Esperanto Wikipedia
Template:Short description Template:Multiple issues Template:Infobox website The Esperanto Wikipedia (Template:Langx, {{#invoke:IPA|main}} or {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is the Esperanto version of Wikipedia, which was started on 11 May 2001,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Multilingual Monthly Statistics (2001) in the English Wikipedia</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> alongside the Basque Wikipedia. With Template:NUMBEROF articles as of Template:Date, it is the Template:Ordinal-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the largest Wikipedia in a constructed language. <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Origin and influence of the Esperanto WikipediaEdit
Chuck Smith, an American Esperantist, is considered to be Esperanto Wikipedia's founder. The encyclopedia started off when he imported the 139 articles of the {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} by Stefano Kalb, which took him three weeks following 15 November 2001.<ref>http://blogs.transparent.com/esperanto/founding-the-esperanto-wikipedia/ Founding the Esperanto Wikipedia (Part 2 of 4)</ref> Later on, he undertook a journey to Europe with the goal of popularizing Wikipedia among the speakers of Esperanto in European countries.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> For instance, in November 2002 he gave a talk about Wikipedia at the 10th Conference on the Application of Esperanto in Science and Technology in Dobřichovice (Czech Republic).
Esperanto speakers have also been involved in the founding of several other language versions of Wikipedia (Czech, Slovak, Ossetian, Swahili). The introduction of support for the Esperanto alphabet by Brooke Vibber, an Esperanto speaker and later Wikimedia Foundation's first employee, in January 2002 has paved the way for alphabets of languages other than English and initiated the transition of the whole Wikipedia to Unicode.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>The Signpost: Interview with Brion Vibber, the WMF's first employee</ref>
Quality of the Esperanto WikipediaEdit
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As of January 2022, the Esperanto Wikipedia has 309 articles of feature quality ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and a further 279 considered worth reading ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Weekly community projects include a Collaboration of the Week ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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 36th, 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 February 2012, the Esperanto Wikipedia had the 5th greatest number of articles per speaker among Wikipedias with over 100,000 articles, and ranked 11th overall.<ref>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_speakers_per_article List of Wikipedias by speakers per article</ref> These figures were based on EthnologueTemplate:'s estimate of 2,000,000 Esperanto speakers.
Due to the geographical spread of its editors (see the box on the right), the Esperanto Wikipedia has a varied list of countries of origin of its editors.<ref name="traffic" />
On 13 August 2014, Esperanto Wikipedia reached 200,000 articles.
In the opening of 2021, ILEI published a text by Mireille Grosjean about the twentieth anniversary of the Esperanto Wikipedia.<ref>Vidu Internacian Pedagogian Revuon 2021/1</ref> UEA followed, which, like ILEI, called for contributions with the aim of reaching 300,000 articles. That number was reached on 20 July 2021.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Notability within the Esperanto communityEdit
At least three editors are members of the Academy of Esperanto: Gerrit Berveling, John C. Wells, and Bertilo Wennergren, a notable Esperanto grammarian<ref>{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}] by Bertilo Wennergren.</ref> and the director of the Academy's section about Esperanto vocabulary.
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The Esperanto Wikipedia has been featured in many Esperanto news media, including a radio interview at Radio Polonia,<ref>https://archive.org/details/UnuaIntervjuoKunChuckSmithPriVikipedio Interview with Chuck Smith in Esperanto about the Esperanto Wikipedia</ref> and articles at {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}<ref>{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}</ref> and {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}.<ref>{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Ve Svitavách se sešli tvůrci Wikipedie v esperantu In Události v regionech (Brno). Česká televize. 2011-10-27, 18:00. Available on-line</ref>
Esperanto organisations like Universal Esperanto Association do not contribute to {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} but support it by providing chambers at Esperanto conventions for {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} presentations and trainings. At the World Esperanto Congress in Rotterdam, summer 2008, there were two Wikipedian meetups and a lecture at the Esperantology Conference. In April 2013, ELiSo (Esperanto and Free Knowledge) was established as one of the first Wikimedia user groups.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Wikipedia handbook in EsperantoEdit
The Esperanto Wikipedia community has created and published a 40-page Wikipedia: Practical Handbook (Esperanto: {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), which is sold online and at conventions.<ref>{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}</ref> 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.
GalleryEdit
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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. (June 2008)
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The Esperanto Wikipedia's 150K commemorative logo. (August 2011)
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The Esperanto Wikipedia's 200K commemorative logo. (August 2014)
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The Esperanto Wikipedia's 250K commemorative logo. (September 2018)
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Video with congratulations on 300k articles. (January 2022)
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
- Esperanto Wikipedia Template:In lang
- Esperanto Wikipedia mobile version Template:In lang
- Manual at Vikilibroj (Wikibooks) Template:In lang
- Report at Libera Folio, March 2008 Template:In lang
- Clip at Youtube.com Template:In lang
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