Wikiquote is part of a family of wiki-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation using MediaWiki software.

The project's objective is to collaboratively produce a vast reference of quotations from prominent people, books, films, proverbs, etc.

[9] The University of Wroclaw team entering Conversational Intelligence Challenge of the 2017 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017) used Wikiquote to produce a conversational talker module for extraction of rare words.

[10] Researchers have used Wikiquote to train language models to detect extremist quotes.

[11] Wikiquote has been suggested as "a great starting point for a quotation search" with only quotes with sourced citations being available.