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s run by the

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using

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software. Based on an idea by Daniel Alston and implemented by Brion Vibber, the project's objective is to produce collaboratively a vast reference of

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s 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 other

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s in July 2004. As of , there are active Wikiquote sites for languages

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History

The Wikiquote site originated in 2003. The article creation milestones are taken from WikiStats.

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 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.

Multi-lingual cooperation

As of , there are Wikiquote sites for languages of which are active and are closed. The active sites have articles and the closed sites have articles. There are registered users of which are recently active. The top ten Wikiquote language projects by mainspace article count: For a complete list with totals see Wikimedia Statistics:

Use in experiments

It can be possible to utilise Wikiquote as a

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for language experiments. The

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team entering Conversational Intelligence Challenge of the 2017

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(NIPS 2017) used Wikiquote to produce a conversational talker module for extraction of rare words. Researchers have used Wikiquote to train language models to detect extremist quotes.

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. It can be used for analysis to produce claims such as "Albert Einstein is probably the most quoted figure of our time".

References

External links

* {{Wikimedia Foundation Internet properties established in 2003 Multilingual websites Quotations Wikimedia projects Advertising-free websites