Wikiquote

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

Last updated March 15, 2024

Presentation about Wikiquote during the Wiki Indaba 2023 conference in Agadir, Morocco.

Wikiquote is part of a family of wiki-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation using MediaWiki software. 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.^{[ citation needed ]}

History

The Wikiquote site originated in 2003.^[4] 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 ^[5])

Operation

Though there are many online collections of quotations, Wikiquote is distinguished by being among the few that provide an opportunity for visitors to contribute^[6] 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.^[7]

Multi-lingual cooperation

As of March2024, there are Wikiquote sites for 96 languages of which 73 are active and 23 are closed.^[1] The active sites have 317,640 articles and the closed sites have 638 articles.^[3] There are 4,233,658 registered users of which 2,080 are recently active.^[3]

The top ten Wikiquote language projects by mainspace article count:^[3]

No.	Language	ISO	Good	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
1	English	en	50,454	205,152	3,461,335	16	3,175,788	470	0
2	Italian	it	50,098	195,696	1,321,035	10	98,064	134	268
3	Polish	pl	25,918	53,288	565,740	9	57,165	87	1
4	Russian	ru	16,635	42,901	413,912	5	104,386	78	0
5	Czech	cs	12,922	17,444	155,703	2	19,243	45	1
6	Estonian	et	12,637	21,112	124,240	3	4,525	27	2
7	Portuguese	pt	11,469	35,225	205,349	4	41,257	48	15
8	Ukrainian	uk	9,679	37,620	134,618	6	18,438	37	0
9	Persian	fa	9,271	32,978	184,481	3	30,416	36	39
10	Hebrew	he	9,173	18,943	209,525	3	24,679	35	506

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 ]}

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[Sitematrix-1] 1 2 3 Wikimedia's MediaWiki API:Sitematrix. Retrieved March2024 from Data:Wikipedia statistics/meta.tab

[WikiStats-2] 1 2 "Wikiquote Statistics - Article count (official)". Wikimedia. Archived from the original on 29 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.

[Siteinfo-3] 1 2 3 4 Wikimedia's MediaWiki API:Siteinfo. Retrieved March2024 from Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab

[Dummy-4] 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.

[5] "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.

[6] 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.

[7] Ahsan, Hafsa (27 January 2007). "It's all about Wikis". DAWN . Archived from the original on 4 May 2012.

[Wikimedia_Statistics-8] "Wikiquote Statistics". Meta.Wikimedia.org . Archived from the original on 1 July 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2020.

[Icorpus-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.

[NIPS2017-10] 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.

[NYPL-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.

[Rentoul-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.

[H-Albert-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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