Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination

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We use Intlwiki-L, to coordinate and improve the various non-English Wikipedias. Please join if you're interested in the future of these projects.

Wiki encyclopedias have been started in other languages:

There is another free Wiki-based encyclopedia project in Spanish, independent of Wikipedia, at [1]

A certain amount of "critical mass" is necessary in order for a wiki to "take off". Without 5-10 people eagerly writing and arguing and playing with each other, it wouldn't be as much fun. So we encourage anyone who wants to build a wiki in their own language to also go out and announce/recruit for it. :-)

Here are some "international Wikipedia" policy questions. To a certain extent, these questions will resolve themselves, though.

  • How are the various Wikipedias going to be coordinated, if at all? Will we have several quite different articles in different languages? Will English be a lingua franca? See /Coordination to discuss.
  • What are some suggestions about what can be put on new language Wikipedia home pages? See /Homepages to discuss.
  • What are some suggestions about how to use "international Wikipedias" for purposes of Nupedia article translation projects? See Nupedia Translation to discuss.
  • I have just noticed the fact that the top and bottom bars are in English. Can something be done about that?
Those lines come from a configuration file that the public can't access (I believe). Please see /TextToTranslate for how to submit translations.
  • Is there going to be an easy way to link from one language to another?
  • Anything else?

We would like to solicit your help.

On some of our International Wikipedia wikis, we have not yet translated the copyright warning into the target languages.

Here is the text of the warning:

Please notice that all contributions to Wikipedia are considered to be released under the GNU Free Documentation License. If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then don't hit submit. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain resource. DO NOT USE COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!

Here are the languages we need this in:

http://af.wikipedia.com/ Afrikaans
http://ar.wikipedia.com/ Arabic (Araby)
http://ca.wikipedia.com/ Catalan (Català)
http://zh.wikipedia.com/ Chinese (Hanyu)
http://fr.wikipedia.com/ French (Français)
http://he.wikipedia.com/ Hebrew (Ivrit)
http://hu.wikipedia.com/ Hungarian (Magyar)
http://it.wikipedia.com/ Italian (Italiano)
http://ja.wikipedia.com/ Japanese (Nihongo)
http://pt.wikipedia.com/ Portuguese (Português)
http://ru.wikipedia.com/ Russian (Russkiy)
http://sl.wikipedia.com/ Slovene (Slovensko)
http://es.wikipedia.com/ Spanish (Castellano)
http://sv.wikipedia.com/ Swedish (Svensk)
http://sh.wikipedia.com/ Serbian (Serbian)

Please, send translations of this very important text by e-mail to jasonr at bomis.com. Thanks! --LMS

Related projects

Some statistics

For each date, the number of articles are counted. Only articles which contain at least one comma (,) are counted. This is done by doing a search for "," in each non-English Wikipedia. This method excludes some very short articles and articles which are simply redirects.

Since 11 Mar 2002 stats, in Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese and Japanese Wikipedias, all articles are used instead of comma ones only, because they don't use the comma character, at least not the same way as Westerners.

Spanish stats since 11 Mar 2002 are for both Bomis server and Sevilla University server.

I couldn't get stats for http://www.forpas.us.es/enciclopedia/ at 10 May 2002, searching for comma stalled. I think that searching such a large database is too much work for UseMod to handle. On 27 May, they have changed to the PHP software and the new URL is http://enciclopedia.us.es/ On July 1st this server was unreachable.

Date af ar ca zh cs dk nl de eo fr he hu ia it ja la no pt ru sp sv pl eu sh sl
27 Dec 2001 14 1 42 5 - 0 287 1209 216 55 0 1 - 12 2 - 2 197 7 318 99 564 6 0 0
12 Jan 2002 14 1 57 7 - 0 374 1227 271 60 0 1 - 12 2 - 3 201 7 609 100 815 7 0 0
30 Jan 2002 16 1 59 8 - 0 423 1269 373 88 0 1 - 12 2 - 33 209 7 869 102 997 7 105 0
9 Feb 2002 16 0 59 8 - 0 462 1300 428 98 0 1 - 14 2 - 48 211 7 1355 102 1083 7 107 0
27 Feb 2002 16 0 101 8 - 3 545 1367 572 264 0 1 - 16 2 - 129 213 7 1686 102 1298 9 107 0
11 Mar 2002 16 4 126 12 - 3 605 1419 811 319 1 1 - 17 8 - 242 223 7 1708/3036 103 1465 9 107 3
20 Mar 2002 16 4 127 12 - 9 653 1447 1100 406 1 1 - 21 10 - 322 226 7 1731/4116 103 1639 9 107 3
2 Apr 2002 16 4 127 12 - 12 818 1509 1228 479 1 1 - 26 16 - 359 227 7 1755/5972 106 1790 9 107 3
1 May 2002 16 4 132 12 - 13 988 1860 1789 576 1 1 - 40 17 - 364 232 8 1803/7540 106 2199 9 107 15
10 May 2002 16 4 132 12 2 13 1006 1933 2047 604 1 1 1 40 17 - 364 233 8 1847/???? 106 2624 9 107 16
27 May 2002 16 4 131 12 2 26 1033 2417 2484 691 1 1 3 41 17 9 368 235 8 1975/7837 108 2738 9 109 25
13 Jun 2002 17 4 131 12 2 28 1069 2778 2675 862 1 1 3 77 18 12 370 266 8 2009/8125 111 2923 9 110 66
1 Jul 2002 20 4 132 12 2 31 1100 2945 2828 943 1 1 3 100 18 14 373 272 8 2022/???? 136 3108 9 110 86
13 Jul 2002 20 4 133 12 2 32 1127 3264 2902 1076 1 1 4 101 18 14 374 273 8 2024/8519 140 3242 9 110 86
4 Aug 2002 20 6 133 12 2 32 1220 3932 3226 1491 1 1 4 121 18 14 376 306 8 2033/8658 183 3704 9 110 87

The 10 largest non-English wikipedias (4 Aug 2002):

  1. Spanish (2033/8658)
  2. German (3932)
  3. Polish (3704)
  4. Esperanto (3226)
  5. French (1491)
  6. Dutch (1220)
  7. Norwegian (376)
  8. Portuguese (306)
  9. Swedish (183)
  10. Catalan (133)


For an overview of the world's biggest wiki websites (Wikipedia or not), see http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?BiggestWiki

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