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All content but copyrighted quotations is released under the GFDL and CC-BY-SA in the same manner as other Wikimedia Foundation projects. The beginning [edit] It began with a post by Fonzy on June 27, 2003. a proposed idea: Wikiquotionary an Encyclopedia of Quotes. The temp page can be found here – fonzy. It started as quote.wikipedia.org on July 10, 2003 and later got its own domain, wikiquote.org on August 25, 2003. Development [edit] Wikiquote had quotations with over 2,500 articles in six languages in June 2004, one year after its first proposal under the domain wikiquote.org. Some language-speakers other than English requested their own subdomain and on July 17, they were created, starting Wikiquotes in languages like German, French, Italian and Polish. The Wikiquote project is expanding slowly but steadily. At the end of September there were about 15 Wikiquotes, both large and small. On December 1, there were 24 Wikiquote projects. There were almost 6,500 articles in total in December 2004. At the end of May 2005 the total number of articles reached 14,000. It included nearly 30,000 articles in over 30 languages in February 2006, over 60,000 articles in 87 languages in May 2007 and over 80,000 articles in 89 languages in June 2008. Since the last update of June 2008, the number of languages has remained stable, while the number of articles has doubled. As of 10 May 2014, about eleven years after its creation, the Wikiquote project now includes over 168,000 articles in 89 languages. Twenty-eight language versions have more than 1,000 articles. Fifty-six language versions have 100 or more articles. The largest Wikiquotes are Italian and English, with over 48,000 and 46,000 articles respectively. Third is Polish Wikiquote, with more than 24,000 articles. Challenge [edit] Sometimes the Wikiquote project faces troubles and challenges. One of the most remarkable challenges was copyright issues on the French Wikiquote. To avoid problems, on March 2006 the Foundation decided to take it down, erase all its material and relaunch it. For details, see the announcement from the Foundation. However, devoted editors rescued the situation. They settled their charter and policies, and French Wikiquote was relaunched on December 4, 2006. List of Wikiquotes [edit] See this page for complete statistics. Table transcluded from Wikiquote/Table. These statistics are updated several times a day. You might need to purge the cache to see the latest numbers. № Language Wiki Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files 1 English en 68,601 240,464 3,968,461 16 3,356,237 1,198 0 2 Italian it 55,765 210,466 1,422,443 8 107,857 162 262 3 Polish pl 31,835 56,553 645,831 9 61,714 80 1 4 Russian ru 18,043 45,787 446,407 5 113,746 112 0 5 Czech cs 16,011 20,634 168,621 2 20,797 32 1 6 Estonian et 13,698 23,524 135,653 2 5,649 16 2 7 Ukrainian uk 12,390 42,379 161,159 5 21,214 37 0 8 Portuguese pt 12,078 36,634 226,259 4 44,215 36 1 9 Hebrew he 11,491 21,875 238,913 3 27,516 50 512 10 French fr 10,958 39,253 462,573 6 83,400 75 0 11 Persian fa 9,559 34,002 192,609 1 33,457 40 37 12 Spanish es 8,864 33,250 504,261 3 96,822 57 0 13 German de 7,932 20,566 524,041 3 69,708 27 16 14 Serbian sr 6,075 13,456 68,078 5 6,637 11 1 15 Turkish tr 5,873 34,876 239,335 3 37,749 38 1 16 Esperanto eo 5,501 11,509 53,748 2 5,724 7 1 17 Azerbaijani az 5,501 12,603 206,646 5 8,707 8 0 18 Slovak sk 4,539 7,467 101,285 2 7,960 6 2 19 Catalan ca 4,260 14,220 146,290 3 16,111 10 4 20 Bosnian bs 4,157 8,112 62,386 1 8,996 7 271 21 Chinese zh 4,010 16,535 154,872 5 56,246 59 0 22 Arabic ar 3,783 56,850 263,498 4 34,554 38 0 23 Indonesian id 3,658 10,581 55,996 5 21,171 31 5 24 Finnish fi 3,420 7,129 100,433 3 10,092 19 2 25 Lithuanian lt 2,984 6,404 84,364 2 5,364 7 2 26 Slovenian sl 2,980 7,411 42,962 2 5,907 3 0 27 Bangla bn 2,904 13,545 84,263 2 6,016 22 