The Guarani Wikipedia ( gn, Vikipetã) is the
Guarani language
Guaraní (), specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guarani ( "the people's language"), is a South American language that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani family of the Tupian languages. It is one of the official languages of P ...
edition of the free online encyclopedia
Wikipedia
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History
This Wikipedia was created in 2005, thanks to the unusual collaboration between the Lithuanian Šarūnas Šimkus, then a teenager, and Paraguayan academic
David Galeano Olivera. The idea is to promote the usage and modernisation of the Guarani language.
In December de 2012,
Wikimedia Argentina published a booklet, "Vikipetã mbo’eha kotýpe", devoted to this version of the virtual encyclopedia.
Several workshops on Guarani Wikipedia have been carried out throughout Paraguay, jointly organized by Wikimedia Argentina and Fundación Paraguay Educa (an institution working on the
OLPC project).
The University of Leipzig has elaborated a corpus based on Guarani Wikipedia.
Users and editors
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External links
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/gn.wikipedia.org/ Guarani Wikipedia
Guarani Wikipedia (mobile)
Guarani languages
Guarani
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