Wikiquote:History of Wikiquote

Wikiquote, a sister project to Wikipedia, began on June 27, 2003. It was originally temporarily hosted on the Wolof wiki, but was then moved on July 10 to the Wikipedia server.

By the end of the month, July 31st 2003, there were 172 entries, 10 confessed Wikiquotians, and 48 registered users.

One month later, on August 31st 2003, there were 339 pages, 18 confessed Wikiquotians, and 105 registered users. On August 1, 2004, there were over 300 registered users and 27 confessed Wikiquotians.

History

 * July 10, 2003 - Own subdomain: quote.wikipedia.org
 * August 25, 2003 - Own domain: wikiquote.org
 * May 19, 2004 - There were 1000 pages
 * July 17, 2004 - New languages added
 * November 13, 2004 - English edition reaches 2000 pages
 * November, 2004 - 24 languages
 * March 24, 2005 - 26 languages
 * March 2005 - Wikiquote reaches 10,000 pages in total. English edition has close to 3,000 pages.
 * June 2005 - 34 languages including one classic (Latin) and one artificial (Esperanto)
 * November 4, 2005 - The English Wikiquote reaches 5,000 pages.
 * April, 2006 - French Wikiquote taken down for legal reasons.
 * October, 2006 - Wikiquote reaches 50,000 pages in total.
 * December, 2006 - French Wikiquote reopens.