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Portuguese Wikipedia

The Main Page of the Portuguese Wikipedia.
URL	pt.wikipedia.org
Slogan	a enciclopédia livre que todos podem editar
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Registration	Optional
Available language(s)	Portuguese
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation

The Portuguese Wikipedia (Portuguese: "Wikipédia em português" or "Wikipédia lusófona") is a Portuguese language edition of Wikipedia (written Wikipédia, in Portuguese), the free encyclopedia. It was the fifth^{[citation needed]} edition of Wikipedia, started in June 2001. It is currently the tenth largest Wikipedia by article count, containing 735,000 articles.

From late 2004, the edition grew rapidly. During May 2005, it overtook both the Spanish and Italian language Wikipedias. By comparison, in May 2004 it was only the 17th Wikipedia by the number of articles. In December 2010, the Portuguese Wikipedia overtook the Dutch language Wikipedia in number of articles, but in the first quarter of 2011 it was surpassed by the Russian and Dutch language Wikipedias, ranking in the tenth position.

Portuguese articles can contain variations of writing, as European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese have variations in vocabulary and usage. Articles can contain written characteristics of one or the other variant depending on who wrote the article.

In 2005, a proposal to fork Portuguese Wikipedia and create a Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br) version was voted down by the Wikimedia community.^[1] In 2007 another one to create European Portuguese was rejected too by the Wikimedia community.^[2] In 2009 another one to create in Brazilian Portuguese was rejected, but this time by language committee, according to new policies to create new Wikipedia editions,^[3] with the following explanation: "Brazilian Portuguese is not a separate language.. this is a requirement."^[4]

Characteristics

The Portuguese language Wikipedia is different from the English one in a number of aspects.

• Proposed deletion is unavailable. In order for a page to be deleted, one must take it to "Eliminação rápida" (Quick elimination, similar to the speedy deletion), "Eliminação semirrápida" (Semi-quick elimination, similar to the proposed deletion), or "Páginas para eliminar" (Pages to eliminate, similar to the articles for deletion).
• The articles for deletion process isn't headed towards a consensus, but towards a proportion of votes. If the proportion of delete/keep votes reaches 2/3, the page is deleted, and the reverse applies just the same. This was decided via another voting process.^[5] The discussion page is kept for at least seven days, after which an administrator or eliminator will close the debate if the proportion has been reached. In case not, the discussion is prolonged for seven more days.^[6] Editors do not necessarily need to provide a reason for their vote, although they need to have the "right to vote". To earn this right, editors must be logged in, must have done a valid (undeleted and unreverted) edit at least 90 days ago, and must have at least 300 valid edits.^[7]
• Fair use images have always been forbidden. However, debates have been raised^[8][9] concerning the fair use policy, all of them failing to have the uploading of such images allowed. Actually, uploading pictures at the Portuguese Wikipedia has been fully disabled.^[10] In order to have a picture at an article, one must create an account at the Wikimedia Commons and then link it to the page. On-going campaigns are reuniting people in favour^[11] and against^[12] the usage of fair use. As of February 2009, the number of editors in favour is higher than the number of editors against it.^[11][12] In August 2009, though, a new debate was raised in order for users to approve or deny the creation of a policy of uploading fair use media (named "Uso Restrito de Conteúdo" there, which translates as Restricted Use of Contents). This debate resulted in 142 votes for "yes" against 120 votes for "no", which means the policy was approved.^[13] Now, it is on its way of implementation.^[14]
• As much as the English language, Portuguese language also has significant regional differences on vocabulary, grammar and spelling. It is accepted that an article written in Brazilian Portuguese should be kept as it is, and the same applies to articles in European Portuguese. However, if one rewrites the article in another dialect (provided content was changed, not merely the language), but leave some words in the former dialect, these words should be rewritten in accordance with the new version's dialect of the article.^[15]
• Completion of a CAPTCHA image is required for a user to make any edit if the user is not using a registered username.

Criticism

Most of the critics aimed at the Portuguese version of wikipedia refer to the attitude of the administrators. Critics generally accuse administrators of displaying an aggressive behaviour towards new and anonymous editors, discouraging their participation,^[16][17] in addition to practicing some censorship against certain matters,^[18] citing lack of relevance.

References

External links

Portuguese Wikipedia edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• (Portuguese) Portuguese Wikipedia
• (Portuguese) Portuguese Wikipedia mobile version