Cebuano Wikipedia

It is the largest Philippine-language Wikipedia by number of articles, ahead of Waray Wikipedia and Tagalog Wikipedia (which as of {{Date}} have {{NUMBEROF|articles|war|N}} and {{NUMBEROF|articles|tl|N}} articles respectively).{{cite web|url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_speakers_per_article |title=List of Wikipedias by speakers per article – Meta |publisher=Meta.wikimedia.org |access-date=10 December 2015}}

Cebuano is the second most spoken language in the Philippines with about 20 million speakers.[http://www.ritell.org/Resources/Documents/language%20project/Cebuano.pdf Cebuano Informational Report] (PDF; 864 kB) Christopher DeFraga, Rhode Island College, 2011 The Cebuano-language Wikipedia community has claimed to be the only online encyclopedia in this language.{{cite web |url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tell_us_about_Cebuano_Wikipedia |title=Tell us about Cebuano Wikipedia – Meta |website=meta.wikimedia.org |access-date=14 August 2013 }}

However, Cebuano Wikipedia does not appear to be widely used in the Philippines; {{as of|2021|March|lc=y|post=,}} 90 percent of Wikipedia views from that country were directed at English Wikipedia, with 5 percent going to Tagalog and 3 percent to Russian Wikipedia.{{Cite web|title=Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report - Wikipedia Page Views Per Country - Breakdown|url=https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryBreakdown.htm|access-date=8 March 2021|website=stats.wikimedia.org}} About 30 percent of Cebuano Wikipedia views come from China, 22 percent from the United States, and only about 11 percent from the Philippines (roughly the same number as from France).{{Cite web |title=Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report - Page Views Per Wikipedia Language - Breakdown |url=https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerLanguageBreakdown.htm |access-date=8 March 2021 |website=stats.wikimedia.org }}

The Cebuano-language Wikipedia was launched in June 2005.{{Cite web| title = Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Cebuano |publisher=meta.wikimedia.org | access-date = 16 January 2016| url = https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Cebuano}} In January 2006, 1,000 articles were created, while in November 2006 there were 1,400 articles. At the end of 2006 and 2007, the bots created ten thousand articles on municipalities in France.{{Cite web |title=Wikipedia Statistics – Bot article creations only |date=30 November 2015 |access-date=16 January 2016 |url=https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/BotActivityMatrixCreates.htm }}

By the end of 2012, the number of articles increased to about 30,000. In December 2012, Lsjbot began to create articles. As a result, the number of articles increased dramatically in 2013, and from February to December 2013, the number of articles increased ninefold.{{Cite web| title = Wikimedia project at a glance: Cebuano Wikipedia | work= stats.wikimedia.org | date =November 2015 | access-date = 15 January 2016| url = https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryCEB.htm}}[http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/12/erik-zachte-wikistats/ Meet the Stats Master Making Sense of Wikipedia's Massive Data Trove] Ashik Siddique, wired.com, 27 December 2013 By the end of 2015, about 99 percent of the then 1.4 million articles had been created by bots, including about 25,000 articles about localities and the rest of articles about living beings by Lsjbot.

On 16 July 2014, the Cebuano-language Wikipedia comprised one million articles, making it the twelfth-largest Wikipedia. After overtaking Spanish-, Italian-, Russian-, French-, Dutch- and German-speaking Wikipedia within a year and a half, in February 2016 it reached the two-million mark. After about half a year, followed by the third million, and another half a year later, the fourth million. In August 2017, the five millionth article was created, and it became the Size of Wikipedia#Comparisons with other Wikipedias Wikipedia.

File:WikiStats PlotTotalArticlesCEBWikipedia.png | The number of articles in Cebuano Wikipedia

File:WikiStats PlotNewArticlesCEBWikipedia.png | alt=New articles by user groups, bots in blue. | New articles by user groups, bots in blue

File:CebuanoWP agathis-unicincta botgenerated.png | Typical automated article by Lsjbot

[[Pie chart of article content in the Cebuano-language Wikipedia (July 2015, 1,211,364 articles)|thumb]]

An analysis of Cebuano Wikipedia content on Wikidata in July 2015 showed that of the then 1.21 million articles, 95.8 percent are on living beings and biological species (1,160,787) and 3.3 percent are cities and communities (39,420).{{Cite web |title=Cebuano Wikipedia, Wikidata:Statistics/Wikipedia |work=Wikidata|date=17 July 2015 |access-date=16 January 2016 |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Statistics/Wikipedia }}

• Tagalog Wikipedia
• Waray Wikipedia

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• [https://ceb.wikipedia.org Cebuano Wikipedia]
• [https://ceb.m.wikipedia.org Cebuano Wikipedia mobile]

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