query: what countries speak spanish wikipedia?

title: Spanish Wikipedia

text: Wikipedia in terms of the number of edits, as well as the third Wikipedia by the number of page views. By country of origin, by September 2017, Spain was the main contributor to the Spanish Wikipedia (39.2% of edits). It is followed by Argentina (10.7%), Chile (8.8%), the Netherlands (8.4%), Mexico (7.0%), Venezuela (5.1%), Peru (3.5%), the United States (3.1%), Colombia (2.7%), Uruguay (1.3%) and Germany (1.1%). Among the countries where Spanish is an official language, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Spain and Venezuela have established local chapters of the Wikimedia Foundation. Following a study by "Netsuus" (online market analysis enterprises) on

title: Spanish Wikipedia

text: the use of Wikipedia in Spain, it was revealed that most users consult Spanish Wikipedia (97%) compared to Wikipedias in other regional languages (2.17% for Wikipedia in Catalan, 0.64% in Galician and 0.26% in Basque). A comparative study by the "", made by Manuel Arias Maldonado (University of Malaga) and published in 2010, compared some articles with those of the English and German Wikipedias. It concluded that the Spanish version of Wikipedia was the least reliable of the three. It found it to be more cumbersome and imprecise than the German and English Wikipedias, stated that it often lacked reliable

title: Asturian Wikipedia

text: articles on 1 September 2004. In 2015, Wikipedia was awarded with the Spanish Princess of Asturias Award on International Cooperation. Speaking at the Asturian Parliament in Oviedo, the city that hosts the awards ceremony, Jimmy Wales praised the work of the Asturian language Wikipedia users. The night of the ceremony, members of the Wikimedia Foundation held a meeting with Wikipedians from all parts of Spain, including the local Asturian community. Asturian Wikipedia The Asturian Wikipedia (Before "Uiquipedia n'asturianu" and now "") is the Asturian language edition of Wikipedia started in July 2004. As of December 8, 2015, the Asturian Wikipedia

title: Wikipedia

text: Höfling, and Peter Gabriel. The award was presented to Wales by David Weinberger. In 2015, Wikipedia was awarded both the annual Erasmus Prize, which recognizes exceptional contributions to culture, society or social sciences, and the Spanish Princess of Asturias Award on International Cooperation. Speaking at the Asturian Parliament in Oviedo, the city that hosts the awards ceremony, Jimmy Wales praised the work of the Asturian language Wikipedia users. The night of the ceremony, members of the Wikimedia Foundation held a meeting with Wikipedians from all parts of Spain, including the local Asturian community. Many parodies target Wikipedia's openness and susceptibility

title: Italian Wikipedia

text: 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 and were implemented. This happened by 2004; the number of articles was now 56,000. In August 2005 the Italian Wikipedia overtook the Spanish and Portuguese language editions, becoming the 8th largest edition by article count. The primary reason for the rapid leap from 56,000 to 64,000 articles was an automated bot which created stub articles on more than 8,000 municipalities of Spain

title: Health information on Wikipedia

text: health professionals in Spain found that while 53% of them used the Spanish Wikipedia to look up medical information during work, only 3% of them considered it reliable and only 16% recommended it to their patients. Only 16% had ever edited a Wikipedia article; the most common reasons for not doing were that they did not consider themselves an expert (51%), they preferred to blog or publish peer-reviewed articles (21%), and they were concerned that someone would undo any contributions they made (17%). Wikipedia has been inappropriately cited as an authoritative source in many health science journals. In 2009 a

title: Spanish uniforms of the Napoleonic Wars

text: white, black pocket piping, with white metal butons. Bicorn edged in white with red plume. = Hussar Regiments = = Guard Cavalry Regiments = = Further Reading = Spanish Infantry of the Early Peninsular War Uniformes Españoles de la guerra de independencia Spanish uniforms of the Napoleonic Wars This page is currently an incomplete list, references somewhat attached to sectors not units. No attempt has been made to link units to other Wikipedia pages as of 30/05/2018. The Napoleonic wars was a series of wars lasting from 1803 to 1815. Spain was just one of the many countries which resisted

title: Spanish uniforms of the Napoleonic Wars

text: Spanish uniforms of the Napoleonic Wars This page is currently an incomplete list, references somewhat attached to sectors not units. No attempt has been made to link units to other Wikipedia pages as of 30/05/2018. The Napoleonic wars was a series of wars lasting from 1803 to 1815. Spain was just one of the many countries which resisted the expansion of the French Empire under Napoleon I. It is notable for the bravery of its general population who fought as Guerrillas, preventing the occupying French forces from obtaining supplies or safe passage. Further information = Line Infantry = The Spanish

title: Spanish Wikipedia

text: Spanish Wikipedia were football (soccer) clubs, including Club América, FC Barcelona, Athletic Bilbao, Alianza Lima, and Newell's Old Boys. Spanish Wikipedia The Spanish Wikipedia () is a Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, online encyclopedia. It has articles. Started in May 2001, it reached 100,000 articles on March 8, 2006 and 1,000,000 articles on May 16, 2013. It is the 9th-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles and has the 4th-largest number of edits. In February 2002, Larry Sanger wrote an e-mail stating that Bomis was considering selling advertisements. Edgar Enyedy, a user on the Spanish Wikipedia, criticized

title: Spanish Wikipedia

text: sources, including much unreferenced data, and found it to be too dependent on online references. During Wikimania 2009, free-software activist Richard Stallman criticized the Spanish Wikipedia for restricting links to the Rebelion.org left-wing web site and allegedly banning users who had complained about what had happened. Participants in the Spanish Wikipedia responded that Rebelion.org is primarily a news aggregator, that links to aggregators should be replaced with links to original publishers whenever possible, and that they considered the issue to be one of spam. According to a 2013 Oxford University study, five of the ten most disputed pages on the

title: Spanish Wikipedia

text: Spanish Wikipedia The Spanish Wikipedia () is a Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, online encyclopedia. It has articles. Started in May 2001, it reached 100,000 articles on March 8, 2006 and 1,000,000 articles on May 16, 2013. It is the 9th-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles and has the 4th-largest number of edits. In February 2002, Larry Sanger wrote an e-mail stating that Bomis was considering selling advertisements. Edgar Enyedy, a user on the Spanish Wikipedia, criticized the proposal. Jimmy Wales and Sanger responded by saying that they did not immediately plan to implement advertisements, but

title: Spanish Wikipedia

text: the end of that year the Wikipedia had over 10,000 articles. The size of the Spanish Wikipedia overtook that of the fork in the northern hemisphere fall of 2004. Lih stated in 2009 that the concepts of advertising and forking were still sensitive issues for the Wikipedia community because "It took more than a year for the Spanish Wikipedia to get back on its feet again" after the fork had been initiated. After the spin-off, the Spanish Wikipedia had very little activity until the upgrade to the Phase III of the software, later renamed MediaWiki, when the number of new

