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Wikiquote is a free compendium of quotations that is being written collaboratively by the readers. The site is a Wiki, meaning that anyone, including you, can edit any entry right now by clicking on the edit this page link that appears in every Wikiquote entry. The project was started on June 27, 2003, and there are 68,811 articles in English that are being worked on with many more entries pending in other languages. Every day many contributors from around the world make hundreds of edits and create many new articles.

All the site's content is covered by the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License‎ and the GNU Free Documentation License. Contributions remain the property of their creators, while the copyleft licensing ensures that the content will always remain freely distributable and reproducible. See Wikiquote:Copyrights for more information.

Note: Wikiquote contains content that may be considered offensive, vulgar or profane by some users. See the content disclaimer for more information.

More about Wikiquote

Wikiquote, an article about quotations and why they are important.
Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit parent organization of Wikiquote and similar projects.
Frequently asked questions
History of Wikiquote (only covers 2003–2006)
Announcements (inactive page)
Press releases (inactive page)

Exploring Wikiquote

Recent changes, see articles that are being worked on right now.
Random article
New articles

Contributing to Wikiquote

Welcome, newcomers!, a starting point for new contributors.
Policies and guidelines for contributors
Help pages, help on editing articles and more.

Getting in touch

Village pump, a forum to ask questions not answered in the FAQs or help pages.
Bug reports and feature requests
Wikiquotians, lists of Wikiquote contributors.
Meta-Wiki, a site that works alongside all the Wikimedia Foundation projects, including Wikiquote and Wikipedia.

Other language versions

Wikiquote in other languages – other languages

Similar projects

Wikipedia, a multilingual Wiki encyclopedia. (See Wikipedia for background)
Wiktionary, a multilingual Wiki dictionary and thesaurus. (See Wiktionary for background)
Wikisource, a collection of public domain source texts used on Wikipedia.
Indymedia is similar to Wikipedia as a radically transparent information collection and synthesis network for ordinary people, but is different in that it's focussed primarily on new information on current events and is strongly based in local, non-virtual, autonomous citizens' groups. (See w:Indymedia for background.)

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 '''Wikiquote''' is a [[w:Free content|free]] [[w:compendium|compendium]] of [[w:quotations|quotations]] that is being written collaboratively by the readers.
 The site is a [[w:Wiki|Wiki]], meaning that anyone, including you, can edit any entry right now by clicking on the ''edit this page'' link that appears in every Wikiquote entry.
-The project was started on June 27, 2003 and there are {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles in [[w:English language|English]] that are being worked on with many more entries pending in [[Wikiquote:Other Language Wikiquotes|other languages]].
+The project was started on June 27, 2003, and there are {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles in [[w:English language|English]] that are being worked on with many more entries pending in [[Wikiquote:Other Language Wikiquotes|other languages]].
 Every day many contributors from around the world make hundreds of edits and create many new articles.
-All of the site's content is covered by the [[WQ:CC-BY-SA|Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License‎]] and the [[w:GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]]. Contributions remain the property of their creators, while the [[w:copyleft|copyleft]] licensing ensures that the content will always remain freely distributable and reproducible.
+All the site's content is covered by the [[WQ:CC-BY-SA|Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License‎]] and the [[w:GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License]]. Contributions remain the property of their creators, while the [[w:copyleft|copyleft]] licensing ensures that the content will always remain freely distributable and reproducible.
 See [[Wikiquote:Copyrights]] for more information.
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 * [[w:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]], the non-profit parent organization of Wikiquote and similar projects.
 * [[Wikiquote:FAQ|Frequently asked questions]]
-* [[Wikiquote:History of Wikiquote|History of Wikiquote]] (only covers 2003-2006)
+* [[Wikiquote:History of Wikiquote|History of Wikiquote]] (only covers 2003–2006)
 * [[Wikiquote:Announcements|Announcements]] (inactive page)
 * [[Wikiquote:Press releases|Press releases]] (inactive page)
-== Exploring the Wikiquote ==
+== Exploring Wikiquote ==
 * [[Special:Recentchanges|Recent changes]], see articles that are being worked on right now.
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 * [[w:Wikipedia:Bug reports|Bug reports and feature requests]]
 * [[Wikiquote:Wikiquotians|Wikiquotians]], lists of Wikiquote contributors.
-* [http://meta.wikimedia.com/ Meta-Wiki], a site that works alongside all of the Wikimedia Foundation projects, including Wikiquote and Wikipedia.
+* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/ Meta-Wiki], a site that works alongside all the Wikimedia Foundation projects, including Wikiquote and Wikipedia.
 == Other language versions ==
-* '''Wikiquote in other languages''' - [[Wikiquote:Other language Wikiquotes|other languages]]
+* '''Wikiquote in other languages''' – [[Wikiquote:Other language Wikiquotes|other languages]]
 == Similar projects ==
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 * [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia], a multilingual Wiki encyclopedia. (See [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] for background)
 * [http://wiktionary.org Wiktionary], a multilingual Wiki dictionary and thesaurus. (See [[w:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]] for background)
-* [http://en.wikipedia.com Project Sourceburg], a collection of public domain source texts used in Wikipedia. (See [[m:Project Sourceberg|Project Sourceberg]] for background)
+* [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource Wikisource], a collection of public domain source texts used on Wikipedia.
+* [http://www.indymedia.org Indymedia] is similar to Wikipedia as a radically transparent information collection and synthesis network for ordinary people, but is different in that it's focussed primarily on new information on current events and is strongly based in local, non-virtual, autonomous citizens' groups. (See [[w:Indymedia]] for background.)
-* [http://www.nupedia.com Nupedia], a more academic free encyclopedia project with a peer-review system for accepting articles (See [[w:Nupedia|Nupedia]] for background)
-* [http://enciclopedia.us.es/ Enciclopedia Libre], an independent Spanish language encyclopedia project. (See [[w:Enciclopedia Libre|Enciclopedia Libre]] for background)
-* [http://sep11.wikipedia.org September 11 Memorial Wiki]
-* [http://www.indymedia.org Indymedia] is similar to Wikipedia as a radically transparent information collection and synthesis network for ordinary people, but is different in that it's focussed primarily on new information on current events and is strongly based in local, non-virtual, autonomous citizens' groups. (See [[w:Indymedia|Indymedia]] for background.)
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