Wikiquote:About

Wikiquote is a free compendium of quotations that is being written collaboratively by the readers. The site is a WikiWiki, 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. There are 69,046 articles in the English language Wikiquote that are being worked on, and versions of Wikiquote in other languages are being developed. Every day many contributors from around the world can make hundreds of edits and create many new articles.

All of the site's content is covered by 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 copyrights for more information.

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

More about Wikiquote

It would seem almost strange that anyone can edit anything, because there's always the potential of reckless "spammers", or annoying "deleters", yet the integrity of Wiki seems to remain.

• 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
• Announcements

Exploring the 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 the Wikimedia projects. Here you can post essays and discussions about topics related to any of Wikimedia projects.

Other language versions

• Wikiquote in other languages - other languages

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• Wikibooks, a collection of free, open content textbooks, manuals and other texts. (See Wikibooks for background)
• Nupedia, a more academic free encyclopedia project with a peer-review system for accepting articles (See Nupedia for background)
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Opinions and objections

• Why Wikipedia is so great
• Why Wikipedia is not so great
• Replies to common objections, a collection of counter arguments for common objections to the Wikipedia and wiki concept.