The Asturian Wikipedia (Asturian: Wikipedia n'asturianu) is the Asturian language edition of Wikipedia[1] started in July 2004. As of 30 November 2024, the Asturian Wikipedia has 136,826 articles, making it the 67th-largest Wikipedia. It also has 129,150 registered users, most of them global accounts created automatically, since the monthly active users amount to 94 of which 8 are administrators. It has 4,300,535 edits. The Asturian Wikipedia ranks 16th among Wikipedias by articles per speaker population.[2]
Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | Asturian |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | Asturian wiki community |
| URL | ast.wikipedia.org |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | July 2004 |
History
editAfter its foundation in July 2004, the Asturian Wikipedia reached 1,000 articles on 1 September 2004.
In 2015, Wikipedia was awarded with the Spanish Princess of Asturias Award on International Cooperation.[3] 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.[4] 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.
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Old Asturian Wikipedia logo
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4 years logo (2008)
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The 10,000th article was created on 20 November 2007
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50,000 articles logo
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10 years logo (summer of 2014)
References
edit- ^ Carlos Arturo Serrano Gomez. "Fact-Checking the Wikipedia: The drawbacks of having a one-stop reference source". Ohmy News. Archived from the original on 15 February 2008. Retrieved 9 February 2008.
- ^ List of Wikipedias by speakers per article
- ^ "Premio Princesa de Asturias de Cooperación Internacional 2015". Fundación Princesa de Asturias. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
- ^ "Los fundadores de Wikipedia destacan la versión en asturiano". La Nueva España. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
External links
edit- (in Asturian) The Asturian Wikipedia
- (in Asturian) Asturian Wikipedia mobile version (not fully supported)
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