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The Polish Wikipedia ( pl, Polskojęzyczna Wikipedia) is the
Polish-language Polish (Polish: ''język polski'', , ''polszczyzna'' or simply ''polski'', ) is a West Slavic languages, West Slavic language of the Lechitic languages, Lechitic group written in the Latin script. It is spoken primarily in Poland and serves as t ...
edition of
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, a free online
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. Founded on September 26, 2001, it now has more than articles, making it the -largest Wikipedia edition overall."List of Wikipedias – Meta"
Wikimedia.org. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
It is also the second-largest edition in a
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, after the Russian Wikipedia.


History

The Polish Wikipedia was created in September 2001 under the domain wiki.rozeta.com.pl. It was originally hosted by a server in a shoebox inside the wardrobe of one of its founders, Paweł Jochym. At the suggestion of the founders of the English Wikipedia, the site was incorporated into the international project as http://pl.wikipedia.com on January 12, 2002, and as http://pl.wikipedia.org on November 22 that year. To avoid domain squatting that could frustrate potential users, the Polish Wikipedia also has its own domain, wikipedia.pl, which redirects to pl.wikipedia.org. On January 27, 2005, the founders of the Polish Wikipedia, Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz and Paweł Jochym, received the Internet Citizen of the Year 2004 award issued by the Internet Obywatelski ("Public Internet") society. In July 2005, the ''tsca.bot'' bot program was instructed to upload statistics from official government pages about French, Polish, and Italian
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to the Polish Wikipedia. In a few months, the bot uploaded more than 40,000 articles. On October 13, 2009, the Polish Wikipedia received a "special recognition for social innovation" at the 2009
Jan Łukasiewicz Jan Łukasiewicz (; 21 December 1878 – 13 February 1956) was a Polish logician and philosopher who is best known for Polish notation and Łukasiewicz logic His work centred on philosophical logic, mathematical logic and history of logic. He ...
Award ceremony, which recognises the most innovative Polish IT companies. The Polish Wikipedia exceeded 1,000,000 articles on September 24, 2013. In April 2016, the project had 1,140 active editors who made at least five edits in that month.


Polish Wikipedia on DVD

The text of the Polish Wikipedia was first published on a
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together with the paper edition of the magazine ''Enter SPECIAL'' in August 2005. The publisher did not make any attempt to contact the
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prior to making the DVD available on the market, and the edition itself turned out to be illegal, as it violated the GNU FDL license. Additionally, the software used on the DVD worked improperly on
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. A second DVD edition was prepared as a joint project of Wikimedia Polska (the Polish branch of the Wikimedia Foundation) and the Polish publisher Helion. It contained articles written before June 4, 2006. The edition was completed on November 24, 2006 and released at the end of July 2007 with a purchase price of 39 zlotys."Wydawnictwo Helion"
księgarnia helion.pl – Książka "Wikipedia".


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Polish Wikipedia The Polish Wikipedia ( pl, Polskojęzyczna Wikipedia) is the Polish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. Founded on September 26, 2001, it now has more than articles, making it the -largest Wikipedia edition overall.
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Polish Wikipedia mobile version
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