Asturian Wikipedia

Asturian Wikipedia

Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Asturian
Headquarters	Miami, Florida
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Asturian wiki community
Website	ast.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Launched	July 2004

The Asturian Wikipedia (Before Uiquipedia n'asturianu and now Wikipedia n'asturianu) is the Asturian language edition of Wikipedia ^[1] started in July 2004. As of December 8, 2015, the Asturian Wikipedia has more than 45,000 articles, making it the 77-largest Wikipedia. It also has 30,432 registered users, most of them global accounts created automatically, since the monthly active users amount to 94 of which nine are administrators. It has been edited about 999,632 times. The Asturian Wikipedia is classified in the 15th place of Wikipedias by articles per speaker population.^[2]

History

Wikipedia team visiting the Parliament of Asturias.

Wikipedians meeting after Awards ceremony.

After its foundation on July 2004, the Asturian Wikipedia reached 1,000 articles on 1 September 2004.

In 2015, Wikipedia was awarded with the Spanish Princess of Asturias Award on International Cooperation.^[3] Speaking at the Asturian Parliament in Oviedo, the city that hosts the awards ceremony, Jimmy Wales praised the work of the Asturian language Wikipedia users.^[4] The night of the ceremony, members of the Wikimedia Foundation held a meeting with Wikipedians from all parts of Spain, including the local Asturian community.

Old Asturian Wikipedia logo
4 years logo (2008)
The 10,000th article was created on 20 November 2007
10 years logo (summer of 2014)

References

↑ Carlos Arturo Serrano Gomez. "Fact-Checking the Wikipedia: The drawbacks of having a one-stop reference source". Ohmy News. Archived from the original on 2008-02-15. Retrieved 2008-02-09.
↑ List of Wikipedias by speakers per article
↑ "Premio Princesa de Asturias de Cooperación Internacional 2015". Fundación Princesa de Asturias. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
↑ "Los fundadores de Wikipedia destacan la versión en asturiano". La Nueva España. Retrieved October 20, 2015.

External links

Asturian edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Asturian) The Asturian Wikipedia
(Asturian) Asturian Wikipedia mobile version (not fully supported)

List of Wikipedias by article count

5,000,000+	English

2,000,000+	Swedish Cebuano German

1,000,000+	Dutch French Russian Italian Spanish Waray Polish Vietnamese Japanese

500,000+	Portuguese Chinese Ukrainian Catalan Persian

200,000+	Norwegian (bokmål/riksmål) Arabic Serbo-Croatian Finnish Hungarian Indonesian Romanian Czech Korean Serbian Turkish Malay Basque Esperanto Bulgarian Minangkabau Danish Kazakh Slovak Armenian Min Nan

100,000+	Hebrew Lithuanian Croatian Chechen Slovene Estonian Galician Norwegian (nynorsk) Uzbek Latin Greek Belarusian Simple English Volapük Hindi Thai Azerbaijani Georgian Urdu

50,000+	Occitan Macedonian Tamil Welsh Bosnian Latvian Telugu Tagalog Breton Albanian

20,000+	Javanese Asturian Marathi Cantonese Malayalam Bengali Afrikaans Irish Scots Chuvash West Frisian Burmese Swahili Aragonese Yoruba Ido Nepal Bhasa Sicilian Bishnupriya Manipuri Punjabi Alemannic

10,000+	Kannada Sundanese Mongolian Egyptian Arabic Yiddish Odia Ossetian Sanskrit

1,000+	Northern Sami Pashto Dutch Low Saxon Sindhi Jamaican Creole Crimean Tatar Silesian Assamese Ripuarian Konkani Tulu Wolof

100+	Zulu Xhosa Bambara Venda Cree

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