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Portuguese Wikipedia

The Main Page of the Portuguese Wikipedia.
URL	http://pt.wikipedia.org/
Slogan	a enciclopédia livre que todos podem editar
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Registration	Optional
Available language(s)	Portuguese
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation

The Portuguese Wikipedia (Portuguese: Wikipédia em português) is a Portuguese language edition of Wikipedia (written Wikipédia, in Portuguese), the free encyclopedia. It was the fifth edition of Wikipedia was started in June 2001. It is currently the eighth largest Wikipedia by article count, containing over 401,072 articles as of June 22, 2008.

From late 2004, the edition grew rapidly. During May 2005, it overtook both the Spanish and Italian language Wikipedias. By comparison, in May 2004 it was only the 17th Wikipedia by the number of articles.

Portuguese articles can contain small variations of writing, as European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese have minor variations in vocabulary and usage. Articles can contain written characteristics of one or the other variant depending on who wrote the article.

In 2005, a proposal to fork Portuguese Wikipedia and create a Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br) version was voted down by the Wikimedia community.

[edit] External links

Portuguese Wikipedia edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Portuguese Wikipedia (in portuguese)