Cebuano Wikipedia

The Cebuano Wikipedia (Cebuano: Wikipedya sa Sinugboanon) is the Cebuano-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. In August 2017, it had more than 5 million articles,[1] of which more than 99 percent were created by bots. It currently contains 5,507,349 articles, most of which were created by the automated program Lsjbot. There are only 184 active users.

Wikipedia in Cebuano
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Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inCebuano
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLceb.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedJune 22, 2005 (2005-06-22)

Importance in the language area

It is the largest Philippine-language Wikipedia by number of articles, ahead of Waray Wikipedia and Tagalog Wikipedia.[1]

Cebuano is the second most spoken language in the Philippines with about 20 million speakers.[2] The Cebuano-language Wikipedia claims to be the only encyclopedia in this language.[3]

Story and growth of articles

The Cebuano-language Wikipedia was launched in June 2005.[4] In January 2006, 1000 articles were created,[5] while in November 2006 there were 1400 articles.[6] At the end of 2006 and 2007, the bots created some ten thousand articles on municipalities in France.[7]

By the end of 2012, the number of articles increased to about 30,000. In December 2012, Lsjbot began to create articles. As a result, the number of articles increased dramatically in 2013, and from February to December 2013, the number of articles increased ninefold.[8][9] By the end of 2015, about 99 percent of the then 1.4 million articles had been created by bots, including about 25,000 articles about localities and the rest of articles about living beings by Lsjbot.[7]

On 16 July 2014, the Cebuano-language Wikipedia comprised one million articles, making it the twelfth-largest Wikipedia. After overtaking Spanish-, Italian-, Russian-, French-, Dutch- and German-speaking Wikipedia within a year and a half, in February 2016 it reached the two-million mark. After about half a year, followed by the third, another half a year later, the fourth million. In August 2017, the fifth millionth article was created.

  • [8]
  • New articles by user groups, bots in blue.[8]
  • Typical automated article by Lsjbot about the Agathis unicincta.
Article content in the Cebuano-language Wikipedia (July 2015, 1,211,364 articles):
95.8% (1,160,787) Taxonomy/living things;
3.3% (39,420) cities and communities.
Milestones:
DateNumber of articles
9 July 200519 articles[10]
30 August 2005232 arcticles[11]
1 January 20061,000 articles[5]
1 November 20061,400 articles[6]
1 January 200713,521 articles[12]
7 February 200726,511 articles[13]
2 February 2013100,000 articles
9 February 2013150,000 articles
17 March 2013300,000 articles
26 June 2013400,000 articles
18 July 2013500,000 articles
7 August 2013600,000 articles
16 July 20141,000,000 articles
6 December 20151,500,000 articles[1][14]
14 February 20162,000,000 articles
25 September 20163,000,000 articles
11 February 20174,000,000 articles
8 August 20175,000,000 articles

An analysis of Cebuano Wikipedia content on Wikidata in July 2015 showed that of the then 1.21 million articles, 95.8% are living beings and biological species (1,160,787) and 3.3% are cities and communities (39,420).[15]

References
  1. "List of Wikipedias by speakers per article – Meta". Meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 2015-12-10.
  2. Cebuano Informational Report (PDF; 864 kB) Christopher DeFraga, Rhode Island College, 2011
  3. "Tell us about Cebuano Wikipedia – Meta". meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 2013-08-14.
  4. "Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Cebuano". meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 2016-01-16.
  5. Meta: List of Wikipedias, 1 January 2006
  6. Meta: List of Wikipedias, 1 November 2006
  7. "Wikipedia Statistics – Bot article creations only". 2015-11-30. Retrieved 2016-01-16.
  8. "Wikimedia project at a glance: Cebuano Wikipedia". stats.wikimedia.org. November 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
  9. Meet the Stats Master Making Sense of Wikipedia’s Massive Data Trove Ashik Siddique, wired.com, 27 December 2013
  10. Meta: List of Wikipedias, 9 July 2005
  11. Meta: List of Wikipedias, 30 August 2005
  12. Meta: List of Wikipedias, 1 January 2007
  13. Meta: List of Wikipedias, 7 February 2007
  14. "Wikimedia News – Meta". Retrieved 2016-01-16.
  15. "Cebuano Wikipedia, Wikidata:Statistics/Wikipedia". Wikidata. 2015-07-17. Retrieved 2016-01-16.
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