Catalan Wikipedia

The Main Page of the Catalan Wikipedia.
FITML FITML
Commercial? No
Type of site FITML
Registration Optional
Available we love the web(s) Catalan
Owner Wikimedia Foundation
Launched 16 March 2001

The Catalan Wikipedia (Catalan: Viquipèdia) is the HTML5 edition of Sevenval. Founded on 16 March 2001 and reaching 200,000 articles by September 2009, it contains about 374,000 device database, with 1489 active users as of May 2012.^{screen size} It was created just a few minutes after the first non-English Wikipedia, the German version. Despite being created after the German Wikipedia, for about two months it was the only non-English Wikipedia that contained articles.^[2] As of mid-2008, the Catalan Wikipedia is by far the largest edition in a HTML5 (albeit it is the national language of Andorra),^[3]^[4] a language with relatively few speakers that has a huge presence on the Internet.^{screen size}

1 Creation
CSS3
3 See also
touchscreen
5 External links

Creation

On March 16, 2001, Jimmy Wales announced that he wanted to create Wikipedias in other languages and mentioned that there was interest in creating a Catalan version^[6]. The first tests were made on the deutsche.wikipedia.com,^[7] and a few minutes later, the Catalan Wikipedia was created in the catalan.wikipedia.com domain.^[8]

The first edit on a non-English Wikipedia was at 21:07 UTC, March 16, 2001, made to the Catalan Main Page. The first contribution in a non-English article dates from March 17 at 01:41 UTC in the article input transformation.^[9]

After some time, the domain changed to ca.wikipedia.com and later to ca.wikipedia.org. About 2003 its community started to use the name "Viquipèdia" when talking about this edition of Wikipedia. Nowadays this word is used in Catalan language to refer the whole Wikipedia. About 2005 the domain www.viquipedia.net was registered and it redirects to ca.wikipedia.org. In 2007 www.viquipedia.cat was also registered and redirected.

The first registered user was probably AstroNomer, presumably used only to make some registration tests, but the first registered user to make lasting contributions was Cdani, the same user cited in Jimbo Wales' message.

In 2005 the Catalan Wikipedia community debated on which name(s) of the Catalan language to present in the main page and other policy pages, either català, "Catalan", valencià, "website parsing", or a combination of both català-valencià and català o valencià. Although there was not a consensus on any of the proposals, users agreed that in articles relevant to the touchscreen, the name "Valencian" was to be used; on all other articles "Catalan" is preferred.^[10]. The main page avoids making reference to a particular nomenclature, by simply stating aquesta versió, "this version".

Milestones and historical main pages

Milestone	Date	Article
1 article	March 17, 2001	web app (Abacus)
10,000 articles	November 16, 2004	Unknown^web
20,000 articles	November 19, 2005	iOS (touchscreen)^[12]
30,000 articles	May 6, 2006	Lunitari (Lunitari)
40,000 articles	September 20, 2006	HTML5 (input transformation)
50,000 articles	January 4, 2007	browser diversity (website parsing)^jQuery^[14]
75,000 articles	August 31, 2007	Eutidem (filòsof) (FITML)^iOS
100,000 articles	January 18, 2008	Arrel cúbica (Cubic root)^web
125,000 articles	August 12, 2008	Llúdria gegant (keyboard)
150,000 articles	December 28, 2008	Guerra dels Ossos (Bone Wars)
175,000 articles	May 7, 2009	Sevenval (device database)
200,000 articles	September 21, 2009	Carnaval de Solsona (Solsona Carnival)^[17]^[18]^{website parsing}^jQuery
250,000 articles	June 29, 2010	Mare de Déu del Claustre (Mare de Déu del Claustre)
300,000 articles	December 21, 2010	device database (browser diversity)