Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Wikiquote

The 20 closest Quotation reference alternatives to Wikiquote, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 1 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Wikiquote? The closest matches are Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikibooks. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Wikiquote

Wikiquote wikiquote.org

Wikiquote

Wikidata: free multilingual online collection of quotes

Top 10K · #4,362 English 1 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
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Summary by Claude

A free, multilingual, volunteer-edited wiki collection of sourced quotations from notable people, books, films and proverbs, run by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Who it’s for
General readers, writers and researchers
Business model
Donations (nonprofit)

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Wikiquote’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

Archive of Our OwnInternet ArchiveZoteroMediaWikiGlosbeWikidataWikimedia movementWiktionaryWikisourceWikipedia

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Wikiquote

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Wikiquote, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    Wikipedia wikipedia.org Top 100 English

    Wikipedia

    Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

  2. 02
    Wikisource wikisource.org Top 10K English

    Wikisource

    online multilingual library that collects open-content source material

  3. 03
    Wikibooks wikibooks.org Top 10K English

    Wikibooks

    free multilingual online collection of textbooks

  4. 04
    Wiktionary wiktionary.org Top 10K English

    Wiktionary

    free online multilingual dictionary

  5. 05
    Wikimedia movement wikimedia.org Top 1K English

    Wikimedia Error

    global social movement for free educational knowledge

  6. 06
    Wikidata wikidata.org Top 10K English

    Wikidata

    free multilingual online knowledge graph

  7. 07
    Glosbe glosbe.com Top 10K English

    Glosbe Dictionary - All Languages of the World in One Place

    Glosbe dictionary - one place, all languages! Translations, example sentences, pronunciation recordings and grammar references. Check it out!

  8. 08
    MediaWiki mediawiki.org Top 10K English

    MediaWiki

    free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation

  9. 09
    Wikidot wikidot.com Top 10K English

    Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting

    Polish wiki hosting corporation

  10. 10
    Zotero zotero.org Top 10K English

    Zotero | Your personal research assistant

    Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

  11. 11
    Know Your Meme knowyourmeme.com Top 10K English

    Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme

    Know Your Meme is a website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more.

  12. 12
    Internet Archive archive.org Top 1K English

    Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

    U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive

  13. 13
    Open Library openlibrary.org Top 10K English

    Welcome to Open Library | Open Library

    Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.

  14. 14
    tvtropes.org Top 10K English

    online wiki listing and analyzing conventions (tropes) found in fictional works

  15. 15
    Archive of Our Own archiveofourown.org Top 10K English

    Request temporarily denied. | Archive of Our Own

    nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works

  16. 16
    Khan Academy khanacademy.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    non-profit educational organization

  17. 17
    doxygen.org Top 10K English

    Doxygen homepage

    Source code documentation and analysis tool

  18. 18
    The Conversation theconversation.com Top 10K

    The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.

    Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.

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    Reverso reverso.net Top 10K English

    online translation and linguistic tools

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    Project Gutenberg gutenberg.org Top 10K English

    Free eBooks | Project Gutenberg

    Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks. Choose from ebook formats or read online. No fees, no registration, no ads.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to wikiquote.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Wikiquote uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Wikiquote is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

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