Wednesday, June 11, 2014

WARAY-WARAY WIKIMEDIA: 1st Asian Wikipedia to hit 1-M articles, one of top 10 Wikepedia in the world




EASTERN VISAYANS who speak Waray can make research at the Wikimedia in their own tongue. Yes, through the Waray-Waray Wikipedia by logging on to war.wikipedia.org.


The Waray-Waray Wikipedia a Visayan version of the open-source online encyclopedia,  is currently among the top ten wikipedias in the world in terms of the number of articles, Mr. Butch Bustria of Wikipedia Philippines, the umbrella organization of Wikipedia projects in the country, said. It has reached over 2.9 million page views in April alone. 

The Waray-Waray Wikipedia was activated on September 25, 2005, by Harvey Fiji from Tacloban. The contributors held their first local meet-up in January 2013 at the Leyte Provincial Capitol, Tacloban with the help of PIA Regional Director Olive Tiu.

As of this writing, it contains over 1,003,000 articles. 

The Waray-Waray Wikipedia, which is run by the global Wikimedia Foundation has now at least 2,098,833 pages, 77 active users, and 4,987,588 edits. 

The Waray-Waray Wikipedia has already surpassed one million articles. It reached the 1 million mark last June 8 with the distinction of being the first Asian Wikipedia project to do so.  

Other Philippine tongues with their own Wikipedias include: Cebuano, Bicol, Chavacano (Zamboanga City), Ilocano, Kapampangan, Pangasinan and Tagalog. opt

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