Silesian Wikipedia
Screenshot The Main Page of the Silesian Wikipedia (December 2009). | |
Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
|---|---|
| Available in | Silesian |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | szl.wikipedia.org |
| Commercial | No. Charitable |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 26 May 2008 |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
The Silesian Wikipedia (Silesian: Ślůnsko Wikipedyjo / Ślōnskŏ Wikipedyjŏ) is the Silesian edition of Wikipedia. It was started on 26 May 2008.
History
The first attempt to launch the Silesian Wikipedia project took place in March 2006,[1] but because of negative comments in the discussion section, the proposal was rejected.[2] In 2007 Wikipedia officially registered the Silesian language in its list of languages. The International Linguistic Organization SIL International followed this step on 18 July 2007 and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigned it the ISO code "szl".[3][4][5][6]
A second application for a Wikipedia project in the Silesian language was submitted on 19 March 2008[7] as a result of discussions on the removal of articles written in Silesian language, which remained in the Polish edition of Wikipedia (in Silesia Wikiproject).[8][9] After the initial acceptance of the proposal (100% positive, 0% negative votes) 31 March 2008, a test project was created in the Incubator Wikimedia projects. The following month it contained 100 articles in Silesian, including more than 1,800 separate pages. After two months all the eight requirements necessary to create a new Wikipedia were implemented. In reply to the Wikimedia Foundation's query, on 16 May 2008, the then sole academic authority on the Silesian language, Tomasz Kamusella, supported this initiative.[10] Finally, a Silesian Wikipedia was founded on 26 May 2008.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] The 1,000th article was included on 15 November 2008.
In October 2010, the Silesian Wikipedia was mentioned as one of the arguments for Silesian to become one of the regional languages in Poland. The project of the law implementing Silesian as a regional language was introduced to Sejm by parliament member Marek Plura.[19]
Statistics
Data from 21 March 2026:[20]
| Number of edits | ~383,000 |
| Articles | 59,972 |
| All pages | 76,478 |
| Registered users | 29,162 |
| Administrators | 3 |
References
- ^ (in Polish) Gazeta Wyborcza: "Będzie Wikipedia po śląsku?", 2006
- ^ (in English) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Upper_Silesian
- ^ (in English) www.sil.org Archived 2012-10-03 at the Wayback Machine - ISO documentation of Silesian language
- ^ (in English) www.sil.org - list of languages with codes ISO (letter "S")
- ^ (in English) www.ethnologue.org - list of languages with codes ISO
- ^ (in English) www.lingvoj.org Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ (in English) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Silesian
- ^ (in Polish) http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SDU/Kategoria:%C5%9Al%C4%85ska_Wikipedia
- ^ (in Polish) Gazeta Wyborcza: "Narodziła się śląska Wikipedia", 05.04.2007
- ^ Tomasz Kamusella. 2008. An Assessment of the Viability of Upgrading the Silesian-language Wikipedia Project to the Status of a Full-Fledged Wikipedia. St Petersburg FL: Wikimedia Foundation.
- ^ (in Polish) Gazeta Wyborcza: "Jest już Wikipedia po śląsku", 27.05.2008
- ^ (in Polish) Gazeta Wyborcza: "Śląska Wikipedia już działa", 27.05.2008
- ^ (in Polish) Dziennik Zachodni: "Świat po naszymu, ślonsko godka w wikipedii", 31.05.2008
- ^ (in Polish) Radio Plus: "Śląska Wikipedia", 29.05.2008
- ^ (in Polish) TV Silesia: "Śląska Wikipedia" Archived 2008-05-29 at the Wayback Machine, 28.05.2008
- ^ (in Polish) Radio TOK FM: ""Wikipedia po śląsku"", 28.05.2008
- ^ (in Polish) Radio eM: "Wikipedia po śląsku", 29.05.2008
- ^ (in Polish) TVP1 - Teleexpress: mention about create Silesian Wikipedia, 29.05.2008
- ^ (in Polish) Projekt ustawy wprowadzającej śląski jako język regionalny - w Sejmie
- ^ (in Silesian) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
External links
- (in Silesian) Silesian Wikipedia
- (in Silesian) Silesian Wikipedia mobile version (not fully supported)