title: Judaeo-Spanish Wikipedia

text: for Judaeo-Spanish. Judeo-Spanish is the historical language of the Sephardi Jews, and the largest concentration of its speakers is in Israel. Accordingly, much of the content of this encyclopedia—especially content not found in other Wikipedia projects—focuses on Sephardi Jewish culture and personalities, and on places and institutions of Israel. Judaeo-Spanish Wikipedia Judaeo-Spanish Wikipedia or Ladino Wikipedia is the Judaeo-Spanish-language version of Wikipedia. It was approved on December 21, 2006, but its earliest articles date to August 2006. As of February 28, 2018 the Judaeo-Spanish Wikipedia had 4,655 articles. There were 14,015 registered users (including bots); 23 were active at that

title: Judaeo-Spanish Wikipedia

text: Judaeo-Spanish Wikipedia Judaeo-Spanish Wikipedia or Ladino Wikipedia is the Judaeo-Spanish-language version of Wikipedia. It was approved on December 21, 2006, but its earliest articles date to August 2006. As of February 28, 2018 the Judaeo-Spanish Wikipedia had 4,655 articles. There were 14,015 registered users (including bots); 23 were active at that time, including 4 administrators. Although Judaeo-Spanish was historically written in Hebrew script, today it is often written in Latin script. Judaeo-Spanish Wikipedia has content in both scripts, with the great majority of content in Latin script. This Latin script content reflects several different orthographic conventions that are variously used

title: Spanish Wikipedia

text: Enyedy began establishing a fork. Enciclopedia Libre was established by February 26, 2002. Enyedy persuaded most of the Spanish Wikipedians into going to the fork. By the end of 2002 over 10,000 articles were posted on the new site, and the Spanish Wikipedia was inactive for the rest of the year. Andrew Lih wrote that "for a long time it seemed that Spanish Wikipeda would be the unfortunate runt left from the Spanish fork." The general popularity of Wikipedia attracted new users to the Spanish Wikipedia who were unfamiliar with the fork and these users came by June 2003. By

title: Read Music/Speak Spanish

text: Read Music/Speak Spanish Read Music/Speak Spanish is the first studio album by American punk band Desaparecidos. Released in February 2002, the record is the forty-second release of Saddle Creek Records. Reviews were mostly positive upon release. "Read Music/Speak Spanish" is a punk/indie-rock concept album loosely centered on perceived American materialism and greed. Song topics include the pressures of upward mobility on marriage, the suburban expansion of Omaha, the desire to always follow the latest fashion or fad, the effect of consumerism on developing countries, and the mixture of religion and politics. The album was recorded in one week, the same

title: Spanish Wikipedia

text: users started to increase again. Both projects continue to co-exist, but the Spanish Wikipedia is by far the more active of the two. It has the second largest number of users, after the English Wikipedia. However, it is ranked eighth for number of articles, below other Wikipedias devoted to languages with smaller numbers of speakers, such as German, French, Cebuano, Dutch and Russian. In terms of quality, parameters such as article size (over 2 KB: 40%) show it as the second out of the ten largest Wikipedias after the German one. As of October 2012, Spanish Wikipedia is the fourth

title: Read Music/Speak Spanish

text: week of the September 11 attacks. Since the concept of the album is a criticism of American consumerism, the band considered not releasing it and partly due to this timing the album failed commercially. Despite its lack of commercial success, the album gained an extensive cult following. Read Music/Speak Spanish Read Music/Speak Spanish is the first studio album by American punk band Desaparecidos. Released in February 2002, the record is the forty-second release of Saddle Creek Records. Reviews were mostly positive upon release. "Read Music/Speak Spanish" is a punk/indie-rock concept album loosely centered on perceived American materialism and greed. Song

title: Ripuarian Wikipedia

text: Ripuarian Wikipedia The Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages () is the Ripuarian edition of Wikipedia. It was started on July 6, 2005 as "WiKoelsch" on a private server, and was converted to an official Wikipedia during April 2006. As only about a million people speak the Ripuarian languages, the Ripuarian Wikipedia is relatively small. Since both the use of Ripuarian, and the population capable of using a Ripuarian language, are decreasing, it is also an endangered language Wikipedia. The total number of edits on this Wikipedia is . The first discussions about a Wikipedia in Colognian in the first place, or

title: Ripuarian Wikipedia

text: some regular, producive contributors withdrew. In January 9, 2009, the ksh Wikipedia was mentioned in an own short article in a local newspaper. There are articles on this edition of Wikipedia and a total of pages. This language edition has an article depth of , compared to the English Wikipedia's . Ripuarian Wikipedia The Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages () is the Ripuarian edition of Wikipedia. It was started on July 6, 2005 as "WiKoelsch" on a private server, and was converted to an official Wikipedia during April 2006. As only about a million people speak the Ripuarian languages, the Ripuarian

title: Dutch Wikipedia

text: order have much lower than the other six. , for the English version the article depth is 666, for the German 88, for the French 153, for the Spanish 160, for the Dutch only 18. Compared to most other Wikipedia editions with a similar number of articles, articles on the Dutch Wikipedia have less content with an average of 1,598 bytes per article (). This is roughly 40% of that of the French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish editions (3,986-4,277 bytes/article ). Dutch Wikipedia The Dutch Wikipedia () is the Dutch-language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. It was

title: Indonesian Wikipedia

text: fifty active contributors. In March 2007, Bina Nusantara University invited Indonesian Wikipedians to speak at the first Wikipedia seminar for the public and to introduce Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia and Wikimedia Foundation projects at its campus in Jakarta. In November 2007, the Indonesian Government, through its Department of Communication and Information, decided to establish an annual Indonesian ICT Award and invited the Indonesian Wikipedia Community to hold a workshop on how to write Wikipedia articles. Ivan Lanin, one of the speakers interviewed by Antara, stated that the number of contributors to the Indonesian Wikipedia was rising, and the articles were beginning

title: Wikipedia

text: and web search engine indexing. Language editions were also created, with a total of 161 by the end of 2004. Nupedia and Wikipedia coexisted until the former's servers were taken down permanently in 2003, and its text was incorporated into Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia passed the mark of two million articles on September 9, 2007, making it the largest encyclopedia ever assembled, surpassing the 1408 "Yongle Encyclopedia", which had held the record for almost 600 years. Citing fears of commercial advertising and lack of control in Wikipedia, users of the Spanish Wikipedia forked from Wikipedia to create the Enciclopedia Libre

title: Malay Wikipedia

text: the Malay Wikipedia had. In 2009 Andrew Lih wrote "Because these groups are drawn on national boundaries, merging is not likely to happen soon." Starting July 27, 2016, file upload at the Malay Wikipedia (along with Czech, Spanish, Basque, Gujarati, Portuguese, Simple English and Swedish Wikipedia) is no longer facilitated and instead redirected to Wikimedia Commons due to copyright infringement issues. However, file upload at the English, Indonesian and other languaged Wikipedia remains facilitated. Since 2016, Malay Wikipedia has a lack of administrators. Malay Wikipedia Malay Wikipedia (Malay: , Jawi alphabet: ويکيڤيديا بهاس ملايو, abbreviation: mswiki) is the Malay edition

