The Silesian Wikipedia ( / ) is the Silesian edition of Wikipedia. It was started on 26 May 2008. As of , it contains articles and has editors.
History
The first attempt to launch the Silesian Wikipedia project took place in March 2006, Gazeta Wyborcza: "Będzie Wikipedia po śląsku?", 2006 but because of negative comments in the discussion section, the proposal was rejected. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Upper_Silesian In 2007 Wikipedia officially registered the Silesian language in its list of languages. The International Linguistic Organization SIL International followed this step on 18 July 2007 and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigned it the ISO code "szl". www.sil.org - ISO documentation of Silesian language www.sil.org - list of languages with codes ISO (letter "S") www.ethnologue.org - list of languages with codes ISO www.lingvoj.org
A second application for a Wikipedia project in the Silesian language was submitted on 19 March 2008 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Silesian as a result of discussions on the removal of articles written in Silesian language, which remained in the Polish edition of Wikipedia (in Silesia Wikiproject). http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SDU/Kategoria:%C5%9Al%C4%85ska_Wikipedia Gazeta Wyborcza: "Narodziła się śląska Wikipedia", 05.04.2007 After the initial acceptance of the proposal (100% positive, 0% negative votes) 31 March 2008, a test project was created in the Incubator Wikimedia projects. The following month it contained 100 articles in Silesian, including more than 1,800 separate pages. After two months all the eight requirements necessary to create a new Wikipedia were implemented. In reply to the Wikimedia Foundation's query, on 16 May 2008, the then sole academic authority on the Silesian language, Tomasz Kamusella, supported this initiative.Tomasz Kamusella. 2008. An Assessment of the Viability of Upgrading the Silesian-language Wikipedia Project to the Status of a Full-Fledged Wikipedia. St Petersburg FL: Wikimedia Foundation. Finally, a Silesian Wikipedia was founded on 26 May 2008. Gazeta Wyborcza: "Jest już Wikipedia po śląsku", 27.05.2008 Gazeta Wyborcza: "Śląska Wikipedia już działa", 27.05.2008 Dziennik Zachodni: "Świat po naszymu, ślonsko godka w wikipedii", 31.05.2008 Radio Plus: "Śląska Wikipedia", 29.05.2008 TV Silesia: "Śląska Wikipedia" , 28.05.2008 Radio TOK FM: ""Wikipedia po śląsku"", 28.05.2008 Radio eM: "Wikipedia po śląsku", 29.05.2008 TVP1 - Teleexpress: mention about create Silesian Wikipedia, 29.05.2008 The 1,000th article was included on 15 November 2008.
In October 2010, the Silesian Wikipedia was mentioned as one of the arguments for Silesian to become one of the regional languages in Poland. The project of the law implementing Silesian as a regional language was introduced to Sejm by parliament member Marek Plura. Projekt ustawy wprowadzającej śląski jako język regionalny - w Sejmie
Statistics Data from : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias Number of edits ~Articles All pages Registered users Administrators
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External links
Silesian Wikipedia Silesian Wikipedia mobile version (not fully supported)