The Waray Wikipedia is the

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since 25 September 2005. As of , , this edition has articles and is the largest Wikipedia edition. Despite having very few active users (), the Waray Wikipedia has a high number of automatically generated articles created by

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. Waray (or Waray-Waray) is spoken by approximately 3.6 million people in the Eastern Visayas

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History

The Waray Wikipedia was first organized in

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on 25 September 2005 by Harvey Fiji. The wiki had a small number of contributors, with fewer than ten editors per month until April 2009. The first meet-up of editors took place in January 2013 in

. By early 2011 the Waray Wikipedia had attracted notice for including more than twice as many articles as the Tagalog Wikipedia, which is based on the principal language of the

. This discrepancy was explained by the very large number of articles added automatically by bots, with no direct human input. By early June 2014 the Waray Wikipedia had attained a very high article count of 1 million, but a very low article depth of less than 3. Article depth is an attempt to measure the collaborative quality of articles, based on the number of edits per article. According to automatically updated Wikimedia data, as of , , the Waray Wikipedia has pages (including user pages, help pages, etc.), active users, and total edits. The article depth of Waray Wikipedia is —a rough indicator of the article's collaborative quality—compared to for the Tagalog Wikipedia. (Waray and Tagalog are related languages belonging to the

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branch of the Austronesian language family.) However, Waray Wikipedia does not appear to be widely used in the Philippines; as of March 2021, 90% of Wikipedia views from that country were directed at English Wikipedia, with 5% going to Tagalog and 3%, to Russian Wikipedia. About 35% of Waray Wikipedia views come from China, 25% from the United States, about 15% from Germany and France, and less than 8% from the Philippines.

Milestones

* On 26 August 2010, the Waray Wikipedia passed the 100,000-article milestone, making it the 35th largest language edition at that time. * On 8 June 2014, the encyclopedia passed the 1 million article mark, which was mostly made by

. It was the very first Wikipedia for a language in the Philippines and Asia that reached 1 million articles.

References

External links

* Meetup page of Waray Wikipedia * Milestones of the Waray Wikipedia
Waray Wikipedia mobile version
* Improving Wikimedia Projects Content through Collaboration - Waray Wikipedia Experience, 2014-2017 {{Wikipedias Philippine encyclopedias Wikipedias by language

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Internet properties established in 2005 2005 establishments in the Philippines

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