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This is a list of many of the different language editions of Wikipedia; as of January 2012, there are 283 Wikipedias. For their number of articles, see the main list.

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[edit] Wikipedia edition codes

Each Wikipedia has a code, which is used as a subdomain below wikipedia.org. Interlanguage links are sorted by that code.

The codes mostly correspond to the language codes defined by ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-3, and the decision of which language code to use is mostly in accordance with the IETF language tag policy.

One code is not a language code ('be-x-old') but refers to a specific orthography.

Some deviations include:

WP edition name WP code Code meaning in ISO 639
Alemannic als ISO code for Tosk Albanian[1] (an altogether unrelated language)
Ripuarian ksh Kölsch, one variety of the Ripuarian languages
Bokmål no Norwegian in general, i.e. Bokmal ('nb'/'nob') and Nynorsk ('nn'/'nno'). Nynorsk correctly uses 'nn'
Albanian sq macrolanguage with four individual languages. Tosk Albanian
Malay ms macrolanguage that includes more than 30 individual languages
Bihari bh collective code 'ISO 639:bih' includes Bhojpuri bho, Maithili mai, Magahi mag and nine others [1]
Võro fiu-vro Not an ISO code; should be moved to valid 'vro'.
Aromanian roa-rup Not an ISO code. 'roa' is Romance (Other).
Min Nan zh-min-nan Not an ISO code; should be moved to valid 'nan'. 'min' is unrelated.
Samogitian bat-smg Not an ISO code; should be moved to valid 'sgs'. 'bat' is Baltic (Other), 'smg' is Simbali language.
Tarantino roa-tara Not an ISO code. 'roa' is Romance (Other).
Simple English simple Not an ISO code
Banyumasan map-bms Not an ISO code. 'map' is Austronesian (Other), bms is Bilma Kanuri, a language of Niger.
Dutch Low Saxon nds-nl Not an ISO code. nds is 'Low Saxon', restricted to Germany in Ethnologue. The Low Saxon dialects in the Netherlands have their own ISO codes.
Zamboanga Chavacano cbk-zam Not an ISO code, 'cbk' is Chavacano. zam is unrelated Miahuatlán Zapotec.
Belarusian (Taraškievica) be-x-old Not an ISO code; should be moved to valid 'be-tarask'.
Classical Chinese zh-classical Not an ISO code; should be moved to valid 'lzh'.

[edit] List

Size is given in decadic logarithm of number of articles. '6' means more than 1 000 000, '5' more than 100 000, '4' more than 10 000.

[edit] Comparison charts

[edit] By article count

Article number of different languages families (06/09/09)  
As of August 2007, the English edition has around 3 times more articles than the second (German) and the third (French)  
Non-English biggest Wikipedias by article count (from German to Swedish, August 2007)  

[edit] By number of user accounts

As of August 2007, the English edition has roughly 10 times more user accounts than the second (Spanish) and the third (German)  
Non-English biggest Wikipedias by number of user accounts (from Spanish to Dutch, August 2007)  

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp
  2. ^ The Romansh Wikipedia was established in December 2003. According to an article from July 5, 2008 in Swissinfo.ch, the first two years were financed by a contribution of SFr60,000 ($58,502) from the canton and the federal government.

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