Catalan Wikipedia
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| URL | http://ca.wikipedia.org/ |
| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
| Registration | Optional |
| Available language(s) | Catalan |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Launched | 16 March 2001 |
Catalan Wikipedia is the Catalan language edition of Wikipedia, known in Catalan as Viquipèdia. It was created on 16 March 2001, just a few minutes after the first non-English Wikipedia, the German Wikipedia. However, for about two months it was the only non-English Wikipedia that contained articles.[1]
On March 16, 2001, Jimmy Wales announced that he wanted to create Wikipedias in other languages and mentioned that there is interest in creating a Catalan version[2]. The first tests were made on the deutsche.wikipedia.com,[3] and a few minutes later, the Catalan Wikipedia was created in the Catalan.wikipedia.com domain.[4]
The first edit on a non-English Wikipedia was at 21:07 UTC, March 16, 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 ca:Àbac.[5]
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 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 than in articles relevant to the Valencian Community, the name "Valencian" was to be used; on all other articles "Catalan" is preferred.[6]. The main page avoids making reference to a particular nomenclature, by simply stating aquesta versió, "this version".
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[edit] Milestones and historical main pages
- On November 16, 2004 it reached 10,000 articles.[7]
- On November 19, 2005 it reached 20,000 articles.[8]
- On May 6, 2006 it reached 30,000 articles.
- On September 20, 2006 it reached 40,000 articles.
- On January 4, 2007 it reached 50,000 articles.[9]
- On August 31, 2007 it reached 75,000 articles.[10]
- On January 18, 2008, it reached 100.000 articles.[11]
- On March 27, 2008, it reached 110.000 articles.
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[edit] References
- ^ Multilingual monthly statistics
- ^ Jimbo Wales' message about creating first foreign Wikipedias
- ^ Message confirming the creation of the German domain
- ^ First historial of the Catalan Wikipedia Main Page, hours in Pacific Timezone
- ^ First edit in a non-English article (Àbac)
- ^ See debate in the decision making process about usage of the names of the language
- ^ 10.000 articles
- ^ 20.000 articles
- ^ 50.000 articles
- ^ 75.000 articles
- ^ 100.000 articles
[edit] See also
Viquipèdia:Vint mil articles en català (Catalan). Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation (2005-12-06). Retrieved on 2006-06-24.
[edit] External links
- (Catalan) Catalan Wikipedia
- (Catalan) Internet Archive - Catalan Wikipedia main page, 27 March 2001.
