Dutch Wikipedia

The Dutch Wikipedia () is the Dutch-language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. It was founded on 19 June 2001.

As of , the Dutch Wikipedia is the -largest Wikipedia edition, with articles. It was the fourth Wikipedia edition to exceed one million articles, after the English, German, and French editions. Many articles, however, have been created by bots and are only a few lines long.For instance 781.604 stumps on biology:Article depth of Dutch Wikipedia is 18.89 (Wikipedia article depth - Meta (wikimedia.org)) That of the English version for instance is 1220.82, of the German version is 93.42 In April 2016, 1154 active editors made at least five edits in that month.

English is the most popular Wikipedia in the Netherlands, followed by Dutch. In Belgium, Dutch is the third most popular Wikipedia, after English and French, though the numbers of page views in all three languages are similar. In Suriname, the only Dutch-speaking country outside Europe, Dutch Wikipedia is second after English.

It has a presence in Curaçao and Aruba, as well in the Caribbean Netherlands, but has fewer pageviews than English.

History

The Dutch Wikipedia was started on 19 June 2001, and reached 100,000 articles on 14 October 2005. It briefly surpassed the Polish Wikipedia as the sixth-largest edition of Wikipedia, but then fell back to the eighth position. On 1 March 2006, it overtook the Swedish and Italian editions in one day to rise back to the sixth position. The edition's 500,000th article was created on 30 November 2008.500.000e artikel (in Dutch). Retrieved 7 December 2008. In a 2006 Multiscope research study, the Dutch Wikipedia was rated the third-best Dutch-language website, after Google and Gmail, with a score of 8.1."Nederlandse Wikipedia groeit als kool" (in Dutch). Multiscope.nl. Retrieved 27 December 2006.

The Dutch language Wikipedia has the largest ratio of Wikipedia pages per native speaker of all of the top 10 largest Wikipedia editions. Its rate of daily article creations spiked in March 2006, rapidly growing to an average of 1,000 a day in early May 2006. After this number was reached, growth dropped to an average of only about 250 a day, comparable to the averages around December 2005. Since then, there have been more article-creation surges, one of the largest peaking at 2,000 new articles per day in September 2007, but the growth rate has always returned to the lowest average of around 250.

In 2008, Dutch businessman Bob Sijthoff attempted to sue "the Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland" and "the Stichting Wikimedia Nederland" to force the removal of his Dutch Wikipedia article, which he stated contained "false and abusive" information.'Ik wil niet op Wikipedia!' , DAG, 25 November 2008 On 10 December 2008, the court rejected his request. The judge ruled that he had sued the wrong entity and that legal responsibility for the content of the articles would not lie in the Netherlands, but with the American Wikimedia Foundation.

Internet bots The majority of articles in Dutch Wikipedia (59%) were created by internet bots. In October 2011, several bots created 80,000 articles (then equivalent to 10% of the entire edition's article count) in only 11 days.List of Wikipedias on 20 October 2011 (archived). Wikimedia. Retrieved 24 June 2013.List of Wikipedias on 31 October 2011 (archived). Wikimedia. Retrieved 24 June 2013.

The Dutch Wikipedia's one-millionth article was created in December 2011, after another surge of bot activity saw 100,000 added articles in only 10 days. In late March 2013, the Dutch Wikipedia surpassed the French Wikipedia to become the third-largest edition of Wikipedia. In June 2013, it overtook the German Wikipedia to become the second-largest Wikipedia edition.

Quality In 2014, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) compared ten articles on infectious diseases from the Dutch Wikipedia with the ten corresponding National Coordination Centre for Infectious Disease Control (LCI) guidelines. The researchers concluded that the information on Wikipedia contained no major errors and was largely consistent with the information on their own information pages. However, there were minor inaccuracies, and references were frequently missing.

Depth The depth or editing depth of Wikipedia is a rough indicator of the encyclopedia's collaborative quality, showing how frequently its articles are updated.Wikipedia article depth; Wikimedia The depth is measured by taking the average number of edits per article multiplied by the extent in which articles are supported by discussion (among other things, talk pages). Among the nine language editions with one million articles, the Dutch, Swedish, and Polish Wikipedias in that order have depth parameters much lower than the other six. , for the English version the article depth is 666, for the German 88, for the French 153, for the Spanish 160, for the Dutch only 18.Find out more-Wikipedia; Utrecht University Library

Bytes per article

Compared to most other Wikipedia editions with a similar number of articles, articles on the Dutch Wikipedia have less content with an average of 1,598 bytes per article (). This is roughly 40% of that of the French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish editions (3,986–4,277 bytes/article ).Wikimedia Statistics, Wikipedia statistics, bytes per article . Retrieved 18 February 2015

Culture Dutch Wikipedians responding to a Wikimedia survey described the atmosphere of the Dutch Wikipedia as quarrelsome and distrustful, with ego and stubbornness named as the premier causes of conflict. There is a small group of users in effective control. In some instances new users were discouraged by moderators from joining discussions in the Dutch equivalent of the "village pump".de Volkskrant: Leve de Wikipediaan sympathieke online betweter (Dutch), published on 30 November 2015, Retrieved 7 August 2020.NRC Handelsblad: De grote Wikipedia bewerkingsoorlogen (Dutch), published 4 February 2019, Retrieved 7 August 2020.

Article growth

Date Number of articles"Statistics of the Dutch Wikipedia" (in Dutch). Nl.wikipedia.org. Retrieved 18 June 2013. New articles per day (avg.)19 June 2001115 August 200310,000138 February 200420,0005328 June 200430,000717 November 200440,0007629 January 200550,00012024 March 200560,00018520 May 200570,00017522 July 200580,00015911 September 200590,00019616 October 2005100,000632 June 2006200,00043711 June 2007300,0002671 February 2008400,00042630 December 2008500,00030014 July 2010600,00017825 June 2011700,00028922 October 2011800,0008409 December 2011900,0002,08312 January 20121,000,0002,94124 September 20121,100,0003919 March 20131,200,00060226 March 20131,300,0005,8825 April 20131,400,00010,00013 April 20131,500,00012,50017 June 20131,600,0001,5383 January 20141,700,0005006 March 20151,800,00023327 May 20171,900,0001238 March 20202,000,0002542 September 20222,100,00011021 October 20252,200,00087

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