- Catalan Wikipedia
Infobox website
name = Catalan Wikipedia
caption = TheMain Page of the Catalan Wikipedia.
url = http://ca.wikipedia.org/
commercial = No
launch date =16 March 2001
type =Internet encyclopedia project
language = Catalan
registration = Optional
owner =Wikimedia Foundation
author = The Catalan Wikipedia (Viquipèdia in Catalan) is theCatalan language edition ofWikipedia . Founded on16 March 2001 and reaching 130,000 articles by September 2008, it was created just a few minutes after the first non-English Wikipedia, the German version. Despite being created after the German Wikipedia, for about two months it was the only non-English Wikipedia that contained articles. [] As of mid-2008, the Catalan Wikipedia is by far the largest edition in aregional language . [ [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias List of Wikipedias - Meta] ]Creation
On
March 16 2001 ,Jimmy Wales announced that he wanted to create Wikipedias in other languages and mentioned that there is interest in creating a Catalan version [ [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-March/000048.html Jimbo Wales' message about creating first foreign Wikipedias] ] . The first tests were made on the deutsche.wikipedia.com, [ [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-March/000049.html Message confirming the creation of the German domain] ] and a few minutes later, the Catalan Wikipedia was created in the Catalan.wikipedia.com domain. [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20010413083954/catalan.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?action=history&id=HomePage First historial of the Catalan Wikipedia Main Page, hours in Pacific Timezone] ]The first edit on a non-English Wikipedia was at 21:07 UTC,
March 16 2001 , made to the Catalan Main Page. The first contribution in a non-English article dates fromMarch 17 at 01:41 UTC in the article . [ [http://ca.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C3%80bac&oldid=1 First edit in a non-English article (Àbac)] ]After some time, the domain changed to "ca.wikipedia.com" and later to "ca.wikipedia.org". About
2003 its community started to use the name "Viquipèdia" when talking about this edition of Wikipedia. Nowadays this word is used in Catalan language to refer the wholeWikipedia . About2005 the domain "www.viquipedia.net" was registered and it redirects to "ca.wikipedia.org". In2007 "www.viquipedia.cat " was also registered and redirected.The first registered user was probably "AstroNomer", presumably used only to make some registration tests, but the first registered user to make lasting contributions was Cdani, the same user cited in Jimbo Wales' message.
In
2005 the Catalan Wikipedia community debated on which name(s) of the Catalan language to present in the main page and other policy pages, either "català", "Catalan", "valencià", "Valencian ", or a combination of both "català-valencià" and "català o valencià". Although there was not a consensus on any of the proposals, users agreed than in articles relevant to theValencian Community , the name "Valencian" was to be used; on all other articles "Catalan" is preferred. [See debate in the decision making process about usage of the names of the language] . The main page avoids making reference to a particular nomenclature, by simply stating "aquesta versió", "this version".Milestones and historical main pages
References
ee also
External links
* [http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portada Catalan Wikipedia]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20010405141718/http://catalan.wikipedia.com/ Internet Archive] - Catalan Wikipedia main page,27 March 2001 .
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