The Indonesian Wikipedia ( id, Wikipedia bahasa Indonesia, WBI for short) is the edition of

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in the

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. The Indonesian Wikipedia is the fifth-fastest-growing Wikipedia in an Asian language after the Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Turkish language Wikipedias. It ranks 25th in terms of depth among Wikipedias. Its first article was written on 30 May 2003, yet its Main Page was created six months later on 29 November 2003. There are articles in the Indonesian Wikipedia. In April 2016, there were 462 editors who made at least five edits in that month.

Background

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Although the Indonesian language is similar to the

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, the Indonesian Wikipedia remains separate from the Malay Wikipedia

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, p. 136. (initiated in October 2002). The Indonesian and Malay Wikipedias were started separately by two different user groups within six months of each other. In 2009,

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in 1945, drawing inspiration from the Sumpah Pemuda (

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) event in 1928. It is very similar to the official Malaysian form of the language. However, it does differ from the Malaysian form in some ways, with key differences in pronunciation and vocabulary, due in large part to the many Dutch words in the Indonesian vocabulary. It is spoken as a mother tongue by only 7% of the population of Indonesia, but altogether more than 200 million people speak it. The

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, parts of the

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, and

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Contributors

In 2004, ''

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'' magazine published a feature about the Indonesian Wikipedia, in which Revo Soekatno, one of its best known contributors, described it as the "Encyclopedia from the boarding houses", meaning an encyclopedia that was produced by Indonesians living and studying overseas. The article contributed to the popularization of Wikipedia in the archipelago and since then, the Indonesian Wikipedia has seen its number of users rise remarkably. In 2006, following ''Time'' featuring " You" as its person of the year, ''

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'' published a feature article on Revo where he was called the "Father of Wikipedia in Indonesian". The article highlighted the spirit of participation as the type of "addiction to the cyberspace that needed to be endorsed". Other Indonesian publications followed suit to refer to Revo Soekatno as an "activist that built a community portal in Indonesia" praising his contributions to the presence of Indonesia in the Internet. In February 2009, the Indonesian Wikipedia achieved the milestone of 100,000 articles. One of the contributors mentioned in the article was the user borgx, who made 80,000 edits starting in 2005. That year, the Indonesian Wikipedia had only fifty active contributors.

Workshop and seminars

In March 2007,

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invited Indonesian Wikipedians to speak at the first Wikipedia seminar for the public and to introduce Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia and Wikimedia Foundation projects at its campus in Jakarta. In November 2007, the

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, through its Department of Communication and Information, decided to establish an annual Indonesian ICT Award and invited the Indonesian Wikipedia community to hold a workshop on how to write Wikipedia articles. Ivan Lanin, one of the speakers interviewed by Antara, stated that the number of contributors to the Indonesian Wikipedia was rising, and the articles were beginning to become more diverse. According to Revo's speech, the challenge for the Indonesian Wikipedia in the future was to gain credibility and give the public assurance about the quality of the content provided. The first day of the workshop was attended by 40 people, although the number of computers provided for hands-on practice was considerably less than the number of participants. The following year, at the 2008 Indonesian ICT Awards, the Indonesian Wikipedia community held separate workshop sessions for the public and for organizations.

Partnership with Google

On 4 December 2018, Google announced a partnership with Wikipedia in order to translate relevant Wikipedia's articles from English to Bahasa Indonesia language through the AI-powered

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Indonesian Wikipedia DVD

In August 2008, the Indonesian version of ''

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'' magazine distributed a complimentary DVD containing more than 80,000 articles (without images) with its 11th anniversary edition. This edition also featured a three-page Wikipedia article titled "Wikipedia: When one thousand brains are better than one". The article provided an extensive history of Wikipedia, including the Indonesian Wikipedia, as well as a description of the Wikimedia Indonesia chapter, which was in preparation at that time. However, a DVD version of the Indonesian Wikipedia with photos was already in existence since April 2008 and could be purchased online from an independent vendor for 20 thousand rupiah, around US$2.

Controversies

Mass killings and communist party

On 3 June 2020, ''#BoikotWikipedia'' (#BoycottWikipedia) became trending on Twitter due to , an ustaz and committee member of Indonesian Ulema Council at the time, complaining about Wikipedia's article on the 1965-66 mass killings and the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI). Zulkarnain pressured the

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and President Joko Widodo to take action and arrest the author. Suharto and PKI's photo was later removed from the article. The Crescent Star Party's leader urged Wikipedia to remove that edit forever, also claiming that PKI is the writer. An expert on communism called the article "brainwashing." The

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states that it is a "reflection of the country's war on history." The

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of Indonesia states that they are "neutral and unpaid for any articles made in its site." It also acknowledged that many of the texts were mainly translated from

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Milestones

* 1,000 articles: 16 March 2004 * 10,000 articles: 31 May 2005 * 50,000 articles: 1 February 2007 * 100,000 articles: 21 February 2009 * 180,000 articles: 26 December 2011 * 200,000 articles: 27 March 2012 * 300,000 articles: Oct 2013 * 400,000 articles: 27 April 2017 * 500,000 articles: 15 August 2019 * 600,000 articles: 18 October 2021

Related Wikipedias

These are Wikipedias written in local Indonesian languages. * Acehnese Wikipedia ( :ace:) * Balinese Wikipedia ( :ban:) * Banjarese Wikipedia ( :bjn:) * Banyumasan Wikipedia ( :map-bms:) * Buginese Wikipedia ( :bug:) * Javanese Wikipedia ( :jv:) * Madurese Wikipedia ( :mad:) * Malay Wikipedia ( :ms:) * Minangkabau Wikipedia ( :min:) * Nias Wikipedia ( :nia:) * Sundanese Wikipedia ( :su:) * Gorontalo Wikipedia ( :gor:)

References

* Lih, Andrew. '' The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia''. Hyperion,

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Notes

External links

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