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The Cebuano Wikipedia ( ceb, Wikipedya sa Sinugboanon) is the Cebuano-language edition of
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An analysis of Cebuano Wikipedia content on Wikidata in July 2015 showed that of the then 1.21 million articles, 95.8 percent are living beings and biological species (1,160,787) and 3.3 percent are cities and communities (39,420).
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Wikipedia
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, the free online encyclopedia
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Digitization of old content
In January 199 ...
. It currently contains articles, most of which were created by the automated program Lsjbot
Lsjbot is an automated Wikipedia article-creating program, or Wikipedia bot, developed by Sverker Johansson for the Swedish Wikipedia. The bot primarily focuses on articles about living organisms and geographical entities (such as rivers, dams, ...
. There are active users.
Importance in the language area
It is the largest Philippine-language Wikipedia by number of articles, ahead ofWaray Wikipedia
The Waray Wikipedia is the Waray language edition of Wikipedia. It is hosted on servers run by the Wikimedia Foundation since 25 September 2005. As of , , this edition has articles and is the largest Wikipedia edition. Despite having very few ...
and Tagalog Wikipedia
The Tagalog Wikipedia ( tl, Wikipediang Tagalog) is the Tagalog language edition of Wikipedia, which was launched on December 1, 2003. It has articles and is the largest Wikipedia according to the number of articles as of .
History
The ''Taga ...
(which as of have and articles respectively).
Cebuano is the second most spoken language in the Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
with about 20 million speakers. The Cebuano-language Wikipedia claims to be the only encyclopedia
An encyclopedia (American English) or encyclopædia (British English) is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge either general or special to a particular field or discipline. Encyclopedias are divided into articles ...
in this language.
However, Cebuano Wikipedia does not appear to be widely used in the Philippines; 90 percent of Wikipedia views from that country were directed at English Wikipedia, with 5 percent going to Tagalog and 3 percent to Russian Wikipedia. About 30 percent of Cebuano Wikipedia views come from China, 22 percent from the United States, and only 11 percent from the Philippines (roughly, the same number as from France).
History and growth of articles
The Cebuano-language Wikipedia was launched in June 2005. In January 2006, 1000 articles were created, while in November 2006 there were 1400 articles. At the end of 2006 and 2007, the bots created some ten thousand articles on municipalities in France. By the end of 2012, the number of articles increased to about 30,000. In December 2012,Lsjbot
Lsjbot is an automated Wikipedia article-creating program, or Wikipedia bot, developed by Sverker Johansson for the Swedish Wikipedia. The bot primarily focuses on articles about living organisms and geographical entities (such as rivers, dams, ...
began to create articles. As a result, the number of articles increased dramatically in 2013, and from February to December 2013, the number of articles increased ninefold. By the end of 2015, about 99 percent of the then 1.4 million articles had been created by bots, including about 25,000 articles about localities and the rest of articles about living beings by Lsjbot.
On 16 July 2014, the Cebuano-language Wikipedia comprised one million articles, making it the twelfth-largest Wikipedia. After overtaking Spanish-, Italian-, Russian-, French-, Dutch- and German-speaking Wikipedia within a year and a half, in February 2016 it reached the two-million mark. After about half a year, followed by the third million, another half a year later, the fourth million. In August 2017, the five millionth article was created, making it the largest Wikipedia.
Lsjbot
Lsjbot is an automated Wikipedia article-creating program, or Wikipedia bot, developed by Sverker Johansson for the Swedish Wikipedia. The bot primarily focuses on articles about living organisms and geographical entities (such as rivers, dams, ...
about the ''Agathis unicincta
''Agathis'', commonly known as kauri or dammara, is a genus of 22 species of evergreen tree. The genus is part of the ancient conifer family Araucariaceae, a group once widespread during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, but now largely res ...
''.
An analysis of Cebuano Wikipedia content on Wikidata in July 2015 showed that of the then 1.21 million articles, 95.8 percent are living beings and biological species (1,160,787) and 3.3 percent are cities and communities (39,420).
References
External links
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