Dutch language Wikipedia
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| De vrije encyclopedie | |
| Internet encyclopedia | |
| languages | Dutch |
| operator | Wikimedia Foundation |
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| On-line | June 2001 (currently active) |
| https://nl.wikipedia.org/ | |
The Dutch language Wikipedia ( Dutch Nederlandstalige Wikipedia ) is the Wikipedia in Dutch . This language version was set up on June 19, 2001, making it one of the oldest.
History and statistics
According to official statistics from Wikimedia, there were three articles in August 2001. The 1,000 article mark was reached in April 2002, the 100,000 article mark in January 2006. In January 2008 the figure was 404,000. Of these articles, 84 percent consisted of more than half a kilobyte, which is one of the highest values in the language versions. On June 19, 2011 - just ten years after it was set up - it hit the 700,000 item mark.
In January 2008, 328 Wikipedians made more than 100 changes to the Dutch Wikipedia (so-called very active Wikipedians). The establishment of the Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland in June 2006 does not seem to have any impact on the statistics. A noticeable drop in the number of new Wikipedians in February 2007, from 545 to 327.
Use of bots
In phases, the number of articles increased by leaps and bounds due to the use of several bots . In May 2006, the use of a bot generated 35,000 articles about French municipalities within 6 weeks. Between October 20, 2011 and April 20, 2013 the number of articles doubled from 768,520 to 1,548,591 articles. That corresponded to 780,071 new articles in about 18 months, or an average of about 1420 new articles daily (sometimes even 10,000 articles daily), while in "normal" times there were about 250 to 300 new articles daily (for comparison: on the German-language Wikipedia in March 2016 it was around 350 per day). On December 17, 2011, the millionth article was created with an entry about the Hungarian handball player Antal Újváry (1907–1967). On March 31, 2013, the Dutch-language Wikipedia overtook the French-language version with around 1,369,000 articles, making it the third largest Wikipedia in terms of number of articles. On 14./15. In June 2013, the Dutch-language Wikipedia overtook the German-language Wikipedia with around 1,595,000 articles, making it the second largest after the English-language Wikipedia . At the end of July 2014, the Dutch- language Wikipedia was overtaken by the Swedish-language Wikipedia , in which case numerous bot-generated new systems had caused a surge in the number of articles. Since February 2015, the German-language Wikipedia has again had more articles than the Dutch-language one; in January 2016, the cebuano-language Wikipedia also overtook the Dutch-language Wikipedia in terms of the number of articles and in September 2017 the French-language one, so that the Dutch-language Wikipedia now ranks 6th .
The rapid growth in articles is mainly caused by bots that were started from the Dutch "animal project" with the aim of generating a separate article for each living being (at the beginning of May almost 700,000 article stubs in the Dutch category "Wikipedia: Biology stubs"). The Dutch language Wikipedia now contains more bot-generated articles than users created; in June 2014 59% of the articles were bot-generated.
