fower projecks hae mair nor 1,000 airticles. The mucklest Wikiquote is the English projeck wi ower 25,000 airticles as o the 4 December, 2015. Neist come the German, French, Polish an Bulgarian projecks. Aboot ten projecks, coontin thae fower, hae mair nor 100 airticles.

References

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  1. "Wikiquote.org Site Info". Alexa Internet. Archived frae the original on 29 October 2011. Retrieved 1 October 2013.