Greek Wikipedia

Greek Wikipedia

URL	el.wikipedia.org
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Registration	Optional
Available language(s)	Greek
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation

The Greek Wikipedia (also Hellenic Wikipedia, Elliniki Wikipedia, Greek: Ελληνική Βικιπαίδεια) is the Greek language edition of Wikipedia. It was started on December 1, 2002.

Statistics

Origin of edits (11/2010 - 10/2011) Source Greece    78.8% Germany    6.2% Cyprus    5.4% United States    2.1% France    1.2% Norway    1.2% Other    5.1%

As of December 2011, the Greek Wikipedia:

• was 48th largest by number of articles (around 67,000)
• had 24 administrators
• had over 93,000 registered users, of whom around 900 were active
• had been edited over 3,000,000 times

Additional reading

Press

• Εύη Γκολώνη (Evi Goloni), Wikipedia. Η διαδικτυακή εγκυκλοπαίδεια ενηλικιώνεται (Wikipedia. The Internet encyclopedia becomes an adult), Popular Science, τ. (volume) 44, page 23, May 2006).
• Ανδρονίκη Κολοβού (Androniki Kolovu), "Wikipedia" Η ελεύθερη διαδικτυακή εγκυκλοπαίδεια για τους λάτρεις της γνώσης (Wikipedia, the free Internet encyclopedia for knowledge lovers), τεύχος (volume) "Η ζωή μας" (our life), ΠΡΩΤΟ ΘΕΜΑ (Proto Thema), 2 July 2006
• Ηλίας Μαγκλίνη (Ilias Maglini), Η παγκόσμια κοινότητα της Wikipedia, Ελληνικά: πλούτος και σκουπίδια (The global community of Wikipedia, Hellenic: wealth and trash), Η Καθημερινή (I Kathimerini), ένθετο (submagazine) Τέχνες και Γράμματα (Arts and letters), 20 August 2006)
• Εύη Ελευθεριάδου (Evi Eleftheriadu), Οι Έλληνες της Βικιπαίδειας (The Hellenes of Wikipedia), ένθετο (submagazine) "Ορίζοντες" (Horizons), Τα Νέα, 13 December 2006

External links

• (Greek) Greek Wikipedia
• (Greek) Greek Wikipedia mobile version
• Statistics for Greek Wikipedia by Erik Zachte
• Tell us about Greek Wikipedia