Greek_Wikipedia
Greek Wikipedia
Greek language edition of Wikipedia
The Greek Wikipedia (also Hellenic Wikipedia, Elliniki Vikipedia, Greek: Ελληνική Βικιπαίδεια) is the Greek-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. It was started on December 1, 2002. It surpassed the 10,000 article mark on May 16, 2006, the 100,000 article mark on April 9, 2014, and the 200,000 article mark on November 27, 2021. As of April 27, 2024, it is the 49th largest Wikipedia, behind Kazakh Wikpedia and ahead of Minangkabau Wikipedia.
Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
|---|---|
| Available in | Greek |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | el.wikipedia.org |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | December 1, 2002; 21 years ago (2002-12-01) |
| Current status | Active |
The Greek Wikipedia community has organized some meetups as well. Since 2011, the Wikimedia User Group Greece has aided in the organization of various promotional activities, as well as some article contests. Greek Wikipedia is the main free internet encyclopedia written in Greek. As of 2018, Greek Wikipedia's pageviews surpassed the 250 million mark annually.[1]
As of April 27, 2024, the Greek Wikipedia:[3]
- is 49th-largest by number of articles (234,525)
- has 22 administrators
- has 420,424 registered users, of whom 927 were active
- has 10,516,543 edits
As of May 2019, Greek Wikipedia is usually visited by 5,500,000 to 6,500,000 unique devices per month,[4] while the unique devices per day are approximately 440,000.[5]
The origin of pageviews is mainly from Greece. The remainder of the pageviews comes from Cyprus, Germany, United States, United Kingdom and other countries.[6] As of May 2019, Greece is the source for the bulk of the pageviews, being the source for nearly 27,000,000 pageviews out of 32,500,000 on the same month.[7]
As of May 2019, Greek Wikipedia receives approximately 30,000,000 pageviews per month, with a peak at winter months.[8] Together with an increasing number of articles and improvements on quality, the pageviews have improved substantially in the last three years.[8]
Since 2017, the annual article growth amounts to 15,000 articles annually, while the average monthly growth amounts to 1,020-1,300 articles per month. In 2021 a new record of new articles has been reached, as more than 17,000 articles have been created since the beginning of the year, while the previous record was with 16,510 in 2017. Users with at least one edit during 2021 are expected to surpass 8,500, while in 2020 it was 8,012 and 7,453 in 2019.
The daily pageviews of Greek Wikipedia vary within the year; peaking in the winter period (late November to mid March), while the months with the least page views are usually June, July and August.
Early years
Greek Wikipedia was created on 1 December 2002. At the first months of existence, the new articles were very small and a handful of users were contributing, some of them just adding interwikis to other Wikipedias.[9] The first Wikiproject was launched in November 2005.[9] Its main competitor at the time was LivePedia [el], started in 2004, which had more than 100,000 articles. Many articles of Livepedia were republished articles from donations of various publishing houses and the site was also a wiki. Approximately 250 articles are coming at least partially from Livepedia, thanks to the Livepedia's use of GFDL until November 1, 2008.
Article count
The Greek Wikipedia was created on 4 December 2002. On 16 May 2006 it reached 10,000 articles. On 10 October 2006 it reached 15,000 articles, while on 17 March 2007 it reached 20,000 articles. On this period there were 30 new articles being created every day, while there were 50 active users.[10] In December of that year the Greek Wikipedia reached 30,000 articles,[11] while on 14 February 2009 it reached 40,000 articles. Fourteen months later, on 10 April 2010, it reached 50,000 articles; eleven months later, on 8 March 2011 it reached 60,000 articles. In February 2012 it had 70,000 articles, while 252 days later it reached 80,000 articles.
In July 2013, it reached 90,000 articles, while 271 days later it reached 100,000 articles, while 195 days later it reached 110,000 articles. On 11 July 2016, after 629 days, it reached 120,000 articles, due to the general recount of late March 2015 which removed several thousand redirects from the mainspace.[12] As a result, the article count fell to 105,500 articles, while before the recount the article count was 119,500 articles.[13] Greek Wikipedia is maintaining a pace of growth of around 15,000 articles per year. This trends are generally stable since 2017, when previously Greek Wikipedia had usually 10,000 to 25,000 articles.
