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The Korean Wikipedia (Korean: 한국어 위키백과, romanized: Han-gugeo Wiki Baekgwa) is the Korean language edition of Wikipedia. It was founded on 11 October 2002 and reached ten thousand articles on 4 June 2005.[1] As of January 2023, it has 620,329 articles with 1,586 active users and is the 23rd largest Wikipedia.[2]
Korean Wikipedia
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Main Page of the Korean Wikipedia in December 2019
The Korean Wikipedia initially used an older version of MediaWiki. The software had problems representing Hangul, which limited usage. In August 2002, the software was upgraded and started to support non-English scripts such as Hangul.[3] However, Internet Explorer continued to have an encoding problem, which kept contributions to the encyclopedia low.[4] Nevertheless, from October 2002 to July 2003, the number of articles increased from 13 to 159, and in August 2003 it reached 348. Finally, in September 2003 the hangul problem was solved. From September 2003, with no accessing difficulty once the encoding error in IE was solved, the number of contributions and visits increased. The Korean Wikipedia's prospects became even more optimistic following the momentum created by substantial coverage in the Korean media.
The Korean Wikipedia won the Information Trust Award in the general Internet culture branch in 2005.[citation needed][importance?]
The Korean Wikipedia is written almost entirely in hangul. Hanja is only used in order to clarify certain phrases, and is usually parenthesized. There is a group, named Dajimo, that worked to introduce a mixed script system to the Korean Wikipedia. A request for a separate Wikipedia in mixed script, however, was rejected.[5]
There are two major standards in the Korean language, the South Korea standard, and the North Korea standard. North Koreans are underrepresented on the Korean Wikipedia, due to North Korean censorship of the Internet in North Korea. Therefore, most users of the Korean Wikipedia are South Koreans and most articles are written in the South Korean style. The official name of the Wikipedia is 한국어 위키백과Hangugeo Wiki-baekgwa. Hangugeo is the name for the Korean language in South Korea, and baekgwa is a clipped form of 백과사전baekgwasajeon "encyclopedia".
Services derived from Korean Wikipedia
Businesses heavily make use of the Korean Wikipedia in various ways, for its license, the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License (CC BY-SA), allows modification and distribution for commercial purpose.
Empas integrated the Korean Wikipedia database in its search since 11 August 2005.[6] The feature to search Korean Wikipedia using a mobile phone with a wireless Internet connection through Nate was available to the subscribers of SK Telecom from 6 July 2007.[7] Since 21 August, Daum mirrored Korean Wikipedia and English Wikipedia on its portal,[8] and Naver also started to present the search results from the Korean and English Wikipedia prior to others from 11 January 2008.[9]
Politics
The South Korean right-wing youth group story K favors proactive involvement in contributing to Korean Wikipedia.[10][11]
Human rights groups have sent copies of the Korean Wikipedia to North Korea on USB sticks by balloon.[12]
Gallery
Korean Wikipedia's 30,000 article logo (14 December 2006)
Korean Wikipedia's 40,000 article logo (2 August 2007)
Korean Wikipedia's 50,000 article logo (4 January 2008)
Korean Wikipedia's 60,000 article logo (24 April 2008)
Korean Wikipedia's 70,000 article logo (7 August 2008)
Korean Wikipedia's 80,000 article logo (20 November 2008)
Korean Wikipedia's 100,000 article logo (4 June 2009)
Korean Wikipedia's 150,000 article logo (15 December 2010)
Korean Wikipedia's 200,000 article logo (19 May 2012)
Korean Wikipedia's 250,000 article logo (3 October 2013)
Korean Wikipedia's 300,000 article logo (5 January 2015)
Korean Wikipedia's 400,000 article logo (22 October 2017)
Korean Wikipedia's 500,000 article logo (15 June 2020)
Korean Wikipedia's 600,000 article logo (16 August 2022)
^Naver, Wikipedia Search service launched – ETNews, 11 January 2008. On Naver's search results page, the search results from Wikipedia, which was categorized as "knowledge base", were listed prior to the results categorized as "web page".
