Wikiquote

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Purpose

Wikiquote is a free compendium of quotations written collaboratively by readers.Read 9 Oct 2026 · en.wikiquote.org

Integrations

The project describes itself alongside Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wiktionary, and Wikidata.Read 9 Oct 2026 · en.wikiquote.org

Privacy

Wikiquote links to the Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy, which explains how personal information is collected, used, and shared on Wikimedia Sites.Read 9 Oct 2026 · meta.wikimedia.org

Support

Wikiquote directs questions about how to use the site to the Village pump and general knowledge questions to the Reference Desk.Read 9 Oct 2026 · en.wikiquote.org

Founded

2003Read 28 Sep 2026 · wikiquote.org

Browsing

Wikiquote organizes entries around people, literary works, proverbs, films, television shows, themes, and categories.Read 9 Oct 2026 · en.wikiquote.org

Content license

Wikiquote content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and GNU Free Documentation License.Read 9 Oct 2026 · en.wikiquote.org

Content limitation

Wikiquote may contain content some users consider offensive, vulgar, or profane.Read 9 Oct 2026 · en.wikiquote.org

Contributions

The project supports creating articles and editing existing pages, with help pages and contributor policies and guidelines.Read 9 Oct 2026 · en.wikiquote.org

Coverage

The English Wikiquote contains more than 72,000 articles and the site links to many language editions.Read 9 Oct 2026 · wikiquote.org

Editing

Anyone can edit an entry by clicking its edit link.Read 9 Oct 2026 · en.wikiquote.org

Organization

Wikiquote is run by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation.Read 9 Oct 2026 · en.wikiquote.org

Random quote limit

Wikiquote does not provide a practical way to pull individual quotations directly for random quote generation because quotations are stored in wiki articles.Read 9 Oct 2026 · en.wikiquote.org

Reuse

Wikiquote material may be reused commercially or otherwise under CC BY-SA if users preserve the share-alike freedom and credit the source, usually with a link to the article.Read 9 Oct 2026 · en.wikiquote.org

Search

Users can search Wikiquote for a quotation and browse matching articles, although search may be temporarily disabled when Wikimedia servers are heavily loaded.Read 9 Oct 2026 · en.wikiquote.org

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