title: English Wikipedia

text: language Wikipedias the most disputed articles tended to be regional issues; this is due to the English language's status as a global "lingua franca", which means that many who edit the English Wikipedia do not speak English as a native language. The study stated that the most disputed entries on the English Wikipedia were: George W. Bush, anarchism, Muhammad, list of WWE personnel, global warming, circumcision, United States, Jesus, race and intelligence, and Christianity. One controversy in the English Wikipedia concerns which national variety of the English language is to be preferred, with the most commonly advocated candidates being American

title: Wikipedia

text: additional features such as use of Wikipedia metadata (See ), such as geoinformation. Wikipedia Zero is an initiative of the Wikimedia Foundation to expand the reach of the encyclopedia to the developing countries. Andrew Lih and Andrew Brown both maintain editing Wikipedia with smart phones is difficult and this discourages new potential contributors. Several years running the number of Wikipedia editors has been falling and Tom Simonite of "MIT Technology Review" claims the bureaucratic structure and rules are a factor in this. Simonite alleges some Wikipedians use the labyrinthine rules and guidelines to dominate others and those editors have a

title: Portuguese Wikipedia

text: Portuguese Wikipedia The Portuguese Wikipedia () is the Portuguese language edition of Wikipedia (written Wikipédia, in Portuguese), the free encyclopedia. It was started on 11 May 2001. It is currently (October 2017) the fourteenth largest Wikipedia by article count, containing articles. From late 2004, the edition grew rapidly. During May 2005, it overtook both the Spanish and Italian language Wikipedias. By comparison, in May 2004 it was only the 17th Wikipedia by the number of articles. Portuguese articles can contain variations of writing, as European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese have differences in vocabulary and usage. Articles can contain written characteristics

title: Estonian Wikipedia

text: Estonian Wikipedia has a relatively high percentage of administrators per regular active users (over 9%) compared to the Finnish Wikipedia, where only 2.5% of active users are administrators. As of 2019, the edition has active contributors and administrators. The overwhelming majority of its edits originate from Estonia, while a minority of contributions come from neighboring Northern European countries, which account for most of the remaining share of editors. The first meeting for local Wikipedians was held in 2007. The Estonian Wikimedia chapter named Wikimedia Eesti was founded in 2010 to support Estonian Wikipedia. Estonian Wikipedia The Estonian Wikipedia () is

title: Wikipedia Zero

text: Wikipedia Zero Wikipedia Zero is a project by the Wikimedia Foundation to provide Wikipedia free of charge on mobile phones via zero-rating, particularly in developing markets. The objective of the program was to increase access to free knowledge, in particular without data-usage cost. With 97 operators in over 72 countries, it is estimated that access to Wikipedia was provided to more than 800 million people through this program. The Wikipedia Zero program will end in 2018. The program was launched in 2012, and won a 2013 South by Southwest Interactive Award for activism. After having received criticism over the years

title: Wikipedia

text: Fifteen of these have over one million articles each (English, Cebuano, Swedish, German, Dutch, French, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Waray-Waray, Polish, Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese and Portuguese), four more have over 500,000 articles (Ukrainian, Persian, Catalan and Arabic), 40 more have over 100,000 articles, and 78 more have over 10,000 articles. The largest, the English Wikipedia, has over 0.1*floor(/100000) million articles. , according to Alexa, the English subdomain (en.wikipedia.org; English Wikipedia) receives approximately 57% of Wikipedia's cumulative traffic, with the remaining split among the other languages (Russian: 7%; Spanish: 6%; Japanese: 6%; Chinese: 5%). As of 2019, the six largest language editions

title: French Wikipedia

text: in that month. In 2008, the French encyclopaedia, "Quid", cancelled its 2008 edition, citing falling sales on competition from the French edition of Wikipedia. , Wikipedia has an Alexa ranking of 6 and 5.06% of those visits are to the French-language edition. As of 2019, there are users, admins and files on the French Wikipedia. On 2 December 2014, the French-language Wikipedia encyclopedia became the 3rd linguistic edition by number of registered users since its creation, overtaking for the first time the German edition, with registered users, behind the English () and Spanish () language editions. According to a 2013

title: Japanese Wikipedia

text: Japanese Wikipedia The is the Japanese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. Started on 11 May 2001, the edition attained the 200,000 article mark in April 2006 and the 500,000 article mark in June 2008. As of 2019, it has over articles. In April 2016, the project had 4,192 active editors who made at least five edits in that month, ranking fourth behind the English, Spanish and Russian editions. In March 2001, three non-English editions of Wikipedia were created, namely, the , the , and the Wikipedias. The original site address of the Japanese Wikipedia was http://nihongo.wikipedia.com and all

title: Reliability of Wikipedia

text: Rodham was not the valedictorian, though she did speak at commencement.) The article included a link to the Wikipedia edit, where the incorrect information was added on July 9, 2005. After the msnbc.com report, the inaccurate information was removed the same day. Between the two edits, the wrong information had stayed in the Clinton article while it was edited more than 4,800 times over 20 months. Attempts to perpetrate hoaxes may not be confined to editing Wikipedia articles. In October 2005 Alan Mcilwraith, a former call center worker from Scotland created a Wikipedia article in which he claimed to be

title: Censorship of Wikipedia

text: Censorship of Wikipedia Censorship of Wikipedia has occurred in several countries, including China, France, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Uzbekistan. Some instances are examples of widespread internet censorship in general that includes Wikipedia content. Others are indicative of measures to prevent the viewing of specific content deemed offensive. The length of different blocks have varied from days to years. When Wikipedia ran on the HTTP protocol, governments were able to block specific articles. However, in 2011 Wikipedia began also running on HTTPS, and switched over entirely in 2015. Since then, the only

title: Wikipedia community

text: 2005, called "Why Do People Write for Wikipedia? Incentives to Contribute to Open-Content Publishing", discussed the possible motivations of Wikipedia contributors. It applied Latour and Woolgar's concept of the cycle of credit to Wikipedia contributors, suggesting that the reason that people write for Wikipedia is to gain recognition within the community. Oded Nov, in his 2007 paper "What Motivates Wikipedians", related the motivations of volunteers in general to the motivations of people who contribute to Wikipedia. Nov carried out a survey using the six motivations of volunteers, identified in an earlier paper. The six motivations he used were: To these

title: Censorship of Wikipedia

text: and 2008. Blocking of the Uzbek Wikipedia caught the attention of the international press in late February 2012.<ref name="RFE/RL"></ref> Internet users in Uzbekistan trying to access Uzbek-language pages were redirected to MSN. Users in Uzbekistan could easily open Wikipedia articles in other languages. Only Uzbek-language articles were blocked.<ref name="RFE/RL (English)"></ref> In October 2016, the Uzbek Wikipedia became available for Uzbek users when the HTTPS protocol is used. Censorship of Wikipedia Censorship of Wikipedia has occurred in several countries, including China, France, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Uzbekistan. Some instances are examples of

