Groups
of enthusiasts in Catalunya have ensured something truly
remarkable.
“A
study
by Mark Graham (@geoplace),
researcher at Oxford University...shows that 35,000 [*Wikipedia]
articles have been created in Spanish territory with coordinates in
Catalan, [compared to only] 19,000 in Spanish.”
In other
words, there are currently more entries for the whole of Spain in
Catalan than in Castillian Spanish.
Also
quite impressive is the fact that the Catalan language is ranked
“first place in an index
compiled by the Wikimedia Foundation, which measures the quality
of the thousand most important articles.”
“The
Catalan version of Wikipedia...has become central to the activism
around the language...Àlex Hinojo, project manager at Wikimediacat
and creator of@CatalanMuseums,
says:
Many people say they edit because it's fun, they can provide more information about a topic…and they are building a country. Catalan-speaking civil society always maintains a certain activism in favour of its language, just as it does with other topics.
Read
more here
at Global Voices.
Note:
To my mind, *Wikipedia is a sometimes unreliable source of
information and can only be completely trusted when an
article's sources are credible.
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| WikiMarathon at Drassanes Reials (Barcelona), on Wikipedia's 12th anniversary. March 2013. Photo by @Kippelboy. |
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