The Alemannic Wikipedia (Alemannic: Alemannischi Wikipedia) is the Alemannic language edition of the Web-based free-content encyclopedia Wikipedia. The project was started on 13 November 2003, as an Alsatian language edition. A year later it was expanded to encompass all Alemannic dialects because of low activity in the first year. Since 2004 all Alemannic dialects are accepted on als:wp.

As of , it has articles and is the -largest Wikipedia. Contributors and users include people from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Liechtenstein, and even a few Walser people from Italy.

Language Articles and article titles A peculiarity of the Alemannic Wikipedia is the wide range of dialects permitted; all varieties of Alemannic, including Swiss German, Swabian, Alsatian, and all others are accepted. Authors may not normally alter the dialect used by another contributor, though exceptions are made for local topics, in which modifying the text to reflect the local variety is encouraged. Articles may thus be written in a mix of different varieties. Since there is no standardized orthography for Alemannic, spelling rules are quite relaxed. However, contributors are encouraged to adhere to spelling conventions found in the Alemannic-language literature, and introducing new symbols is not tolerated.Wikipedia:Artikel#Froge un Antworte zum Dial.C3.A4kt

Article titles are in Standard German, but display is frequently manipulated to show Alemannic text.

Language codes The code "als" was used because in 2003 there had been no language code for Alsatian. ISO 639-3 gives four codes for several Alemannic dialects: gct is the code for Alemán Coloniero gsw is the code for Swiss German, also for Alsatian swg is the code for Swabian German wae is the code for Walser German As all of these four dialects are accepted on the Alemannic Wikipedia, it was decided not to move the Alemannic Wikipedia to gsw.wikipedia.org, even though the code als stands for Tosk Albanian in ISO 639-3. To solve this problem a request for a superior code for all Alemannic dialects has been submitted to SIL International by Alemannic Wikipedians.look here

Despite the existence of dedicated ISO 639-3 codes and the possibility of more specific marking with country code subtags, all pages use 'gsw' in the HTML language tag.

List of dialects that are used on single-dialect pages Below is a list of dialects that have a category in :als:Kategorie:Wikipedia:Dialekt and where that category contains at least one article.

+List of dialects used for a full article in the Alemannic Wikipedia BCP 47 Name (autonym) Name (English) Country Part of swg Schwäbisch Swabian DE Schwäbisch wae Wallisertiitsch Walser German CH, AT Höchstalemannisch wae-AT Vorarlbärgischs Walsertüütsch AT Höchstalemannisch gsw Oberrhiinalemannisch DE, FR? Niederalemannisch gsw Bodeseealemannisch DE, CH Mittelalemannisch gsw-AT Vorarlbärgisch AT (several, group of dialects) gsw-LI Liachtastänerisch LI (several, group of dialects) gsw-FR Elsässisch Alsatian German FR Niederalemannisch > Oberrheinalemannisch gsw-DE Markgräflerisch DE Hochalemannisch gsw-CH Aargauerdüütsch Aargau German CH Hochalemannisch gsw-CH Baselbieterdütsch CH Hochalemannisch gsw-CH Baseldytsch Basel German CH Niederalemannisch > Oberrheinalemannisch gsw-CH Bärndütsch Bernese German CH Hochalemannisch gsw-CH Freiämtertütsch CH Hochalemannisch gsw-CH Glarnertüütsch CH Höchstalemannisch gsw-CH Ostschwizertütsch CH Hochalemannisch gsw-CH Schwyzerdütsch CH Höchstalemannisch gsw-CH Soledurnerdütsch CH Hochalemannisch gsw-CH St. Gallerdütsch CH Hochalemannisch gsw-CH Seislertütsch CH Höchstalemannisch gsw-CH Züritüütsch Zürich German CH Hochalemannisch

Other Wikipedias in German dialect Alemannic Wikipedia was the first Wikipedia in a German dialect, followed by the Bavarian Wikipedia and the Ripuarian Wikipedia.

Alemannic in other Wikimedia projects Other Wikimedia projects in Alemannic have also been created, such as an Alemannic Wiktionary, an Alemannic Wikiquote, and an Alemannic Wikibooks. As activity in these projects was low even after years, the community of the Alemannic Wikipedia decided to merge all Alemannic projects and import all contents of the other projects into the Alemannic Wikipedia. Since April 2008 these projects are separate namespaces within the Alemannic Wikipedia. Also an Alemannic Wikisource and an Alemannic Wikinews have been created as separate namespaces within als:wp.

Wikidata supports one language with code 'gsw' and name 'Swiss German'. A proposal to remove it has not been adopted.

Milestones MilestoneDateArticleMilestones on Alemannic Wikipedia 1 article 2003-12-27 Chemie 1,000 articles 2005-10-13 Le Landeron (Zunftwesen) 2,000 articles 2006-06-07 Geschichte des Elsass 3,000 articles 2007-05-01 Arlesheim 4,000 articles 2008-07-12 Erklärung der Menschen- und Bürgerrechte 5,000 articles 2009-05-08 Hunspach 6,000 articles 2010-02-21 Amt Meienberg 7,000 articles 2010-12-14 Batterf 8,000 articles 2011-02-22 Buttwil 9,000 articles 2011-05-16 Boron 10,000 articles 2011-06-22 Josef Villiger 11,000 articles 2012-02-21 Summerlied 12,000 articles 2012-08-21 Quiberon 13,000 articles 2012-12-13 Saint-Aubin-Sauges 14,000 articles 2013-04-03 Riemschneider 15,000 articles 2013-08-06 Baritonhorn 16,000 articles 2014-02-04 Tenorhorn 17,000 articles 2014-06-08 Basilius Amerbach der Ältere 18,000 articles 2015-01-17 Siegfried Lehmann 19,000 articles 2015-05-28 Lauingen (Donau) 20,000 articles 2015-10-12 Gion Deplazes 21,000 articles 2016-03-15 Fotze 22,000 articles 2016-11-02 Bezirk Weinfelden 23,000 articles 2017-06-19 Biermösl Blosn 24,000 articles 2018-02-15 Schweizer Singbuch 25,000 articles 2018-09-12 Schwyzer Meie 26,000 articles 2019-07-12 Internationales Dialektinstitut 27,000 articles 2020-02-25 Röllelibutzen

See also Alemannic Wikibooks Alemannic Wikinews Alemannic Wikiquote Alemannic Wikisource Alemannic Wikivoyage Alemannic Wiktionary

References

Sources and external links

(Alemannic) Alemannic Wikipedia (Alemannic) Alemannic Wikipedia mobile version (not fully supported) Statistics for Alemannic Wikipedia by Erik Zachte https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alemannic_Wikipedia

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