0 28 Sundanese su 2,449 4,058 16,635 1 2,236 2 6 29 Armenian hy 2,378 9,245 179,324 1 6,301 5 99 30 Bulgarian bg 2,309 11,384 91,983 3 11,635 11 5 31 Croatian hr 2,183 4,214 33,626 2 6,271 7 1 32 Igbo ig 2,146 11,919 33,227 1 1,478 40 0 33 Uzbek uz 1,924 9,590 32,493 5 2,959 5 2 34 Greek el 1,921 4,143 38,499 1 9,497 6 2 35 Norwegian Nynorsk nn 1,755 4,117 19,276 2 3,319 2 2 36 Limburgish li 1,593 3,258 7,402 2 2,697 6 0 37 Vietnamese vi 1,553 5,997 63,175 3 14,726 12 1 38 Swedish sv 1,550 4,063 37,288 2 13,708 10 1 39 Banjar bjn 1,439 3,440 10,816 3 821 6 0 40 Hungarian hu 1,373 5,150 56,986 3 15,893 5 54 41 Assamese as 1,347 3,418 27,382 1 1,220 5 0 42 Dutch nl 1,309 6,021 94,959 3 17,045 8 1 43 Japanese ja 1,182 5,007 42,616 3 23,295 18 2 44 Korean ko 1,121 4,298 34,723 2 7,219 10 4 45 Yakut sah 1,100 1,801 8,610 1 1,129 3 0 46 Latin la 1,015 2,352 14,887 1 4,046 4 1 47 Tamil ta 984 3,992 38,550 1 4,827 2 8 48 Hindi hi 936 6,765 33,128 1 5,519 15 0 49 Telugu te 884 4,952 26,572 1 3,210 4 1 50 Gun guw 812 1,372 10,094 3 776 5 0 51 Romanian ro 645 3,676 24,148 2 6,934 8 1 52 Thai th 634 8,308 57,744 3 6,436 8 0 53 Urdu ur 614 3,626 15,088 3 3,036 10 2 54 Galician gl 556 2,963 22,343 1 3,630 5 0 55 Tagalog tl 512 4,418 32,040 1 795 5 0 56 Gujarati gu 511 3,188 18,763 1 2,868 3 0 57 Georgian ka 507 5,007 56,537 1 5,439 12 22 58 Belarusian be 492 2,178 14,023 1 4,859 7 0 59 Kannada kn 380 2,285 15,551 2 2,387 3 0 60 Norwegian no 375 3,109 28,439 1 5,852 5 3 61 Welsh cy 371 1,407 8,635 1 2,941 3 0 62 Nigerian Pidgin pcm 363 591 7,561 4 262 4 0 63 Malayalam ml 335 3,724 26,506 3 5,702 9 0 64 Albanian sq 317 3,172 25,571 1 3,122 2 2 65 Basque eu 271 1,302 12,293 1 3,067 5 0 66 Kurdish ku 253 1,157 12,059 1 4,225 4 0 67 Malay ms 236 1,517 7,259 2 597 3 0 68 Danish da 232 2,364 21,066 3 10,182 5 1 69 Central Bikol bcl 158 2,384 20,416 1 922 10 0 70 Sanskrit sa 139 4,814 18,439 1 2,762 2 0 71 Icelandic is 134 1,285 12,810 1 2,779 2 1 72 Gorontalo gor 125 1,653 15,862 0 516 8 0 73 Breton br 50 920 5,531 1 2,388 3 0 74 Marathi mr 44 923 8,957 1 2,577 2 1 75 Afrikaans af 35 1,307 10,751 1 3,376 4 0 76 Minangkabau min 14 1,772 4,248 1 133 22 0 77 Kyrgyz ky 1 506 4,223 1 2,221 4 0 Totals Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files All active Wikiquotes 380,437 1,236,197 12,220,501 197 4,523,401 2,537 1,344 The Alemannic, Bavarian and Rhine Franconian Wikipedias have a namespace dedicated to quotations (als:Spruch:Start, bar:Spruch:Start, pfl:Spruch:Start) rather than using a standalone Wikiquote project. Milestones [edit] Recommended article-count milestones are 100, 500, 1k, 2k, 5k increments to 50k, 10k increments to 100k, 25k increments to 250k, 50k increments to 500k, and 100k increments to 1000k. Reporting to Wikimedia News is also recommended. Past milestones can be found in the archives. 2026 [edit] July 8, 2026: One new Wikiquote was created Minangkabau Wikiquote March 23, 2026 2,000 articles – Igbo Wikiquote 2025 [edit] November 2, 2025 10,000 articles – French Wikiquote October 28, 2025: One new Wikiquote was created Nigerian Pidgin Wikiquote September 19, 2025 60,000 articles – English Wikiquote September 18, 2025: One new Wikiquote was created Malay Wikiquote September 7, 2025 15,000 articles – Czech Wikiquote August 31, 2025 200 articles – Georgian Wikiquote July 21, 2025 100 articles – Gorontalo Wikiquote June 6, 2025 500 articles – Thai Wikiquote June 5, 2025 1,000 articles – Uzbek Wikiquote April 29, 2025 2,000 articles – Bengali Wikiquote April 23, 2025 1,000 articles – Vietnamese Wikiquote March 14, 2025 30,000 articles – Polish Wikiquote January 11, 2025 200 articles – Danish Wikiquote 2024 [edit] December 21, 2024 10,000 articles – Hebrew Wikiquote October 17, 2024 500 articles – Romanian Wikiquote October 6, 2024 1,000 articles – Igbo Wikiquote October 5, 2024 500 articles – Tagalog Wikiquote October 1, 2024: One new Wikiquote was created Gorontal…