Irish Wikipedia
Encyclopedia
The Irish Wikipedia is the Irish-language
version of Wikipedia
, run by the Wikimedia Foundation
and established in October 2003, with the first article being written in January 2004.
The founder of Vicipéid was Gabriel Beecham. In September 2005 over 1600 articles had been written, with 173 contributors (both regular and irregular) having written material. By March 2007, about 20 regular Wikipedians were writing articles, with up to seven thousand articles having been created. As of February 2011, it had well over 12,000 articles, making it the 92nd largest Wikipedia by article count.
Vicipéid has been favourably received by Irish-language media. In his paper on Putting the learning back into learning technology, Barry McMullin of Dublin City University suggested that while the Irish Wikipedia is never likely to contain as many articles as the Wikipedias in the world's most widespread languages, it is still a useful resource. He felt that when seeking knowledge about certain topic areas it was likely to be more useful than the Wikipedias in English and other languages, because of its evolution to contain the only, primary or definitive Wikipedia articles in any language on those areas. Other academic sources have emphasised the site's educational value.
Irish language
Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
version of Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,...
, run by the Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an American non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, and organized under the laws of the state of Florida, where it was initially based...
and established in October 2003, with the first article being written in January 2004.
The founder of Vicipéid was Gabriel Beecham. In September 2005 over 1600 articles had been written, with 173 contributors (both regular and irregular) having written material. By March 2007, about 20 regular Wikipedians were writing articles, with up to seven thousand articles having been created. As of February 2011, it had well over 12,000 articles, making it the 92nd largest Wikipedia by article count.
Vicipéid has been favourably received by Irish-language media. In his paper on Putting the learning back into learning technology, Barry McMullin of Dublin City University suggested that while the Irish Wikipedia is never likely to contain as many articles as the Wikipedias in the world's most widespread languages, it is still a useful resource. He felt that when seeking knowledge about certain topic areas it was likely to be more useful than the Wikipedias in English and other languages, because of its evolution to contain the only, primary or definitive Wikipedia articles in any language on those areas. Other academic sources have emphasised the site's educational value.
External links
Vicipéid Irish Wikipedia mobile version (not fully supported)- Statistics for Irish Wikipedia by Erik Zachte