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Wikiquote is a multilingual online open-content compendium of quotations. All content but copyrighted quotations is released under the GFDL and CC-BY-SA in the same manner as other Wikimedia Foundation projects.

It began with a post by Fonzy on June 27, 2003.

a proposed idea: Wikiquotionary an Encyclopedia of Quotes. The temp page can be found here – fonzy.

It started as quote.wikipedia.org on July 10, 2003 and later got its own domain, wikiquote.org on August 25, 2003.

Wikiquote had quotations with over 2,500 articles in six languages in June 2004, one year after its first proposal under the domain wikiquote.org. Some language-speakers other than English requested their own subdomain and on July 17, they were created, starting Wikiquotes in languages like German, French, Italian and Polish.

The Wikiquote project is expanding slowly but steadily. At the end of September there were about 15 Wikiquotes, both large and small. On December 1, there were 24 Wikiquote projects. There were almost 6,500 articles in total in December 2004. At the end of May 2005 the total number of articles reached 14,000. It included nearly 30,000 articles in over 30 languages in February 2006, over 60,000 articles in 87 languages in May 2007 and over 80,000 articles in 89 languages in June 2008.

Since the last update of June 2008, the number of languages has remained stable, while the number of articles has doubled. As of 10 May 2014, about eleven years after its creation, the Wikiquote project now includes over 168,000 articles in 89 languages. Twenty-eight language versions have more than 1,000 articles. Fifty-six language versions have 100 or more articles.

The largest Wikiquotes are Italian and English, with over 48,000 and 46,000 articles respectively. Third is Polish Wikiquote, with more than 24,000 articles.

Sometimes the Wikiquote project faces troubles and challenges. One of the most remarkable challenges was copyright issues on the French Wikiquote. To avoid problems, on March 2006 the Foundation decided to take it down, erase all its material and relaunch it. For details, see the announcement from the Foundation.

However, devoted editors rescued the situation. They settled their charter and policies, and French Wikiquote was relaunched on December 4, 2006.

See this page for complete statistics.

Table transcluded from Wikiquote/Table.

These statistics are updated several times a day. You might need to purge the cache to see the latest numbers.
№ Language Wiki Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
1 English en 65,431 234,688 3,911,919 15 3,311,908 1,194 0
2 Italian it 54,975 208,683 1,410,175 8 106,730 168 263
3 Polish pl 31,730 56,011 641,129 9 61,068 92 1
4 Russian ru 17,888 45,442 439,233 5 112,764 146 0
5 Czech cs 15,451 20,064 167,347 2 20,623 24 1
6 Estonian et 13,692 23,474 134,892 2 5,538 23 2
7 Ukrainian uk 12,210 42,124 159,416 5 20,961 33 0
8 Portuguese pt 12,058 36,572 225,523 4 43,781 24 1
9 Hebrew he 11,152 21,477 234,599 3 27,194 65 514
10 French fr 10,870 38,803 455,060 6 82,736 125 0
11 Persian fa 9,538 33,928 192,072 1 33,202 18 37
12 Spanish es 8,707 33,012 500,032 3 96,302 52 0
13 German de 7,932 20,540 523,776 3 69,315 32 16
14 Serbian sr 6,071 13,457 67,695 4 6,548 29 1
15 Turkish tr 5,852 34,741 238,244 3 37,399 52 1
16 Azerbaijani az 5,496 12,488 206,325 5 8,622 16 0
17 Esperanto eo 5,468 11,417 53,368 2 5,668 10 1
18 Slovak sk 4,532 7,452 101,170 2 7,919 9 2
19 Catalan ca 4,208 14,121 145,644 3 16,029 7 4
20 Bosnian bs 4,157 8,109 62,351 1 8,921 9 271
21 Chinese zh 3,990 16,441 151,863 5 55,741 42 0
22 Arabic ar 3,777 56,470 261,909 4 34,254 37 0
23 Indonesian id 3,490 9,992 52,524 3 20,857 79 5
24 Finnish fi 3,420 7,104 100,174 3 9,976 14 2
25 Slovenian sl 2,973 7,399 42,854 2 5,867 5 0
26 Lithuanian lt 2,973 6,385 83,864 2 5,324 7 2
27 Bangla bn 2,739 13,011 81,270 2 5,659 459 0
28 Sundanese su 2,428 4,012 16,111 1 2,203 23 6
29 Armenian hy 2,311 9,163 178,934 1 6,247 8 99
30 Bulgarian bg 2,309 11,372 91,880 3 11,558 16 5
31 Croatian hr 2,183 4,212 33,555 2 6,224 11 1
32 Igbo ig 2,041 11,233 31,427 1 1,389 15 0
33 Greek el 1,907 4,116 38,262 1 9,417 8 2
34 Uzbek uz 1,812 5,778 26,684 5 2,884 15 2
35 Norwegian Nynorsk nn 1,755 4,115 19,253 2 3,284 7 2
36 Limburgish li 1,575 3,235 7,358 2 2,667 4 0
37 Swedish sv 1,550 4,060 37,213 2 13,635 12 1
38 Vietnamese vi 1,393 5,888 62,631 2 14,610 19 1
39 Hungarian hu 1,371 5,146 56,872 3 15,817 5 54
40 Assamese as 1,325 3,348 26,567 2 1,155 31 0
41 Dutch nl 1,296 5,998 94,659 3 16,965 12 1
42 Japanese ja 1,181 4,990 42,470 3 23,024 17 2
43 Korean ko 1,121 4,298 34,682 2 7,158 10 4
44 Yakut sah 1,099 1,797 8,594 1 1,107 1 0
45 Latin la 1,015 2,337 14,855 1 4,015 3 1
46 Tamil ta 984 3,985 38,501 1 4,781 5 8
47 Hindi hi 926 6,733 32,804 1 5,436 12 0
48 Telugu te 883 4,945 26,484 1 3,182 2 1
49 Gun guw 804 1,356 10,008 3 746 3 0
50 Banjar bjn 640 1,339 6,112 2 626 10 0
51 Romanian ro 635 3,528 23,720 2 6,881 8 1
52 Thai th 631 8,278 57,644 3 6,374 10 0
53 Urdu ur 583 3,348 14,130 3 2,992 9 2
54 Galician gl 556 2,960 22,321 1 3,598 5 0
55 Tagalog tl 512 4,406 31,972 1 758 3 0
56 Gujarati gu 511 3,181 18,737 1 2,836 3 0
57 Belarusian be 491 2,172 13,980 1 4,817 5 0
58 Georgian ka 460 4,860 48,188 1 5,386 6 22
59 Kannada kn 378 2,281 15,519 2 2,361 5 0
60 Norwegian no 375 3,105 28,404 1 5,815 10 3
61 Welsh cy 371 1,406 8,622 1 2,903 4 0
62 Nigerian Pidgin pcm 359 575 7,491 4 214 5 0
63 Malayalam ml 331 3,642 25,738 2 5,628 10 1
64 Albanian sq 317 3,174 25,547 1 3,099 5 2
65 Basque eu 271 1,299 12,259 1 3,035 6 0
66 Kurdish ku 253 1,158 12,038 1 4,198 5 0
67 Malay ms 232 1,496 7,164 2 527 43 0
68 Danish da 232 2,360 21,022 3 10,136 5 1
69 Central Bikol bcl 148 2,109 19,756 1 886 2 0
70 Sanskrit sa 139 4,813 18,426 1 2,734 0 0
71 Icelandic is 135 1,284 12,795 1 2,740 4 1
72 Gorontalo gor 124 1,642 15,813 0 469 10 0
73 Breton br 50 919 5,516 1 2,366 2 0
74 Marathi mr 44 922 8,944 1 2,551 4 1
75 Afrikaans af 35 1,304 10,727 1 3,336 5 0
76 Kyrgyz ky 1 507 4,203 1 2,194 4 0
Totals Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikiquotes 372,863 1,213,590 12,071,020 190 4,467,870 3,198 1,348

