The Czech Wikipedia ( cs, Česká Wikipedie) is the
Czech language
Czech (; Czech ), historically also Bohemian (; ''lingua Bohemica'' in Latin), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script. Spoken by over 10 million people, it serves as the official language of the Czech R ...
edition of
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read refer ...
.
This Wikipedia contains articles, active users, and administrators.
It was created on May 3, 2002
[ (Translation: "The Czech version of Wikipedia started its activities in 2002 and now already has 77,049 articles.")] on a request of a Czech editor of the
Esperanto Wikipedia
The Esperanto Wikipedia ( eo, Vikipedio en Esperanto, or ) is the Esperanto version of Wikipedia, which was started on 11 May 2001, alongside the Basque Wikipedia. With over articles , it is the - largest Wikipedia as measured by the number ...
. However, at that time, Wikipedia ran on
UseMod software. The three pages the Czech version had at the time were lost during the switch to
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software. It is used on Wikipedia and almost all other Wikimedia websites, including Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata; these sites define a large part of the requirement set for MediaWi ...
. The oldest currently available edit is from when the Main Page was recopied on November 14, 2002. It reached 1,000 articles, many about
Esperanto topics, on October 20, 2003. An April 2004 report noted that it had 180 registered users at that time.
In June 2005, the Czech Wikipedia reached 10,000 articles and it reached 20,000 in December of the same year. The Main Page was re-designed with more details after reaching this milestone. By November 2006, it exceeded 30,000 articles,
and became the 21st language version to exceed 100,000 articles in June 2008.
As of April 10, 2015 there are more than 319,100 articles, 29
administrators
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Job roles Computing and internet
* Database administrator, a person who is responsible for the environmental aspects of a database
* Forum administrator, one who oversees discussions on an Internet forum
* ...
, almost 293,000 registered users, and dozens of very active contributors. In December 2009, contributors to the Czech Wikipedia held a conference in Prague.
In 2008, the Czech NGO
Wikimedia Česká republika (''Wikimedia Czech Republic'') was founded to support the Czech Wikipedia by organizing events, helping communication with authors of free content, and promoting the Czech Wikipedia to the public.
On February 10, 2018, the Czech Wikipedia reached 400,000 articles.
On March 21, 2019, Czech Wikipedia was temporarily shut down to protest against the
articles 11 and
13.
On March 16, 2022, the Czech Wikipedia reached 500,000 articles.
See also
*
Slovak Wikipedia
The Slovak Wikipedia ( sk, Slovenská Wikipédia) is the edition of Wikipedia in Slovak. It was started on before 23 September 2003, only becoming active in the summer of 2004. It cleared the 15,000-article mark in September 2005 and the 50,0 ...
References
External links
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Czech Wikipedia**
Czech Wikipedia's chronicle, mostly documenting article numbers
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Czech Wikipedia mobile version
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Internet properties established in 2002
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