Yiddish Wikipedia
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Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | Yiddish |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | yi.wikipedia.org |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
Yiddish Wikipedia is the Yiddish language version of Wikipedia. It was founded on March 3, 2004, and the first article was written November 28 of that year.
Current status
As of January 2010 the Yiddish Wikipedia has over 7,000 articles. There are 6431 registered users (including bots) but only 49 are active.
Like all Wikipedias it generates hits from Yiddish words typed in Google, with Wikipedia articles on top of the results for that word.
In accordance with the norms for the Yiddish language, it is written almost exclusively in Hebrew script, and not in Latin script.
Milestones
The Yiddish Wikipedia reached 6000 articles on March 8, 2009. The 6000th article is יהושע העשיל תאומים-פרענקל, a rabbi. The 7000th article is חנינא סגן הכהנים, a tanna, started by User:יוסל on 24 December 2009.
Point of view
Combined, the different Hasidic groups form the largest Yiddish-speaking community in the world today. The most new articles are about religious Hasidic Rabbis.[1]
References
External links
- Template:Yi icon Yiddish Wikipedia
- Template:Yi icon Yiddish Wikipedia mobile version (homepage not yet configured)
- New Voices e-Gossip - If there ever was hope for our grandparents to turn tech-savvy and read about the latest in their mamaloshen, this is it. newvoices.
- Go on the web: Aviv Gefen (with non-hebrew spelling)? Yes. Its not a mistake. It's Yiddish. Ynet (Hebrew)
- Dr. Shalom Berger, An encyclopedia of people already in Yiddish The Forward (Yiddish)
- Is there such a think as a Free Encyclopedia?: - The Yiddish Wikipedia was the only Wikipedia which did not delete an article which a Journalist has written his own autobiography. TheMarker (Hebrew)