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The Danish Wikipedia ( Danish Dansk Wikipedia ) is the Danish-language edition of the free international online lexicon Wikipedia .

The site with the ISO - country code as contained more than 200,000 items that have been entered or edited by approximately 242,000 registered users in June, 2015. These included around 965 active users and 29 administrators. The online newsletter for Danish users and employees has been called Wikipediajournalen since October 2009 .

history

Milestones

The site was set up on February 1st, 2002 by user Christian List by translating the German main page into Danish. Exactly one year and one day after the start of the Danish Wikipedia , the thousandth article was published on February 2, 2003 under the lemma January . After Jan Pederson had transferred all the articles from the related project Lexopen to the Danish Wikipedia, the 5,000 series was published a month later, on March 10, 2003, with the topic of data terminal equipment . Items. Due to a technical change in the article statistics, the number jumped from 6,000 to over 11,000 articles in June 2003. Three and a half years later, on September 30, 2006, an article about the film Ray , a biography of soul legend Ray Charles , appeared at the 50,000. Items. Two years later, on December 29, 2008, the number of articles doubled to 100,000. The eagerly awaited article is about the Fuhse , a tributary of the Aller in Lower Saxony . Another major milestone came two and a half years later, when Big Mother , a play on words with Big Brother , was the 150,000 article published on May 25, 2011.

On June 11, 2015, the 200,000 article was published, which is about the Danish painter GF Clement (1867–1933).

  • First logo on Danish Wikipedia from 2003

  • Logo on the occasion of the 50,000. Article (2006)

  • Logo on the occasion of the 100,000. Articles (2008)

  • Logo on the occasion of the 200,000 article (2015)

  • Cake on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Danish Wikipedia

Cooperations

DR SportsWiki, screenshot

Since 2006, the Danish Wikipedia has been working with Danmarks Radio (DR) in the field of sport to create a sports encyclopedia. The exchange of information with a public service broadcaster is a first for Wikipedia , according to Jimmy Wales .

A cooperation with the Danish National Museum began in mid-May 2011 . The computer scientist and Wikimedia Danmark founder Ole Palnatoke Andersen heads the Wikipedia Loves Nationalmuseet project and instructs museum staff and specialists in how to work with the online lexicon. In return, Wikipedia employees are given permission to take photos in the museum and publish them on Wikimedia Commons under the CC-BY-SA license on certain photo days .

Another collaboration has existed since 2011 with the museums of the city of Odense , which are united in the Odense Bys Museer organization . Articles on the history of Odense and Funen are improved or rewritten via the Odense Bys Museer Wiki project .

The Wiki Labs Art project, launched in 2015, serves to enrich knowledge about art history. Work on the project with: Statens Museum for Kunst , Den Hirschsprungske Samling , Statens Værksteder for Kunst and, since 2017, Det Danske Filminstitut .

TV2wikigate affair

On May 13, 2009, the Danish television broadcaster TV2 carried an article on Wikipedia in its morning program Go 'Morgen Danmark . The two moderators Cecilie Frøkjær and Anders Breinholt emphasized that you cannot believe everything that is on the Internet and mainly spoke of Wikipedia. The post contained a number of untrue claims and sparked intense discussions on blogs and Internet forums - including Twitter - where the affair quickly became known under the heading TV2wikigate , a play on the American Watergate affair . During the program contribution, the moderators read live, as they are described in the Danish Wikipedia. According to this, Cecilie Frøkjær would allegedly have been born in 1953 instead of 1968, she would often drink red wine and switch to competing TV3 , while Anders Breinholt would drive a red Citroën Berlingo , be an ardent fan of the Brøndby IF football club and suffer from an " albinism disease". The Wikipedia articles were, however, manipulated shortly beforehand by the editorial staff by inserting incorrect information and corrected just four minutes later. According to Anders Breinholt, the overarching idea of ​​the editorial team was that the moderators should take each other “the good old Danish way” (på godt gammeldags dansk) and that the audience should have fun. Wikipedia employees complained to the television station and the Danish press council, whereupon the station announced a correction in its program a few days later - read by Cecilie Frøkjær.

