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Spanish Wikipedia
The Spanish Wikipedia (Spanish: Wikipedia en español) is the Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. It has 2,105,459 articles. Started in May 2001, it reached 100,000 articles on 8 March 2006, and 1,000,000 articles on 16 May 2013. It is the 7th-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles and has the 4th-most edits. It also ranks 32nd in terms of article depth among Wikipedias.
Spanish Wikipedia has been criticized for being less reliable than the English and German Wikipedias, as well as more prone to disinformation from Russian government outlets. It has also been accused of whitewashing left-wing authoritarian regimes such as that of Cuba's, and for allowing damaging disinformation about living people who are critical of the left (see § Political bias section below). The Spanish edition has one of the lowest retentions of new editors. It has one of the highest edit revert rates and the second lowest number of administrators per active editors (0.38%), behind the Japanese Wikipedia.
In February 2002, Larry Sanger wrote an e-mail to a mailing list stating that Bomis was considering selling advertisements on Wikipedia. Edgar Enyedy, a user on the Spanish Wikipedia, objected to the proposal. Jimmy Wales and Sanger responded by saying that they did not immediately plan to implement advertisements, but Enyedy began establishing a fork. Enciclopedia Libre was established by 26 February 2002. Enyedy persuaded most of the Spanish Wikipedians into going to the fork. By the end of 2002, over 10,000 articles were posted on the new site, and the Spanish Wikipedia was inactive for the rest of the year. Andrew Lih wrote that "for a long time it seemed that Spanish Wikipeda [sic] would be the unfortunate runt left from the Spanish fork." The general popularity of Wikipedia attracted new users to the Spanish Wikipedia who were unfamiliar with the fork and these users came by June 2003.[clarification needed] By the end of that year the Spanish Wikipedia had over 10,000 articles. The size of the Spanish Wikipedia overtook that of the fork in the last months of 2004.
Lih stated in 2009 that the concepts of advertising and forking were still sensitive issues for the Wikipedia community because "It took more than a year for the Spanish Wikipedia to get back on its feet again" after the fork had been initiated.
After the spin-off, the Spanish Wikipedia had very little activity until the upgrade to the Phase III of the software, later renamed MediaWiki, when the number of new users started to increase again.[clarification needed][citation needed]
Ever since then, the Spanish Wikipedia has been far more active than Enciclopedia Libre was. By late 2024, Enciclopedia Libre had ceased operations.
The Spanish Wikipedia has the second most registered users, after the English Wikipedia, and the seventh most active users, after the English, French, German, Japanese, Italian and Chinese Wikipedias. It ranks among the worse Wikipedias in retention of new editors and has one of the highest edit revert rates. The Spanish Wikipedia has the second lowest number of administrators per active editors (0.13%), behind the Japanese edition.
It is ranked seventh for number of articles, below other Wikipedias devoted to languages with smaller numbers of speakers, such as German, French, Cebuano, and Dutch. In 2009, the percentage of articles whose size was above 2 KB was 40%, placing the Spanish Wikipedia as the second out of the ten largest Wikipedias after the German one. As of October 2012, the Spanish Wikipedia was the fourth Wikipedia in terms of the number of edits. As of December 2024, it is the sixth Wikipedia by the number of page views, behind the English, Japanese, Russian, German and French Wikipedias.
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Spanish Wikipedia
The Spanish Wikipedia (Spanish: Wikipedia en español) is the Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. It has 2,105,459 articles. Started in May 2001, it reached 100,000 articles on 8 March 2006, and 1,000,000 articles on 16 May 2013. It is the 7th-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles and has the 4th-most edits. It also ranks 32nd in terms of article depth among Wikipedias.
Spanish Wikipedia has been criticized for being less reliable than the English and German Wikipedias, as well as more prone to disinformation from Russian government outlets. It has also been accused of whitewashing left-wing authoritarian regimes such as that of Cuba's, and for allowing damaging disinformation about living people who are critical of the left (see § Political bias section below). The Spanish edition has one of the lowest retentions of new editors. It has one of the highest edit revert rates and the second lowest number of administrators per active editors (0.38%), behind the Japanese Wikipedia.
In February 2002, Larry Sanger wrote an e-mail to a mailing list stating that Bomis was considering selling advertisements on Wikipedia. Edgar Enyedy, a user on the Spanish Wikipedia, objected to the proposal. Jimmy Wales and Sanger responded by saying that they did not immediately plan to implement advertisements, but Enyedy began establishing a fork. Enciclopedia Libre was established by 26 February 2002. Enyedy persuaded most of the Spanish Wikipedians into going to the fork. By the end of 2002, over 10,000 articles were posted on the new site, and the Spanish Wikipedia was inactive for the rest of the year. Andrew Lih wrote that "for a long time it seemed that Spanish Wikipeda [sic] would be the unfortunate runt left from the Spanish fork." The general popularity of Wikipedia attracted new users to the Spanish Wikipedia who were unfamiliar with the fork and these users came by June 2003.[clarification needed] By the end of that year the Spanish Wikipedia had over 10,000 articles. The size of the Spanish Wikipedia overtook that of the fork in the last months of 2004.
Lih stated in 2009 that the concepts of advertising and forking were still sensitive issues for the Wikipedia community because "It took more than a year for the Spanish Wikipedia to get back on its feet again" after the fork had been initiated.
After the spin-off, the Spanish Wikipedia had very little activity until the upgrade to the Phase III of the software, later renamed MediaWiki, when the number of new users started to increase again.[clarification needed][citation needed]
Ever since then, the Spanish Wikipedia has been far more active than Enciclopedia Libre was. By late 2024, Enciclopedia Libre had ceased operations.
The Spanish Wikipedia has the second most registered users, after the English Wikipedia, and the seventh most active users, after the English, French, German, Japanese, Italian and Chinese Wikipedias. It ranks among the worse Wikipedias in retention of new editors and has one of the highest edit revert rates. The Spanish Wikipedia has the second lowest number of administrators per active editors (0.13%), behind the Japanese edition.
It is ranked seventh for number of articles, below other Wikipedias devoted to languages with smaller numbers of speakers, such as German, French, Cebuano, and Dutch. In 2009, the percentage of articles whose size was above 2 KB was 40%, placing the Spanish Wikipedia as the second out of the ten largest Wikipedias after the German one. As of October 2012, the Spanish Wikipedia was the fourth Wikipedia in terms of the number of edits. As of December 2024, it is the sixth Wikipedia by the number of page views, behind the English, Japanese, Russian, German and French Wikipedias.