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 Screenshot of the Main Page of the Polish Wikipedia on 24 April 2007. |
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| URL | pl.wikipedia.org |
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| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
| Registration | Optional |
| Available language(s) | Polish |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Launched | September 26, 2001 |
Polish Wikipedia (Polish: polska Wikipedia) is the Polish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. The ninth-oldest[citation needed] edition of Wikipedia, it was started on September 26, 2001. With about 899,000 articles, it is currently the sixth-largest Wikipedia edition, after the English, German, French, Dutch and Italian editions.[1] It is also the largest edition in a Slavic language by the number of articles, as well as the largest for a language spoken officially in just one country.
The Polish Wikipedia originated as an independent project under the domain wiki.rozeta.com.pl. 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 later that year, on November 22. 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.
Polish Wikipedia has relatively low depth parameters (currently 14) compared to other Slavic editions (around 58).[1] As of November 2011, Polish Wikipedia has the lowest depth parameters among the twenty largest editions of Wikipedia, and the sixth-lowest among editions with 100,000 or more articles (slightly above the Basque Wikipedia). The depth parameter attempts to measure the depth at which topics are covered in Wikipedia. A higher depth rating is given to a Wikipedia edition for more edits per article and more non-article pages, like talk pages or user pages, per article.
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Timeline
- January 27, 2005: the founders of the Polish Wikipedia, Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz and Paweł Jochym, received the award Internet Citizen of the Year 2004 issued by the Internet Obywatelski ("Public Internet") society.[2]
- July 2005: tsca.bot, one of the bots in Polish Wikipedia, was programmed to upload statistics from official government pages about French, Polish and Italian municipalities. In a few months, the bot uploaded more than 40,000 articles.
- September 4, 2005: Polish Wikipedia overtook the Dutch Wikipedia in the number of articles. However, soon afterwards (September 9) it returned to seventh place after being overtaken by the Italian Wikipedia.
- September 18, 2005: Polish Wikipedia overtook the Swedish Wikipedia in the number of articles and became the sixth-largest Wikipedia.
- September 23, 2005: Polish Wikipedia overtook the Italian Wikipedia to become the fifth-largest language edition.
- January 15, 2006: Polish Wikipedia overtook the Japanese Wikipedia to become the fourth-largest language edition.
- October 13, 2009: Polish Wikipedia received a "special recognition for social innovation" at the 2009 Jan Łukasiewicz Award ceremony, which recognises the most innovative Polish IT companies.[3][4]
- May 12, 2011: Polish Wikipedia was overtaken by the Italian Wikipedia and returned to fifth place.
- October 26, 2011: Polish Wikipedia was overtaken by the Spanish Wikipedia, becoming the sixth-largest Wikipedia.
- October 30, 2011: Polish Wikipedia was overtaken by the Dutch Wikipedia, becoming the seventh-largest Wikipedia, with around 840,000 articles.
- January 2012: Polish Wikipedia overtook the Spanish Wikipedia again, becoming the sixth-largest Wikipedia edition, with around 870,000 articles.
Polish Wikipedia on DVD
The Polish Wikipedia was first published on a DVD together with the paper edition of the magazine Enter SPECIAL in August 2005. The publisher did not make any attempt to contact the Wikimedia Foundation 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 in that edition worked improperly under Microsoft Windows 98.
A new DVD edition was prepared as a joint project of Wikimedia Polska (the Polish branch of the Wikimedia Foundation) and the Polish publisher Helion. It contains 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.[5]
References
- ^ a b List of Wikipedias - Meta
- ^ Internetowy Obywatel Roku 2004, 2005-01-27 (Polish)
- ^ "2009 International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology (IMCSIT)", conference report
- ^ "Nagroda im. Jana Łukasiewicza dla ITTI", a Polish Information Processing Society webpage (Polish)
- ^ Wydawnictwo Helion, księgarnia helion.pl - Książka "Wikipedia"
External links
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Polish Wikipedia edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
- (Polish) Polish Wikipedia
- (Polish) Polish Wikipedia mobile version
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