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Wikiquote

Free repository of quotes hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation

Field	Value
name	Wikiquote
logo	[[File:Wikiquote-logo-en.svg	150px	center	Wikiquote logo]]
screenshot	Wikiquote screenshot 2008.png
collapsible	yes
caption	Screenshot of the wikiquote.org home page
url
commercial	No
type	Quotation repository
language	Multilingual ( active)
registration	Optional
owner	Wikimedia Foundation
author	Daniel Alston, Brion Vibber and the Wikimedia community
launch_date
current_status	Active

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. As of , there are active Wikiquote sites for languages comprising a total of articles and recently active editors.

History

Growth of the largest eight Wikiquotes until early 2008

The Wikiquote site originated in 2003. The article creation milestones are taken from WikiStats.

Date	Event
	Temporarily put on the Wolof language Wikipedia (wo.wikipedia.org).
	Own subdomain created (quote.wikipedia.org).
	Own domain created (wikiquote.org).
	New languages added.
	English edition reaches 2,000 pages.
	Reaches 24 languages.
	Reaches 10,000 pages in total. English edition has close to 3,000 pages.
	Reaches 34 languages, including one classical (Latin) and one artificial (Esperanto)
	English Wikiquote reaches 5,000 pages.
	French Wikiquote taken down for legal reasons.
	French Wikiquote restarted.
	English Wikiquote reaches 10,000 pages.
	Reaches 40 languages.
	Reaches a total of 100,000 articles among all languages.
	Reaches a total of 200,000 articles among all languages.
	Introduced in the curriculum of national partnerships between schools and non-profits (Italy)

Operation

Wikiquote is one of few online quotation collections that provides the opportunity for visitors to contribute 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.

Multi-lingual cooperation

As of , there are Wikiquote sites for languages of which are active and are closed. The active sites have articles and the closed sites have articles. There are registered users of which are recently active.

The top ten Wikiquote language projects by mainspace article count:

No.	Language	ISO	Good	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
}		}	wikiquote}}:									count=10 }}

For a complete list with totals see Wikimedia Statistics:

Use in experiments

It can be possible to utilise Wikiquote as a text corpus for language experiments.{{cite conference 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.{{cite report|first1=Jan|last1=Chorowski|first2=Adrian|last2=Łancucki|first3=Szymon|last3=Malik Researchers have used Wikiquote to train language models to detect extremist quotes.

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 for frequent misquotes and their possible origins.{{cite web|last=Rickson|first=Sharon|date=22 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018141132/https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/11/22/how-to-research-quotations|archive-date=18 October 2018}} It can be used for analysis to produce claims such as "Albert Einstein is probably the most quoted figure of our time".{{cite web|last=Robinson|first=Andrew|date=4 December 2019

References

[[Wikimedia]]'s [[MediaWiki]] [[:mw:API:Sitematrix. API:Sitematrix]]. Retrieved {{CURRENTMONTHNAME {{CURRENTYEAR from [[:c:Data:Wikipedia statistics/meta.tab. Data:Wikipedia statistics/meta.tab]]
[[Wikimedia]]'s [[MediaWiki]] [[:mw:API:Siteinfo. API:Siteinfo]]. Retrieved {{CURRENTMONTHNAME {{CURRENTYEAR from [[:c:Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab. Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab]]
(February 2011). "Wikis for Dummies". John Wiley & Sons.
"Wikiquote Statistics - Article count (official)". Wikimedia.
(2018-01-26). "Protocollo MIUR-Wikimedia". Ministero dell'istruzione, dell'università e della ricerca.
DeVinney, Gemma. (18 January 2007). "Wikiquote: Another source for quotes on the Web". University of Buffalo.
Ahsan, Hafsa. (27 January 2007). "It's all about Wikis". [[Dawn (newspaper).
"Wikiquote Statistics". [[WP:Meta.
{{cite conference. (30 March 2021). "Predicting the Descent into Extremism and Terrorism". link. [[Institute of Mathematics and its Applications]]
Rentoul, John. (11 May 2013). "The top ten:Misquotations". Independent Digital News & Media Ltd.

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