Galician Wikipedia


The Galician Wikipedia, also popularly known as Galipedia, is the Galician-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia.
Launched on 8 March 2003, it has articles, making it the -largest edition of Wikipedia by number of articles as of, after having reached 100,000 articles on 4 March 2013, four days before its tenth anniversary. It has the 47th-most edits and also ranks 53th in terms of article depth among Wikipedias. At the start of 2013, 101,305 different images were used.
For a chronological list of Galipedia events, see :gl:Wikipedia:Actualidade. There are also statistics pages, including :gl:Especial:Estatísticas and :gl:Wikipedia:Estatísticas.
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Trajectory

History

The first user, ILVI, registered on March 8, 2003, and quickly began working on what would be the . Four days later he created the first article in the database: grupo. He would continue with other entries such as ou, cal, ciencias naturais, ciencias humanas, ciencias ocultas, ciencias aplicadas and botánica.
Months later, Agremon registered and became the first administrator of the Galician Wikipedia. He was the one who first used the term Galipedia to refer to the project, which had still only existed for less than a year. Little by little, Galipedia was mentioned in some newspapers, websites, and other sources, which were interested in the work done on it.

Characteristics

As the Galician version of Wikipedia, it is a collaborative encyclopedia written in the Galician language. It is open to any type of contribution, and accepts various currents of thought, as long as they are not aggressive. It accepts all possible topics, from sport and the cuisine of each country, to the biographies of people in physics, astronomy, and linguistics, to history, for example that of the Kingdom of Galicia.
It differs from encyclopedias in use mainly in two aspects. On the one hand, it enjoys exorbitant growth, while, on the other, it highlights its ability to absorb information and adapt it practically immediately. Thus, for example, obituaries or news considered transcendent and encyclopedic in nature are on many occasions included in Galipedia in a matter of hours, or even minutes. This is also possible through contact with other languages' versions of Wikipedia, of which there are more than 300, from which translations or templates are obtained.
The license it uses is the so-called GNU Free Documentation License.
In September 2011, 31% of Galipedia articles were categorised or subcategorised within the category Galicia.
Like the English Wikipedia, Galipedia has a "no disclaimers" policy. However, an exception is made for medical warnings.

Images

As for the images, Galipedia has its own fund, thanks to Wikimedia Commons, the common fund. This is not the case in all versions of Wikipedia. There are currently files, most of them images, uploaded internally. As of early February 2013, it had 101,305 distinct images across all project articles. The most used images, not counting icons or flags, were Concellos menos poboados de Galiza.PNG, which was used 1,284 times, and Piazza del Campidoglio.jpg, which was used 1,082 times.

Editing

The number of active editors has varied since 2009 between approximately 260 and 330. Of these, around twenty are very active and among them are a maximum of 3 who, in general, exceed 1,000 monthly editions. The average creation of articles since the project was opened in April 2002 is 8,250 per year. However, if only the last period is taken into account, the average increases to 11,400 new articles. Around 35% of these articles were created by the 10 most active editors.
The categorisation of both articles and images is around 100%.

Featured articles

Galipedia has 253 featured articles. The first to acquire this distinction was the article :gl:Club Baloncesto Breogán on 20 June 2010. Later on, the list would be expanded by the articles of :gl:Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao, :gl:Ramón Piñeiro, :gl:Lugo, :gl:Hórreo galego, :gl:Reino de Galicia, :gl:Estatuto de autonomía de Galicia de 1936, :gl:Valentín Paz-Andrade, :gl:Alzamento de Pascua, :gl:Caso do metílico, :gl:Praga, :gl:The Beatles, :gl:Lenin, :gl:Alemaña, :gl:Real Club Celta de Vigo, :gl:Prestige, :gl:Catedral de Santiago de Compostela and :gl:Tristan und Isolde, to which many others would be added over time. In 2018, coinciding with the project's 15th anniversary, more than 150 featured articles were published.
In 2016, good articles started to be chosen as well. There are currently 117 articles that are considered 'good'. The first article to be considered 'good' was :gl:Slipknot.

Human factor

The Galipedia meant the creation of a community of collaborative people with common ties, and also of different origins, ages or ideologies. Thus, meetings are held in which the history of Galipedia, the present reality and future goals are discussed. There is also a friendship group formed around the encyclopedia, which has given rise to groups on social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. The presence of women is reduced in Galipedia, a problem common to other versions.
The activity through the network is complemented with Galipedia dissemination projects, such as lectures in educational centers or meetings to spread its use. On 15 January 2011, on Wikipedia's 10th anniversary, there was a meeting in Culleredo and another in Ribadeo. In September that year, the City of Culture of Santiago de Compostela hosted a workshop.
In 2011, on 15 January, the anniversary of Wikipedia, and on 8 March, the anniversary of Galipedia, editing challenges were carried out to achieve new records. In January it was set to make 5,000 edits in one day, of which just over 4,500 were made, and in March it was set to make 500 new articles in one day.
On March 9, 2013, Galipedia's 10th anniversary was celebrated with a meeting in Santiago de Compostela that included several presentations on free knowledge and cultural activism.
Throughout its history, Galipedia's activity has been reflected in various media, with interviews with users on TVG or, and articles in, or.
In March 2018, the project's fifteenth anniversary was celebrated with the first Wikimarathon for International Women's Day and a meeting in Ourense.
On 4 July 2018, it blacked out its pages. This followed the action started by the Italian Wikipedia before the European Parliament voted on a Directive on copyright in the European Union.

E-dixgal

E-dixgal is a virtual learning space of the Xunta de Galicia for 5th and 6th grade students and 1st and 2nd grade ESO students, which includes a direct link to the Galipedia homepage.

Recognitions