Wikiquote

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Wikiquote
Wikiquote logo
Wikiquote logo
Screenshot
Screenshot of the wikiquote.org home page
Type of site
Quotation repository
Available inMultilingual (73 active)[1]
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
Created byDaniel Alston, Brion Vibber and the Wikimedia community
URLwikiquote.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Launched10 July 2003; 20 years ago (2003-07-10)
Current statusactive
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]

Initially, the project operated only in English from July 2003, expanding to include other languages in July 2004.[2] As of March 2024, there are active Wikiquote sites for 73 languages[1] comprising a total of 318,116 articles and 2,094 recently active editors.[3]

History[edit]

Growth of the largest eight Wikiquotes until early 2008

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[edit]

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[edit]

As of March 2024, there are Wikiquote sites for 96 languages of which 73 are active and 23 are closed.[1] The active sites have 318,116 articles and the closed sites have 638 articles.[3] There are 4,235,853 registered users of which 2,094 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 50,540 205,368 3,465,642 16 3,176,686 491 0
2 Italian it 50,158 195,883 1,322,392 10 98,160 127 268
3 Polish pl 25,925 53,297 566,147 9 57,221 93 1
4 Russian ru 16,648 42,939 414,259 5 104,500 81 0
5 Czech cs 12,921 17,444 155,819 2 19,269 42 1
6 Estonian et 12,643 21,125 124,371 3 4,534 26 2
7 Portuguese pt 11,494 35,252 205,704 4 41,298 47 15
8 Ukrainian uk 9,698 37,656 134,784 6 18,484 41 0
9 Persian fa 9,273 33,072 184,845 3 30,479 35 39
10 Hebrew he 9,197 18,981 209,788 3 24,723 33 506

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

Use in experiments[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Wikimedia's MediaWiki API:Sitematrix. Retrieved March 2024 from Data:Wikipedia statistics/meta.tab
  2. ^ a b "Wikiquote Statistics - Article count (official)". Wikimedia. Archived from the original on 29 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d Wikimedia's MediaWiki API:Siteinfo. Retrieved March 2024 from Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab
  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.
  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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