The Ladin Wikipedia is the

Ladin-language Ladin ( , ; autonym: ; ; ) is a Romance language of the Rhaeto-Romance subgroup, mainly spoken in the Dolomite Mountains in Northern Italy in the provinces of South Tyrol, Trentino, and Belluno, by the Ladin people. It exhibits similariti ...

edition of

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, a free, open-content encyclopedia. Started in August 2020, it has articles as of and active registered users. It reached 10,000 articles in January 2022 and 40,000 in June 2022. The Ladin Wikipedia should not be confused with the ''Ladino'' Wikipedia (another name for Judaeo-Spanish Wikipedia) or the

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History

The Ladin Wikipedia started as a project on

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in 2005. Due to the existence of many dialects of the

Ladin language Ladin ( , ; autonym: ; ; ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Rhaeto-Romance languages, Rhaeto-Romance subgroup, mainly spoken in the Dolomites, Dolomite Mountains in Northern Italy in the provinces of South Tyrol, Trentino, an ...

and a weak spread in the usage of standard Ladin, it took a long time to become a definitive project of Wikipedia: about 15 years from the creation of the project and 3 years from the beginning of the participation of the institutions. It reached its first 1000 articles on 14 November 2019, while it was still a test wiki on Wikimedia Incubator.

Features

The articles can be written in standard Ladin (''Ladin Dolomitan'') or in one of the five different dialects: ''Gherdëina'', ''Badiot'', ''Fascian'', ''Fodom,'' ''Anpezan'' (the latter two are almost never used). The Ladin Wikipedia has one of the highest article per speaker ratios with around five articles for each native speaker.

References

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