| date | Item number | New items per day (average) |
|---|---|---|
| June 19, 2001 | 1 | 1 |
| August 3, 2003 | 10,000 | 13 |
| February 7, 2004 | 20,000 | 53 |
| June 27, 2004 | 30,000 | 71 |
| August 11, 2004 | 40,000 | 75 |
| January 27, 2005 | 50,000 | 125 |
| March 23, 2005 | 60,000 | 182 |
| May 16, 2005 | 70,000 | 185 |
| July 17, 2005 | 80,000 | 161 |
| September 7, 2005 | 90,000 | 192 |
| October 14, 2005 | 100,000 | 270 |
| November 30, 2005 | 110,000 | 213 |
| January 5, 2006 | 120,000 | 278 |
| February 6, 2006 | 130,000 | 313 |
| March 1, 2006 | 140,000 | 435 |
| March 18, 2006 | 150,000 | 588 |
| April 2, 2006 | 160,000 | 667 |
| April 13, 2006 | 170,000 | 909 |
| April 28, 2006 | 180,000 | 667 |
| May 8, 2006 | 190,000 | 1000 |
| May 24, 2006 | 200,000 | 625 |
| 4th July 2006 | 210,000 | 244 |
| August 16, 2006 | 220,000 | 233 |
| September 28, 2006 | 230,000 | 233 |
| November 16, 2006 | 240,000 | 204 |
| December 26, 2006 | 250,000 | 250 |
| January 1, 2007 | 260,000 | 1667 |
| February 5, 2007 | 270,000 | 286 |
| March 4, 2007 | 280,000 | 370 |
| April 18, 2007 | 290,000 | 222 |
| May 28, 2007 | 300,000 | 250 |
| June 20, 2007 | 310,000 | 434 |
| July 22, 2007 | 320,000 | 313 |
| August 27, 2007 | 330,000 | 278 |
| September 10, 2007 | 340,000 | 714 |
| September 15, 2007 | 350,000 | 2000 |
| September 25, 2007 | 360,000 | 1000 |
| October 11, 2007 | 370,000 | 625 |
| November 17, 2007 | 380,000 | 270 |
| December 25, 2007 | 390,000 | 263 |
| January 17, 2008 | 400,000 | 435 |
| February 18, 2008 | 410,000 | 313 |
| March 21, 2008 | 420,000 | 313 |
| April 17, 2008 | 430,000 | 370 |
| May 24, 2008 | 440,000 | 270 |
| June 29, 2008 | 450,000 | 278 |
| July 13, 2008 | 460,000 | 714 |
| August 12, 2008 | 470,000 | 333 |
| September 22, 2008 | 480,000 | 244 |
| November 1, 2008 | 490,000 | 250 |
| November 30, 2008 | 500,000 | 344 |
| January 13, 2009 | 510,000 | 227 |
| February 16, 2009 | 520,000 | 294 |
| April 13, 2009 | 530,000 | 175 |
| May 31, 2009 | 540,000 | 208 |
| July 30, 2009 | 550,000 | 167 |
| September 23, 2009 | 560,000 | 179 |
| November 10, 2009 | 570,000 | 208 |
| January 6, 2010 | 580,000 | 175 |
| March 1, 2010 | 590,000 | 185 |
| April 30, 2010 | 600,000 | 167 |
| July 12, 2010 | 610,000 | 137 |
| August 7, 2010 | 620,000 | 385 |
| August 25, 2010 | 630,000 | 556 |
| September 16, 2010 | 640,000 | 476 |
| November 6, 2010 | 650,000 | 196 |
| December 16, 2010 | 660,000 | 244 |
| February 5, 2011 | 670,000 | 192 |
| April 4, 2011 | 680,000 | 172 |
| June 3, 2011 | 690,000 | 167 |
| June 19, 2011 | 700,000 | 625 |
| June 25, 2011 | 710,000 | 1667 |
| July 2, 2011 | 720,000 | 1429 |
| July 3, 2011 | 730,000 | 10,000 |
| July 23, 2011 | 740,000 | 500 |
| September 18, 2011 | 750,000 | 175 |
| October 13, 2011 | 760,000 | 400 |
| October 21, 2011 | 770,000 | 1250 |
| October 21, 2011 | 780,000 | 10,000 |
| October 22, 2011 | 790,000 | 10,000 |
| October 22, 2011 | 800,000 | 10,000 |
| October 22, 2011 | 810,000 | 10,000 |
| October 29, 2011 | 820,000 | 1429 |
| October 30, 2011 | 830,000 | 10,000 |
| October 30, 2011 | 840,000 | 10,000 |
| October 31, 2011 | 850,000 | 10,000 |