title: History of Wikipedia

text: of . Other sites also use the MediaWiki software and concept, popularized by Wikipedia. No list of them is maintained. Specialized foreign language forks using the Wikipedia concept include Enciclopedia Libre (Spanish), "Wikiweise" (German), WikiZnanie (Russian), Susning.nu (Swedish), and Baidu Baike (Chinese). Some of these (such as "Enciclopedia Libre") use GFDL or compatible licenses as used by Wikipedia, leading to exchange of material with their respective language Wikipedias. In 2006, Larry Sanger founded Citizendium, based upon a modified version of MediaWiki. The site said it aimed 'to improve on the Wikipedia model with "gentle expert oversight", among other things'. (See

title: History of Wikipedia

text: as of December 2012. On 22 January 2013, the Italian Wikipedia became the fifth language edition of Wikipedia to exceed 1 million articles, while the Russian and Spanish Wikipedias gained their millionth articles on 11 and 16 May respectively. On 15 July the Swedish and on 24 September the Polish Wikipedias gained their millionth articles, becoming the eighth and ninth Wikipedia editions to do so. On 27 January, the main belt asteroid 274301 was officially renamed "Wikipedia" by the Committee for Small Body Nomenclature. The first phase of the Wikidata database, automatically providing interlanguage links and other data, became available

title: Latin Wikipedia

text: context usually makes clear which one is being used. Latin Wikipedia The Latin Wikipedia () is the Latin language edition of Wikipedia. The number of articles reached 125,669 on 12 December 2016. As of 2019, it has about articles. While all primary content is in Latin, in discussions modern languages such as English, Italian, French, German or Spanish are often used, since many users ("usores") find this easier. Professional Latinists have observed a gradual improvement in the encyclopedia: according to Robert Gurval, chairman of the UCLA classics department, "the articles that are good are in fact very good," though some

title: Latin Wikipedia

text: Latin Wikipedia The Latin Wikipedia () is the Latin language edition of Wikipedia. The number of articles reached 125,669 on 12 December 2016. As of 2019, it has about articles. While all primary content is in Latin, in discussions modern languages such as English, Italian, French, German or Spanish are often used, since many users ("usores") find this easier. Professional Latinists have observed a gradual improvement in the encyclopedia: according to Robert Gurval, chairman of the UCLA classics department, "the articles that are good are in fact very good," though some contributors do not write the language perfectly. The Latin

title: Censorship of Wikipedia

text: avoid violations of the law, and around 10-20% of Russian users felt issues with Wikipedia access at the night of 25th. On 11 July 2006, the Saudi government blocked access to Google and Wikipedia for what it said was sexual and politically sensitive content. Many articles from the English and Arabic Wikipedia projects have been censored in Saudi Arabia. Wikipedia has also been blocked at least once since then. Access to the Arabic Wikipedia was blocked in Syria between 30 April 2008 and 13 February 2009, although other language editions remained accessible. The Wikipedia website was inaccessible from Tunisia between

title: Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia

text: that his view of the Masry Wikipedia was that it would be "written in layperson terms and a mixture between Egyptian slang and simple Arabic", conveying "the information to speakers of Egyptian Arabic in a way similar to what Wikipedia Simple English is doing currently in comparison to Wikipedia English." In response some Wikipedians criticized the proposal stating that it would be a Simple Arabic Wikipedia. Ghaly responded, arguing that he did not intend to actually start a simple Arabic Wikipedia. , the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia has over 11,000 articles and continues to grow. In addition, there is a project

title: Ukrainian Wikipedia

text: subject to Ukrainian Wikipedia. Also, in 2013 the Institute of History of Ukraine at the National Academy of Science gave permission to the Ukrainian Wikipedia to use the digital version of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine's History that was published online. The Higher School Academy of Science and Forest Engineering also allowed Wikipedia to freely use their information resources. One of the areas where activity is notable is in Wiki Loves Monuments project, an annual international photo contest focused on cultural and historical monuments. Ukrainian Wikipedians were ranked 4th among 36 participating countries for the number of uploads of images as

title: Esperanto Wikipedia

text: the speakers of Esperanto in European countries. For instance, already 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 the Wikipedia (Czech, Slovak, Ossetian, Swahili). The introduction of support for the Esperanto alphabet by Brion 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

title: Armenian Wikipedia

text: 2014 on Armenia TV. The campaign was subsequently popularised by many other information agencies. There was a news conference on the "One Armenian, One Article" All-Armenian project on 27 March 2014. In July 2014, BBC News reported that as a result of the campaign, the Armenian Wikipedia appeared to be outnumbering its neighboring countries with its more than 125,000 pages, compared to approximately 102,000 pages on the Azerbaijani Wikipedia and almost 84,000 pages on the Georgian Wikipedia. The campaign was supported by the Armenian government as well. Education Minister Armen Ashotyan publicly stated, "One Armenian, One Article – I will

title: Tamil Wikipedia

text: 2017. Contrary to common academic criticism of Wikipedia in the Western countries, the Tamil Wikipedia is widely regarded as an important source of information in the Tamil language on the Internet. The encyclopedia undergoes far less vandalism compared to larger Wikipedia projects, largely because the project has slower growth, mainly due to the lack of computers or Internet service in rural areas of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. Most of the project's development comes from the overseas Tamil diaspora. In April 2010, the Tamil Internet Conference held a contest for college students across the state of Tamil Nadu, India for

title: Galician Wikipedia

text: Galician Wikipedia The Galician Wikipedia (; also shortened to Galipedia), is the Galician version of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. It all began on 8 March 2003. This version now has 149.653 articles (as of July 2018). The milestone of 100,000 was achieved on 4 March 2013, four days before its tenth anniversary. For a detailed chronological list of significant Galipedia events, consult (in Galician). Other pages relay project statistics, including and (also in Galician). Wikipedia appeared in Galician on 8 March 2003. ILVI, the first user, registered on this same day. Axiña began work on what would become the first

title: Criticism of Wikipedia

text: Such information can thereby develop false authority due to its presence at such sites. In another example, on March 2, 2007, MSNBC.com reported that then-New York Senator and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been incorrectly listed for 20 months in her Wikipedia biography as having been valedictorian of her class of 1969 at Wellesley College, when in fact she was not (though she did speak at commencement). The article included a link to the Wikipedia edit, where the incorrect information was added on July 9, 2005. The inaccurate information was removed within 24 hours after the MSNBC.com report

title: Reliability of Wikipedia

text: grave conclusion in these circumstances: "To control the reference sources that people use is to control the way people comprehend the world. Wikipedia may have a benign, even trivial face, but underneath may lie a more sinister and subtle threat to freedom of thought." That freedom is undermined by what he sees as what matters on Wikipedia, "not your sources but the 'support of the community'." Critics also point to the tendency to cover topics in a detail disproportionate to their importance. For example, Stephen Colbert once mockingly praised Wikipedia for having a "longer entry on 'lightsabers' than it does

