Wikiquote
Frae Wikipedia
Wikiquote is a sester projeck o Wikipedia, uisin the same MediaWiki saftware. It is ane o a faimly o wiki-based projecks rin bi the Wikimedia Foundation. Based on a consait bi Daniel Alston an implemented bi Brion Vibber, the aim o the projeck is for fowk ti produce thegither a muckle reference o quotations frae prominent fowk, beuks an saws, an ti gie details anent them.
Ti stairt wi, the projeck wis aa in English, but fae Julie 2004, mair leids war eikit.
[edit] Historie
- 27 Juin, 2003 - Pit on the wolof language wikipedia for a while: wo.wikipedia.com
- 10 Julie, 2003 - Ain subdomain: quote.wikipedia.org
- 25 August, 2003 - Ain domain: wikiquote.org
- 17 Julie, 2004 - Neow leids eikit
- 13 November, 2004 - English edeition raxes 2000 page.
- November, 2004 - 24 leids
- Mairch, 2005 - Wikiquote raxes 10,000 page in total. English edeition haes near 3,000 page.
- Juin, 2005 - 34 leids wi ae classical leid (Latin) an ae artifeicial ane (Esperanto).
[edit] Multilingual cooperation
In Julie 2004, aroon 70 subdomains wis set up, but maist o them hinna onie contreibutors. Them ablo are pairts o subdomains that haed been created in Julie 2004: aa o them wis attracted by editors' interest at the time an suin becam active.
- English leid http://en.wikiquote.org/
- Bulgarian leid http://bg.wikiquote.org/
- Chinese leid http://zh.wikiquote.org/
- Dutch leid http://nl.wikiquote.org/
- German leid http://de.wikiquote.org/
- Greek leid http://el.wikiquote.org/
- French leid http://fr.wikiquote.org/
- Polish leid http://pl.wikiquote.org/
- Italian leid http://it.wikiquote.org/
- Japanese leid http://ja.wikiquote.org/
- Korean leid http://ko.wikiquote.org/
- Romanian leid http://ro.wikiquote.org/
- Spanish leid http://es.wikiquote.org/
- Tamil leid http://ta.wikiquote.org/
- Thai leid http://th.wikiquote.org/
- Afrikaans leid http://af.wikiquote.org/
- Portuguese leid http://pt.wikiquote.org/
- Turkish leid http://tr.wikiquote.org/
- Hebrew leid http://he.wikiquote.org
The nummer o active Wikiquote projecks is growing. On January 2005 26 projects for different leids wis active. Here 'active' means the projeck haes mair not the ae legeitimate airticle an ae edit a month. Aifter a sixmonth, 34 projecks are kent ti be active.
As o the 13 August, 2005, fower projecks hae mair nor 1,000 airticles. The mucklest Wikiquote is the English projeck wi ower 4,000 airticles. Neist come the German, French, Polish an Bulgarian projecks. Aboot ten projecks, coontin thae fower, hae mair nor 100 airticles.