| Number of articles | Date | Days intervening |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 December 2002 | |
| 10,000 | 16 May 2006 | 1262 |
| 20,000 | 17 March 2007 | 305 |
| 30,000 | 27 December 2007 | 285 |
| 40,000 | 14 February 2009 | 415 |
| 50,000 | 10 April 2010 | 420 |
| 60,000 | 8 March 2011 | 332 |
| 70,000 | 22 February 2012 | 351 |
| 80,000 | 1 November 2012 | 254 |
| 90,000 | 12 July 2013 | 252 |
| 100,000 | 9 April 2014 | 271 |
| 110,000 | 21 October 2014 | 195 |
| 120,000 | 11 July 2016 | 629 |
| 130,000 | 18 April 2017 | 281 |
| 140,000 | 23 November 2017 | 219 |
| 150,000 | 1 August 2018 | 250 |
| 160,000 | 17 March 2019 | 227 |
| 170,000 | 9 November 2019 | 238 |
| 180,000 | 24 July 2020 | 259 |
| 190,000 | 21 March 2021 | 249 |
| 200,000 | 27 November 2021 | 251 |
| Number of user accounts | Number of articles | Number of files | Number of administrators |
|---|---|---|---|
| 420424 | 234525 | 18992 | 22 |
- Greek Wikipedia's 20,000 articles special logo
- Greek Wikipedia's 30,000 articles special logo
- Greek Wikipedia's 50,000 articles special logo
- Greek Wikipedia's 100,000 articles special logo (9 April 2014)
- Special logo for the 10-year anniversary since the foundation of Greek Wikipedia
- Special logo for the 20-year anniversary since the foundation of Greek Wikipedia
In the press, Wikipedia has been referred as a good source of information;[14] however, periodically it has been criticised for having a non-neutral point of view in politics-related articles. Also, Greek Wikipedia has received extensive coverage from the Greek-language press for some of its actions, such as the anniversary of 10 years since its opening.[15][16] In addition to, full articles of Greek Wikipedia or parts of them are often included in news articles and other websites in the Greek language.
- "Wikimedia Statistics - Ελληνικά Βικιπαίδεια - total page views". stats.wikimedia.org. Archived from the original on 24 January 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- "Wikimedia Statistics - Ελληνικά Βικιπαίδεια - Unique devices". Wikimedia Statistics. Archived from the original on 24 January 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- "Wikimedia Statistics - Ελληνικά Βικιπαίδεια - Unique devices". stats.wikimedia.org. Archived from the original on 24 January 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- "Wikimedia Statistics - Ελληνικά Βικιπαίδεια - Pageviews by country". Wikimedia Statistics. Archived from the original on 24 January 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- "Wikimedia Statistics - Ελληνικά Βικιπαίδεια - Page views by country". Wikimedia Statistics. June 1, 2019. Archived from the original on January 24, 2020. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
- "Wikimedia Statistics - Ελληνικά Βικιπαίδεια - Total page views". Wikimedia Statistics. Archived from the original on 24 January 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- "History of Greek Wikipedia". el.wikipedia.org. Archived from the original on 2015-10-17. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
- Website In.Gr, Ξεπέρασε τα 30.000 λήμματα η ελληνική έκδοση της Wikipedia, 27/12/2007
- Κώστας Ονισένκο, Εγκυκλοπαίδεια που εμπλουτίζεται καθημερινά Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, Εφημ. Καθημερινή της Κυριακής, σ. 34., 24/03/2007
- "10 χρόνια "κλείνει" η Βικιπαίδεια | Διαδίκτυο | Η ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ" [Wikipedia becomes 10 years old]. I Kathimerini's website, kathimerini.gr. 3 December 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- "10 χρόνια Βικιπαίδεια: Οι αριθμοί λένε πως έχουμε εγκυκλοπαιδικές γνώσεις" [Wikipedia 10 years: The numbers say that we have encyclopedic khowledges]. in.gr. 3 December 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
Press
- Εύη Γκολώνη (Evi Goloni), Wikipedia. Η διαδικτυακή εγκυκλοπαίδεια ενηλικιώνεται (Wikipedia. The Internet encyclopedia becomes an adult), Popular Science, τ. (volume) 44, page 23, May 2006).
- Ανδρονίκη Κολοβού (Androniki Kolovu), "Wikipedia" Η ελεύθερη διαδικτυακή εγκυκλοπαίδεια για τους λάτρεις της γνώσης (Wikipedia, the free Internet encyclopedia for knowledge lovers), τεύχος (volume) "Η ζωή μας" (our life), ΠΡΩΤΟ ΘΕΜΑ (Proto Thema), 2 July 2006.
- Ηλίας Μαγκλίνη (Ilias Maglini), Η παγκόσμια κοινότητα της Wikipedia, Ελληνικά: πλούτος και σκουπίδια (The global community of Wikipedia, Hellenic: wealth and trash), Η Καθημερινή (I Kathimerini), ένθετο (submagazine) Τέχνες και Γράμματα (Arts and letters), 20 August 2006).
- Εύη Ελευθεριάδου (Evi Eleftheriadu), Οι Έλληνες της Βικιπαίδειας (The Hellenes of Wikipedia), ένθετο (submagazine) "Ορίζοντες" (Horizons), Τα Νέα, 13 December 2006.
- Greek Wikipedia mobile version (in Greek)
- Statistics for Greek Wikipedia (Deprecated) by Erik Zachte
- Wikimedia Statistics - Greek Wikipedia Archived 2020-01-24 at the Wayback Machine
- Tell us about Greek Wikipedia
- Wikimedia User Group Greece official website (in Greek)
Other Wikipedias in Hellenic languages
- Pontic Wikipedia
- Ancient Greek Wikipedia (test-wiki, Wikimedia Incubator) (in Ancient Greek)