^北 편들고 南 깎아내리는 위키피디아 (Korean Wikipedia that favors North Korea; does not favor South Korea) 16 July 2011 Donga Ilbo
^Williams, Martyn (20 January 2014). "Wikipedia enters North Korea ... via balloon". North Korea Tech. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
External links
Korean edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Official website(in Korean)
Korean Wikipedia mobile version (in Korean)
January 13, 2023
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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Korean Wikipedia news newspapers books scholar JSTOR September 2008 Learn how and when to remove this template message This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Korean August 2012 Click show for important translation instructions View a machine translated version of the Korean article Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate rather than simply copy pasting machine translated text into the English Wikipedia Consider adding a topic to this template there are already 485 articles in the main category and specifying topic will aid in categorization Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low quality If possible verify the text with references provided in the foreign language article You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Korean Wikipedia article at ko 한국어 위키백과 see its history for attribution You should also add the template Translated ko 한국어 위키백과 to the talk page For more guidance see Wikipedia Translation The Korean Wikipedia Korean 한국어 위키백과 romanized Han gugeo Wiki Baekgwa is the Korean language edition of Wikipedia It was founded on 11 October 2002 and reached ten thousand articles on 4 June 2005 1 As of January 2023 it has 620 329 articles with 1 586 active users and is the 23rd largest Wikipedia 2 Korean WikipediaScreenshotMain Page of the Korean Wikipedia in December 2019Type of siteInternet encyclopedia projectAvailable inKoreanHeadquartersSeoulOwnerWikimedia FoundationURLko wbr wikipedia wbr orgCommercialNoRegistrationOptionalKorean WikipediaHangul한국어 위키백과Hanja韓國語 위키百科Revised RomanizationHan gugeo Wiki BaekgwaMcCune ReischauerHan gugŏ Wiki Baekkwa Contents 1 History 2 Statistics 3 Hangul and Hanja 4 Dialects 5 Services derived from Korean Wikipedia 6 Politics 7 Gallery 8 Notes 9 External linksHistory EditKorean Wikipedia update Articles 620329Files 12897Edits 34027183Users 769017Active users 1586Admins 27The Korean Wikipedia initially used an older version of MediaWiki The software had problems representing Hangul which limited usage In August 2002 the software was upgraded and started to support non English scripts such as Hangul 3 However Internet Explorer continued to have an encoding problem which kept contributions to the encyclopedia low 4 Nevertheless from October 2002 to July 2003 the number of articles increased from 13 to 159 and in August 2003 it reached 348 Finally in September 2003 the hangul problem was solved From September 2003 with no accessing difficulty once the encoding error in IE was solved the number of contributions and visits increased The Korean Wikipedia s prospects became even more optimistic following the momentum created by substantial coverage in the Korean media The Korean Wikipedia won the Information Trust Award in the general Internet culture branch in 2005 citation needed importance Statistics EditNumber of Articles Date Article1 12 October 2002 지미 카터10 000 5 June 2005 양자장론20 000 12 February 2006 마다가스카르의 행정 구역30 000 14 December 2006 카메이 에리40 000 2 August 2007 텍스처 매핑50 000 4 January 2008 바브리60 000 24 April 2008 고기압70 000 7 August 2008 영동대교80 000 20 November 2008 큰곰자리 운동성단90 000 25 February 2009 당연상인100 000 4 June 2009 액세스권150 000 15 December 2010 김지언 1979년 200 000 19 May 2012 보비 탬블링250 000 3 October 2013 회피300 000 5 January 2015 Rojo Tierra 350 000 3 June 2016 1809년 4월 14일 일식400 000 22 October 2017 충청남도 동물위생시험소500 000 15 June 2020 규장전운600 000 16 August 2022 광기의 밍크스Hangul and Hanja EditSee also Hanja and Korean mixed script The Korean Wikipedia is written almost entirely in