Catalan Wikipedia
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{{short description|Catalan-language edition of Wikipedia}}
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{{Infobox website
| name = {{Wiki favicon}} Catalan Wikipedia
| logo = Logo of the Catalan Wikipedia
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| caption = Main Page of the Catalan Wikipedia in August 2023
| url = {{URL|ca.wikipedia.org}}
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| launch_date = {{Start date and age|2001|03|16|df=yes}}
| type = online encyclopedia
| registration = optional
| num_users = {{NUMBEROF|USERS|ca|N}} registered accounts
9,638 contributors{{efn|Contributors are users who edited at least 10 times since they registered.{{cite web|url=http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediansContributors.htm|title=Wikipedia Statistics — Tables — Contributors|publisher=stats.wikimedia.org|access-date=July 23, 2014}}}} (July 2014)
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The Catalan Wikipedia ({{langx|ca|Viquipèdia en català}}) is the Catalan-language edition of the Wikipedia free online encyclopedia.{{cite web | url=http://blogs.tv3.cat/espaiinternet.php?itemid=24990 | title=El català, un exemple d'èxit a Internet | publisher=Espai Internet | date=2 October 2009 | access-date=2014-07-29 | author1=Jordi Aguilera | author2=Antonio Novella | language=ca | archive-date=2010-03-08 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100308032029/http://blogs.tv3.cat/espaiinternet.php?itemid=24990 | url-status=dead }}{{citation |title=Wikipedia(s) on the languages map of the world |author=A Dalby |journal=English Today |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=3–8 |year=2007 |publisher=Cambridge Univ Press|doi=10.1017/S0266078407002027 |s2cid=145231651 }} It was created on 16 March 2001, just a few minutes after the first non-English Wikipedia, the German edition. With {{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|ca|N}} articles, it is currently the {{Ordinal|{{Wikipedia rank by size|ca}}}}-largest Wikipedia articles and the fifth-largest Wikipedia in a Romance language. In April 2016, the project had 582 active editors who made at least five edits in that month.
Creation
On 16 March 2001, Jimmy Wales announced that he wanted to create Wikipedias in other languages and mentioned that there was interest in creating a Catalan version.[http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-March/000048.html Jimbo Wales' message about creating first foreign Wikipedias] The first tests were made on the deutsche.wikipedia.com,[https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/O3T5E3SW6NVND7DM5AJJIIBIPV4GNU57/ Message confirming the creation of the German domain] and a few minutes later, the Catalan Wikipedia was created in the catalan.wikipedia.com domain.[https://web.archive.org/web/20010413083954/http://catalan.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?action=history&id=HomePage First history of the Catalan Wikipedia Main Page, hours in Pacific time zone]
The first edit on a non-English Wikipedia was at 21:07 UTC, 16 March 2001, made to the Catalan main page. The first contribution in a non-English article dates from March 17 at 01:41 UTC in the article Àbac.{{cn|date=May 2022}} Despite being created after the German Wikipedia, for about two months it was the only non-English Wikipedia that contained articles.Multilingual monthly statistics
After some time, the domain changed to ca.wikipedia.com and later to ca.wikipedia.org. About 2003 its community started to use the name "Viquipèdia" when talking about this edition of Wikipedia. Nowadays, this word is used in Catalan language to refer to the whole Wikipedia. About 2005, the domain www.viquipedia.net was registered and it redirects to ca.wikipedia.org. In 2007, www.viquipedia.cat was also registered and redirected.
The first registered user was probably AstroNomer, presumably used only to make some registration tests, but the first registered user to make lasting contributions was Cdani, the same user cited in Jimbo Wales' message.
In 2005 the Catalan Wikipedia community debated on which name(s) of the Catalan language to present in the main page and other policy pages, either català, "Catalan", valencià, "Valencian", or a combination of both català-valencià and català o valencià. Although there was not a consensus on any of the proposals, users agreed that in articles relevant to the Valencian Community, the name "Valencian" was to be used; on all other articles "Catalan" is preferred.See debate in the decision making process about usage of the names of the language The main page avoids making reference to a particular nomenclature,{{Clarify|reason=within articles on the catalan language? what does this even refer to?|date=April 2018}} by simply stating aquesta versió, "this version".
Milestones and historical main pages
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| Evolution of the number of articles
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File:Portada del març del 2001.png|2001 March
File:Portada del maig del 2003.png|2003 May
File:Portada del març del 2004.png|2004 March
File:Portada del juny del 2004.png|2004 June
File:Portada de l'octubre del 2004.png|2004 October
File:Portada del novembre del 2005.png|2005 November
File:Portada de l'octubre del 2006.png|2006 October
File:Portada del gener del 2007.png|2007 January
File:Catalan wiki 20131211.png|2013 December
File:Catalan Wikipedia main page screenshot 2019-03-16.png|2019 March
File:Catalan Wikipedia main page screenshot 2023-08-29.png|2023 August
See also
Notes
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References
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External links
{{InterWiki|code=ca}}
- [http://ca.m.wikipedia.org Catalan Wikipedia mobile version] {{in lang|ca}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20010405141718/http://catalan.wikipedia.com/ Internet Archive] – Catalan Wikipedia main page, March 27, 2001 {{in lang|ca}}
- {{cite web|url=http://notizie.alguer.it/n?id=28773|title=La Wikipedia catalana ad Alghero|access-date=2010-04-04|date=26 November 2009|publisher=Alger.it|language=it|archive-date=January 2, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110102115842/http://notizie.alguer.it/n?id=28773|url-status=dead}}
- {{cite web|url=http://ca.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viquip%C3%A8dia:Vint_mil_articles_en_catal%C3%A0&oldid=254100|title=Viquipèdia:Vint mil articles en català|access-date=2006-06-24|date=6 December 2005|work=Wikipedia|publisher=Wikimedia Foundation|language=ca}}
- [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_sample_of_articles List of Wikipedias by sample of articles]
- [https://twitter.com/viquipedia Official Twitter account of Catalan Wikipedia]
- [https://instagram.com/laviquipedia Official Instagram account of Catalan Wikipedia]
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