The Waray Wikipedia is the Waray language edition of Wikipedia. It is hosted on servers run by the Wikimedia Foundation since 25 September 2005.[1] As of January 12, 2023, this edition has 1,266,031 articles[2] and is the 15th largest Wikipedia edition.[3] Despite having very few active users (71), the Waray Wikipedia has a high number of automatically generated articles created by bots, most of them by SwedishWikipedianSverker Johansson's Lsjbot.[4][5][6]
The Waray Wikipedia was first organized in Tacloban on 25 September 2005 by Harvey Fiji. The wiki had a small number of contributors, with fewer than ten editors per month until April 2009. The first meet-up of editors took place in January 2013 in Tacloban.[8][9]
By early 2011 the Waray Wikipedia had attracted notice for including more than twice as many articles as the Tagalog Wikipedia, which is based on the principal language of the Philippines. This discrepancy was explained by the very large number of articles added automatically by bots, with no direct human input.[10][11] By early June 2014 the Waray Wikipedia had attained a very high article count of 1 million, but a very low article depth of less than 3. Article depth is an attempt to measure the collaborative quality of articles, based on the number of edits per article.
According to automatically updated Wikimedia data, as of January 12, 2023, the Waray Wikipedia has 2,881,921 pages (including user pages, help pages, etc.), 71 active users, and 6,294,116 total edits. The article depth of Waray Wikipedia is 3.56—a rough indicator of the article's collaborative quality—compared to 162.38 for the Tagalog Wikipedia. (Waray and Tagalog are related languages belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family.)
However, Waray Wikipedia does not appear to be widely used in the Philippines; as of March 2021, 90% of Wikipedia views from that country were directed at English Wikipedia, with 5% going to Tagalog and 3%, to Russian Wikipedia.[12] About 35% of Waray Wikipedia views come from China, 25% from the United States, about 15% from Germany and France, and less than 8% from the Philippines.[13]
Milestones
On 26 August 2010, the Waray Wikipedia passed the 100,000-article milestone, making it the 35th largest language edition at that time.[9]
On 8 June 2014, the encyclopedia passed the 1 million article mark, which was mostly made by Lsjbot.[8] It was the very first Wikipedia for a language in the Philippines and Asia that reached 1 million articles.[14]
References
^"Start of the Waray Wikipedia". War.wikipedia.org. 25 September 2005.
^"Mga Estadistika". War.wikipedia.org. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
^Nazareno, Eileen (5 August 2015). "A Virtual Pool of Free Knowledge on Eastern Visayas". The Freeman. Archived from the original on 5 August 2015 – via The Philippine Star.
Further reading
Ballesteros, Joseph F.; Bernas-Ballesteros, Belinda T.; Ong, Michael Glen U. (February 2020). "Disseminating Information Using an Indigenous Language – the Waray Wikipedia Experience" (PDF). Aboriginal Education World. National Chengchi University. 91: 82. - Originally written in English, it includes a Mandarin Chinese translation (titled "族語傳遞資訊──瓦萊語維基百科經驗談") by Chen Yingrou (陳穎柔).