title: Wikipedia

text: Wikipedia by national authorities in China, and Pakistan amongst other countries. A 2008 study conducted by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Palo Alto Research Center gave a distribution of topics as well as growth (from July 2006 to January 2008) in each field: These numbers refer only to the quantity of articles: it is possible for one topic to contain a large number of short articles and another to contain a small number of large ones. Through its "" program, Wikipedia has partnered with major public libraries such as the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts to

title: History of Wikipedia

text: – being created between March and May. The "neutral point of view" (NPOV) policy was officially formulated at this time, and Wikipedia's first slashdotter wave arrived on 26 July. The first media report about Wikipedia appeared in August 2001 in the newspaper "Wales on Sunday". The September 11 attacks spurred the appearance of breaking news stories on the homepage, as well as information boxes linking related articles. 2002 saw the end of funding for Wikipedia from Bomis and the departure of Larry Sanger. The forking of the Spanish Wikipedia also took place with the establishment of the "Enciclopedia Libre". The

title: Vandalism on Wikipedia

text: that incorrect information can be replicated alongside correct information through a number of websites. Such information can develop a misleading air of authority because of its presence at such sites: Comedian Stephen Colbert made repeated references to Wikipedia on his TV show "The Colbert Report", frequently suggesting on air that his viewers vandalize selected pages. These instances include the following: When Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales appeared as a guest on 24 May 2007 episode of "The Colbert Report", they discussed Colbert-related vandalism. Wales later said on the show that he may have to lock down the entire Spanish-language Wikipedia for

title: History of Wikipedia

text: countries through partnerships with mobile operators. On 16 January, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales announced that the English Wikipedia would shut down for 24 hours on 18 January as part of a protest meant to call public attention to the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act, two anti-piracy laws under debate in the United States Congress. Calling the blackout a "community decision", Wales and other opponents of the laws believed that they would endanger free speech and online innovation. A similar blackout was staged on 10 July by the Russian Wikipedia, in protest against a proposed Russian internet

title: Censorship of Wikipedia

text: censorship option is to block the entire site, which resulted in some countries banning the site altogether, and others dropping their bans. Access to Wikipedia has varied over the years with the Chinese language version being controlled more tightly than other versions. As of 2018, the Chinese and Japanese versions are blocked, but other versions are accessible. Chinese Wikipedia was launched in May 2001. Wikipedia received positive coverage in China's state press in early 2004, but it was blocked on 3 June 2004, ahead of the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Proposals to practice self-censorship in

title: Reliability of Wikipedia

text: it sometimes alters truth itself. On 28 June 2012, for example, an anonymous Wikipedia contributor added the invented nickname "Millville Meteor" to the Wikipedia biography of baseball player Mike Trout. A couple of weeks later, a "Newsday" sports writer reproduced the nickname in an article, and "with that act, the fake nickname became real". Seife pointed out that while Wikipedia, by some standards, could be described as "roughly as accurate" as traditional publications, and is more up to date, "there's a difference between the kind of error one would find in Wikipedia and what one would in "Britannica" or "Collier's"

title: Reliability of Wikipedia

text: informative resource", but that "there is an inherent lack of reliability and stability" to its articles, again drawing attention to similar advantages and limitations as other sources. As with other reviews it comments that one should assess one's sources and what is desired from them, and that "Wikipedia may be an appropriate resource for some assignments, but not for others." It cited Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales' view that Wikipedia may not be ideal as a source for all academic uses, and (as with other sources) suggests that at the least, one strength of Wikipedia is that it provides a good

title: Reliability of Wikipedia

text: encyclopedias in general—some university lecturers are not impressed when students cite print-based encyclopedias in assigned work. However, it seems that instructors have underestimated the use of Wikipedia in academia because of these concerns. Researchers and academics contend that while Wikipedia may not be used as a 100 percent accurate source for final papers, it is a valuable jumping off point for research that can lead to many possibilities if approached critically. What may be missing in academia is the emphasis on critical analysis in regards to the use of Wikipedia in secondary and higher education. We should not dismiss Wikipedia

title: German Wikipedia

text: Wikipedia, in an apparent attempt to facilitate the creation of still missing articles. A representative of "Brockhaus" asked for and obtained the deletion of what was believed to be a copyright infringement. As a result of the developing email conversation, a group of five Wikipedians visited the "new media" group of "Brockhaus" in Mannheim on 1 July 2004. The friendly meeting saw a lively discussion of the differing approaches to writing an encyclopedia; it became clear that "Brockhaus" had closely observed Wikipedia for quite some time. On 23 November 2006, the number of articles at German Wikipedia reached 500,000. As

title: Chinese Wikipedia

text: actually sent, for an unknown reason. The third block began on October 19, 2005, and there was no indication as to whether this block was temporary or permanent, or what the reasons or causes for this block were. According to the currently maintained on the Chinese Wikipedia, the Florida and Korea servers were blocked, whereas the Paris and Amsterdam servers were not. Dozens of editors from across mainland China that they could only access Wikipedia using proxy servers, although there were isolated reports that some users could access Wikipedia without using a proxy. Most Chinese people were not able to

title: Wikipedia community

text: of editing Wikipedia. Gina Trapani of Lifehacker said "it turns out editing an article isn't scary at all. It's easy, surprisingly satisfying and can become obsessively addictive." Jimmy Wales has also commented on the addictive quality of Wikipedia, saying "The main thing about Wikipedia ... is that it’s fun and addictive". Wikipedians sometimes award one another "" for good work. These personalized tokens of appreciation reveal a wide range of valued work extending far beyond simple editing to include social support, administrative actions, and types of articulation work. The barnstar phenomenon has been analyzed by researchers seeking to determine what

title: Latvian Wikipedia

text: 76 ('), 19 ('), and an average ratio of 0.9 featured articles per 1000 articles; on par with the Bulgarian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias. It currently has a high depth indicator of , which is not only greater than those of all other Wikipedias in the language family combined, but also than some of the largest editions such as German (), Polish (), and Dutch (). , there are 17 Wikiprojects ("Vikiprojekts") on the Latvian Wikipedia, and 81 approved , assisting users in the editing process. The Latvian Wikipedia is the third most read edition in Latvia, after the English

title: Names given to the Spanish language

text: selection screens give the choice between "Castilian Spanish" and "Latin American Spanish", among other languages. In the Americas, where Spanish is the native language of 20 countries, usage of "castellano" and "español" is sometimes reversed to refer to another nation. For example, a Peruvian talking about a Uruguayan might say, "Yo hablo en español peruano, él habla en español uruguayo, pero los dos hablamos castellano" ("I speak Peruvian Spanish, he speaks Uruguayan Spanish, but we both speak Castilian"). That usage comes from the historical association of "español" with the language that was brought to America by conquistadores and was later