| November 18, 2011 | 860,000 | 556 |
| November 26, 2011 | 870,000 | 1250 |
| 4th December 2011 | 880,000 | 1250 |
| December 6, 2011 | 890,000 | 5000 |
| December 7, 2011 | 900,000 | 10,000 |
| December 8, 2011 | 910,000 | 10,000 |
| December 9, 2011 | 920,000 | 10,000 |
| December 9, 2011 | 930,000 | 10,000 |
| December 10, 2011 | 940,000 | 10,000 |
| December 11, 2011 | 950,000 | 10,000 |
| December 15, 2011 | 960,000 | 2500 |
| December 15, 2011 | 970,000 | 10,000 |
| December 15, 2011 | 980,000 | 10,000 |
| December 16, 2011 | 990,000 | 10,000 |
| December 17, 2011 | 1,000,000 | 10,000 |
| December 31, 2011 | 1,010,000 | 714 |
| February 10, 2012 | 1,020,000 | 244 |
| March 9, 2012 | 1,030,000 | 357 |
| April 30, 2012 | 1,040,000 | 192 |
| June 23, 2012 | 1,050,000 | 185 |
| July 15, 2012 | 1,060,000 | 455 |
| August 16, 2012 | 1,070,000 | 313 |
| September 8, 2012 | 1,080,000 | 434 |
| September 11, 2012 | 1,090,000 | 3333 |
| September 14, 2012 | 1,100,000 | 3333 |
| 23rd September 2012 | 1,110,000 | 1111 |
| September 24, 2012 | 1,120,000 | 10,000 |
| 17th November 2012 | 1,130,000 | 185 |
| January 14, 2013 | 1,140,000 | 172 |
| 19th February 2013 | 1150000 | 278 |
| February 27, 2013 | 1,160,000 | 1250 |
| March 3, 2013 | 1,170,000 | 2500 |
| March 9, 2013 | 1,180,000 | 1667 |
| March 9, 2013 | 1,190,000 | 10,000 |
| March 9, 2013 | 1,200,000 | 10,000 |
| March 9, 2013 | 1,210,000 | 10,000 |
| March 10, 2013 | 1,220,000 | 10,000 |
| March 14, 2013 | 1,230,000 | 2500 |
| 15 March 2013 | 1,240,000 | 10,000 |
| March 18, 2013 | 1,250,000 | 3333 |
| March 18, 2013 | 1,260,000 | 10,000 |
| March 20, 2013 | 1,270,000 | 5000 |
| 21st March 2013 | 1,280,000 | 10,000 |
| 22th of March 2013 | 1,290,000 | 10,000 |
| 22th of March 2013 | 1,300,000 | 10,000 |
| March 25.2013 | 1,310,000 | 3333 |
| March 28, 2013 | 1,320,000 | 3333 |
| March 28, 2013 | 1,330,000 | 10,000 |
| March 29, 2013 | 1,340,000 | 10,000 |
| March 29, 2013 | 1,350,000 | 10,000 |
| March 29, 2013 | 1,360,000 | 10,000 |
| March 30, 2013 | 1,370,000 | 10,000 |
| March 30, 2013 | 1,380,000 | 10,000 |
| April 1, 2013 | 1,390,000 | 5000 |
| April 1, 2013 | 1,400,000 | 10,000 |
| April 4, 2013 | 1,410,000 | 3333 |
| April 5, 2013 | 1,420,000 | 10,000 |
| April 6, 2013 | 1,430,000 | 10,000 |
| April 6, 2013 | 1,440,000 | 10,000 |
| April 7, 2013 | 1,450,000 | 10,000 |
| April 9, 2013 | 1,460,000 | 5000 |
| April 11, 2013 | 1,470,000 | 5000 |
| April 12th, 2013 | 1,480,000 | 10,000 |
| April 12th, 2013 | 1,490,000 | 10,000 |
| April 12th, 2013 | 1,500,000 | 10,000 |
| April 13, 2013 | 1,510,000 | 10,000 |
| April 13, 2013 | 1,520,000 | 10,000 |
| 17th April 2013 | 1,530,000 | 2500 |
| April 18, 2013 | 1,540,000 | 10,000 |
| April 22, 2013 | 1,550,000 | 2500 |
| December 13, 2016 | 1,880,000 |
Significance for the language area
At Multiscope.nl , the Dutch-language Wikipedia took third place among the websites in the Netherlands in October 2006. She received a school grade of 8.1 (a 10 would be the highest), only Google.nl and its e-mail service received a slightly better rating . After Wikipedia came the mortgage site funda.nl and Bertelsmann's mail order nl.bol.com .
