  The quantitative evaluation of quotations in the Russian Wiktionary was
performed using the developed Wiktionary parser. It was found that the number
of quotations in the dictionary is growing fast (51.5 thousands in 2011, 62
thousands in 2012). These quotations were extracted and saved in the relational
database of a machine-readable dictionary. For this database, tables related to
the quotations were designed. A histogram of distribution of quotations of
literary works written in different years was built. It was made an attempt to
explain the characteristics of the histogram by associating it with the years
of the most popular and cited (in the Russian Wiktionary) writers of the
nineteenth century. It was found that more than one-third of all the quotations
(the example sentences) contained in the Russian Wiktionary are taken by the
editors of a Wiktionary entry from the Russian National Corpus.
