Vicipaedia
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Vicipaedia projectus est dedicatus ad aedificarem enciclopedias liberas in omnes linguas mundi.
The project started with the English-language Wikipedia on January 15, 2001. On March 23, 2001 it was joined by a French Wikipedia, and shortly afterwards by many other languages. Large efforts are underway to highlight the international nature of the project.
In die 20 Septembris 20014, Vicipaedia habuit 1,000,000 articulos in fere 100 linguas.
In die 1 Martii 2006, Vicipaedia anglice habuit 1,000,000 articulos. In die 9 Septembris 2007, habuit 2,000,000 articulos. In die 17 Augusti 2009, habuit 3,000,000 articulos. In die 13 Iulii 2013, habuit 4,000,000 articulos. In die 1 Novembris 2015, habuit 5,000,000 articulos.
As of November 2019, there are 297 Wikipedias which have more than 100 articles, 146 of which have over 10,000 articles, and 62 of which have over 100,000 articles.
Following the English language Wikipedia, the German (27 December 2009), French (21 September 2010), Dutch (17 December 2011), Italian (22 January 2013), Russian (11 May 2013), Spanish (16 May 2013), Swedish (15 June 2013)[1], Polish (24 September 2013), Waray (8 June 2014), Vietnamese (15 June 2014), Cebuano (16 July 2014)[1], Japanese (19 January 2016), Chinese (13 April 2018), Portuguese (26 June 2018) and Arabic editions (17 Novembre 2019) have more than 1,000,000 articles.
On 5 September 2015, the Swedish Wikipedia hit 2,000,000 articles followed by the Cebuano Wikipedia on 14 February 2016,[1] by the German Wikipedia on 19 November 2016 and by the French Wikipedia on 8 July 2018.
On 27 April 2016, the Swedish Wikipedia hit 3,000,000 articles followed by the Cebuano Wikipedia on 25 September 2016.[1]
On 11 February 2017, the Cebuano Wikipedia hit 4,000,000 articles.[1]
On 8 August 2017, the Cebuano Wikipedia hit 5,000,000 articles.[1]
As of November 2019, there are 306 language editions of Wikipedia, which collectively have more than 50 million articles.
For detailed statistics, see the List of Wikipedias.
In 2004 Wikipedia won the Webby Award for "Community" and the Prix Ars Electronica for "Digital Community". In 2015, the Erasmus Prize was awarded to the Wikipedia community collectively.
Language versions
Textos de Vicipaedia
- Wikipedia - by Mark Jeays, 2002 – an article for the The Canadian Writer's Guide (13th Edition)
- Wikipedia (Everything2) – an Everything2 node by Axel Boldt
See also
- Vicipaedia
- List of Wikipedias
- List of largest wikis
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikimedia projects
- Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics
- Wikimedians
- Hardware maintenance and software development: MediaWiki development
- Wikimedia principles