Esperanto Wikipedia
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 Screenshot of the Esperanto Wikipedia home page. |
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| URL | eo.wikipedia.org |
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| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
| Registration | Optional |
| Available language(s) | Esperanto |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
The Esperanto Wikipedia (Esperanto: Vikipedio en Esperanto, IPA: [vikipeˈdi.o en espeˈranto] or esperanta Vikipedio [espeˈranta vikipeˈdi.o]) is the Esperanto edition of Wikipedia, which started in December 2001 as the eleventh[citation needed] edition of Wikipedia (alongside the Basque Wikipedia). With about 160,000 articles, it is the 27th-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles,[1] and the largest Wikipedia in a constructed language.[2]
The Esperanto Wikipedia started off with the 139 articles of the Enciklopedio Kalblanda by Stefano Kalb.
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[edit] Wikipedia handbook in Esperanto
The Esperanto Wikipedia community has created and published a 40-page "Wikipedia: Practical Handbook" (Vikipedio: Praktika Manlibro) which is sold on-line and at conventions.[3] The manual is intended to give new Wikipedians advice and information on how to edit Wikipedia in Esperanto. It is currently in its second printing.
[edit] Quality of the Esperanto Wikipedia
As of January 2012, the Esperanto Wikipedia has 233 articles of feature quality (Elstaraj artikoloj)[4] and a further 180 considered worth reading (Legindaj artikoloj).[5] Weekly community projects include a Collaboration of the Week (Kunlaboraĵo de la semajno)[6] which improves neglected articles and an Article of the Week featuring good-quality articles on the front page. The Esperanto community is a frequent contributor to the Meta project, Translation of the week.
According to the List of Wikipedias by sample of articles at Meta, a list based on List of articles every Wikipedia should have, Esperanto ranks 37th, lacking almost none of the list of vital articles, but having in general relatively short articles.
On 18 November 2008, the Esperanto Wikipedia implemented the Flagged revisions extension.
As of November 2011, The Esperanto Wikipedia has the 3rd greatest number of articles per speaker among Wikipedias with over 100,000 articles, and ranks 10th overall.[7] These figures were based on Ethnologue's estimate of 2,000,000 Esperanto speakers.
[edit] Notability within the Esperanto community
Including learners and other Esperantists of all levels, many experienced Esperantists and native Esperantists have joined the project. At least three editors are members of the Academy of Esperanto, Gerrit Berveling, John C. Wells, and Bertilo Wennergren, a notable Esperanto grammarian[8] and the director of the Academy's section about Esperanto vocabulary.
Vikipedio incorporates, with permission, the content of the 1934 Enciklopedio de Esperanto and also content of several reference books and the monthly periodical Monato.
The Esperanto Wikipedia has been featured in many Esperanto news media, including a radio interview at Radio Polonia,[9] and recent articles at Esperanto, Kontakto, Libera Folio[10] and Raporto.info.[11] The Esperanto Wikimania, a gathering held in 2011 to celebrate the encyclopedia's 10th anniversary, has been subsidized by the host city of Svitavy (Czech Republic) and the Pardubice Region and covered by Czech Television.[12][13]
Esperanto organisations like Universal Esperanto Association do not contribute to Vikipedio but support it by providing chambers at Esperanto conventions for Vikipedio presentations and trainings. At the World Esperanto Congress in Rotterdam, summer 2008, there have been two Wikipedian meetups and a lecture at Esperantology Conference.
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Wikipedia training at an Esperanto convention in Antwerp, May 2007
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The Esperanto Wikipedia's 100K commemorative logo.
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The Esperanto Wikipedia's 150K commemorative logo. (Fall 2011)
[edit] References
- ^ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
- ^ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_language_group
- ^ Vikipedio: praktika manlibro
- ^ http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipedio:Elstaraj_artikoloj
- ^ http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipedio:Legindaj_artikoloj
- ^ http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipedio:Kunlaboraĵo_de_la_semajno
- ^ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_speakers_per_article List of Wikipedias by speakers per article
- ^ Plena Manlibro de Esperanta Gramatiko by Bertilo Wennergren.
- ^ http://www.archive.org/details/UnuaIntervjuoKunChuckSmithPriVikipedio Interview with Chuck Smith in Esperanto about the Esperanto Wikipedia
- ^ Vikipedio kreskas kiam Antverpeno festas — Libera Folio
- ^ Raporto.info » Vikipedio, la reta esperanta enciklopedio progresas
- ^ Smith, Chuck: Esperanto Wikimania in Svitavy In Esperanto Language Blog
- ^ Ve Svitavách se sešli tvůrci Wikipedie v esperantu In Události v regionech (Brno). Česká televize. 2011-10-27, 18:00. Available on-line
[edit] External links
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Esperanto Wikipedia edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
- Esperanto Wikipedia (Esperanto)
- Esperanto Wikipedia mobile version (Esperanto)
- Manual at Vikilibroj (Wikibooks) (Esperanto)
- Report at Libera Folio, March 2008 (Esperanto)
- Clip at Youtube.com (Esperanto)
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