Wikiquote is one of a family of wiki Wikis may exist to serve a specific purpose, and in such cases, users use their editorial rights to remove material that is considered "off topic." Such is the case of the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia. In contrast, open purpose wikis accept content without firm rules as to how the content should be organized-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, and organized under the laws of the state of Florida, where it was initially based. It operates several online collaborative wiki projects including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia, running on MediaWiki MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application developed by and used on all projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as on many other wiki websites worldwide. It is written in the PHP programming language with a backend database software. 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 A quotation is the repetition of one expression as part of another one, particularly when the quoted expression is well-known or explicitly attributed to its original source, and it is indicated by (punctuated with) quotation marks from prominent people, books, films and proverbs, and to give details about them. Though there are many online collections of quotations, Wikiquote is distinguished by being among the few that provide an opportunity for visitors to contribute.[2] Wikiquote pages are cross-linked to articles about the notable personalities on Wikipedia.[3]
Initially, the project was created solely in English English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into South-East Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria. Following the economic, political, military, scientific, cultural, and colonial influence of Great Britain and the United Kingdom from the 18th century, and of; a later expansion to include additional languages Language is a term most commonly used to refer to so called "natural languages" — the forms of communication considered peculiar to humankind. By extension the term also refers to the type of human thought process which creates and uses language. Essential to both meanings is the systematic creation, maintenance and use of systems of was started in July 2004.
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History
Growth of the largest eight Wikiquotes.| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| June 27, 2003 | Temporarily put on the Wolof language Wolof is a language spoken in Senegal, The Gambia, and Mauritania, and is the native language of the ethnic group of the Wolof people. Like the neighboring language Fula, it belongs to the Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Unlike most other languages of Sub-Saharan Africa, Wolof is not a tonal language Wikipedia (wo.wikipedia.com). |
| July 10, 2003 | Own subdomain created (quote.wikipedia.org). |
| August 25, 2003 | Own domain created (wikiquote.org). |
| July 17, 2004 | New languages added. |
| November 13, 2004 | English edition reaches 2,000 pages. |
| November 2004 28: Romania presidential | Reaches 24 languages. |
| March 2005 | Reaches 10,000 pages in total. English edition has close to 3,000 pages. |
| June 2005 Categories: Days in 2005 | June | 2005 | Reaches 34 languages, including one classical (Latin) and one artificial (Esperanto) |
| November 4, 2005 | English Wikiquote reaches 5,000 pages. |
| April 2006 | French Wikiquote taken down for legal reasons. |
| December 4, 2006 | French Wikiquote restarted. |
| May 7, 2007 | English Wikiquote reaches 10,000 pages. |
| July 2007 2010 · January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | Reaches 40 languages. |
| February 2010 | Reaches a total of 100,000 articles among all languages. |
Multilingual cooperation
In July 2004, about 70 subdomains were set up. As of January 1, 2010, twenty one versions each have more than 1,000 articles. The largest Wikiquote is the English project with over 17,800 articles, followed by Italian, Polish, German, and Portuguese with over 5,000 articles each, and by Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Slovenian, Turkish and French (which was restarted in December 2006). Fifty-two language versions have 100 or more articles.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Alexa rank
- ^ Gemma DeVinney (18 January 2007 (v38 n19)). "Wikiquote: Another source for quotes on the Web". Electronic Highways (University of Buffalo Reporter). http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/archives/vol38/vol38n19/columns/eh.html. Retrieved 2007-04-21.
- ^ Hafsa Ahsan (27 January 2007). "It's all about Wikis". DAWN Dawn is Pakistan's oldest and most widely-read English-language newspaper. One of the country's two largest English-language dailies, it is the flagship of the Dawn Group of Newspapers, published by Pakistan Herald Publications, which also owns the Herald, a magazine, the evening paper The Star and Spider, an IT magazine. Pakistan's newspaper of. http://www.dawn.com/weekly/science/archive/070127/science15.htm.
- ^ "Wikiquote Statistics". Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikiquotes#Statistics. Retrieved 28 August 2009.
External links
- Global Wikiquote main page
- Metawiki: List of Wikiquotes
Categories: Quotations
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