Relationship with the Nordic countries

Skanwiki

35.8% of Wikipedia queries in Denmark are directed to the Danish language Wikipedia (in black), 54.9% to the English language version (brown). Language versions of Wikipedia accessed in European countries, September 2009 - July 2010

The Danish Wikipedia works with the Swedish language Wikipedia and the two Norwegian Wikipedias within the transnational project Skanwiki . An example of this collaboration is the presentation of the “Scandinavian article of the day” on the main page. In a rotation principle, a different article worth reading is presented daily in Bokmål (Mondays & Thursdays), Nynorsk (Wednesdays & Saturdays) or Swedish (Tuesdays & Fridays), which makes mutual understandability within the closely related Scandinavian languages possible. On Sundays there is either a Swedish or a “guest article” in another Nordic language - for example Faroese , Icelandic , Finnish , Greenlandic or Sami , although most Danes have difficulty understanding these languages ​​(Faroese, Icelandic) or not at all.

comparison

Compared to other Wikipedias in the Nordic countries , the Danish edition has significantly fewer articles and page views, although Swedes, Finns, Norwegians and Danes do not differ much in terms of economy, education, standard of living and IT skills. In terms of the number of articles ever published, Danish Wikipedia only took 34th place among all the language variants of Wikipedia in June 2014 - compared to 20th place for Finnish Wikipedia , 18th place for the Norwegian language version ( Bokmål ) and 4th place Place for the Swedish variant . The chairman of Wikimedia Danmark, Ole Palnatoke Andersen, gives the following reasons:

  • “The language culture of the Norwegians and Finns differs markedly from that of the Danes. Norwegians in particular attach great importance to preserving their language as a cultural institution and tend to translate something into Norwegian before using English words. "
  • "Swedes have already got used to providing text contributions to another online lexicon before Wikipedia, while Danes have got used to using the English-language Wikipedia , because the Danish version did not develop well at first."

The Danes are not generally averse to online encyclopedias, because the competitor project Den Store Danske (“the great Danish”) was successful from the start. At the beginning of 2009, the Danish publisher Gyldendal made an even larger online lexicon with 183,500 articles (summer 2011) available free of charge on the Internet. The lexicon is based on the Danish encyclopedias Den Store Danske Encyklopædi (170,000 articles) and the Dansk biografisk leksikon (13,500). This differs from Wikipedia in that in addition to 1,000 volunteers, 10 permanent editors work on it and the site is financed by advertising.

Evaluation of articles and lists

For the evaluation of outstanding articles, the Danish Wikipedia differentiates between the following awards:

  • Symbol star gold.svg Third-party articles ("Excellent Articles") - for articles that are considered a great source of knowledge and inspiration for other articles. In June 2014 there were over 20 such articles. In the German-language Wikipedia, this corresponds to the excellent articles.
  • Symbol support vote.svg Gode ​​artikler ("good articles") - for articles that are considered a good source of knowledge and inspiration for other articles. In June 2014 there were 133 such articles. In the German-language Wikipedia, this corresponds to the articles that are worth reading.
  • Artículo bueno-blue.svg Lovende artikler ("promising articles") - for articles that have a level where the status of a "good article" can be achieved with a little work. In June 2014 there were 463 such articles. There is no equivalent in the German Wikipedia, apart from candidacies.
  • Yellow star, blue check, green plus.svg Anbefalede emner ("recommended topic") - for topics where all articles have reached a certain level so that the entire topic is recommended. There is no equivalent in the German-language Wikipedia. So far, only three subject areas have been recommended: the Giro d'Italia 2009 as well as the discography of the Finnish band Children of Bodom and the list of lost episodes, which were chosen by the community in July 2008 .
  • Symbol star gold.svg Outstanding lister (“outstanding list”) - for lists that are considered the best on Danish Wikipedia. So far, the two main articles of the “Recommended Topics” have achieved this status. In the German-language Wikipedia, this corresponds to the informative lists and portals.

Wikimedia

The Danish Wikipedia and all other language versions of the free Internet encyclopedia are operated by the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco, USA. The association Wikimedia Danmark was established at a meeting in Unitarenes Hus in Copenhagen on 14 March 2009 and approved on 3 July 2009 by the Wikimedia Foundation as a local section of the Wikimedia movement. The club's chairman is Ole Palnatoke Andersen.

