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History

Growth of the largest eight Wikiquotes until early 2008

The Wikiquote site originated in 2003.[1] The article creation milestones are taken from WikiStats.[2]

Date Event
27 June 2003
 Temporarily put on the Wolof language Wikipedia (wo.wikipedia.org).
10 July 2003
 Own subdomain created (quote.wikipedia.org).
25 August 2003
 Own domain created (wikiquote.org).
17 July 2004
 New languages added.
13 November 2004
 English edition reaches 2,000 pages.
November 2004
 Reaches 24 languages.
March 2005
 Reaches 10,000 pages in total. English edition has close to 3,000 pages.
June 2005
 Reaches 34 languages, including one classical (Latin) and one artificial (Esperanto)
4 November 2005
 English Wikiquote reaches 5,000 pages.
April 2006
 French Wikiquote taken down for legal reasons.
4 December 2006
 French Wikiquote restarted.
7 May 2007
 English Wikiquote reaches 10,000 pages.
July 2007
 Reaches 40 languages.
February 2010
 Reaches a total of 100,000 articles among all languages.
May 2016
 Reaches a total of 200,000 articles among all languages.
January 2018
 Introduced in the curriculum of national partnerships between schools and non-profits (Italy[3])

Operation

Wikiquote is one of few online quotation collections that provides the opportunity for visitors to contribute[4] 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.[5]

Multi-lingual cooperation

As of January 2025, there are Wikiquote sites for 97 languages of which 74 are active and 23 are closed.[6] The active sites have 342,381 articles and the closed sites have 638 articles.[7] There are 4,303,231 registered users of which 1,969 are recently active.[7]

The top ten Wikiquote language projects by mainspace article count:[7]

No. Language ISO Good Total Edits Admins Users Active users Files
1 English en 55,370 216,302 3,621,874 15 3,207,835 547 0
2 Italian it 52,127 201,208 1,357,981 10 101,114 196 265
3 Polish pl 29,409 53,790 593,082 10 58,301 74 1
4 Russian ru 17,089 43,837 422,088 5 107,399 77 0
5 Czech cs 14,067 18,608 162,533 2 19,783 36 1
6 Estonian et 13,438 22,577 129,645 2 4,943 19 2
7 Portuguese pt 11,840 36,207 221,490 4 42,297 43 1
8 Ukrainian uk 10,712 39,486 144,129 5 19,522 48 0
9 Hebrew he 10,024 20,027 219,670 3 25,557 35 502
10 French fr 9,588 35,685 406,292 6 77,997 116 0

For a complete list with totals see Wikimedia Statistics: [8]

Use in experiments

It can be possible to utilise Wikiquote as a text corpus for language experiments.[9] 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.[10] Researchers have used Wikiquote to train language models to detect extremist quotes.[11]

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 from frequent misquotes and their possible origins.[12][13] It can be used for analysis to produce claims such as "Albert Einstein is probably the most quoted figure of our time".[14][non-primary source needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ Woods, Dan; Theony, Peter (February 2011). "3: The Thousand Problem-Solving Faces of Wikis". Wikis for Dummies. John Wiley & Sons. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-118-05066-8. OCLC 897595141. OL 5741003W.
  2. ^ "Wikiquote Statistics - Article count (official)". Wikimedia. Archived from the original on 29 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Protocollo MIUR-Wikimedia" (in Italian). Ministero dell'istruzione, dell'università e della ricerca. 26 January 2018. Archived from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  4. ^ DeVinney, Gemma (18 January 2007). "Wikiquote: Another source for quotes on the Web". UB Reporter. University of Buffalo. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
  5. ^ Ahsan, Hafsa (27 January 2007). "It's all about Wikis". DAWN. Archived from the original on 4 May 2012.
  6. ^ Wikimedia's MediaWiki API:Sitematrix. Retrieved January 2025 from Data:Wikipedia statistics/meta.tab
  7. ^ a b c Wikimedia's MediaWiki API:Siteinfo. Retrieved January 2025 from Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab
  8. ^ "Wikiquote Statistics". Meta.Wikimedia.org. Archived from the original on 1 July 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  9. ^ Buscaldi, D.; Rosso, P. (2007). Masulli F.; Mitra S.; Pasi G. (eds.). Some Experiments in Humour Recognition Using the Italian Wikiquote Collection. International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-73400-0_58. ISBN 978-3-540-73399-7.
  10. ^ Chorowski, Jan; Łancucki, Adrian; Malik, Szymon; Pawlikowski, Maciej; Rychlikowski, Paweł; Zykowski, Paweł (21 May 2018). A Talker Ensemble: the University of Wrocław's Entry to the NIPS 2017 Conversational Intelligence Challenge (Report). arXiv:1805.08032v1.
  11. ^ Lane, R.O.; Holmes, W.J.; Taylor, C.J.; State-Davey, H.M.; Wragge, A.J. (30 March 2021). Predicting the Descent into Extremism and Terrorism (PDF). 6th IMA Conference on Mathematics in Defence and Security. Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
  12. ^ Rickson, Sharon (22 November 2013). "How to Research a Quotation". New York Public Library. On the Web. Archived from the original on 18 October 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  13. ^ Rentoul, John (11 May 2013). "The top ten:Misquotations". The Independent. Independent Digital News & Media Ltd. Archived from the original on 11 December 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  14. ^ Robinson, Andrew (4 December 2019). "5 things you (probably) didn't know about Albert Einstein". History extra - BBC. Albert Einstein is probably the most quoted figure of our time. Archived from the original on 5 December 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
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