Welsh Wikipaedia

Welsh Wikipaedia
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The Welsh Wikipaedia (Welsh: Wicipedia Cymraeg) is the Welsh-leid edition o Wikipaedia. This edition wis stairtit in Julie 2003. On 23 Juin 2007, it reakit 10,000 airticle, the 66t Wikipaedia tae dae sae. On 20 November 2008, it attained 20,000 airticle. Less nor a year later, on 28 October 2009, it reakit 25,000 airticle. In Julie 2013, it reakit 50,000 airticle an is nou the 43rd mucklest Wikipaedia edition. It is the anly internet resoorce o its kind in Welsh an haes an average o 2.7 million hits ivery month, makin it the maist popular Welsh leid wabsteid. It, tharefore, haes an important place in Welsh leid onwab cultur.

It haes been referred tae in the Welsh-leid current affairs magazine Golwg an Y Faner Newydd, an is leetit bi the Naitional Librar o Wales as a Welsh-leid e-resoorce.

In an August 2007 interview, Jimmy Wales, co-foonder o Wikipaedia, uised the Welsh Wikipaedia as an ensaumple o the rationale fur haein Wikipaedias in smawer leids:

Certainly athin Wikipaedia richt nou we are seein some fairly successfu projecks in smaw European leids. Ye dinna really need a Welsh leid Wikipaedia, perhaps. The nummer o fowk wha speak Welsh wha dinna forby speak Inglis is gey smaw an gettin smawer ivery year. Sae why dae we hae a Welsh Wikipaedia? Weel, fowk wantit it, sae thay'r makin it. An leid preservation is the main motive. It is thair mither tongue an thay want tae keep it alive, keep its leeteratur alive. Certainly, some o the muckler smaw leids lik Basque an Catalan hae gey successfu projecks. A definitely see that preservin pairts o yer leid an cultur throu collaborative projecks maks a feck o sense.

A direct link tae the Welsh Wikipaedia haes been eikit tae the Gettin Stairtit page o the Welsh-leid version o the Mozilla Firefox wab brouser whaur it appears as the furst o fower recommendit wabsteids, abuin the Naitional Librar o Wales.

In September 2012 "Wici Cymru" wis formit; this is a society whase aim is tae develop Wikipaedia in Wales. Bi October, actor Rhys Ifans haed become its Patron. In 2013, it wis statit translations o Inglis Wikipaedia wis nae alloued on the steid an insteid maist airticles are written frae scratch.

In 2019, the Welsh Wikipaedia wis citit as ane o the raisons fur impruivements in the haundlin o Welsh in Google Translate, bi providin a lairge corpus o machine-readable Welsh tex. In the same 2019 soorce, it wis statit that the Welsh Wikipaedia represents the ideological opeenions o its commonty, it wis claimit tae be mair supportive o separatism: fur ensaumple, it classes Catalonie as a kintra follaein its 2017 declaration o unthirldom, compared tae Inglis Wikipaedia that aye classes it as an autonomous commonty. Comparisons o the airticle Game of Thrones, notit the mair Welsh pride present on its Welsh version o the TV shaw. Mony o the steid's editors are bairn learnin Welsh as pairt o bilingual schuil eddication programmes, wi mony o the IP addresses barred on the steid belangin tae schuils. Houiver, whan the steid's managers veesit schuils an eddicate hou tae contreibute tae the steid, the ban is uisually liftit. The steid uises Wikidata tae develop a common soorce o structured data fur the steid.

Maist o Welsh Wikipaedia editors are men, lik Inglis Wikipaedia, houiver, the Welsh-leid steid haes a smawer gender bias nor Inglis Wikipaedia, wi the Welsh steid haein a rouchly 50/50 split on male/female biographies compared tae less nor 20% on Inglis Wikipaedia, at the time in 2019.

In 2023, the steid wis creditit wi assistin the creation o a pronunciation cairt fur Welsh place-names in the Welsh-leid.

Welsh Wikipaedia stateestics
Nummer o uiser accoonts	Nummer o airticles	Nummer o files	Nummer o admeenistrators
111,704	284,635	12,373	11

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References

Fremmit airtins

Stateestics fur Welsh Wikipaedia Archived 27 September 2024 at the Wayback Machine bi Erik Zachte
Wici Cymru