title: Guatemalan Spanish

text: Guatemalan Spanish Guatemalan Spanish () is the national variant of Spanish spoken in the Central American country of Guatemala. About 13.7 million of the 16 million population speak Spanish. It includes the use of the second-person singular personal pronoun "vos" alongside the standard Spanish second-person singular pronouns "tú" and "usted" to form a three-level system of second-person singular address. A number of words widely used in Guatemala which have Mayan or other native origins, in particular names for flora, fauna and toponyms. Some of these words are used in most, or all, Spanish-speaking countries, like "chocolate" and "aguacate" ("avocado"), and

title: Latvian Wikipedia

text: strictly on Wikimedia Commons for images, sound, and other media files, including i.a. the Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Basque, Czech, Danish, and Latin Wikipedias. Content and images from the Latvian Wikipedia often appear on Latvian news websites. As of 2019, the Latvian Wikipedia's articles account for approximately /*100 round 0% of all the articles written in a Baltic language, making it the second-largest edition in the family after Lithuanian, which accounts for /*100 round 0%. The most popular articles are "Latvija" (Latvia), "Eiropa" (Europe), and "Latvijas vēsture" (History of Latvia). In terms of quality, , the Latvian Wikipedia has 49 ('),

title: Russian Wikipedia

text: Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. The first edit of the Russian Wikipedia was on 24 May 2001, and consisted of the line (""Russia is a great nation""). The following edit changed it to the joke: (""Russia is the motherland of elephants (big-eared, improved cross-country capability, see Mammoth."") For a long time development was slow (especially after some participants left for WikiZnanie), but in the 12-month period between February 2005 and February 2006 it surpassed nine editions in other languages – the Catalan, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Finnish, Norwegian, Chinese, Esperanto and Danish Wikipedias. In 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010 the Russian Wikipedia

title: Speak & Math

text: Speak & Math The Speak & Math (or Speak & Maths in some countries) was a popular and revolutionary electronic toy created by Texas Instruments in 1980. Speak & Math was one of a three-part talking educational toy series that also included Speak & Spell and Speak & Read. The Speak & Math was sold in both the United States and in Europe; it was originally advertised as a tool for helping young children to become better at mathematics. The Speak & Math had a distinct gray with blue and orange color scheme. The unit could utilize either 4 "C"

title: Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia

text: There is room to do to Wikipedia what Wikipedia did to Britannica. Novelist Nicholson Baker recounted how an article on the beat poet Richard Denner was deleted as "nonnotable", and criticised the behaviour of vigilante editors on Wikipedia in "New York Review of Books". The article has since been restored. Such debates have sparked the creation of websites critical of Wikipedia such as Wikitruth, which watches for articles in risk of deletion. Wikinews editor Brian McNeil has been quoted as saying that every encyclopedia experiences internal battles, the difference being that those of Wikipedia are public. In 2009, Wikipedia began

title: Catalan Countries

text: or promoters of the "Catalan Countries" concept (such as Joan Fuster, Josep Guia or Vicent Partal) were Valencian. The subject became very controversial during the politically agitated Spanish Transition in what was to become the Valencian Community, especially in and around the city of Valencia. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the Spanish Autonomous Communities system was taking shape, the controversy reached its height. Various Valencian right-wing politicians (originally from Unión de Centro Democrático) fearing what was seen as an annexation attempt from Catalonia, fueled a violent Anti-Catalanist campaign against local supporters of the concept of the "Països

title: Esperanto Wikipedia

text: had the 5th greatest number of articles per speaker among Wikipedias with over 100,000 articles, and ranked 11th overall. These figures were based on "Ethnologue"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. On 13 August 2014 Esperanto Wikipedia reached 200,000 articles. Along with learners and other Esperantists of all levels, many very experienced Esperantists and native Esperantists have joined the project. At least three editors are members of the Academy of Esperanto, Gerrit Berveling,

title: German Wikipedia

text: 2007, the sixth contest was held, with the winner being the article on the (German: "Haager Konvention zum Schutz von Kulturgut bei bewaffneten Konflikten"). German Wikipedians organized the first international Wikipedia conference, Wikimania 2005, in August 2005 in Frankfurt. Some 300 people from over 50 countries attended the three-day conference. From 17 March to 15 April 2006, the Göttingen State and University Library held a special exhibition documenting the first five years of Wikipedia. In 2006, the University of Göttingen hosted the first . The Academy was intended to familiarize the academic world with Wikimedia projects. In 2007, the second

title: Wikipedia Zero

text: Washington Post", saying, "We have a complicated relationship to net neutrality. We believe in net neutrality in America", while adding that Wikipedia Zero required a different perspective in other countries: "Partnering with telecom companies in the near term, it blurs the net neutrality line in those areas. It fulfills our overall mission, though, which is providing free knowledge". Hilary Heuler argues that "for many, zero-rated programs would limit online access to the 'walled gardens' offered by the web heavyweights. For millions of users, Facebook and Wikipedia would be synonymous with 'internet'." In 2015, researchers evaluating how the similar program Facebook

title: Wikipedia

text: the fact. Wikipedia has been criticized for allowing information of graphic content. Articles depicting what some critics have called objectionable content (such as "Feces", "Cadaver", "Human penis", "Vulva", and "Nudity") contain graphic pictures and detailed information easily available to anyone with access to the internet, including children. The site also includes sexual content such as images and videos of masturbation and ejaculation, illustrations of zoophilia, and photos from hardcore pornographic films in its articles. It also has non-sexual photographs of nude children. The Wikipedia article about "Virgin Killer—"a 1976 album from German heavy metal band Scorpions—features a picture of the

title: Wikipedia

text: citations. Wales stresses that encyclopedias of any type are not usually appropriate to use as citable sources, and should not be relied upon as authoritative. Wales once (2006 or earlier) said he receives about ten emails weekly from students saying they got failing grades on papers because they cited Wikipedia; he told the students they got what they deserved. "For God's sake, you're in college; don't cite the encyclopedia", he said. In February 2007, an article in "The Harvard Crimson" newspaper reported that a few of the professors at Harvard University were including Wikipedia articles in their syllabi, although without

title: Racial bias on Wikipedia

text: She said that Wikipedia could only represent that which was referenced in secondary sources, which historically have been favourable towards and focused on white men. “Studies have shown that content on Wikipedia suffers from the bias of its editors – [who are] mainly technically inclined, English-speaking, white-collar men living in majority-Christian, developed countries in the Northern hemisphere”. According to Maira Liriano, the associate chief librarian at New York City’s Schomburg Center, one of the biggest challenges is getting new editors to keep editing Wikipedia after the edit-a-thon is over. One challenge with retaining new editors is that the “[n]erdy white

title: Reliability of Wikipedia

text: "World Book Encyclopedia" on virtual reality was accepted without question, so he concluded, "I now believe Wikipedia is a perfectly fine source for your information, because I know what the quality control is for real encyclopedias." Fernanda Viégas of the MIT Media Lab and Martin Wattenberg and Kushal Dave of IBM Research studied the flow of editing in the Wikipedia model, with emphasis on breaks in flow (from vandalism or substantial rewrites), showing the dynamic flow of material over time. From a sample of vandalism edits on the English Wikipedia during May 2003, they found that most such acts were

