Wikiquote:About

Wikiquoteis afreecompendiumofquotationsthat is being written collaboratively by the readers. The site is aWiki,meaning that anyone, including you, can edit any entry right now by clicking on theedit this pagelink that appears in every Wikiquote entry. The project was started on June 27, 2003, and there are 51,920 articles inEnglishthat are being worked on with many more entries pending inother languages. Every day many contributors from around the world make hundreds of edits and create many new articles.

All the site's content is covered by theCreative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License‎and theGNU Free Documentation License.Contributions remain the property of their creators, while thecopyleftlicensing ensures that the content will always remain freely distributable and reproducible. SeeWikiquote:Copyrightsfor more information.

Note:Wikiquote contains content that may be considered offensive, vulgar or profane by some users. See thecontent disclaimerfor more information.

More about Wikiquote

• Wikiquote,an article about quotations and why they are important.
• Wikimedia Foundation,the non-profit parent organization of Wikiquote and similar projects.
• Frequently asked questions
• History of Wikiquote(only covers 2003–2006)
• Announcements(inactive page)
• Press releases(inactive page)

Exploring Wikiquote

• Recent changes,see articles that are being worked on right now.
• Random article
• New articles

Contributing to Wikiquote

• Welcome, newcomers!,a starting point for new contributors.
• Policies and guidelines for contributors
• Help pages,help on editing articles and more.

Getting in touch

• Village pump,a forum to ask questions not answered in theFAQsorhelp pages.
• Bug reports and feature requests
• Wikiquotians,lists of Wikiquote contributors.
• Meta-Wiki,a site that works alongside all the Wikimedia Foundation projects, including Wikiquote and Wikipedia.

Other language versions

• Wikiquote in other languages–other languages

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