Talk:Catalan Wikipedia
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It's an interesting fact that the Catalan Wikipedia was the second to be created. Why was this? Was there some enthusiastic Catalan user involved in the early days of the English Wikipedia who put forward the idea? Everything from the early days seems to suggest that Wikipedia was never really conceived as a multilingual, international project (e.g., use of the US flag as the original logo, locating the English Wikipedia at www.wikipedia.com while the other editions got language-specific subdomains, etc.), so I'd be very interested to know why it was Catalan specifically that changed this. I would have expected German or perhaps French or Japanese to have been the second language (those three were all created very early, but after Catalan). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.136.88.33 (talk • contribs).
German Wikipedia claims to be the second to be created, also in March 2001. French Wikipedia appeared in March 2001. I don't know how to unearth the history of Wikipedia, but were several languages created at once?--Omassey 08:53, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
- I've put the day of the first article, this could taked as the creating date of Catalan Wikipedia. German must search the first article's day and then we will see which the second Wikipedia is. German one takes a date of a message written by Jimbo as the date of German Wikipedia creation but that's not trustworthy for me. --83.43.89.230 11:55, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
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The debate of the second wikipedia is also held in catalan and german one, it depends on what do you think it's creation. I f you think it's having the main page and some other article, then the catalan is the second one. The relevance of this article comes from that fact and also for the importancie of wikiepdia amongst catalan comunitiy, there are several external fonts taht prove it
