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==History== As early as March 2001, [[Jimmy Wales]], the creator and co-founder of the original [[English language]] [[Wikipedia]], had proposed the creation of parallel Wikipedia projects in other languages.<ref>https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-March/000048.html|Alternative {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140620120728/https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-March/000048.html|date=2014-06-20}} language wikipedias</ref> The Italian-language version was among the first ones to be created, in May 2001. The original [[URL]] was {{mono|italian.wikipedia.com}}, while the standardized [[ISO 639]] address {{mono|it.wikipedia.com}} became active a few days later.<ref>[[mailarchive:wikipedia-l/2001-May/000132.html|Re: new language wikis]], Wikipedia-l mailing list.</ref> Afterwards, Wikipedia sites switched their [[Internet domain|domains]] from {{mono|wikipedia.com}} to {{mono|wikipedia.org}}. The first pages (around five hundred) were simply untranslated copies from the English-language Wikipedia; the first edits were made from 11 June 2001, onwards. One of the earlier edits was an appeal to help [[Nupedia]]; the first entries on the Italian Wikipedia were the pages on [[Dante Alighieri]], [[Petrarch]], [[Alessandro Manzoni|Manzoni]], and other Italian writers. The edits were not numerous, and the priority was initially given to helping Nupedia; the lemmas were just twenty or thirty, and there were about ten users. With the end of the Nupedia project, the situation began to improve for the Italian Wikipedia: users started to sign in, and the functions of [[Wikipedia:Administrators|administrators]] and [[Wikipedia:Semi-protection policy|semi-protection]] were implemented. This happened by 2004; the number of articles was now {{formatnum:56000}}. In August 2005 the Italian Wikipedia overtook the [[Spanish Wikipedia|Spanish]] and [[Portuguese Wikipedia|Portuguese]] language editions, becoming the 8th largest edition by article count. The primary reason for the rapid leap from {{formatnum:56000}} to {{formatnum:64000}} articles was an automated [[internet bot|bot]] which created stub articles on more than {{formatnum:8000}} municipalities of [[Spain]] in an operation dubbed "{{lang|it|Comuni spagnoli}}".<ref>[[:it:Wikipedia:Ultime notizie|Wikipedia:Ultime_notizie]]</ref><ref>[[:it:Progetto:Comuni spagnoli|Progetto:Geografia/Antropica/Comuni_spagnoli]]</ref> On 8 September 2005, the Italian Wikipedia overtook the [[Dutch Wikipedia]] and one day later, on 9 September, it passed {{formatnum:100000}} articles. On 11 September, it overtook the [[Swedish Wikipedia]], becoming the fifth-largest language edition. Again, automated scripts contributed heavily to the growth. For instance, a bot created more than {{formatnum:35000}} articles on municipalities of [[France]].<ref>[[:it:Progetto:Amministrazioni/Comuni francesi|Progetto:Comuni_della_Francia]]</ref> However, it was overtaken by the [[Polish Wikipedia|Polish edition]] on 23 September 2005. In June 2006, Italian Wikipedia users independently created the [[:it:Template:Bio|Template:Bio]] (with "Bio" being a diminutive of {{lang|it|biografia}}, "[[biography]]"). On 23 October, the Polish version again surpassed the Italian Wikipedia by number of articles. As of 16 October 2006, the registered number of users was {{formatnum:100000}} (90 of which were administrators). In 2007, the Italian Wikipedia adopted an ''[[m:Non-free content#Exemption Doctrine Policy|Exemption Doctrine Policy]]'', shared with other Wikipedias. In the same year, on 21 May, there were more than {{formatnum:300000}} entries. On 22 January 2008, the entries were {{formatnum:400000}}; on 3 October, they were {{formatnum:500000}}. The number of users had reached {{formatnum:250000}}. In 2009 the Italian Wikipedia was awarded the [[Premiolino]], the oldest and most prestigious Italian journalism prize, in the new media category. On 22 June 2010, it passed {{formatnum:700000}} articles ([[:it:Robie House|Robie House]] β 700,000th article). On 28 September 2010, the Italian Wikipedia overtook the Polish Wikipedia, becoming the 4th largest edition, though in October 2010 the numbers on both Wikipedias were very close, and as of 2011 the Polish Wikipedia was in the lead again.<ref>On 12 October 2010: {{formatnum:735444}} (pl) vs {{formatnum:735375}} (it)</ref> On 12 May 2011, it passed {{formatnum:800000}} articles. On the same day, it overtook the Polish Wikipedia. On 12 March 2012, it passed {{formatnum:900000}} articles. On 22 January 2013, it passed {{formatnum:1000000}} articles. In April 2016, the project had 2233 active editors who made at least five edits in that month, and as of March 2022, the project has 121 administrators.
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