The Vietnamese Wikipedia ( vi, Wikipedia tiếng Việt) is the Vietnamese-language edition of

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, a free, publicly editable, online encyclopedia supported by the

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. As with other language editions of Wikipedia, the project's content is both created and accessed using the

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software. The Vietnamese Wikipedia's primary competitor is the '' Encyclopedic Dictionary of Vietnam'' (''Từ điển Bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam''), a state-funded encyclopedic dictionary also available online.

Content

As of , it has about articles. It is the fifth largest Wikipedia in a non-European language, as well as the third largest for a language which is official in only one country. As of 2019, it had only 449,000 articles manually created, with 63% of its articles having been made by bots, thus ranking 3rd among non-European language Wikipedias after the Japanese and Chinese ones at the time.

History

The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the

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. The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003 and the newer,

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-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after. By August 2008, the Vietnamese Wikipedia had grown to more than 50,000 articles – a milestone it achieved on August 26 – approximately 432 of which were created by bots.Data compiled using Escaladix's created articles list and a list of bots at the Vietnamese Wikipedia. By the time the project reached the 100,000-article milestone on September 12, 2009, bot-generated articles made up around 5% of its corpus. Short articles are designated "stubs"; such articles number in the tens of thousands and include most of the bot-generated articles. Wikipedia:Bài sơ khai at the Vietnamese Wikipedia. An experimental Wikipedia edition in the obsolete

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script began in October 2006 at the Wikimedia Incubator. It was deleted in April 2010. An unrelated wiki encyclopedia project, VinaWiki, transliterates Vietnamese Wikipedia articles into chữ Nôm as part of a project to revive the script. On June 23, 2014, Vietnam Wikipedians Community has agree to accept using bots to generate articles. The volunteer-led Vietnam Wikimedians User Group supports the development of the Vietnamese Wikipedia and other Vietnamese-language Wikimedia projects. It gained formal recognition as a Wikimedia user group on 28 August 2018. File:Wikipedia-logo-vi balloons.png, Vietnamese Wikipedia's 10,000 article logo File:Wikipedia-logo-vi 30000.png, Vietnamese Wikipedia's 30,000 article logo File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-tet.png, New Year 2008 File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-50000.png, Vietnamese Wikipedia's 50,000 article logo File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-75000.PNG, Vietnamese Wikipedia's 75,000 article logo File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-100000.png, Vietnamese Wikipedia's 100,000 article logo File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-tet2010.png, New Year 2010 File:Logo-vi-wiki-Tet-Tan-Mao.png, New Year 2011 File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-200000.png, Vietnamese Wikipedia's 200,000 article logo File:Wikipedia-vi logo, Tết Nhâm Thìn (5).png, New Year 2012 Vietnamese Wikipedia's 250,000 article logo File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-500000.png, Vietnamese Wikipedia's 500,000 article logo (28 September 2012) File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-tet-QuyTy.png, New Year 2013 File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-750000.png, Vietnamese Wikipedia's 750,000 article logo File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-tet-GiapNgo2.png, New Year 2014 File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-1000000-2.svg, Vietnamese Wikipedia's 1,000,000 article logo (15 June 2014) File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-tet-at-mui.png, New Year 2015 File:Logo Wikipedia tiếng Việt tết Bính Thân 2016.png, New Year 2016 File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-tet-dinh-dau-2.svg, New Year 2017 File:Wikipedia-logo-vi-tet-mau-tuat-3.svg, New Year 2018 File:Tết Wikipedia Logo 2019 (Kỷ Hợi) v1.svg, New Year 2019 File:Tết Canh Tý 2020.png, New Year 2020 File:Vietnamese Wikipedia's 1,250,000 article.png, Vietnamese Wikipedia's 1,250,000 article logo File:WP20 ViWiki20 Logo.svg, 20 Year Wikipedia File:2021 Wikipedia Logo Vietnamese New Year (LX).svg, New Year 2021 File:Logo Wikipedia tiếng Việt Tết Nhâm Dần 2022 (Artwork Version).png, New Year 2022 The Vietnamese Wikipedia's article count reached 500,000 on 28 September 2012 and 1,000,000 on 15 June 2014.

Software

The Vietnamese Wikipedia uses AVIM, a

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-based

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that allows the user to type accented Vietnamese text in popular input methods, such as

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and

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. (See Vietnamese language and computers.) The preferred input system can be selected using a box under the sidebar.

Characteristics

* The Vietnamese edition of the failed

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proposal on importance is a formal guideline.

Vandalism

Vandalism on the Vietnamese Wikipedia has been covered by the media in Vietnam. Several newspapers have reported about Vietnamese Wikipedia users vandalizing content, mainly articles about singers, actors or characters. These newspapers can cover the news as soon as a program occurs. Some people are victims of content vandalism such as: Hồ Ngọc Hà, Bảo Thy, Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên (MC) and Kỳ Duyên (miss) or

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and other topics. Miss Đỗ Mỹ Linh was also in a spiral of the same name, similar to the case between anchor and Miss Kỳ Duyên in 2014.

References

External links

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Vietnamese Wikipedia
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Vietnamese Wikipedia mobile version

Vietnam Wikimedians User Group
{{Authority control Wikipedias by language Vietnamese-language encyclopedias Internet properties established in 2002 2002 establishments in Vietnam Vietnamese-language websites