Hello there, English Wikiquote reaches today 10,000 articles. Here is a part of our press release ...
---- 7 May, 2007 (St. Petersburg, Fl) - The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the creation of the 10,000th article in the English language edition of Wikiquote (http://www.wikiquote.org), a community-built multilingual compendium of quotations. The article is for quotes by or about Langdon Smith (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Langdon_Smith), and it was started by the Wikiquote contributor whose username is Kalki.
The Wikiquote project itself is going to celebrate its four-year anniversary on June 27. The Wikiquote in the English language edition is the biggest and oldest among all Wikiquote language editions. But the growth is not limited to the English version, as more than 50,000 articles are now being worked on in the non-English editions of Wikiquote in over 35 languages. As of yet, thirteen projects including English Wikiquote have more than 1,000 articles: top 5 are English, German, Polish, Italian and Slovak.
The scope of Wikiquote collection is from notable people like Tony Blair to creative works like Lord of the Rings or Latter Days in every language, including sources (where known) and translations of non-English quotes as Rainer Maria Rilke. Besides articles by source, Wikiquote also provides its readers articles by theme.
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Since 2004, the English Wikiquote provides a good quotation for readers every day selected from its collection. It is available on its Main Page and also archives. -----
The whole press release is available on http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Press_releases/May_2007
On 07/05/07, Aphaia aphaia@gmail.com wrote:
English Wikiquote reaches today 10,000 articles.
My congratulations to all of the editors who have worked so hard on this project. Of course, an article-count is just a simple metric, but it still represents a great deal of time and effort.
Yours,
Aphaia wrote:
Hello there, English Wikiquote reaches today 10,000 articles. Here is a part of our press release ...
7 May, 2007 (St. Petersburg, Fl) - The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the creation of the 10,000th article in the English language edition of Wikiquote (http://www.wikiquote.org), a community-built multilingual compendium of quotations. The article is for quotes by or about Langdon Smith (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Langdon_Smith), and it was started by the Wikiquote contributor whose username is Kalki.
The Wikiquote project itself is going to celebrate its four-year anniversary on June 27. The Wikiquote in the English language edition is the biggest and oldest among all Wikiquote language editions. But the growth is not limited to the English version, as more than 50,000 articles are now being worked on in the non-English editions of Wikiquote in over 35 languages. As of yet, thirteen projects including English Wikiquote have more than 1,000 articles: top 5 are English, German, Polish, Italian and Slovak.
The scope of Wikiquote collection is from notable people like Tony Blair to creative works like Lord of the Rings or Latter Days in every language, including sources (where known) and translations of non-English quotes as Rainer Maria Rilke. Besides articles by source, Wikiquote also provides its readers articles by theme.
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Since 2004, the English Wikiquote provides a good quotation for readers every day selected from its collection. It is available on its Main Page and also archives.
The whole press release is available on http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Press_releases/May_2007
Congrats ! /me vaguely wonders if there is a "quote of the day" on wikiquote.
Thank you for your congratulations, James and Florence,
On 5/8/07, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Congrats ! /me vaguely wonders if there is a "quote of the day" on wikiquote.
Since 2003 (= the beginning year) [English] Wikiquote provides you the quote of the day :)
Today's quote is taken from David Hume (born in this day) "Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few ..." (To be continued)
Archives are found at http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Quotes_of_the_Year
The page says it avails also by email: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l
You can now vote for tomorrow's quote at: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/May_8
Enjoy!
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