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The Spanish Wikipedia has been the object of some criticism. In spite of having the second largest population of users<ref name="es-stats"/><ref>[http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=wikipedia.org&url=wikipedia.org Alexa:Wikipedia Traffic Details]</ref>, after the Wikipedia in English, and having been the second one to be established, yet it is ranked ninth in the the classification for number of articles, far below Wikipedias devoted to languages with smaller speaker populations such as those of Wikipedia in [[German language|German]], [[French language|French]], [[Polish language|Polish]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]], [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[Italian language|Italian]] and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] languages. In terms of quality, parameters such as article size (stub index: 39.9%) show it as the sixth out of the ten largest Wikipedias. <ref>[http://s23.org/wikistats/wikipedias_html.php?sort=good_desc Wikipedia Stats: List of Wikipedias]</ref> |
The Spanish Wikipedia has been the object of some criticism. In spite of having the second largest population of users<ref name="es-stats"/><ref>[http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=wikipedia.org&url=wikipedia.org Alexa:Wikipedia Traffic Details]</ref>, after the Wikipedia in English, and having been the second one to be established, yet it is ranked ninth in the the classification for number of articles, far below Wikipedias devoted to languages with smaller speaker populations such as those of Wikipedia in [[German language|German]], [[French language|French]], [[Polish language|Polish]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]], [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[Italian language|Italian]] and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] languages. In terms of quality, parameters such as article size (stub index: 39.9%) show it as the sixth out of the ten largest Wikipedias. <ref>[http://s23.org/wikistats/wikipedias_html.php?sort=good_desc Wikipedia Stats: List of Wikipedias]</ref> |
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One explanation for this small number of articles |
One explanation for this small number of articles is the strong reluctance to use bots to automatically create thousands of articles dumping statistical data into articles related to items such as municipalities or asteroids. However, critics blame on the policy of deletion of articles (ruled by a voting where a 3 to 1 proportion is needed to delete an article), since many times the arguments used to start the voting are self-promotion or lack of relevance<ref>[http://rvr.typepad.com/linotipo/2006/05/problemas_con_l.html Blogueros contra wikipedistas] (Translation: Bloggers against Wikipedians)</ref><ref>[http://www.elfrancotirador.cl/2006/09/21/los-dictadores-de-wikipedia/ Los dictadores de Wikipedia] (Translation: Wikipedia dictators)</ref>. |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Revision as of 14:29, 18 July 2007
Spanish Wikipedia is a Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, online encyclopedia. Started in May 2001, this edition reached 100,000 articles on March 8, 2006. Currently, it is the 9th-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles, having surpassed Swedish Wikipedia in April 2007. Long before it had been the 8th-biggest edition of Wikipedia, until the Portuguese language Wikipedia overtook it in May 2005 and the Italian edition in August 2005. As of July 4, 2007, it had more than 250,000 articles.
In February 2002, many participants of the edition did not agree with the (later rejected) proposal to finance Wikipedia through advertising, and broke away to establish the Enciclopedia Libre fork. After the spin-off, the Spanish Wikipedia had very little activity until the upgrade to the Phase III of the software, later renamed MediaWiki, when the number of new users started to increase again. Both of the two projects continue to co-exist, but the Spanish Wikipedia is the more active of the two [1][2].
Key dates
- May 1, 2001: The Spanish Wikipedia is established.
- June 30, 2003: The mailing list for the Spanish Wikipedia is created (Wikies-I).
- July 25, 2003: 5,000th article is created.
- November 4, 2003: 10,000th article is created.
- July 18, 2004: The Spanish edition switches to UTF-8, allowing any character to be used directly in forms.
- May 30, 2005: 50,000th article is created.
- March 8, 2006: 100,000th article is created.
- September 6, 2006: 150,000th article is created.
- February 10, 2007: 200,000th article is created.
- July 4, 2007: 250,000th article is created.
Criticism of the Spanish Wikipedia
The Spanish Wikipedia has been the object of some criticism. In spite of having the second largest population of users[2][3], after the Wikipedia in English, and having been the second one to be established, yet it is ranked ninth in the the classification for number of articles, far below Wikipedias devoted to languages with smaller speaker populations such as those of Wikipedia in German, French, Polish, Japanese, Dutch, Italian and Portuguese languages. In terms of quality, parameters such as article size (stub index: 39.9%) show it as the sixth out of the ten largest Wikipedias. [4]
One explanation for this small number of articles is the strong reluctance to use bots to automatically create thousands of articles dumping statistical data into articles related to items such as municipalities or asteroids. However, critics blame on the policy of deletion of articles (ruled by a voting where a 3 to 1 proportion is needed to delete an article), since many times the arguments used to start the voting are self-promotion or lack of relevance[5][6].
References
- ^ Enciclopedia Libre Universal: Special Stats
- ^ a b Wikipedia: Special Stats
- ^ Alexa:Wikipedia Traffic Details
- ^ Wikipedia Stats: List of Wikipedias
- ^ Blogueros contra wikipedistas (Translation: Bloggers against Wikipedians)
- ^ Los dictadores de Wikipedia (Translation: Wikipedia dictators)