Czech Wikipedia

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Czech Wikipedia (Czech: Česká Wikipedie) is the Czech language edition of Wikipedia.

It was created in May 2002 on a request of a Czech editor of Esperanto Wikipedia; however back then Wikipedia ran on UseMod software and the three pages the Czech one had were lost during the switch to MediaWiki. The oldest currently available edit is re-copying the Main Page on 14 November. It reached 1000 articles, often about Esperanto topics, on 20 October 2003.

In June 2005 Czech Wikipedia reached 10,000 articles and in December the same year 20,000; the Main Page was re-designed, more detailed, after reaching this milestone.

As of February 4, 2007 there are 58 419 articles, 21 administrators, over 11,500 registered users, dozens of very active contributors meta:List of Wikipedias#10 000.2B articles.

[edit] Controversies

One of the most visible controversies was originally based on disagreements on finer rules of Czech language orthography, which however escalated into a full-out flame and edit wars. The conflict, running since January 2005, was resolved after a long block and deliberation in May 2006 by the first ever arbitrage on this Wikipedia which resulted in one year ban for the former and actually the first Czech bureaucrat.