Wikiquote

 ( Official Website ) 

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 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 in July 2004. As of February 2026, there are active Wikiquote sites for languagesWikimedia's MediaWiki Sitematrix. Retrieved February 2026 from Wikipedia statistics/meta.tab comprising a total of articles and recently active editors.Wikimedia's MediaWiki Siteinfo. Retrieved February 2026 from Wikipedia statistics/data.tab

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History The Wikiquote site originated in 2003.

(2011). 9781118050668, John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781118050668

The article creation milestones are taken from WikiStats.

	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)

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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.

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Multi-lingual cooperation As of February 2026, 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:

For a complete list with totals see Wikimedia Statistics:

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Use in experiments

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

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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. It can be used for analysis to produce claims such as "Albert Einstein is probably the most quoted figure of our time".

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See also

• Wiktionary

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External links

• List of Wikiquotes

Categories: Official Website, Internet Properties Established In 2003, Multilingual Websites, Quotations, Wikimedia Projects

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