Polish Wikipedia
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 Polish Wikipedia |
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 The Main Page of the Polish Wikipedia. |
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| URL | http://pl.wikipedia.org/ |
| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
| Registration | Optional |
| Available language(s) | Polish |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Launched | 26 September 2001 |
Polish Wikipedia (Polish: polska Wikipedia) is the Polish edition of Wikipedia. The ninth edition of Wikipedia, it was started in September 26, 2001. As of May 2008, it has more than 500,000 articles and is the fourth largest Wikipedia edition (after the English, German, and French editions). It is also the largest edition in a Slavic language by the number of articles but has quite low depth parameters compared to other Slavic editions.[1] As of May 2008, from all 100,000+ editions only Volapük Wikipedia shows a slightly lower depth coefficient than the Polish Wikipedia.
The Polish Wikipedia originated as an independent project under the domain wiki.rozeta.com.pl. At the suggestion made by the founders of the English Wikipedia, the site was incorporated in the international project as http://pl.wikipedia.com on January 12, 2002 and as http://pl.wikipedia.org later that year on November 22. To avoid domain squatting that could frustrate potential users, the Polish Wikipedia also has its own domain www.wikipedia.pl that redirects to pl.wikipedia.org.
The words "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" in Polish are Wikipedia, wolna encyklopedia, pronounced /vʲikʲiˈpɛdʲa ˈvɔlna ɛntsɨklɔˈpɛdʲa/.
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[edit] Timeline
- July 2005: tsca.bot, one of the bots in Polish Wikipedia, was programmed to upload statistics from official government pages about French, Polish and Italian municipalities. In a few months, the bot uploaded more than 40,000 articles.
- September 4, 2005: overtook the Dutch Wikipedia in the number of articles, however soon afterwards (September 9) it returned to seventh place after being overtaken by the Italian Wikipedia.
- September 18, 2005: overtook the Swedish Wikipedia in the number of articles and became the sixth-largest Wikipedia.
- September 23, 2005: overtook the Italian Wikipedia and became the fifth-largest language edition.
- January 15, 2006: overtook the Japanese Wikipedia and became the fourth-largest language edition.
[edit] Polish Wikipedia on DVD
The Polish Wikipedia was first published on a DVD together with the paper edition of the magazine Enter SPECIAL in August 2005. The releaser did not make any attempt to contact the Wikimedia Foundation prior to making the DVD available on the market and the edition itself turned out to be illegal as it violated the GNU GPL license. Additionally, the software used in that edition worked improperly under Microsoft Windows 98.
A new DVD edition was prepared as a joint project of the Polish branch of the Wikimedia Foundation (Wikimedia Polska) and the Polish publisher Helion. It contains articles written before June 4, 2006. The works were completed on November 24, 2006 and the edition was released at the end of July 2007. It cost 39 zlotys.[2]
[edit] References
- (Polish) Polish Wikipedia
- (Polish) Number of articles in Polish Wikipedia
[edit] External links
- (Polish) Polish Wikipedia
