Italian-language Wikipedia
  Wikipedia in italiano Italian language Wikipedia |
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| L'enciclopedia libera | |
| Internet encyclopedia | |
| languages | Italian |
| operator | Wikimedia Foundation |
| editorial staff | Wikipedia community |
| items | approx. 1,520,000 |
| Registration | optional |
| On-line | May 11, 2001 (currently active) |
| //it.wikipedia.org | |
The Italian Wikipedia is the edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia in Italian .
With around 1.5 million articles (as of May 2019), it is the eighth largest language version of Wikipedia.
history
The Italian Wikipedia was founded on May 11, 2001 and was first edited on June 11, 2001. In August 2005, the Italian Wikipedia overtook the Spanish and Portuguese editions, making it the eighth largest edition of Wikipedia. The main reason the article jumped so quickly was a bot that automatically created short articles, for example for minerals or communities in France and Spain . About 43 percent of all articles on the Italian language Wikipedia were created by bots. On September 9, 2005 it cracked the 100,000 mark, on June 22, 2010 it had 700,000 articles, on March 12, 2012, 900,000 articles and on January 22, 2013, one million articles. In 2009 the Italian language version received the Premiolino Journalism Prize .
From October 4 to 6, 2011, the Italian Wikipedia protested against a draft law DDL intercettazioni , which would have given anyone the right to have things perceived as damaging to their reputation removed without being checked. During this period, all article requests were redirected to a protest page.
- Protest letter and statistics
Screenshot from Italian Wikipedia during October 4th, 2011, one of the days of protest
Development of the number of articles in the eight largest Wikipedias
Views of the Italian Wikipedia per country (January to December 2011)
Language versions of Wikipedia accessed in European countries, September 2009 - July 2010. 81.1% of Wikipedia queries in Italy are directed to the Italian language Wikipedia (in red), 15.5% to the English (brown).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ meta: List of Wikipedias # All Wikipedias ordered by number of articles
- ^ Wikipedia statistics
- ↑ Protest against censorship law: Italy's Wikipedia logs out because of Berlusconi, www.spiegel.de, Spiegel Online , published on October 5, 2011; Retrieved April 8, 2013.
- ^ Italian Wikipedia Page views ratio by country 201101-201112 (Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report - Page View Breakdown per Country, [1] )
- ↑ 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 [2]