hangul Hanja is only used in order to clarify certain phrases and is usually parenthesized There is a group named Dajimo that worked to introduce a mixed script system to the Korean Wikipedia A request for a separate Wikipedia in mixed script however was rejected 5 Dialects EditSee also Korean dialects and Names of Korea There are two major standards in the Korean language the South Korea standard and the North Korea standard North Koreans are underrepresented on the Korean Wikipedia due to North Korean censorship of the Internet in North Korea Therefore most users of the Korean Wikipedia are South Koreans and most articles are written in the South Korean style The official name of the Wikipedia is 한국어 위키백과 Hangugeo Wiki baekgwa Hangugeo is the name for the Korean language in South Korea and baekgwa is a clipped form of 백과사전 baekgwasajeon encyclopedia Services derived from Korean Wikipedia EditBusinesses heavily make use of the Korean Wikipedia in various ways for its license the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License CC BY SA allows modification and distribution for commercial purpose Empas integrated the Korean Wikipedia database in its search since 11 August 2005 6 The feature to search Korean Wikipedia using a mobile phone with a wireless Internet connection through Nate was available to the subscribers of SK Telecom from 6 July 2007 7 Since 21 August Daum mirrored Korean Wikipedia and English Wikipedia on its portal 8 and Naver also started to present the search results from the Korean and English Wikipedia prior to others from 11 January 2008 9 Politics EditThe South Korean right wing youth group story K favors proactive involvement in contributing to Korean Wikipedia 10 11 Human rights groups have sent copies of the Korean Wikipedia to North Korea on USB sticks by balloon 12 Gallery Edit Korean Wikipedia s 30 000 article logo 14 December 2006 Korean Wikipedia s 40 000 article logo 2 August 2007 Korean Wikipedia s 50 000 article logo 4 January 2008 Korean Wikipedia s 60 000 article logo 24 April 2008 Korean Wikipedia s 70 000 article logo 7 August 2008 Korean Wikipedia s 80 000 article logo 20 November 2008 Korean Wikipedia s 100 000 article logo 4 June 2009 Korean Wikipedia s 150 000 article logo 15 December 2010 Korean Wikipedia s 200 000 article logo 19 May 2012 Korean Wikipedia s 250 000 article logo 3 October 2013 Korean Wikipedia s 300 000 article logo 5 January 2015 Korean Wikipedia s 400 000 article logo 22 October 2017 Korean Wikipedia s 500 000 article logo 15 June 2020 Korean Wikipedia s 600 000 article logo 16 August 2022 Notes Edit Meta Milestones Page Web Wikimedia Foundation Inc 2005 Retrieved 6 September 2007 List of Wikipedias Web Wikimedia Foundation Inc 2019 Retrieved 1 September 2019 http web archive org This site shows the Korean Wikipedia in 2002 with the Wikipedia Logo in 2002 대한민국 Archived from the original on 22 August 2003 Retrieved 22 August 2003 Article 대한민국 in 2003 Encoding can be seen to be broken Wikimedia Meta Wiki Requests for new languages Wikipedia Hanja Accessed 11 September 2010 Wikipedia an encyclopedia authorized by netizens Empas iNews24 11 August 2005 Wikipedia on your phone ETNews 6 July 2007 Daum Encyclopedia improved Wikipedia search presented eDaily 21 August 2007 Naver Wikipedia Search service launched ETNews 11 January 2008 On Naver s search results page the search results from Wikipedia which was categorized as knowledge base were listed prior to the results categorized as web page story K Official Website 北 편들고 南 깎아내리는 위키피디아 Korean Wikipedia that favors North Korea does not favor South Korea 16 July 2011 Donga Ilbo Williams Martyn 20 January 2014 Wikipedia enters North Korea via balloon North Korea Tech Retrieved 21 December 2017 External links Edit Korean edition of Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Official website in Korean Korean Wikipedia mobile version in Korean Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Korean Wikipedia amp oldid 1118106509, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