See also

Web links

Wikipedia in Danish
Commons : Danish Wikipedia  collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dansk Wikipedia: Statistics , accessed on June 15, 2015 (Danish)
  2. ↑ a b List of Wikipedias. Wikimedia , accessed June 15, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b Dansk Wikipedia: Den danske Wikipedias historie , accessed on September 2, 2011 (Danish)
  4. ↑ Dansk Wikipedia: Wikipedia: Bekendtgørelser , accessed on September 2, 2011 (Danish)
  5. ↑ Wikipedia: Bekendtgørelser . In: Dansk Wikipedia , accessed June 15, 2015 (Danish)
  6. ↑ DR Sporten i Wikipedia samarbejde. Danmarks Radio , June 26, 2006, accessed December 29, 2012 (Danish).
  7. ^ Anne Bech-Danielsen: National Museum and Wikipedia går together. (No longer available online.) In: Politiken . May 16, 2011, archived from the original on January 13, 2013 ; Retrieved December 29, 2012 (Danish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / politiken.dk
  8. ↑ Wikipedian-in-residence at the National Museum. National Museum , accessed December 29, 2012 (Danish).
  9. ↑ Portal: Wikipedia Loves National Museum. Dansk Wikipedia, May 3, 2011, accessed December 29, 2012 (Danish).
  10. ↑ Odenses historie på Wikipedia. TV 2 / Fyn, July 31, 2012, accessed December 30, 2012 (Danish).
  11. ↑ 'Odenses historie' er ugens article på danske Wikipedia i uge 32. (No longer available online.) Odense Bys Museer, July 31, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 30, 2012 (Danish).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / museum.odense.dk  
  12. ↑ WikiProject Odense By's Museer. Dansk Wikipedia, accessed December 30, 2012 (Danish).
  13. ↑ Wiki Labs - berigelse af hunsthistorien på Wikipedia. (No longer available online.) In: SMK. Statens Museum for Kunst , November 13, 2015, archived from the original on September 2, 2017 ; Retrieved July 23, 2017 (Danish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.smk.dk
  14. ↑ Jakob Nielsen: TV2 fuskede med Wikipedia In Politiken from May 15, 2009, accessed on September 2, 2011 (Danish)
  15. ↑ Jens Jørgen Madsen: Wikipedia: "TV 2's Go 'Morgen Danmark opdigtede fejl" In Journalisten.dk from May 15, 2009, accessed on September 2, 2011 (Danish)
  16. ↑ Youtube: Wikipedia.dk dårligt treats i Go 'Morgen Danmark , accessed on September 2, 2011 (Danish)
  17. ↑ Ole Palnatoke, Dansk Wikipedia: Klage , accessed on September 2, 2011 (Danish)
  18. ↑ Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report - Wikipedia Page Views Per Country This analysis is based on a 1: 1000 sampled server log (squids). Period 04/2010 - 03/2011
  19. ↑ Wikimedia: Skanwiki , accessed on September 2, 2011 (Scandinavian)
  20. ↑ Dansk Wikipedia: Dagens scandinaviske article , accessed on September 2, 2011 (Danish)
  21. ↑ a b c Jens Nielsen: Danskere vrager dansk Wikipedia in Comon from August 28, 2009, accessed on September 2, 2011 (Danish)
  22. ↑ Lars Damgaard Nielsen: Den Store Danske: Er det slut for den danske Wikipedia? In Computerworld on February 10, 2009, accessed on September 2, 2011 (Danish)
  23. ↑ Den Store Danske: Om Den Store Danske , accessed on September 2, 2011 (Danish)
  24. ↑ Dansk Wikipedia: Wikipedia: Fremhævet indhold , accessed on September 2, 2011 (Danish)
  25. ↑ a b Dansk Wikipedia: Wikipedia: Statistics over Fremdragende og gode artikler , accessed on September 2, 2011 (Danish)
  26. ↑ Wikimedia: Wikimedia Danmark / vedtægter engelsk - Statutes of Wikimedia Danmark of March 14, 2009, accessed on December 12, 2011 (English)
  27. ↑ Wikimedia: Resolution: Approval of Wikimedia Denmark (resolution of the Wikimedia Foundation in July 2009), accessed on December 12, 2011 (English)