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The Catalan Wikipedia (Catalan: Viquipèdia en català) is the Catalan-language edition of the Wikipedia free online encyclopedia.[2][3] It was created on 16 March 2001, just a few minutes after the first non-English Wikipedia, the German edition. With more than 761,000 articles, it is currently the 20th-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles, and the fifth-largest Wikipedia in a Romance language.[4][5] In April 2016, the project had 582 active editors who made at least five edits in that month.
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 Main Page of the Catalan Wikipedia in August 2023 | |
Type of site | Online encyclopedia |
|---|---|
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | ca.wikipedia.org |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | 495,005 registered accounts 9,638 contributors[a] (July 2014) |
| Launched | 16 March 2001 |
Content license | CC Attribution / Share-Alike 3.0 Most text also dual-licensed under GFDL. Media licensing varies. |
Creation
editOn 16 March 2001, Jimmy Wales announced that he wanted to create Wikipedias in other languages and mentioned that there was interest in creating a Catalan version.[6] The first tests were made on the deutsche.wikipedia.com,[7] and a few minutes later, the Catalan Wikipedia was created in the catalan.wikipedia.com domain.[8]
The first edit on a non-English Wikipedia was at 21:07 UTC, 16 March 2001, made to the Catalan main page. The first contribution in a non-English article dates from March 17 at 01:41 UTC in the article Àbac.[citation needed] Despite being created after the German Wikipedia, for about two months it was the only non-English Wikipedia that contained articles.[9]
After some time, the domain changed to ca.wikipedia.com and later to ca.wikipedia.org. About 2003 its community started to use the name "Viquipèdia" when talking about this edition of Wikipedia. Nowadays, this word is used in Catalan language to refer to the whole Wikipedia. About 2005, the domain www.viquipedia.net was registered and it redirects to ca.wikipedia.org. In 2007, www.viquipedia.cat was also registered and redirected.
The first registered user was probably AstroNomer, presumably used only to make some registration tests, but the first registered user to make lasting contributions was Cdani, the same user cited in Jimbo Wales' message.
In 2005 the Catalan Wikipedia community debated on which name(s) of the Catalan language to present in the main page and other policy pages, either català, "Catalan", valencià, "Valencian", or a combination of both català-valencià and català o valencià. Although there was not a consensus on any of the proposals, users agreed that in articles relevant to the Valencian Community, the name "Valencian" was to be used; on all other articles "Catalan" is preferred.[10] The main page avoids making reference to a particular nomenclature,[clarification needed] by simply stating aquesta versió, "this version".
Milestones and historical main pages
edit| Milestone | Date | Article |
|---|---|---|
| 1 article | 17 March 2001 | Àbac (Abacus) |
| 10,000 articles | 16 November 2004 | Unknown[11] |
| 20,000 articles | 19 November 2005 | Diputat (Member of Parliament)[12] |
| 30,000 articles | 6 May 2006 | Lunitari (Lunitari) |
| 40,000 articles | 20 September 2006 | Enginyeria d'aliments (Food engineering) |
| 50,000 articles | 4 January 2007 | Puerto Real (Puerto Real)[13][14] |
| 75,000 articles | 31 August 2007 | Eutidem (filòsof) (Euthydemus (Socratic literature))[15] |
| 100,000 articles | 18 January 2008 | Arrel cúbica (Cubic root)[16] |
| 125,000 articles | 12 August 2008 | Llúdria gegant (Giant otter) |
| 150,000 articles | 28 December 2008 | Guerra dels Ossos (Bone Wars) |
| 175,000 articles | 7 May 2009 | Spilocuscus (Spilocuscus) |
| 200,000 articles | 21 September 2009 | Carnaval de Solsona (Solsona Carnival)[17][18][19][20] |
| 250,000 articles | 29 June 2010 | Mare de Déu del Claustre (Mare de Déu del Claustre) |
| 300,000 articles | 21 December 2010 | Pastítsio (Pastitsio) |
| 400,000 articles | 12 April 2013 | Heli-4 (Helium-4) |
| 450,000 articles | 3 February 2015 | L'executor (The Executioner (1970 film)) |
| 500,000 articles | 11 March 2016 | Oda Krohg (Oda Krohg) |
| 600,000 articles | 8 January 2019 | Pura Velarde (Pura Velarde) |
| 700,000 articles | 24 April 2022 | Hey, Hey, Rise Up! (Hey, Hey, Rise Up!) |
Evolution of the number of articles
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2019 March -
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See also
editNotes
editReferences
edit- ^ "Wikipedia Statistics — Tables — Contributors". stats.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
- ^ Jordi Aguilera; Antonio Novella (2 October 2009). "El català, un exemple d'èxit a Internet" (in Catalan). Espai Internet. Archived from the original on 8 March 2010. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ A Dalby (2007), "Wikipedia(s) on the languages map of the world", English Today, 23 (2), Cambridge Univ Press: 3–8, doi:10.1017/S0266078407002027, S2CID 145231651
- ^ "List of Wikipedias by language group". Meta-Wiki. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
- ^ "List of Wikipedias". Meta-Wiki. Wikimedia Foundation.
- ^ Jimbo Wales' message about creating first foreign Wikipedias
- ^ Message confirming the creation of the German domain
- ^ First history of the Catalan Wikipedia Main Page, hours in Pacific time zone
- ^ Multilingual monthly statistics
- ^ See debate in the decision making process about usage of the names of the language
- ^ 10,000 articles
- ^ 20,000 articles
- ^ 50,000 articles
- ^ Technically, Lesbianisme was article 50,000; nevertheless, it was shortly after merged with Lesbiana according to the project guidelines.
- ^ 75,000 articles
- ^ 100,000 articles
- ^ ca:200.000 articles en català
- ^ La Viquipedia en català que ja té 200000 entrades, segona en la classificació de qualitat 3cat24.cat, TV3 news portal.
- ^ Viquipèdia 200000 i creixent Archived 11 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine TV3, self service video survey.
- ^ La viquipèdia en català arriba als 200.000 articles Archived 1 January 2013 at archive.today, Tribuna de Mallorca, September 21, 2009.
External links
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- Catalan Wikipedia mobile version (in Catalan)
- Internet Archive – Catalan Wikipedia main page, March 27, 2001 (in Catalan)
- "La Wikipedia catalana ad Alghero" (in Italian). Alger.it. 26 November 2009. Archived from the original on 2 January 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
- "Viquipèdia:Vint mil articles en català". Wikipedia (in Catalan). Wikimedia Foundation. 6 December 2005. Retrieved 24 June 2006.
- List of Wikipedias by sample of articles
- Official Twitter account of Catalan Wikipedia
- Official Instagram account of Catalan Wikipedia