Wikiquote

The project's objective is to produce collaboratively 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.

Wikiquote

Wiki English
Screenshot Screenshot of the wikiquote.org home page
Type of site	Quotation repository
Available in	Multilingual (73 active)
Owner	Wiki Foundation
Created by	Daniel Alston, Brion Vibber and the Wiki community
URL	wikiquote.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Launched	10 July 2003; 20 years ago (2003-07-10)
Current status	active

Initially, the project operated only in English from July 2003, expanding to include other languages in July 2004. As of April 2024, there are active Wikiquote sites for 73 languages comprising a total of 320,349 articles and 2,036 recently active editors.

 

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

Though there are many online collections of quotations, Wikiquote is distinguished by being among the few that provide an 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 Wiki English.

As of April 2024, there are Wikiquote sites for 96 languages of which 73 are active and 23 are closed. The active sites have 320,349 articles and the closed sites have 638 articles. There are 4,243,880 registered users of which 2,036 are recently active.

The top ten Wikiquote language projects by mainspace article count:

For a complete list with totals see Wiki Statistics:

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.

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. It can be used for analysis to produce claims such as "Albert Einstein is probably the most quoted figure of our time".^{[non-primary source needed]}

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