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Wikiquote is part of a family ofwiki-basedprojects run by theWikimedia Foundation usingMediaWiki software. The project's objective is to collaboratively produce a vast reference ofquotations 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.
Initially, the project operated only in English from July 2003, expanding to include otherlanguages in July 2004.[2] As of February 2026, there are active Wikiquote sites for 76 languages[1] comprising a total of 369,244 articles and 2,844 recently active editors.[3]
Wikiquote is one of few online quotation collections that provides the 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]
As of February 2026, there are Wikiquote sites for 99 languages of which 76 are active and 23 are closed.[1] The active sites have 369,244 articles and the closed sites have 638 articles.[3] There are 4,440,548 registered users of which 2,844 are recently active.[3]
The top ten Wikiquote language projects by mainspace article count:[3]
It can be possible to utilise Wikiquote as atext corpus for language experiments.[9]TheUniversity of Wroclaw team entering Conversational Intelligence Challenge of the 2017Conference 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]
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 for 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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^"Protocollo MIUR-Wikimedia" (in Italian). Ministero dell'istruzione, dell'università e della ricerca. 26 January 2018.Archived from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved28 January 2018.
^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.ISBN978-3-540-73399-7.
^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.
^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. Retrieved10 December 2019.
