You might remember some previous messages on the topic: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikiquote-l/2010-October/000118.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikiquote-l/2010-September/000111.html

A few days ago, as a test, I fetched the ISBNs on fr.quote and en.quote and created some accounts/lists of their books. For instance: http://www.goodreads.com/frwikiquote and http://www.goodreads.com/enwikiquote allow us to have some easy fun with stats on quoted books.

From en.quote's perspective, compared to French: Wikiquote francophone > Compare Books Wikiquote's books: 2575 (1795 not in common) Books in common: 780 (31.19% of your library and 30.29% of their library) My books: 2501 (1721 not in common) And to Italian: Wikiquote > Compare Books Wikiquote's books: 7403 (4938 not in common) Books in common: 2465 (98.56% of your library and 33.30% of their library) My books: 2501 (36 not in common) From Italian to French: Wikiquote francophone > Compare Books Wikiquote's books: 2575 (1700 not in common) Books in common: 875 (11.82% of your library and 33.98% of their library) My books: 7403 (6528 not in common)

Italian seems to quote all the books that English does, plus many more; a third of fr.quote's books are quoted also on en and it.

Sadly, for some reason fr and en have a very little amount of ISBNs in their pages, while I expected fr to be very complete (given how many citation templates they use) and of course en to have more stuff given that they have more pages (perhaps they're not about books but something else, I don't know). German and Polish had a negligible amount of ISBNs, I didn't check the others.

I think more publicity of Wikiquote could be done on those booklovers' portals, but I can hardly manage the Italian accounts and adding more good quality data is time consuming. I've offered the accounts to the communities, if nobody wants to take care of them I'll delete them: https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Le_Salon/d%C3%A9cembre_2012#aNobii_and_GoodReads https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Village_pump&oldid=1515928#GoodReads

Nemo