While Wikipedia started on February 2001, the Catalan edition came out just one month later.Catalan is the 75th most spoken language in the world with 11,5 millions speakers, yet Catalan Wikipedia occupies the 15th place by number of articles. Catalan-speaking territories are situated in Spain, France, and Italy, whose languages make a strong influence to its speakers, specially Spanish – most of Catalan speakers are bilingual, knowing Spanish as well.
The Catalan Wikipedia has more than 400,000 entries, a mere 50% of the Spanish version—but Catalan has about a 2,5 % of speakers compared to Spanish!.
As it is usually the case, the Catalan Wikipedia collaborators are volunteers. There are a few dozen of them organized in Amical Viquipèdia, established on 2007. “The Catalan Wikipedia was the first one other than the English one to publish articles on their own,” says David Parreño from Amical Viquipèdia.
This week (Last update 2013.7.2) Catalan Wikipedia got 100% perfect score on quality of 1000 basics. It means the first one in world!. It can be seen in the next link: List of Wikipedias by sample of articles.
| № | Wiki | Language | Weight | Main Article Size | Median Article Size | Absent (0k) | Stubs (< 10k) | Articles (10-30k) | Long Art. (> 30k) | Score | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ca | Català | 1.1 | 45,667 | 36,605 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,000 | 100.00 | +0.94 |
| 2 | ru | Русский | 1.4 | 61,188 | 41,287 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,000 | 100.00 | +2.20 |
| 3 | en | English | 1.0 | 74,207 | 65,407 | 1 | 9 | 138 | 852 | 91.43 | +0.34 |
| 4 | uk | Українська | 1.3 | 36,518 | 32,407 | 1 | 1 | 386 | 612 | 78.37 | -0.14 |
| 5 | fr | Français | 1.0 | 53,487 | 37,357 | 3 | 102 | 299 | 596 | 74.02 | +0.15 |
Catalan Wikipedia hits the 400,000 articles milestone
BBC praises the Catalan version of the Wikipedia
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