Favicon of Wikipedia Asturian Wikipedia
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inAsturian
HeadquartersMiami, Florida
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
Created byAsturian wiki community
URLast.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedJuly 2004

The Asturian Wikipedia (Asturian: Wikipedia n'asturianu) is the Asturian language edition of Wikipedia [1] started in July 2004. As of 19 December 2023, the Asturian Wikipedia has 133,607 articles, making it the 67th-largest Wikipedia. It also has 119,522 registered users, most of them global accounts created automatically, since the monthly active users amount to 127 of which 8 are administrators. It has 4,098,370 edits. The Asturian Wikipedia ranks 16th among Wikipedias by articles per speaker population.[2]

History

Wikipedia team visiting the Parliament of Asturias.
Wikipedians meeting after Awards ceremony.

After its foundation in July 2004, the Asturian Wikipedia reached 1,000 articles on 1 September 2004.

In 2015, Wikipedia was awarded with the Spanish Princess of Asturias Award on International Cooperation.[3] Speaking at the Asturian Parliament in Oviedo, the city that hosts the awards ceremony, Jimmy Wales praised the work of the Asturian language Wikipedia users.[4] The night of the ceremony, members of the Wikimedia Foundation held a meeting with Wikipedians from all parts of Spain, including the local Asturian community.

References

  1. ↑ Carlos Arturo Serrano Gomez. "Fact-Checking the Wikipedia: The drawbacks of having a one-stop reference source". Ohmy News. Archived from the original on 2008-02-15. Retrieved 2008-02-09.
  2. ↑ List of Wikipedias by speakers per article
  3. ↑ "Premio Princesa de Asturias de Cooperación Internacional 2015". Fundación Princesa de Asturias. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Los fundadores de Wikipedia destacan la versión en asturiano". La Nueva España. Retrieved October 20, 2015.
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