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Galician Wikipedia

The Galician Wikipedia (Galician: Wikipedia en lingua galega), also popularly known as Galipedia (Galician: Galipedia), is the Galician-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia.

Launched on 8 March 2003, it has 230,686 articles, making it the fifty-first-largest edition of Wikipedia by number of articles as of 5 April 2026, after having reached 100,000 articles on 4 March 2013, four days before its tenth anniversary. It has the 47th-most edits and also ranks 53rd in terms of article depth among Wikipedias. At the start of 2013, 101,305 different images were used.

For a chronological list of Galipedia events, see gl:Wikipedia:Actualidade. There are also statistics pages, including gl:Especial:Estatísticas and gl:Wikipedia:Estatísticas.

The first user, ILVI, registered on March 8, 2003, and quickly began working on what would be the first version of the Main Page. Four days later he created the first article in the database: grupo (group). He would continue with other entries such as ou (or), cal (calcium oxide), ciencias naturais (natural science), ciencias humanas (human science), ciencias ocultas (occult), ciencias aplicadas (applied science) and botánica (botany).

Months later, Agremon registered and became the first administrator of the Galician Wikipedia. He was the one who first used the term Galipedia to refer to the project, which had still only existed for less than a year. Little by little, Galipedia was mentioned in some newspapers, websites, and other sources, which were interested in the work done on it.

As the Galician version of Wikipedia, it is a collaborative encyclopedia written in the Galician language. It is open to any type of contribution, and accepts various currents of thought, as long as they are not aggressive. It accepts all possible topics, from sport and the cuisine of each country, to the biographies of people in physics, astronomy, and linguistics, to history, for example that of the Kingdom of Galicia.

It differs from encyclopedias in use mainly in two aspects. On the one hand, it enjoys exorbitant growth, while, on the other, it highlights its ability to absorb information and adapt it practically immediately. Thus, for example, obituaries or news considered transcendent and encyclopedic in nature are on many occasions included in Galipedia in a matter of hours, or even minutes. This is also possible through contact with other languages' versions of Wikipedia, of which there are more than 300, from which translations or templates are obtained.

The license it uses is the so-called GNU Free Documentation License.

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