Wikiquote:Community Portal

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This page contains information and resources for the Wikiquote editing community. For editing help see our help page.

Writing articles Policy - Our policies and guidelines for editing articles How to edit a page - Some basics of wiki editing Sandbox - For editing experiments Guide to layout and style - More in-depth information Public domain and research resources Starting a new page - Please read this before creating a new page Requested entries	Open tasks Maintenance - General upkeep of the wiki Template messages - Keeping consistency Votes for deletion - Discussions on articles to delete Votes for deletion archive - Current system is broken (discuss) Deletion review - Discussions on articles to undelete And more ...
About the project About - About Wikiquote Templates Spellings - Notes on spelling conventions What Wikiquote is not Reference desk - Asking questions about quotations Good entries - recommendations to read by community members Administrators - Those in the know Administrators' noticeboard - Messageboard for administrators Utilities - links to helpful pages Category schemes - How to index articles FAQ History of Wikiquote - A brief history of the project Wikiquote - An outline of our project Other language Wikiquotes Bots - Bots within Wikiquote Statistics - Internal statistics Software Wikimedia	Community Welcome, newcomers - An introduction Wikiquotians - Those who make the website Village pump - A general discussion page Requests and votes Username policy - How to choose an appropriate username Sign up today! From Wikimedia Foundation Foundation site September 2008: Frieda Brioschi, volunteer representative member of WMF Board of Trustee has resigned, as elected to be the president of Wikimedia Italia. Her term as WMF Board member would have been until July 2009. WMF Board therefore now consists in seven members. No election for replacement is announced and her seat will be vacant for a while. July 2008: At Wikimania 2008 in Alexandria, Egypt, the new composition of the Wikimedia Board is announced. Michael Snow is now the chair of Wikimedia Foundation. For further information, see Wikimedia:Board. June 2008: Ting Chen (user:Wing) wins the Board Election 2008 and will be appoint to a board member effective on July 1, 2008. He'll serve as the board member until July 2009.
Goings-on Policy being drafted Wikiquote:Quotability: Aiming to a core of Wikiquote inclusion policy. Wikiquote:Civility: User behavior guideline. Now discussed on its talk. Wikiquote:Marking problematic pages is an introduction to the various tags which can be used to identify problems with pages, still in editing. User:Aphaia/User page draft is a draft for user-page policy. Policy in final stages of approval currently nothing Policy approved Wikiquote:Changing username and its subsidiary Wikiquote:Changing username/Usurpation are now officialized. Wikiquote:Proposed deletion has been formally adopted. Other The updated guide for layout is in production, but it is not perfect -- your help is appreciated.	Latest news October 4, 2008: UDScott and InvisibleSun are now bureaucrats. Congrats! September 22, 2008: WQ:RFA#Votes of confidence on Cato, Quillercouch (aka Poetlister) and Yehudi closed and all three of them are deflagged. In consequence of discussion all but one of their accounts are permanently blocked. September 20, 2008: UDScott and InvisibleSun are nominated as bureaucrat candidates. Votes are open until October 3 at least. September 20, 2008: m:Metapub/On disbanding Wikiquote is closed as rejected. 　 September 15, 2008: WQ:RFA#Votes of confidence on Cato, Quillercouch (aka Poetlister) and Yehudi started which s:user:Cato confessed to be identical. September 7, 2008: m:Metapub/On disbanding Wikiquote is suggested. Related discussions may be found at WQ:VP. July 5, 2008: Jusjih, Wikimedia steward, is now requesting for local checkuser flag on this project June 27, 2008: Wikiquote day: Now Year 6 begins! June 26, 2008: Ting Chen (user:Wing) wins the Board Election. He'll be appointed effective on July 1, 2008 and serves for one year. June 3, 2008: MalafayaBot (operator: Malafaya) is now bot-flagged. Congrats! See archives...