Min Nan Wikipedia

Min Nan Wikipedia
Web address zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org
Slogan Chū-iû ê Pek-kho-choân-su (the free encyclopedia)
Commercial? No
Type of site
 Internet encyclopedia project
Registration Optional
Available in Min Nan
Content license
 CC-BY-SA 3.0
Owner Wikimedia Foundation

The Min Nan Wikipedia (Pe̍h-ōe-jī) Wikipedia Bân-lâm-gú or Holopedia[1] is the Min Nan edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. It is the third largest Wikipedia in a variety of Chinese.[2] Written in Pe̍h-ōe-jī, it mainly uses the Taiwanese dialect. As of September 2015, it has over 44,000 articles.[3]

History

The Min Nan Wikipedia was founded as an independent project known Holopedia (a reference to Hō-ló-oē, a colloquial name for the Min Nan dialect) by Wikipedians Pektiong and Kaihsu in 2003. A request was then made at the Wikimedia Foundation's Meta-Wiki to create the Wikipedia project for this language.

ISO code

At the time of creation there was no ISO 639 code for Min Nan, so the founders decided to use “zh-min-nan” that had been registered as an IETF language tag.[4] Now there is an ISO code for Min Nan, nan, and the domain http://nan.wikipedia.org redirects to http://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/.

The Min Nan Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia to have two hyphens in the code, although "be-x-old" was formerly used for the Belarusian Wikipedia in classical orthography.

In August 2015, Wikipedians of Min Nan Wikipedia have reached a new consensus to rename the language code, and the code “nan” become the official one; however, the consensus hasn't been executed yet.[5][6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ zh:闽南语维基百科
  2. ↑ List of Wikipedias
  3. ↑ List of Wikipedias on Meta-Wiki.
  4. ↑ language tag registration form: zh-min-nan
  5. ↑ Rename zh-min-nan -> nan
  6. ↑ Wikipedias with zh-* language codes waiting to be renamed
Chinese (Min Nan) edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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