- Korean Wikipedia
Infobox website
name = Korean Wikipedia
collapsible = yes
"Wikipedia - the encyclopedia that belongs to us all."
caption =
url = http://ko.wikipedia.org/
commercial = No
location =Miami, Florida
type =Internet encyclopedia project
language = Korean
registration = Optional
owner =Wikimedia Foundation
author =The Korean Wikipedia ( _ko. 한국어 위키백과, 韓國語위키百科 "Hangukeo Wiki-baekgwa") is the
Korean language edition of theWikipedia . It was founded inOctober 2002 and reached ten thousand articles on4 June 2005 .Cite web|url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_News&oldid=139035|title=Meta Milestones Page|accessdate=2007-09-06|publisher=Wikimedia Foundation Inc.|year=2005|format=Web|language=English] As of3 October 2008 , it has over 75,389 articles and is the 28th largest Wikipedia.Cite web|url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Wikipedias&oldid=846879|title=List of Wikipedias|accessdate=2007-09-06|publisher=Wikimedia Foundation Inc.|year=2008|format=Web|language=English]History
The Korean Wikipedia used an older version of
MediaWiki . The software had problems representingHangul , which limited usage. InAugust 2002 , the software was upgraded and started to support non-English scripts likehangul . However,Internet Explorer continued to have an encoding problem, which kept contributions to the encyclopedia low. Nevertheless, fromOctober 2002 toJuly 2003 , the number of articles increased from 13 to 159, and inAugust 2003 it reached 348. Finally, inSeptember 2003 the hangul problem was solved.Hangul and Hanja
The Korean Wikipedia is written almost entirely in hangul.
Hanja is only used in order to clarify certain phrases, and is usually parenthesized. There is a group, named Dajimo, that is actively working to introduce a mixed script system to the Korean Wikipedia. Further details are available .Dialects
There are two major standards in the Korean language, one is the South Korea standard, and other one is the North Korea standard. North Koreans are underrepresented on the Korean Wikipedia, due to restrictions on internet usage in that country. Therefore, most users of the Korean Wikipedia are South Koreans and most articles are written in the South Korean style. The official name of the Wikipedia is "Hangugeo Wiki-baekgwa" '한국어 위키백과.' "Hangugeo" is the name for the
Korean language in South Korea.Notes
External links
*The Korean Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
