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This is a list of many of the different language editions of Wikipedia; as of March 18, 2009, there are 266 Wikipedias. For number of their articles, see the list linked below.
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[edit] Wikipedia edition codes
Each Wikipedia has a code, which is used as subdomain below wikipedia.org. Interlanguage links are sorted by that code.
The codes mostly correspond to the language codes defined by ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-3, and the decision which to use mostly is in accordance with the IETF language tag policy.
One code is not a language code ('be-x-old'), but refers to a specific orthography.
Some deviations:
| WP edition name | WP code | Code meaning in ISO 639 |
| Alemannic | als | unrelated: Tosk Albanian |
| Ripuarian | ksh | Kölsch, one variety of the Ripuarian language |
| Bokmål | no | Norwegian in general, i.e. Bokmal ('nb'/'nob') and Nynorsk ('nn'/'nno'). Nynorsk correctly uses 'nn' |
| Albanian | sq | macrolanguage with four individual languages. |
| Malay | ms | macrolanguage that includes more than 30 individual languages |
| Bihari | bh | collective code 'ISO 639:bih' includes Bhojpuri bho, Maithili mai, Magahi mag and nine others [1] |
| Võro | fiu-vro | Not an ISO code. |
| Aromanian | roa-rup | Not an ISO code. 'roa' is Romance (Other). |
| Min Nan | zh-min-nan | Not an ISO code. 'min' is unrelated. |
| Samogitian | bat-smg | Not an ISO code. 'bat' is Baltic (Other), 'smg' is Simbali language. |
| Tarantino | roa-tara | Not an ISO code. 'roa' is Romance (Other). |
| Toki Pona | tokipona | Not an ISO code. As per this discussion, the Tokipona Wikipedia is locked. |
| Simple English | simple | Not an ISO code |
| Banyumasan | map-bms | Not an ISO code. 'map' is Austronesian (Other), bms is Bilma Kanuri, a language of Niger. |
| Dutch Low Saxon | nds-nl | Not an ISO code. nds is 'Low Saxon', restricted to Germany in Ethnologue. The Low Saxon dialects in the Netherlands have their own ISO codes. |
| Zamboanga Chavacano | cbk-zam | Not an ISO code, 'cbk' is Chavacano. zam is unrelated Miahuatlán Zapotec. |
| Old Belarusian | be-x-old | Not an ISO code |
| Classical Chinese | zh-classical | Not an ISO code. |
Size is given in decadic logarithm of number of articles. '6' means more than 1 000 000, '5' more than 100 000, '4' more than 10 000.
[edit] Comparison charts
[edit] By article count
| | | Article number of different languages families (06/09/09) | | | | As of August 2007, the English edition has around 3 times more articles than the second (German) and the third (French) | | | | Non-English biggest Wikipedias by article count (from German to Swedish, August 2007) | |
[edit] By number of user accounts
| | | As of August 2007, the English edition has roughly 10 times more user accounts than the second (Spanish) and the third (German) | | | | Non-English biggest Wikipedias by number of user accounts (from Spanish to Dutch, August 2007) | |
[edit] References
- ^ The Romansh Wikipedia was established in December 2003. According to an article from July 5, 2008 in Swissinfo.ch, the first two years were financed by a contribution of SFr60,000 ($58,502) from the canton and the federal government.
[edit] External links
| List of Wikipedias in different languages by number of articles | | | 1,000,000+ | | | | 500,000+ | | | | 250,000+ | | | | 100,000+ | | | | 50,000+ | | | | 10,000+ | | | | 1,000+ | | |
| African Language editions of Wikipedia by number of articles | | | 10,000+ | | | | 5,000+ | | | | 1,000+ | | | | 500+ | | | | 100+ | | | | 1+ | | |
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