The Silesian Wikipedia ( szl, Ślůnsko Wikipedyjo / Ślōnskŏ Wikipedyjŏ) is the

Silesian Silesian as an adjective can mean anything from or related to Silesia. As a noun, it refers to an article, item, or person of or from Silesia. Silesian may also refer to: People and languages * Silesians, inhabitants of Silesia, either a West S ...

edition of Wikipedia. It was started on 26 May 2008.

History

Silesian Wikipedia screenshot - 2008-05-26

The first attempt to launch the Silesian Wikipedia project took place in March 2006, but because of negative comments in the discussion section, the proposal was rejected. In 2007 Wikipedia officially registered the Silesian language in its list of languages. The International Linguistic Organization

SIL International SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics) is an evangelical Christian non-profit organization whose main purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially those that are lesser-known, in order to ex ...

followed this step on 18 July 2007 and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigned it the ISO code "szl". A second application for a Wikipedia project in the Silesian language was submitted on 19 March 2008 as a result of discussions on the removal of articles written in Silesian language, which remained in the Polish edition of Wikipedia (in Silesia Wikiproject). After the initial acceptance of the proposal (100% positive, 0% negative votes) 31 March 2008, a test project was created in the Incubator Wikimedia projects. The following month it contained 100 articles in Silesian, including more than 1,800 separate pages. After two months all eight requirements necessary to create a new Wikipedia were implemented and finally Silesian Wikipedia was founded on 26 May 2008. The 1,000th article was included on 15 November 2008. In October 2010, the Silesian Wikipedia was mentioned as one of the arguments for Silesian to become one of the regional languages in Poland. The project of the law implementing Silesian as a regional language was introduced to Sejm by parliament member

Marek Plura Marek Mirosław Plura (18 July 1970 – 20 January 2023) was a Polish politician, social activist, and psychotherapist. He was a two-time member of the Polish Parliament and served as Member of the European Parliament A Member of the E ...

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