Cebuano-language Wikipedia

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The Cebuano-language Wikipedia (Cebuano: Wikipedya sa Sinugboanon) is the edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia on Cebuano (also known as Visayan ).

It was founded in June 2005 and, with around 5.4 million articles, more than 99 percent of which were created by bots , is the second largest Wikipedia after the English language Wikipedia.

Significance for the language area

It is the largest Filipino-language Wikipedia by number of articles, ahead of Wáray-Wáray Wikipedia and Wikipedia in Tagalog .

Cebuano is the second most widely spoken language in the Philippines, with approximately 20 million speakers. In Cebuano there are currently no printed dictionaries or encyclopedias , nor are there any others on the Internet. This means that Wikipedia in Cebuano is also the only encyclopedia of this language.

History and article growth

Article content in the Cebuano-language Wikipedia (July 2015, 1,211,364 articles):
95.8% (1,160,787) taxonomy. / Creature;
3.3% (39,420) cities and municipalities.

The Cebuano-language Wikipedia started in June 2005 . By January 2006 there were 1000 articles, in November 2006 there were 1400. At the end of 2006 and 2007, bots created tens of thousands of articles about churches in France.

By the end of 2012, the number of articles rose to around 30,000. In December 2012 the Lsjbot started its work, which led to a drastic increase in the number of articles in 2013; it increased ninefold from February to December. At the end of 2015, about 99 percent of the 1.4 million articles at the time had been created by bots , including about 25,000 articles about localities and the rest of them articles about living things by Lsjbot.

On July 16, 2014, the Cebuano-language Wikipedia comprised one million articles, making it the twelfth largest Wikipedia. After overtaking Spanish , Italian , Russian , French , Dutch and German-language Wikipedia within a year and a half , it reached the two million mark in February 2016. The third million followed after about six months, and the fourth million a further six months later. In August 2017 the fifth millionth article was created.

Milestones:
time Number of articles
July 9, 2005 19 items
August 30, 2005 232 items
January 1, 2006 1,000 items
November 1, 2006 1,400 items
January 1, 2007 13,521 items
February 7, 2007 26,511 items
February 2, 2013 100,000 items
February 9, 2013 150,000 items
17th March 2013 300,000 items
June 26, 2013 400,000 items
18th July 2013 500,000 items
7th August 2013 600,000 items
July 16, 2014 1,000,000 articles
December 6, 2015 1,500,000 items
February 14, 2016 2,000,000 items
September 25, 2016 3,000,000 items
February 11, 2017 4,000,000 items
August 8, 2017 5,000,000 items

An analysis of the ceb.wikipedia content on Wikidata in July 2015 showed that of the 1.21 million articles at the time, 95.8% represented living beings and biological species (1,160,787) and 3.3% cities and municipalities (39,420).

Web links

Wikipedia on Cebuano
Commons : Cebuano Wikipedia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d List of Wikipedia by speakers per article - Meta . Meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Requests for new languages ​​/ Wikipedia Cebuano . meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved January 16, 2016.
  3. ↑ Cebuano Informational Report (PDF; 864 kB) Christopher DeFraga, Rhode Island College, 2011
  4. ↑ Tell us about Cebuano Wikipedia - Meta . meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  5. ↑ a b c Wikimedia project at a glance: Cebuano Wikipedia . In: stats.wikimedia.org . November 2015. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  6. ↑ a b Meta: List of Wikipedias , January 1, 2006
  7. ^ A b Meta: List of Wikipedias , November 1, 2006
  8. ↑ a b Wikipedia Statistics - Bot article creations only . November 30, 2015. Accessed January 16, 2016.
  9. ↑ Meet the Stats Master Making Sense of Wikipedia's Massive Data Trove Ashik Siddique, wired.com , December 27, 2013
  10. ^ Meta: List of Wikipedias , July 9, 2005
  11. ^ Meta: List of Wikipedias , August 30, 2005
  12. ^ Meta: List of Wikipedias , January 1, 2007
  13. ^ Meta: List of Wikipedias , February 7, 2007
  14. ↑ Wikimedia News - Meta . Retrieved January 16, 2016.
  15. ^ Cebuano Wikipedia, Wikidata: Statistics / Wikipedia . In: Wikidata . July 17, 2015. Retrieved January 16, 2016.