Improving Wikimedia Projects Content through Collaboration - Waray Wikipedia Experience, 2014-2017
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The Waray Wikipedia is the Waray language edition of Wikipedia It is hosted on servers run by the Wikimedia Foundation since 25 September 2005 1 As of January 12 2023 this edition has 1 266 031 articles 2 and is the 15th largest Wikipedia edition 3 Despite having very few active users 71 the Waray Wikipedia has a high number of automatically generated articles created by bots most of them by Swedish Wikipedian Sverker Johansson s Lsjbot 4 5 6 Waray WikipediaType of siteInternet encyclopedia projectAvailable inWarayHeadquartersMiami FloridaOwnerWikimedia FoundationURLwar wbr wikipedia wbr orgCommercialNoRegistrationOptionalLaunched25 September 2005 17 years ago 2005 09 25 Waray or Waray Waray is spoken by approximately 3 6 million 7 people in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines Contents 1 History 1 1 Milestones 2 References 3 Further reading 4 External linksHistory EditThe Waray Wikipedia was first organized in Tacloban on 25 September 2005 by Harvey Fiji The wiki had a small number of contributors with fewer than ten editors per month until April 2009 The first meet up of editors took place in January 2013 in Tacloban 8 9 By early 2011 the Waray Wikipedia had attracted notice for including more than twice as many articles as the Tagalog Wikipedia which is based on the principal language of the Philippines This discrepancy was explained by the very large number of articles added automatically by bots with no direct human input 10 11 By early June 2014 the Waray Wikipedia had attained a very high article count of 1 million but a very low article depth of less than 3 Article depth is an attempt to measure the collaborative quality of articles based on the number of edits per article According to automatically updated Wikimedia data as of January 12 2023 the Waray Wikipedia has 2 881 921 pages including user pages help pages etc 71 active users and 6 294 116 total edits The article depth of Waray Wikipedia is 3 56 a rough indicator of the article s collaborative quality compared to 162 38 for the Tagalog Wikipedia Waray and Tagalog are related languages belonging to the Malayo Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family However Waray Wikipedia does not appear to be widely used in the Philippines as of March 2021 90 of Wikipedia views from that country were directed at English Wikipedia with 5 going to Tagalog and 3 to Russian Wikipedia 12 About 35 of Waray Wikipedia views come from China 25 from the United States about 15 from Germany and France and less than 8 from the Philippines 13 Milestones Edit On 26 August 2010 the Waray Wikipedia passed the 100 000 article milestone making it the 35th largest language edition at that time 9 On 8 June 2014 the encyclopedia passed the 1 million article mark which was mostly made by Lsjbot 8 It was the very first Wikipedia for a language in the Philippines and Asia that reached 1 million articles 14 References Edit Start of the Waray Wikipedia War wikipedia org 25 September 2005 Mga Estadistika War wikipedia org Retrieved 31 January 2016 List of Wikipedias For This Author 10 000 Wikipedia Articles is a Good Day s Work WSJ The world s most prolific writer Features N by Norwegian Hans robot har skrivit halva Wikipedia Internetworld Waray Ethnologue Summer Institute of Linguistics Retrieved 5 January 2017 a b Locsin Joel 10 June 2014 Waray Wikipedia hits 1 million articles Yahoo News Philippines a b Wikipedia Statistics Waray Stats wikimedia org Retrieved 31 January 2016 Martin W Lewis 18 April 2011 The Linguistic Geography of the Wikipedia GeoCurrents info Siddique Ashik 27 December 2013 Meet the Stats Master Making Sense of Wikipedia s Massive Data Trove Wired Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report Wikipedia Page Views Per Country Breakdown stats wikimedia org Retrieved 8 March 2021 Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report Page Views Per Wikipedia Language Breakdown stats wikimedia org Retrieved 8 March 2021 Nazareno Eileen 5 August 2015 A Virtual Pool of Free Knowledge on Eastern Visayas The Freeman Archived from the original on 5 August 2015 via The Philippine Star Further reading EditBallesteros Joseph F Bernas Ballesteros Belinda T Ong Michael Glen U February 2020 Disseminating Information Using an Indigenous Language the Waray Wikipedia Experience PDF Aboriginal Education World National Chengchi University 91 82 Originally written in English it includes a Mandarin Chinese translation titled 族語傳遞資訊 瓦萊語維基百科經驗談 by Chen Yingrou 陳穎柔 External links Edit Waray edition of Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Wikimedia Commons has media related to Waray Wikipedia Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Waray phrasebook Waray test of Wiktionary at Wikimedia Incubator Meetup page of Waray Wikipedia Milestones of the Waray Wikipedia Waray Wikipedia mobile version Improving Wikimedia Projects Content through Collaboration Waray Wikipedia Experience 2014 2017 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Waray Wikipedia amp oldid 1112783200, wikipedia, wiki, book, 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