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Wikiquote is a sister project of Wikipedia, using the same MediaWiki software. It is one of a family of wiki-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation. Based on an idea by Daniel Alston and implemented by Brion Vibber, the goal of the project is to produce collaboratively a vast reference of quotations from prominent people, books and proverbs, and to give details about them.

Initially the project was created in English, but in July 2004, more languages were added.

Contents 1 History 2 Multilingual cooperation 3 Logos 4 External link

History

• June 27, 2003 - Temporarily put on the Wolof language Wikipedia: wo.wikipedia.com
• July 10, 2003 - Own subdomain: quote.wikipedia.org
• August 25, 2003 - Own domain: wikiquote.org
• July 17, 2004 - New languages added
• November 13, 2004 - English edition reaches 2,000 pages.
• November 2004 - 24 languages
• March 2005 - Wikiquote reaches 10,000 pages in total. English edition has close to 3,000 pages.
• June 2005 - 34 languages including one classic (Latin) and one artificial (Esperanto)
• November 4, 2005 - The English Wikiquote reaches 5,000 pages.
• April 2006 - French Wikiquote taken down for legal reasons.

Multilingual cooperation

In July 2004, about 70 subdomains were set up, but most of them have no contributors. The followings are parts of subdomains which had been created in July 2004: all of them were attracted by editors' interest at the time and soon became active.

• Arabic language http://ar.wikiquote.org/
• English language http://en.wikiquote.org/
• Bulgarian language http://bg.wikiquote.org/
• Chinese language http://zh.wikiquote.org/
• Danish language http://da.wikiquote.org/
• Dutch language http://nl.wikiquote.org/
• German language http://de.wikiquote.org/
• Greek language http://el.wikiquote.org/
• French language http://fr.wikiquote.org/
• Polish language http://pl.wikiquote.org/
• Italian language http://it.wikiquote.org/
• Japanese language http://ja.wikiquote.org/
• Korean language http://ko.wikiquote.org/
• Romanian language http://ro.wikiquote.org/
• Spanish language http://es.wikiquote.org/
• Tamil language http://ta.wikiquote.org/
• Telugu language http://te.wikiquote.org
• Thai language http://th.wikiquote.org/
• Afrikaans language http://af.wikiquote.org/
• Portuguese language http://pt.wikiquote.org/
• Turkish language http://tr.wikiquote.org/
• Hebrew language http://he.wikiquote.org
• Hungarian language http://hu.wikiquote.org
• Persian language http://fa.wikiquote.org
• Main page

The number of active Wikiquote projects is growing. On January 2005 26 language projects were active. Here 'active' means the project has at least one legitimate article and one edit within a month. After a half year, 34 language projects are known as active.

As of May 6, 2006, seven projects have more than 2,000 articles. The biggest Wikiquote is the English project with over 6,500 articles, followed by German, Polish, Italian, Russian, Portuguese and Bulgarian projects. Around thirty projects, including those seven, have more than 100 articles.

Logos

To date, Wikiquote has had four logos. The original logos contained the following quotations:

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

(Erica Jong, (born 1942) American author and educator — More quotes from Jong)

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

(Elvis Presley (1935 — 1977); American singer — More quotes from Presley)

Original Wikiquote Logo used from June 27, 2003 - September 25, 2003 Second Wikiquote Logo, an improved version of the first. Used until September 26, 2003 Third Wikiquote Logo Used until October 22, 2003 Wikiquote's fourth and current logo

External link

• English Wikiquote

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