Wikiquote

Operation

Wikiquote is one of few online quotation collections that provide the 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 October 2026, there are Wikiquote sites for 100 languages of which 77 are active and 23 are closed. The active sites have 387,881 articles and the closed sites have 638 articles. There are 4,534,554 registered users of which 2,823 were 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 text corpus for language experiments. The University of Wroclaw team entering Conversational Intelligence Challenge of the 2017 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (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 for 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".