Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language. Show all posts

2011-05-10

10th Anniversary of 9 new Wikipedia domains

Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years
since the first large group of non-English Wikipedias came online.
Originally with spelled-out names rather than language codes, these
sites were:

chinese.wikipedia.com
esperanto.wikipedia.com
french.wikipedia.com
hebrew.wikipedia.com
italian.wikipedia.com
japanese.wikipedia.com
portuguese.wikipedia.com
spanish.wikipedia.com
russian.wikipedia.com

(from http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-May/000116.html)
(deutsche and catalan had been created earlier that year)

The idea of having Wikipedias in multiple languages came from Jimbo in
March 2001 (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-March/000048.html);
note that the original German Wikipedia was actually set up at that
time, making it the second-oldest Wikipedia. Though the idea of using
two-letter domain codes was first raised then, after the above sites
were brought online in May there was further discussion, and the sites
were switched to two-letter codes a few days later:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-May/000132.html.

Wikipedia Argentina also celebrated the es:wp10th anniversary today.  
Happy tenth birthday, Wikipedias! (and many more!)  May all of our
language editions flourish.

2011-02-01

Planet Wikimedia: in 11 delicious languages

Here are 11 Wikimedia planets, most of them in a single language.  A link to the planet is followed by an estimate of activity - the average # of posts per month.  The GMQ blog is for all Scandinavian languages.

The most active planet is the English OpenPlanet, which reads from an editable feed on a public wiki page.

OpenPlanet (120)
English (80)
French  (60)
German (30)
Polish  (15)
Italian  (15)
 
Scandinavia (7)
Czech (5)
Chinese (3)
Arabic (2)
Romanian (1)
Portuguese (0.5)

OTHER FEEDS
Russian  (0.5) stopped after 10/2010
Spanish (20) - only active in 5/2010, then stopped.
Planet incubators (5 of them) - the Russian and Chinese incubators have recently been active.