Life is like an hourglass..., eventually.
Everything hits the bottom and all you have to do is wait it out until someone comes along and turns it around.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Wikiquote?
Wikiquote is one of a family of wiki-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation, running on MediaWiki software. Based on an idea by Daniel Alston and implemented by Brion Vibber, the goal of the project is to produce collaboratively a vast reference of quotations from prominent people, books, films and proverbs, and to give details about them with appropriate attribution. Though there are many online collections of quotations, Wikiquote is distinguished by being among the few that provide an opportunity for visitors to contribute. Wikiquote pages are cross-linked to articles about the notable personalities on Wikipedia.
Initially, the project was created solely in English; a later expansion to include additional languages was started in July 2004.
History
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| Temporarily put on the Wolof language Wikipedia (wo.wikipedia.com). | |
| Own subdomain created (quote.wikipedia.org). | |
| Own domain created (wikiquote.org). | |
| New languages added. | |
| English edition reaches 2,000 pages. | |
| Reaches 24 languages. | |
| Reaches 10,000 pages in total. English edition has close to 3,000 pages. | |
| Reaches 34 languages, including one classical (Latin) and one artificial (Esperanto) | |
| English Wikiquote reaches 5,000 pages. | |
| French Wikiquote taken down for legal reasons. | |
| French Wikiquote restarted. | |
| English Wikiquote reaches 10,000 pages. | |
| Reaches 40 languages. | |
| Reaches a total of 100,000 articles among all languages. |
About Quotes
For Wikipedia, Quotation is the repetition of someone else's statement. Quotation marks are punctuations marks used in text to indicate the words of another speaker or writer. Both of these words are sometimes abbreviated as "quotes."
Etymology from English references, recorded that since 1387 "to mark (a book) with chapter numbers or marginal references", from Old French coter, from Medieval Latin quotare "to distinguish by numbers, number chapters", itself from Latin quotus "which, what number (in sequence)," from quot "how many" (related to quis "who"). The sense developped via "to give as a reference, to cite as an authority" to "to copy out exact words" (since 1680); the business sense "to state the price of a commodity" (1866) revives the etymological meaning. The noun, in the sense of "quotation," is attested from 1885; see also usage note, below. ( Wiktionary, http://en.wiktionary.org)
Etymology from English references, recorded that since 1387 "to mark (a book) with chapter numbers or marginal references", from Old French coter, from Medieval Latin quotare "to distinguish by numbers, number chapters", itself from Latin quotus "which, what number (in sequence)," from quot "how many" (related to quis "who"). The sense developped via "to give as a reference, to cite as an authority" to "to copy out exact words" (since 1680); the business sense "to state the price of a commodity" (1866) revives the etymological meaning. The noun, in the sense of "quotation," is attested from 1885; see also usage note, below. ( Wiktionary, http://en.wiktionary.org)
My Interest in Quotes
At first, I was collecting all these quotes just for fun to put on my Facebook (Justwant to drag people's attention). But in the end, it became my passion to explorethese quotes. It has inspired me to continue to live with a colorful variety of life. What a beautiful world. I hope you all will like all these quotes.
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