Of the most important printed encyclopedias in the Netherlands, only the Winkler Prins remains, which was last published in 1990–1993. In 1997, the publisher behind it entered into a cooperation with Encarta from Microsoft .
Internal and special features
The school vandalism on the Dutch Wikipedia was felt to be so rampant that administrators blocked entire schools from accessing Wikipedia using IPs . The internet coordinator of an affected school in Vlaardingen , Frits Albregt, regretted a newspaper that they could not identify a guilty student. A code of conduct with regard to Wikipedia is dealt with separately in the classes. Community officials were also suspected of vandalism; someone from a computer in the municipality of Waalwijk put insults against Princess Maxima in the relevant article.
Instead of the article chapters “Individual references” and “Literature”, the articles on the Dutch-language Wikipedia usually only have a common rubric called Bronnen, noten en / of referenties (sources, notes and / or references). It lists literature, and more rarely individual references are given in the form of a footnote.
Administrators , called "moderators" in the Dutch Wikipedia, lose their extended rights if they have made fewer than 50 changes within twelve months.
Wikimedia movement
The operator of the Dutch language Wikipedia and all other language versions is the Wikimedia Foundation in the United States .
Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (VWN), a non-profit association , has existed in the Netherlands since June 18, 2006 (first general meeting) . At the same time, a foundation, Stichting Wikimedia Nederland , was set up to deal with the disagreement over whether to set up an association or a foundation. However, the foundation is not active.
The VWN association is recognized by the Wikimedia Foundation as a local section of the Wikimedia movement (“Chapter”) and has its office in Utrecht . Since 2007, a Wikimedia-Conferentie Nederland has been held in the last quarter of the year (with the exception of 2009). In addition to websites and a wiki, the association also has a newsletter (Nieuwsbrief). For the first time in 2010 the VWN organized the photo competition Wiki Loves Monuments, in which the aim was to take photos of rijksmonumenten (national monuments). In 2011, several other regional associations took over the concept and turned Wiki Loves Monuments into a Europe-wide campaign.
In Flanders (Belgium), where a quarter of all Dutch speakers live, an association is still being considered.
Web links
- wikimedia.nl - official club website (Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ^ Wikipedia statistics
- ^ List of Wikipedias / Table. October 20, 2011, accessed December 20, 2012 (768,520 articles).
- ^ List of Wikipedias / Table. April 20, 2013, Retrieved April 29, 2013 (1,548,591 articles).
- ↑ heise online: 15 years of German-language Wikipedia. May 10, 2019, accessed March 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Nederlandstalige Wikipedia - Mijlpalen . Nederlandstalige Wikipedia; Retrieved December 19, 2011 (Dutch).
- ^ List of Wikipedias / Table. March 31, 2013, Retrieved April 29, 2013 (1,365,472 articles).
- ↑ List of Wikipedias / Table 14./14. June 2013 accessed on 2016-10-26
- ↑ nl.wikipedia statistics: 1,784,699 articles , sv.wikipedia statistics: 1,788,877 articles , accessed on July 30, 2014
- ↑ List of Wikipedias / Table , accessed September 26, 2017
- ↑ nl.wikipedia Share of articles created by bots: 59%. Wikipedia Statistics: Bot article creations only , stats.wikimedia.org, as of June 2014 (sv.wikipedia 66%; de.wikipedia 0%)
- ↑ nl: Wikipedia: Statistieken (Dutch), nl.wikipedia.org.
- ↑ See Multiscope.nl.
- ↑ See the publisher's website at winklerprins.com in the Internet Archive. ( Memento from December 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Wikipedia-les' na misbruik . AD.nl, February 13, 2008; Retrieved March 26, 2013.
- ↑ Nog meer wikiwijzigingen, ( Memento of February 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) intermediair.nl, November 28, 2007; Archived from the original on February 5, 2008 . ( Memento from February 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Regelingen rond Moderators: Inactivity
- ↑ See Livre.nl ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ^ Resolution: Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland , WMF, September 21, 2006
