List of Wikipedias explained

Wikipedia is a free multilingual open-source wiki-based online encyclopedia edited and maintained by a community of volunteer editors, started on 15 January 2001 as an English-language encyclopedia. Non-English editions were soon created: the German and Catalan editions were created on circa 16 March,[1] the French edition was created on 23 March,[2] and the Swedish edition was created on 23 May.[3] As of, Wikipedia articles have been created in editions, with currently active and closed.[4]

The Meta-Wiki language committee manages policies on creating new Wikimedia projects. To be eligible, a language must have a valid ISO 639 code, be "sufficiently unique", and have a "sufficient number of fluent users".[5]

Variations in editions

Wikipedia projects vary in how they divide dialects and variants. For example, the English Wikipedia includes most modern varieties of English including American English and British English.[6] [7] Similarly, the Spanish Wikipedia includes both Peninsular Spanish and Latin American Spanish,[8] and the Portuguese Wikipedia includes both European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese.[9] In contrast, some languages have multiple Wikipedias. For example, Serbo-Croatian encompasses four Wikipedia editions, Serbo-Croatian and three different standardized varieties (Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian).[10]

Additionally, some Wikipedia projects apply different approaches to orthography. For instance, the Chinese Wikipedia automatically transliterates between six standard forms: three using simplified Chinese characters (Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore) and three using traditional Chinese characters (Taiwan, Hong Kong, and).[11] [12] And rather than relying on transliteration, Belarusian has separate Wikipedia projects for the official Narkamaŭka and Taraškievica orthographies.[13]

Wikipedia edition codes

Each Wikipedia project has a code, which is used as a subdomain of wikipedia.org. The codes mostly conform to ISO 639-1 two-letter codes or ISO 639-3 three-letter codes, with preference given to a two-letter code if available.[14] For example, en stands for English in ISO 639-1, so the English Wikipedia is at en.wikipedia.org.

Wikipedia editions

Active editions

The table below lists the active language editions of Wikipedia roughly sorted by the number of active users (registered users who have made at least one edit in the last thirty days).[15]

Inactive editions

The table below lists the inactive language editions of Wikipedia.

Special editions

The table below lists the special editions of Wikipedia.

The Nostalgia Wikipedia is an archive of the English Wikipedia's initial display.

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. [Wikipedia-l] Alternative language wikipedias]. 16 March 2001. Wikipedia-L. Wales. Jimmy. Jimmy Wales. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20140620120728/https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-March/000048.html. 20 June 2014. 21 December 2020.
  2. Web site: Noisette. Thierry. 24 September 2010. Wikipédia en français dépasse le million d'articles. French Wikipedia exceeds one million articles. ZDNET France. Red Ventures. French. Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie collaborative libre, fêtera ses dix ans en janvier 2011, et a débuté le 23 mars 2001 en version française, mais dès ce jeudi 23 septembre, à neuf ans et demi exactement, la Wikipédia francophone a enregistré officiellement le cap du million d'articles. (Wikipedia, the free collaborative encyclopedia, will celebrate its tenth anniversary in January 2011. It started on March 23, 2001 in its French version, but as of this Thursday, September 23, at exactly nine and a half years old, the French-language Wikipedia has officially reached the one million article mark.). 21 December 2020.
  3. Web site: History of HomePage. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20010608192645/https://sv.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?action=history&id=HomePage. 8 June 2001. 21 December 2020. Swedish Wikipedia.
  4. Web site: Wikipedia statistics/meta.tab - Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20230910042626/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data:Wikipedia_statistics/meta.tab. 2023-09-10. 2023-09-10.
  5. Web site: Language proposal policy, revision 21811318. Meta-Wiki. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20211222124657/https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Language_proposal_policy&oldid=21811318. 22 December 2021. 31 August 2021.
  6. Book: Anderson, Jennifer Joline . Wikipedia: The Company and Its Founders . 1 . Abdo Group . 2011 . 978-1617148125 . . registration . 62.
  7. Web site: Wikipedia:Manual of Style . 2023-09-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230909233926/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style . 2023-09-09.
  8. Ferran-Ferrer . Núria . Castellanos-Pineda . Patricia . Minguillón . Julià . Meneses . Julio . 2021 . The gender gap on the Spanish Wikipedia: Listening to the voices of women editors . Profesional de la información . 30 . 5 . 2. 10.3145/epi.2021.sep.16. 241442991 .
  9. Costa. Bernardo Esteves Gonçalves da. As controvérsias da ciência na Wikipédia em português: o caso do aquecimento global. 2014. Rio de Janeiro. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Decania do Centro de Ciências Matemáticas e da Natureza, Programa de Pós-Graduação em História das Ciências e das Técnicas e Epistemologia. Tese (doutorado). 72. No passado, as tensões motivadas pelas variantes idiomáticas levaram a propostas para a criação de Wikipédias separadas para o português brasileiro e europeu. Tentativas nesse sentido lançadas em 2005, 2007 e 2009 foram rejeitadas pela Wikimedia Foundation, sob pretexto de que não se trata de idiomas suficientemente diferentes para justificar a cisão..
  10. Book: Rogers, Richard . 2015 . Digital Methods . Wikipedia as Cultural Reference . https://books.google.com/books?id=AOsCEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA172 . MIT Press . 166–177 . 9780262528245 . 22 June 2021.
  11. News: Wikipedia China Becomes Front Line for Views on Language and Culture . Grace . Tsoi . The New York Times . 2013-10-27.
  12. Web site: Wikipedias in multiple writing systems . 2023-09-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20230910022537/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedias_in_multiple_writing_systems . 2023-09-10.
  13. Web site: Nikos . Likomitros . 2023-03-14 . Introducing Belarusian Wikipedia: An interview with Volha Sitnik . 2023-03-14 . Diff . en-US.
  14. Web site: Wikimedia language code . 2023-09-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20230910035706/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_language_code . 2023-09-10.
  15. Web site: List of Wikipedias. Meta-Wiki. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201220065440/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias. 20 December 2020. 20 December 2020.

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