Cherokee Wikipedia

Cherokee Wikipedia

Infobox website
name = Cherokee Wikipedia



caption = Wikipedia logo in Cherokee
url = http://chr.wikipedia.org/
commercial = No
location = Miami, Florida
type = Internet encyclopedia project
language = Cherokee
registration = Optional
owner = Wikimedia Foundation
author = The Cherokee Wikipedia is the Cherokee language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. Started in May 2004, it had nearly 200 articles as of June 1, 2007, making it the 187th largest Wikipedia language edition. It is also the only Wikipedia edition in an Iroquoian language.

Chad "Corntassel" Smith, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, sent a letter of his support to the Wolf Mountain Group, mentioning his support of the project. [ [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-December/025514.html [Foundation-l Cherokee Nation Chief endorses WMG Wikipedia Efforts to preserve Cherokee Language ] ]

References

External links

* [http://chr.wikipedia.org/ Cherokee Wikipedia]
* [http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaCHR.htm Statistics for Cherokee Wikipedia] by Erik Zachte


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