Wikiquote

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
Screenshot o the wikiquote.org home page
Teep o steid	Quotation repository
Available in	Multilingual
Awner	Wikimedia Foondation
Creatit bi	Jimmy Wales an the Wikimedia Community
Wabsteid	www.wikiquote.org
Alexa rank	2,991 (October 2013)
Commercial	Na
Registration	Optional
Launched	10 Julie 2003 (2003-07-10)
Current status	active

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

Historie

• 27 Juin, 2003 - Pit on the wolof leid wikipaedia for a while: wo.wikipedia.com
• 10 Julie, 2003 - Ain subdomain: quote.wikipedia.org
• 25 August, 2003 - Ain domain: wikiquote.org
• 17 Julie, 2004 - Neow leids eikit
• 13 November, 2004 - English edeition raxes 2000 page.
• November, 2004 - 24 leids
• Mairch, 2005 - Wikiquote raxes 10,000 page in total. English edeition haes near 3,000 page.
• Juin, 2005 - 34 leids wi ae classical leid (Latin) an ae artifeicial ane (Esperanto).

Multilingual cooperation

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.

• Inglis leid http://en.wikiquote.org/
• Bulgarian leid http://bg.wikiquote.org/
• Cheenese leid http://zh.wikiquote.org/
• Dutch leid http://nl.wikiquote.org/
• German leid http://de.wikiquote.org/
• Greek leid http://el.wikiquote.org/
• French leid http://fr.wikiquote.org/
• Pols leid http://pl.wikiquote.org/
• Italian leid http://it.wikiquote.org/
• Japanese leid http://ja.wikiquote.org/
• Korean leid http://ko.wikiquote.org/
• Romanian leid http://ro.wikiquote.org/
• Spainish leid http://es.wikiquote.org/
• Tamil leid http://ta.wikiquote.org/
• Thai leid http://th.wikiquote.org/
• Afrikaans leid http://af.wikiquote.org/
• Portuguese leid http://pt.wikiquote.org/
• Turkish leid http://tr.wikiquote.org/
• Hebrew leid http://he.wikiquote.org

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.