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The Esperanto Wikipedia ( eo, Vikipedio en Esperanto, or ) is the Esperanto version of
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, which was started on 11 May 2001, alongside the Basque Wikipedia. With over articles , it is the - largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles, and the largest Wikipedia in a
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Origin and influence of the Esperanto Wikipedia

Chuck Smith, an American
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, is considered to be Esperanto Wikipedia's founder. The encyclopedia started off when he imported the 139 articles of the by Stefano Kalb, which took him three weeks following 15 November 2001. Later on, he undertook a journey to
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with the goal of popularizing Wikipedia among the speakers of Esperanto in European countries. For instance, in November 2002 he gave a talk about Wikipedia at the 10th Conference on the Application of Esperanto in Science and Technology in Dobřichovice (
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). Esperanto speakers have also been involved in the founding of several other language versions of Wikipedia (
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, Slovak, Ossetian, Swahili). The introduction of support for the Esperanto alphabet by Brion Vibber, an Esperanto speaker and later
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's first employee, in January 2002 has paved the way for
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s of languages other than English and initiated the transition of the whole Wikipedia to
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.


Quality of the Esperanto Wikipedia

As of January 2022, the Esperanto Wikipedia has 309 articles of feature quality () and a further 279 considered worth reading (). Weekly community projects include a Collaboration of the Week () which improves neglected articles and an Article of the Week featuring good-quality articles on the front page. The Esperanto community is a frequent contributor to the Meta project, Translation of the week. According to the List of Wikipedias by sample of articles at Meta, a list based on List of articles every Wikipedia should have, Esperanto ranks 36th, lacking almost none of the list of vital articles, but having in general relatively short articles. On 18 November 2008, the Esperanto Wikipedia implemented the Flagged Revisions extension. As of February 2012, the Esperanto Wikipedia had the 5th greatest number of articles per speaker among Wikipedias with over 100,000 articles, and ranked 11th overall. These figures were based on '' Ethnologue''s estimate of 2,000,000 Esperanto speakers. Due to the geographical spread of its editors (see the box on the right), the Esperanto Wikipedia has a varied list of countries of origin of its editors. On 13 August 2014, Esperanto Wikipedia reached 200,000 articles.


Notability within the Esperanto community

At least three editors are members of the
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: Gerrit Berveling, John C. Wells, and Bertilo Wennergren, a notable Esperanto grammarian and the director of the Academy's section about Esperanto
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. incorporates, with permission, the content of the 1934 and also content from several reference books and the monthly periodical . The Esperanto Wikipedia has been featured in many Esperanto news media, including a radio interview at
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, and articles at , , and . The Esperanto Wikimania, a gathering held in 2011 to celebrate the encyclopedia's 10th anniversary, has been subsidized by the host city of Svitavy (
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) and the Pardubice Region and covered by
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. Esperanto organisations like
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do not contribute to but support it by providing chambers at Esperanto conventions for presentations and trainings. At the World Esperanto Congress in Rotterdam, summer 2008, there were two Wikipedian meetups and a lecture at the Esperantology Conference. In April 2013,
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(''Esperanto and Free Knowledge'') was established as one of the first
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user groups.


Wikipedia handbook in Esperanto

The Esperanto Wikipedia community has created and published a 40-page ''Wikipedia: Practical Handbook'' (Esperanto: ), which is sold online and at conventions. The manual is intended to give new Wikipedians advice and information on how to edit Wikipedia in Esperanto. It is currently in its second printing.


Gallery

File:Wikipedia-training.jpg, Wikipedia training at an Esperanto convention in Antwerp, May 2007 File:Eo Vikipedio 10000.png, The Esperanto Wikipedia's 100K commemorative logo. (June 2008) File:Vikipedio 150000.png, The Esperanto Wikipedia's 150K commemorative logo. (August 2011) File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-eo-200k.png, The Esperanto Wikipedia's 200K commemorative logo. (August 2014) File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-eo-250k.png, The Esperanto Wikipedia's 250K commemorative logo. (September 2018) File:VMEO-300k-artikoloj.webm, thumbtime=3, Video with congratulations on 300k articles. (January 2022)


See also

* Esperanto *
Esperanto literature Literature in the Esperanto language began before the first official publication in Esperanto in 1887: the language's creator, L. L. Zamenhof, translated poetry and prose into the language as he was developing it as a test of its completeness an ...


References


External links


Esperanto Wikipedia

Esperanto Wikipedia mobile version

Manual at ''Vikilibroj'' (Wikibooks)

Report at ''Libera Folio'', March 2008

Clip at Youtube.com
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