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Wiki encyclopedias have been started in other languages: |
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| ''This page is a short introduction to the Wikipedia's multilingual concepts. |
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*The main central place for the coordination of all the Wikimedia projects (in any language) is the [[Wikipedia:Meta-Wiki|Meta-Wiki]] (located at [[m:main page|meta.wikimedia.org]]). |
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*The [[Wikipedia:Mailing lists|mailing list]] to coordinate Wikipedia across different languages is <code>Wikipedia-l</code>. |
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*See also the English Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Embassy|embassy]], a page for non-native speakers. |
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The [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia community|Wikipedia community]] is committed to including any and all languages for which there are [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedian]]s willing to do the work. We are aware that many of the [[Language family|world's 6,500 languages]] are not well-represented on computers or the web, and we are committed to working with language speakers and computing organizations to support as many languages as possible. |
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Each language in Wikipedia currently has a separate set of user accounts. Links between articles in different languages are called [[Help:interlanguage links|interlanguage links]] or [[Special:Interwiki|interwiki links]]. |
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The URL of the Wikipedia for a given language is xx.wikipedia.org, where xx is the 2-letter language code as per [[ISO 639]]. For languages without an ISO 639 2-letter language code, the 3-letter language code is used, or if that also does not exist, a custom 3-letter language code is made. (On the mailing list and in discussion, people often write ''xx:'' to mean ''the xx-language Wikipedia'', as in ''I'm a regular on fr:''.) |
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<b>[http://ca.wikipedia.com/ Catalan (Catalana)] -- [http://zh.wikipedia.com/ Chinese] -- [http://eo.wikipedia.com/ Esperanto] -- [http://fr.wikipedia.com/ French (Francais)] -- [http://de.wikipedia.com/ German (Deutsch)] --- [http://he.wikipedia.com/ Hebrew] -- [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://es.wikipedia.com/ Spanish (Español)]</b> |
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== Encyclopedia projects == |
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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. :-) |
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{{see also|Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics}} |
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There are currently 288 Wikipedias, counting the English Wikipedia. |
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See [[m:List of Wikipedias]] on [[Wikipedia:Meta|Meta]] for a full list. |
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''See [[meta:Language proposal policy]] for a tutorial on how to get a Wikipedia language edition started, and [[meta:Manual for small and new Wikipedias]] for the first steps'' |
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Here are some "international Wikipedia" policy questions. To a certain extent, these questions will resolve themselves, though. |
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* 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. |
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* What are some suggestions about what can be put on new language Wikipedia home pages? See /Homepages to discuss. |
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* What are some suggestions about how to use "international Wikipedias" for purposes of [[Nupedia]] article translation projects? See [[/Nupedia Translation]] to discuss. |
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* I have just noticed the fact that the top and bottom bars are in english. Can something be done about that? |
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* Anything else? |
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'''Please suggest new language Wikipedias below!''' |
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==Interlanguage linking== |
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For my own personal taste I would very much like a wikipedia in swedish. The best name for it would be svensk.wikipedia.com with the canonical sv.wikipedia.com as a complement. [[LinusTolke]] |
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I officially (?!) protest that the swedish page was not set up with |
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the last batch of international wikipedias... [[LinusTolke]] had |
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been one of the first people to request one. Also, I would have |
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liked to have a castellano.wikipedia.com name, pointing to es.wikipedia.com, but there is not. --AstroNomer |
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==Help with English Wikipedia, for non-English speakers== |
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Might I suggest that the international Wikis be given a distinctive logo, or background color, or something else so that navigating among them becomes easier? Hopping back and forth is difficult (also the German homepage does not have a link to the English homepage). Finally, we may want to come up with some semi-automated process to create pages that refer back to the English versions. For example, until we have some Spanish contributors, I'd like be able to create pages such as ''Ahora no hay página española en este tema. Usted puede desear leer el artículo (link) en inglés. Si usted puede, ayudarnos traduciendo estos artículos.''; Perhaps we could just replace the "Describe the new page here" text? --[[Lee Daniel Crocker|LDC]] |
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[[Category:Wikipedia multilingual coordination|Multilingual coordination]] |
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I think a way should be worked out to allow non-english characters in article names; otherwise it will become a thorny issue later. There are, of course, cases where the absence of an accent, tilde, or umlaut changes a meaning completely. Imagine the unintential hilarity of entries such as ''Cien anos de soledad.'' Also, it may eventually cause confusion over names, thought I can't think of any examples right offhand. And, as a courtesy, could we translate "edit text of this page," "RecentChanges," "HomePage," etc. to the appropriate language for each non-English branch?--KoyaanisQatsi |
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Also, the [[http://es.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?RecentChanges RecentChanges link at the Spanish branch]] does not update, or at least does not update within four hours.--KQ |
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The Wikipedia community is committed to including any and all languages for which there are Wikipedians willing to do the work. We are aware that many of the world's 6,500 languages are not well-represented on computers or the web, and we are committed to working with language speakers and computing organizations to support as many languages as possible.
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Each language in Wikipedia currently has a separate set of user accounts. Links between articles in different languages are called interlanguage links or interwiki links.
The URL of the Wikipedia for a given language is xx.wikipedia.org, where xx is the 2-letter language code as per ISO 639. For languages without an ISO 639 2-letter language code, the 3-letter language code is used, or if that also does not exist, a custom 3-letter language code is made. (On the mailing list and in discussion, people often write xx: to mean the xx-language Wikipedia, as in I'm a regular on fr:.)
Encyclopedia projects[edit]
There are currently 288 Wikipedias, counting the English Wikipedia.
This Wikipedia is written in English. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.
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1,000,000+ articles
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250,000+ articles
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50,000+ articles
See m:List of Wikipedias on Meta for a full list.
See meta:Language proposal policy for a tutorial on how to get a Wikipedia language edition started, and meta:Manual for small and new Wikipedias for the first steps