Classical Syriac Wikipedia

{{Short description|Classical Syriac-language edition of Wikipedia}}

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The Classical Syriac Wikipedia ({{langx|syr|ܘܝܩܝܦܕܝܐ ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ}}), also known as the Aramaic Wikipedia ({{langx|syr|ܘܝܩܝܦܕܝܐ ܠܫܢܐ ܐܪܡܝܐ}}), is an edition of Wikipedia in Classical Syriac. It was officially created in July 2004,{{Cite web |url=https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaGrowthSummary.htm|title=

Wikipedia Statistics|last=Zachte|first=Erik|date=7 June 2009|publisher=Meta Wiki|access-date=16 November 2024}} but it wasn't until 2005 when its second article was published.{{Cite web |url=https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaARC.htm|title=Wikipedia Statistics Aramaic|last=Zachte|first=Erik|date=7 June 2009|publisher=Meta Wiki|access-date=16 November 2024}}

As of November 16, 2024, the Classical Syriac edition of Wikipedia contains 1,907 articles and has 21,729 contributors, including 19 active contributors and 2 administrators.

History

The Classical Syriac Wikipedia was officially launched in 2004, although it wouldn't take until about a year later for a second article to be published on the site. The Wikipedia was originally launched under the name of the Aramaic Wikipedia.

In 2010, it was decided to change the Wikipedia from being named the Aramaic Wikipedia to the Classical Syriac Wikipedia. This change was made in order to encompass a unifying language that all modern speakers Neo-Aramaic dialects could understand and read. Although this change was officially decided on, the Wikipedia has yet to change its ISO 639-2 code from arc to syr.{{Cite web |url=https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199166|title=rename "Aramaic Wikipedia" to "Syriac Wikipedia" in MediaWiki:Project-localized-name-arcwiki|date=9 July 2018|publisher=Wikimedia Phabricator|access-date=16 November 2024}}

Statistics

The Classical Syriac Wikipedia is currently ranked 264th out of 339 active Wikipedia's, in terms of number of articles, as of 2024.{{Cite web |url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias|title=List of Wikipedias|publisher=Meta Wiki|access-date=16 November 2024}} On October 21st, 2009, the Wikipedia achieved 1,000 total articles, and it was noted that the Wikipedia was increasing by an average of 63 articles per year.{{Cite web |url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News#Wikipedias|title=Wikimedia News|publisher=Meta Wiki|access-date=16 November 2024}} {{cite book |last=Lih |first=Andrew |author-link= |date=2009 |title=The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia |location=United States |publisher=Hyperion |page=165 |isbn=978-1-4013-0371-6}} The Wikipedia is currently 7th out of 8 different Semitic language-Wikipedias, leading over the Tigrinya language and accounting for little over 0.05% of all Semitic language articles on Wikipedia.{{Cite web |url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_language_group#Semitic_(915,220_Articles,_8,247_Active_Users)|title=List of Wikipedias by language group|publisher=Meta Wiki|access-date=16 November 2024}}