- Polish Wikipedia
Infobox website
name = Polish Wikipedia
caption = TheMain Page of the Polish Wikipedia.
url = http://pl.wikipedia.org/
commercial = No
launch date =26 September 2001
type =Internet encyclopedia project
language = Polish
registration = Optional
owner =Wikimedia Foundation
author =|Polish Wikipedia ( _pl. polska Wikipedia) is the Polish edition of
Wikipedia . The ninth edition of Wikipedia, it was started inSeptember 26 2001 . As of May2008 , it has more than 500,000 articles and is the fourth largest Wikipedia edition (after the English, German, and French editions). It is also the largest edition in a Slavic language by the number of articles but has quite low depth parameters compared to other Slavic editions. [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias] As of May 2008, from all 100,000+ editions onlyVolapük Wikipedia shows a slightly lower depth coefficient than the Polish Wikipedia.The Polish Wikipedia originated as an independent project under the domain [http://wiki.rozeta.com.pl/ wiki.rozeta.com.pl] . At the suggestion made by the founders of the
English Wikipedia , the site was incorporated in the international project as [http://pl.wikipedia.com http://pl.wikipedia.com] onJanuary 12 ,2002 and as [http://pl.wikipedia.org http://pl.wikipedia.org] later that year onNovember 22 . To avoid domain squatting that could frustrate potential users, the Polish Wikipedia also has its own domain "www.wikipedia.pl" that redirects to "pl.wikipedia.org".The words "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" in Polish are "Wikipedia, wolna encyklopedia", pronounced IPA|/vʲikʲiˈpɛdʲa ˈvɔlna ɛntsɨklɔˈpɛdʲa/.
Timeline
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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 : overtook theDutch Wikipedia in the number of articles, however soon afterwards (September 9 ) it returned to seventh place after being overtaken by theItalian Wikipedia .
*September 18 ,2005 : overtook theSwedish Wikipedia in the number of articles and became the sixth-largest Wikipedia.
*September 23 ,2005 : overtook theItalian Wikipedia and became the fifth-largest language edition.
*January 15 ,2006 : overtook theJapanese Wikipedia and became the fourth-largest language edition.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 releaser did not make any attempt to contact theWikimedia Foundation prior to making the DVD available on the market and the edition itself turned out to be illegal as it violated theGNU GPL license. Additionally, thesoftware used in that edition worked improperly underMicrosoft Windows 98 .A new DVD edition was prepared as a joint project of the Polish branch of the Wikimedia Foundation (Wikimedia Polska) and the Polish publisher Helion. It contains articles written before
June 4 2006 . The works were completed onNovember 24 ,2006 and the edition was released at the end of July2007 . It cost 39zloty s. [ [http://helion.pl/ksiazki/wikipe.htm Wydawnictwo Helion, księgarnia helion.pl - Książka "Wikipedia" ] ]References
* [http://pl.wikipedia.org Polish Wikipedia]
* [http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Liczba_artyku%C5%82%C3%B3w_polskiej_Wikipedii Number of articles in Polish Wikipedia]External links
*pl icon [http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Polish Wikipedia]
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