Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online. Originally with spelled-out names rather than language codes, these sites were:
catalan.wikipedia.com chinese.wikipedia.com esperanto.wikipedia.com french.wikipedia.com deutsche.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)
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.
Happy tenth birthday, Wikipedias! (and many more!) May all of our language editions flourish.
-- phoebe
2011/5/10 phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com:
Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online. Originally with spelled-out names rather than language codes, these sites were:
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Happy tenth birthday, Wikipedias! (and many more!) May all of our language editions flourish.
Thanks, Phoebe! In fact, in Argentina we are celebrating Wikipedia10 next May 21, wich is one of the probably dates of the first edit in the Spanish Wikipedia: http://www.wikimedia.org.ar/node/28
Patricio
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:13 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online. Originally with spelled-out names rather than language codes, these sites were:
catalan.wikipedia.com chinese.wikipedia.com esperanto.wikipedia.com french.wikipedia.com deutsche.wikipedia.com hebrew.wikipedia.com italian.wikipedia.com japanese.wikipedia.com portuguese.wikipedia.com spanish.wikipedia.com russian.wikipedia.com
In the Italian Wikipedia we are celebrating the birthday with the milestone of 800,000 articles! http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/800.000_voci
Cruccone
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Marco Chiesa chiesa.marco@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:13 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online. Originally with spelled-out names rather than language codes, these sites were:
catalan.wikipedia.com chinese.wikipedia.com esperanto.wikipedia.com french.wikipedia.com deutsche.wikipedia.com hebrew.wikipedia.com italian.wikipedia.com japanese.wikipedia.com portuguese.wikipedia.com spanish.wikipedia.com russian.wikipedia.com
In the Italian Wikipedia we are celebrating the birthday with the milestone of 800,000 articles! http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/800.000_voci
Cruccone
That's wonderful! bravo!
-- phoebe
On 5/10/2011 4:13 PM, ext phoebe ayers wrote:
Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online.
Joan and Анатолій have mentioned this already but here goes a bit more detail:
The first non-English Wikipedia created was the German on March 16, 2001
The first edit on a non-English Wikipedia was at 21:07 UTC, March 16, 2001, made to the Catalan Main Page. The first contribution in a non-English article dates from March 17 at 01:41 UTC in the article http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80bac
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Wikipedia#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Wikipedia#Creation
fwiw I learned all this back in March when the Catalan Wikipedia was celebrating the 10th anniversary with a big banner in all ca.wikipedia.org pages.
-- Quim (son of German mother and Catalan father, based in USA) ;)
On 5/11/2011 4:34 AM, ext Анатолій Гончаров wrote:
German and Catalan wikis was created on March 2001
2011/5/11foundation-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org
Happy birthday.
If you read carefully the mail you are pointing to there it says:
"Toan and I added 9 new other-language wikis to the mix."
But in the list there are 11 languages.
The difference is because it was not the first group of non-English Wikipedias coming online.
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Quim Gil quim.gil@nokia.com wrote:
On 5/10/2011 4:13 PM, ext phoebe ayers wrote:
Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online.
Joan and Анатолій have mentioned this already but here goes a bit more detail:
The first non-English Wikipedia created was the German on March 16, 2001
The first edit on a non-English Wikipedia was at 21:07 UTC, March 16, 2001, made to the Catalan Main Page. The first contribution in a non-English article dates from March 17 at 01:41 UTC in the article http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80bac
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Wikipedia#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Wikipedia#Creation
fwiw I learned all this back in March when the Catalan Wikipedia was celebrating the 10th anniversary with a big banner in all ca.wikipedia.org pages.
-- Quim (son of German mother and Catalan father, based in USA) ;)
On 5/11/2011 4:34 AM, ext Анатолій Гончаров wrote: > German and Catalan wikis was created on March 2001 > > 2011/5/11foundation-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org > >> Happy birthday. >> >> If you read carefully the mail you are pointing to there it says: >> >> "Toan and I added 9 new other-language wikis to the mix." >> >> But in the list there are 11 languages. >> >> The difference is because it was not the first group of non-English >> Wikipedias coming online.
Thanks Quim & Анатолій, of course it was the *second* big group of languages (I knew Catalan was early, but wasn't sure if it was created before the rest -- it's not well documented). Thanks for the note about the first edit to Catalan! At any rate, I am sorry to miss marking March 16 as an anniversary as well -- though perhaps the lesson is we should just celebrate all spring (and beyond).
-- phoebe
p.s. "The Wikipedia Revolution" does treat this topic briefly; though I have to say, I am looking forward to the day a historian sits down and produces a dry and scholarly multi-volume history of Wikipedia, with appropriate exigesis & footnotes. It's a lovely subject, with just enough of the records missing to be mysterious.
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