title: Reliability of Wikipedia

text: other collaborative projects and sociology, to explore whether the Wikipedia model can produce quality results, what collaboration in this way can reveal about people, and whether the scale of involvement can overcome the obstacles of individual limitations and poor editorship which would otherwise arise. The reliability of Wikipedia articles can be measured by the following criteria: The first four of these have been the subjects of various studies of the project, while the presence of bias is strongly disputed, and the prevalence and quality of citations can be tested within Wikipedia. In addition, the scientific research in the area of

title: Hillsborough Wikipedia posts

text: is entirely unacceptable," they added. Sheila Coleman of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign called the edits "absolutely disgusting" and said the relatives of the Hillsborough disaster victims would demand a formal inquiry. A critic of Wikipedia, Nigel Scott, writing in "Spiked", sought to place the incident in the context of what he sees as Wikipedia's structural flaws, saying, "Wikipedia is not blameless in this. It allows misinformation to flourish and provides it with a cloak of respectability. It is under-resourced and is unable to police itself adequately." However, the main focus of his argument was other Wikipedia controversies, including the creation

title: Vandalism on Wikipedia

text: from vandalism on Wikipedia was once characterized by the Former "Encyclopædia Britannica" editor-in-chief Robert McHenry: "The user who visits Wikipedia ... is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom. It may be obviously dirty so that he knows to exercise great care, or it may seem fairly clean, so that he may be lulled into a false sense of security. What he certainly does not know is who has used the facilities before him." There are various measures taken by Wikipedia to prevent or reduce the amount of vandalism. These include: Editors are generally warned prior

title: Church of Scientology editing on Wikipedia

text: that the decision impacted the English Wikipedia version, and it was unknown whether a similar decision in the future would be applied to the German Wikipedia site. Scientology spokeswoman, Karin Pouw, stated of the Wikipedia Arbitration decision, "Do Scientologists care what has been posted on Wikipedia? Of course. Some of it has been very hateful and erroneous." Pouw commented, "We hope all this will result in more accurate and useful articles on Wikipedia." She characterized the Arbitration Committee decision as "a routine internal action by Wikipedia to clean up its editing process". Pouw emphasized, "More importantly is the fact that

title: Criticism of Wikipedia

text: thought." That freedom is undermined by what he sees as what matters on Wikipedia, "not your sources but the 'support of the community'." Researchers from Washington University developed a statistical model to measure systematic bias in the behavior of Wikipedia's users regarding controversial topics. The authors focused on behavioral changes of the encyclopedia's administrators after assuming the post, writing that systematic bias occurred after the fact. Critics also point to the tendency to cover topics in a detail disproportionate to their importance. For example, Stephen Colbert once mockingly praised Wikipedia for having a longer entry on 'lightsabers' than it does

title: History of Wikipedia

text: a wave of new language versions that also included Chinese, Dutch, Esperanto, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. These languages were soon joined by Arabic and Hungarian. In September 2001, an announcement pledged commitment to the multilingual provision of Wikipedia, notifying users of an upcoming roll-out of Wikipedias for all major languages, the establishment of core standards, and a push for the translation of core pages for the new wikis. At the end of that year, when international statistics first began to be logged, Afrikaans, Norwegian, and Serbian versions were announced. In January 2002, 90% of all Wikipedia articles

title: Predictions of the end of Wikipedia

text: a fatal flaw, and some go on to predict that another website will do what Wikipedia does, but without that fatal flaw, thus making it a Wikipedia-killer, capturing the attention and resources which Wikipedia currently gets. Many online encyclopedias exist; proposed replacements for Wikipedia have included Google's since-closed Knol, Wolfram Alpha, and AOL's Owl. Some critics cite specific hoaxes, error, propaganda and other poor content, and assert that the lack of good content will lead to people finding better content elsewhere. Wikipedia is crowdsourced by a few million volunteer editors. Tens of thousands contribute the majority of contents and do

text: made by certain Wikipedia editors that it conspired with Everywhere Girl to create her phenomenon. They observed an apparent campaign to remove all references to Everywhere Girl on Wikipedia. Later, they found it contrary to common sense that what became included on Wikipedia was their series of reports on the deletions of the Wikipedia article. In December 2006, writer and composer Matthew Dallman found that Wikipedia's biography of him was under debate, and became drawn to the vote counts. He was deciding to not participate on his own behalf due to Wikipedia's apparent dislike of self-promotion, saying that "It's like

title: Reliability of Wikipedia

text: Review" compared nine Wikipedia entries on historical topics to their counterparts in "Encyclopædia Britannica", "The Dictionary of American History" and "American National Biography Online". The paper found that Wikipedia's entries had an overall accuracy rate of 80 percent, whereas the other encyclopedias had an accuracy rate of 95 to 96 percent. A 2010 study assessed the extent to which Wikipedia pages about the history of countries conformed to the site's policy of verifiability. It found that, in contradiction of this policy, many claims in these articles were not supported by citations, and that many of those that were sourced to

title: Wikipedia

text: the Wikipedia. This position has been successfully defended in court. Because Wikipedia content is distributed under an open license, anyone can reuse or re-distribute it at no charge. The content of Wikipedia has been published in many forms, both online and offline, outside of the Wikipedia website. Obtaining the full contents of Wikipedia for reuse presents challenges, since direct cloning via a web crawler is discouraged. Wikipedia publishes of its contents, but these are text-only; there was no dump available of Wikipedia's images. Several languages of Wikipedia also maintain a , where volunteers answer questions from the general public. According

title: Speak & Spell (toy)

text: This was the last member of the Speak & Read line under this name; however, the Ready... Set... Read! (sharing a highly similar design layout) and later Magic Reading Desk (featuring a modified Ready... Set... Read! layout) are considered the Speak & Read's spiritual successors. Both Ready... Set... Read! and Magic Reading Desk cartridges are identical in design to the Super Speak & Read's cartridges. The Speak & Math (sold as "Speak and Maths" in some countries) was released in 1980 with a shape identical to both the Speak & Spell and the Speak & Read but with a completely

title: Croatian Wikipedia

text: history at the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, has commented that "the Croatian Wikipedia is only a tool used by its administrators to promote their own political agendas, giving false and distorted facts". As two particularly prominent examples he listed the Croatian Wikipedia's coverage of the term "Istrijanstvo" (Istrian regionalism), defined as a "movement fabricated to reduce the number of Croats", and "antifašizam" (anti-fascism), which according to him is defined as the opposite of what it really means. Kurelić further advised "that it would be good if a larger number of people got engaged and started writing on Wikipedia", because

title: Hebrew Wikipedia

text: a policy of deletion upon a 55% majority, with no minimum number of votes. In these votes, only registered users with one month seniority and at least 100 edits in the article, image, category or template namespaces in the past 90 days can vote. Adding on the aforementioned, comparing to English Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia is much more conservative, regarding what types of content may be in it - even when complying with all the basic guidelines for good encyclopedic writing. The inclusion criteria are detailed under the "principles and guidelines" page. Some examples: List articles are rare in general in

title: Bambara Wikipedia

text: a report to an open source conference a Geekcorps Mali volunteer had created a side project where a person who wrote for the Wikipedia received $1 U.S. per article. Souren went to Bamako and met people at a community center. He paid each person willing to write an article $1 U.S. The authors had no internet connections and no Wikipedia usernames. They wrote articles in Microsoft Word and gave the files to Souren. Souren uploaded each article and credited the authors. Souren wrote "I can’t understand 100 percent of what they wrote, but I could estimate that it was right.

