Catalan language Wikipedia

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The Catalan-language Wikipedia ( Catalan Viquipèdia en català ) is the edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia in Catalan. It was founded on March 16, 2001 as the third language edition after the English version and a few hours after the German Wikipedia .

Starting position and development

On March 16, 2001, Jimmy Wales announced that he wanted to set up Wikipedias in different languages ​​and added that there was also interest in a Catalan version. On the same day and within a few hours, the domains “deutsche.wikipedia.com” and “catalan.wikipedia.com” were registered. The first edits, possibly sample texts in English, have not been preserved. The Catalan-language main page was verifiably edited on March 16 at 21:07 UTC by the anonymous user 216.7.146.xxx.

The first article was "àbac" ( abacus ). It was docked on March 17th at 01:41 UTC. The IP of the anonymous user comes from Andorra.

The name of the domain changed to "ca.wikipedia.com" and later to "ca.wikipedia.org". After two years the Catalan name Viquipèdia was adopted. There are also the addresses «viquipedia.org» and «viquipedia .cat », which forward to «ca.wikipedia.org».

Like the German-language Wikipedia on March 21, 2019, the Catalan -language Wikipedia went offline for a day on March 25, 2019 in protest against the copyright reform of the European Union .

Milestones

  • Main page in March 2001

  • Catalan Wikipedia, 2012

  • In March 2001 the Viquipèdia had six articles.
  • On March 8, 2003, there were 1,000 articles.
  • In February 2004 5,000 articles were reached.
  • On December 16, 2004, the number of articles had doubled to 10,000 in nine months.
  • On November 19, 2005, the number of articles doubled again to 20,000 within a year.
  • On January 4, 2007, 50,000 articles had been reached.
  • On January 18, 2008, the number of articles doubled again to 100,000 within one year.
  • On September 21, 2009, 200,000 articles had been reached.
  • On December 21, 2010, the Viquipèdia consisted of 300,000 articles.
  • On April 16, 2013, 400,000 articles had been reached.
  • On March 11, 2016, 500,000 articles had been reached.

Web links

Wikipedia in Catalan

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Message from Jimbo Wales
  2. ^ Announcement of the founding of the German-language Wikipedia
  3. ↑ First proof of editing the main page. ( Memento from April 13, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) The time zone is UTC-8.
  4. ↑ First version of the article àbac
  5. ↑ ReportCard Current statistics / graphics from Wikimedia Foundation
  6. ↑ http://www.ara.cat/tecnologia/Viquipedia_0_1537646341.html