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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 April 2024, Wikipedia articles have been created in 339 editions, with 326 currently active and 13 closed.[4]

Most popular edition of Wikipedia by country. In grayed-out countries, the "national-language" edition is usually the most popular, but there are exceptions: for example, Afghanistan has Persian Wikipedia as the most popular (there is no Dari Wikipedia).

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

Most viewed editions of Wikipedia over time
Most edited editions of Wikipedia over time

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 Castilian 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 Macau).[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 magnitude of the number of active users (registered users who have made at least one edit in the last thirty days).[15]

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Inactive editions

The table below lists the inactive language editions of Wikipedia. This list includes closed, deleted, test, and archived editions.[15]

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

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See also

References

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    Wales, Jimmy (16 March 2001). "[Wikipedia-l] Alternative language wikipedias". Wikipedia-L (Mailing list). Archived from the original on 20 June 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
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    Noisette, Thierry (24 September 2010). "Wikipédia en français dépasse le million d'articles" [French Wikipedia exceeds one million articles]. ZDNet France (in French). Red Ventures. Retrieved 21 December 2020. 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.)
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    "History of HomePage". Swedish Wikipedia. Archived from the original on 8 June 2001. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
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    Anderson, Jennifer Joline (2011). Wikipedia: The Company and Its Founders (1 ed.). Abdo Group. p. 62. ISBN 978-1617148125.
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    "Wikipedia:Manual of Style". Archived from the original on 9 September 2023. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
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    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. doi:10.3145/epi.2021.sep.16. S2CID 241442991.
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    Costa, Bernardo Esteves Gonçalves da (2014). As controvérsias da ciência na Wikipédia em português: o caso do aquecimento global (PDF) (Tese (doutorado)). 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. p. 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.
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    Rogers, Richard (2015). "Wikipedia as Cultural Reference". Digital Methods. MIT Press. pp. 166–177. ISBN 9780262528245. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
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    Tsoi, Grace (27 October 2013). "Wikipedia China Becomes Front Line for Views on Language and Culture". The New York Times.
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    "Wikipedias in multiple writing systems". Archived from the original on 10 September 2023. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
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    Likomitros, Nikos (14 March 2023). "Introducing Belarusian Wikipedia: An interview with Volha Sitnik". Diff. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
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    "Wikimedia language code". Archived from the original on 10 September 2023. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
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    "List of Wikipedias". Meta-Wiki. Archived from the original on 20 December 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
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