The Alemannic, Bavarian and Rhine Franconian Wikipedias have a namespace dedicated to quotations (als:Spruch:Start, bar:Spruch:Start, pfl:Spruch:Start) rather than using a standalone Wikiquote project.

Recommended article-count milestones are 100, 500, 1k, 2k, 5k increments to 50k, 10k increments to 100k, 25k increments to 250k, 50k increments to 500k, and 100k increments to 1000k.

Reporting to Wikimedia News is also recommended.

Past milestones can be found in the archives.

  • November 2, 2025
  • October 28, 2025: One new Wikiquote was created
  • September 19, 2025
  • September 18, 2025: One new Wikiquote was created
  • September 7, 2025
  • August 31, 2025
  • July 21, 2025
  • June 6, 2025
  • June 5, 2025
  • April 29, 2025
  • April 23, 2025
  • March 14, 2025
  • January 11, 2025
  • December 21, 2024
  • October 17, 2024
  • October 6, 2024
  • October 5, 2024
  • October 1, 2024: One new Wikiquote was created
  • August 20, 2024
  • July 8, 2024
  • June 17, 2024
  • June 13, 2024
  • May 31, 2024
  • May 29, 2024
  • April 23, 2024
  • February 25, 2024
  • February 7, 2024
  • February 4, 2024
  • January 24, 2024
  • December 18, 2023
  • November 28, 2023
  • November 23, 2023
  • November 8, 2023: One new Wikiquote was created
  • October 12, 2023
  • August 23, 2023
  • July 21, 2023
  • May 5, 2023
  • April 25, 2023
  • February 14, 2023
  • January 31, 2023
  • January 14, 2023
  • January 4, 2023: Two new Wikiquotes were created
  • December 3, 2022
  • October 18, 2022
  • October 10, 2022: Four new Wikiquotes were created
  • July 2, 2022
  • January 15, 2022
  • August 26, 2021
  • August 5, 2021
  • July 21, 2021
  • April 2, 2021
  • February 27, 2021
  • February 1, 2021
  • December 6, 2020
  • October 6, 2020
  • October 4, 2020
  • September 11, 2020
  • August 25, 2020
  • June 7, 2020
  • May 16, 2020
  • March 6, 2020
  • February 15, 2020
  • January 1, 2020
  • December 25, 2019
  • November 14, 2019
  • November 13, 2019
  • November 11, 2019
  • October 23, 2019
  • August 13, 2019
  • October 1, 2015
  • February 13, 2015
  • February 2, 2015
  • August 22, 2013
  • May 28, 2013
  • February 4, 2013
  • January 4, 2013
  • August 14, 2012
  • July 6, 2012
  • November 14, 2010
  • October 19, 2010
  • May 2010
  • March 21, 2010
  • February 26, 2010
  • February 2010
    • Wikiquote has over 100,000 articles in total. Not known when the milestone has reached.
  • October – November 2009
  • October 8, 2009
An Alemannic Wikiquote has been created as separate namespace within Alemannic Wikipedia: Alemannischi Spruchsammlig (Wikiquote).
  • September 10, 2009
  • August – September 2009
  • August 20, 2009

If you want to launch a Wikiquote project in your favorite language, you can request it, filling some requirements. See Requests for new languages for further information.

Most of language projects of Wikiquote have its discussion place on their wikis. If it is hard for you to find it, try talk:Main Page on each wiki.

The global Wikiquote community utilizes some communication channels.

Wikiquote coordination

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