title: Gender bias on Wikipedia

text: Wikipedia editors consider male the "null gender" (in other words, that "male" is assumed unless otherwise specified). Another critique of Wikipedia's approach, from a 2014 "Guardian" editorial, is that it has difficulty making judgments about "what matters". To illustrate this point they noted that the page listing pornographic actresses was better organized than the page listing women writers. In 2010, United Nations University and UNU-MERIT jointly presented an overview of the results of a global Wikipedia survey. A 30 January 2011, "New York Times" article cited this Wikimedia Foundation collaboration, which indicated that fewer than 13% of contributors to Wikipedia

title: Dutch Low Saxon Wikipedia

text: of what is often a plethora of local names, differing per region and even per village. Dutch Low Saxon Wikipedia The Nedersaksische Wikipedie, the Dutch Low Saxon edition of Wikipedia, was started on 24 March 2006. It collects articles written in any Low German dialect indigenous to the Netherlands, as well as dialects from the border region, which are rendered in Dutch-based spelling. As of 2019, this edition has about articles. Among other features, there are spoken articles, "showcased" articles and provincial portals. The Dutch Low Saxon Wikipedia has been cited in the Dutch press, and Low Saxon institutes in

title: Speak & Math

text: solve five math problems to the best of their ability. Number Stumper is a game of Bulls and Cows, whereby one is told the "number [of digits] right" and the "number in wrong place." Write It involves the participant typing the number they hear. Greater Than/Less Than involves whether the number on the left is greater than or less than the number on the right. Speak & Math The Speak & Math (or Speak & Maths in some countries) was a popular and revolutionary electronic toy created by Texas Instruments in 1980. Speak & Math was one of a three-part

title: Scots Wikipedia

text: Scots Wikipedia The Scots Wikipedia () is the Scots language version of Wikipedia, and is run by the Wikimedia Foundation. It was established on 23 June 2005, and first reached 1,000 articles in February 2006, and 5,000 articles in November 2010. As of 2019, it has about articles. The Scots Wikipedia is one of eight Wikipedias written in an Anglic language or English-based pidgin/creole, the others being the English Wikipedia, the Simple English Wikipedia, the Old English Wikipedia, the Wikipedia, the Tok Pisin Wikipedia, the Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, and the Sranan Tongo Wikipedia. By February 2008, the site contained 2,200

title: Wikipedia Review

text: Wikipedia Review Wikipedia Review is a dormant Internet forum and blog for the discussion of Wikimedia Foundation projects, in particular the content and conflicts of Wikipedia. An "InformationWeek" "Grok on Google" blog described Wikipedia Review as "one of a number of Wikipedia watchdog" websites, "dedicated to scrutinizing Wikipedia and reporting on its flaws". It provides an independent forum to discuss Wikipedia editors and their influence on Wikipedia content. At its peak, participants included current Wikipedia editors, former Wikipedia editors, a few users banned from Wikipedia, and people who have never edited. The site was founded in November 2005 by "Igor

title: Wikipedia

text: from Google, a good portion of which is related to academic research. The number of readers of Wikipedia worldwide reached 365 million at the end of 2009. The Pew Internet and American Life project found that one third of US Internet users consulted Wikipedia. In 2011 "Business Insider" gave Wikipedia a valuation of $4 billion if it ran advertisements. According to "Wikipedia Readership Survey 2011", the average age of Wikipedia readers is 36, with a rough parity between genders. Almost half of Wikipedia readers visit the site more than five times a month, and a similar number of readers specifically

title: Wikipedia

text: which announced last year that Wikipedia would help its users root out 'fake news'." Wikipedia is extremely popular. In February 2014, "The New York Times" reported that Wikipedia is ranked fifth globally among all websites, stating "With 18 billion page views and nearly 500 million unique visitors a month [...] Wikipedia trails just Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft and Google, the largest with 1.2 billion unique visitors." In addition to logistic growth in the number of its articles, Wikipedia has steadily gained status as a general reference website since its inception in 2001. About 50% of search engine traffic to Wikipedia comes

title: Wikipedia

text: its numbers at approximately 42,000 active editors, the contrast has pointed to the effectiveness of Wikipedia in other languages to retain its active editors on a renewable and sustained basis. No comment was made concerning which of the differentiated edit policy standards from Wikipedia in other languages (non-English Wikipedia) would provide a possible alternative to English Wikipedia for effectively ameliorating substantial editor attrition rates on the English-language Wikipedia. Several Wikipedians have criticized Wikipedia's large and growing regulation, which includes over 50 policies and nearly 150,000 words . Critics have stated that Wikipedia exhibits systemic bias. In 2010, columnist and journalist

title: Wikipedia

text: content (measured by number of characters) contributed by users with low edit counts. The English Wikipedia has articles, registered editors, and active editors. An editor is considered active if they have made one or more edits in the past thirty days. Editors who fail to comply with Wikipedia cultural rituals, such as , may implicitly signal that they are Wikipedia outsiders, increasing the odds that Wikipedia insiders may target or discount their contributions. Becoming a Wikipedia insider involves non-trivial costs: the contributor is expected to learn Wikipedia-specific technological codes, submit to a sometimes convoluted dispute resolution process, and learn a

title: Tagalog Wikipedia

text: Tagalog Wikipedia The Tagalog Wikipedia () is the Tagalog language edition of Wikipedia, which was launched on December 1, 2003. It has articles and is the as of , . This has fewer articles than the Cebuano Wikipedia, the largest Philippine-based language version of Wikipedia, which currently has more than articles and the Waray Wikipedia, which has more than articles. However, the Tagalog Wikipedia has an of , compared to for the Waray Wikipedia and for the Cebuano Wikipedia, as of , . By active users, it has , compared to for the Cebuano Wikipedia and for the Waray language

title: Wikipedia Review

text: and general bureaucracy on Wikipedia". Philip Coppens used posts made on Wikipedia Review to help construct a report, published in "Nexus Magazine", on WikiScanner and allegations that intelligence agencies had been using Wikipedia to spread disinformation. Wikipedia Review's publicly accessible forums are broken up into four general topic areas: Wikipedia Review Wikipedia Review is a dormant Internet forum and blog for the discussion of Wikimedia Foundation projects, in particular the content and conflicts of Wikipedia. An "InformationWeek" "Grok on Google" blog described Wikipedia Review as "one of a number of Wikipedia watchdog" websites, "dedicated to scrutinizing Wikipedia and reporting on