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1. • • Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has hosted 306 different language versions. Compared to the roughly 7,000 languages spoken in the world this number can seem small, but considering just 23 languages are spoken by more than half the world’s population, these 306 cover a broad swath of humanity.
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   How many languages does Wikipedia have?

   • [PDF↓] Although we have only considered a tiny subset of the 300 Wikipedia languages, we have noted some striking differences in content coverage between them. Overall we find that Wikipedia’s language editions vary widely in scale, both in terms of number of articles, but also in terms of the size of their editor communities.

   The language geography of Wikipedia - State of the Internet's Languages

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   How many Wikipedia language editions are there?

   • The Wikipedia article “ List of Wikipedias ” offers basic information and general statistics about the 300 Wikipedia language editions. Part of our analysis relies on data dumps by the Wikimedia Foundation, i.e. downloadable data sets that capture basic information about the articles and edit activity of the various Wikipedia language editions.

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   Is there a language on Wikipedia?

   • A year later, it was moved to Wikia (also known as Fandom), which is a website hosted on the same open-source wiki software as Wikipedia. Wikipedia does allow constructed languages like Esperanto and Volapük, but not one specifically designed for a fictional alien race. What Are The Biggest Languages On Wikipedia?

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   How big are Wikipedia's language editions?

   • Overall we find that Wikipedia’s language editions vary widely in scale, both in terms of number of articles, but also in terms of the size of their editor communities. English Wikipedia is by far the largest on both counts, and by comparison, the average Wikipedia language edition only has a small fraction of its content.

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › History_of_WikipediaHistory of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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   On 8 July 2018, the French Wikipedia exceeded 2,000,000 articles, becoming the fifth Wikipedia language edition to do so. On 14 October 2018, the Arabic Wikipedia exceeded 1,000,000 articles, becoming the sixteenth Wikipedia language edition to do so.

4. internetlanguages.org › en › numbersThe language geography of Wikipedia - State of the Internet's ...

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   Figure 1 compares the amount of Wikipedia content in the 10 most widely spoken languages with the number of people speaking these languages, including second-language speakers, as estimated by Ethnologue.

5. www.statista.com › most-common-languages-wikipediaChart: The Most Common Languages on Wikipedia | Statista

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   Jan 13, 2021 · The Most Common Languages on Wikipedia. 20 Years of Wikipedia. by. Katharina Buchholz , Jan 13, 2021. Online encyclopedia Wikipedia went online twenty years ago on Jan. 15, 2001. Since then, the...

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   Nov 14, 2019 · How Many Languages Are On Wikipedia? Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has hosted 306 different language versions. Compared to the roughly 7,000 languages spoken in the world this number can seem small, but considering just 23 languages are spoken by more than half the world’s population, these 306 cover a broad swath of humanity.

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   Jan 15, 2015 · It has a stunning 1.5 million entries in 76 languages–and counting. Academics are upset by what they see as info anarchy. (An Encyclopaedia Britannica editor once compared Wikipedia to a...

9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Evolution_of_languagesEvolution of languages - Wikipedia

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   Linguistics. The evolution of languages or history of language includes the evolution, divergence and development of languages throughout time, as reconstructed based on glottochronology, comparative linguistics, written records and other historical linguistics techniques.

10. www.pewresearch.org › 2016/01/14 › wikipedia-at-15Wikipedia at 15: Millions of readers in scores of languages

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    Jan 14, 2016 · The first non-English versions launched shortly after the Wikipedia’s founding in 2001, with offerings in six languages – German, Catalan, Swedish, French, Spanish and Russian. Today, the site is available in 280 languages.