The Slovene Wikipedia ( sl, Slovenska Wikipedija) is the
Slovene-language edition of the free online encyclopedia
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read refer ...
. It has been active since 26 February 2002. On 15 August 2010, it reached 100,000 articles. As of , it has about articles.
Wikipedia is a widely used reference work and one of the most visited
social networking services by users from
Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...
, but official internet usage statistics do not distinguish between Wikipedia editions, analyzing only the base
domain wikipedia.org. In most cases, the Slovene-language edition gets a passing note of its existence in media reports about Wikipedia in general. However, as a relatively large and freely accessible body of structured knowledge, Slovene Wikipedia has been used, as an example, for building
text corpora
In linguistics, a corpus (plural ''corpora'') or text corpus is a language resource consisting of a large and structured set of texts (nowadays usually electronically stored and processed). In corpus linguistics, they are used to do statistical ...
for the purpose of training
linguistic software and analyzing Slovene literary authors' web presence. There are several successful collaboration projects with professors at the
University of Ljubljana
The University of Ljubljana ( sl, Univerza v Ljubljani, , la, Universitas Labacensis), often referred to as UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 39,000 enrolled students.
History Beginnings
Although certain ...
, using content creation by students as a teaching method.
Active Wikipedians from Slovenia have also been featured in discussions about Wikipedia (both general and Slovene-language specific) in national media.
Milestones
* 100 articles - June 18, 2002
* 1,000 articles - September 30, 2003
* 10,000 articles - February 7, 2005
* 20,000 articles - December 17, 2005
* 30,000 articles - June 30, 2006
* 40,000 articles - February 15, 2007
* 50,000 articles - July 17, 2007
* 100,000 articles - August 15, 2010
* 150,000 articles - March 31, 2016
References
External links
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Slovene Wikipedia
Vse najboljše, Wikipedija!.
appy Birthday, Wikipedia! Radio interview on
Val 202 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Slovene Wikipedia. RTV Slovenija. Accessed on 25 February 2012.
Wikipedias by language
Internet properties established in 2002
Slovene-language mass media
Volunteering in Slovenia
Slovenian encyclopedias
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