The French Wikipedia (French French is a Romance language spoken as a first language by about 136 million people worldwide. Around 190 million people speak French as a second language, and an additional 200 million speak it as an acquired foreign language. French speaking communities are present in 57 countries and territories. Most native speakers of the language live in: Wikipédia francophone, Wikipédia en français) is the French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language by about 136 million people worldwide. Around 190 million people speak French as a second language, and an additional 200 million speak it as an acquired foreign language. French speaking communities are present in 57 countries and territories. Most native speakers of the language live in edition of Wikipedia Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 16 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site. Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales, spelt Wikipédia. Started in March 2001, this edition has over 973,000 articles and is the third largest Wikipedia after the English language The English Wikipedia is the English language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Founded on January 15, 2001 and reaching three million articles by August 2009, it was the first edition of Wikipedia and remains the largest, with more than three times as many articles as the next largest, the German Wikipedia. As of 2010[update], 20 and German language The German Wikipedia is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and mostly publicly editable online encyclopedia. It is the second largest Wikipedia, after the English Wikipedia, and was one of the first to be created editions.
Wikipedians by countryTimeline
- 2001
- 19 May: First recorded date: [1]
- 6 June: First known main page: [2] (Including the participation of Valéry Beaud and Buzz).
- 2002
- June: A new logo (in green colour and quite different from the logo used on the other Wikipedias) is displayed in an initiative from Rinaldum. This autonomist move is criticised because all French Wikipedians had not been consulted, but the logo is kept.
- August: The first sysops, Anthere, Aoineko and Shaihulud are appointed after a disagreement with user Mulot. The first IP is blocked.
- 31 October: Phase III began.
- December: A strong increase of activity is reported. It can be analysed as serial vandalism from a bot, and all subsequent corrections. After this new kind of vandalism, the software is changed in order to enable quicker reverts (rollback link available for sysops only).
- 2003
- January: A strong decrease of activity, essentially due to the slowing down of servers, thus limiting participation.
- 6 February: Coloured "Putsch" on the main page: Before → After. The new design, authored by Aoineko, is subsequently reused by other language versions (including Polish and English The English Wikipedia is the English language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Founded on January 15, 2001 and reaching three million articles by August 2009, it was the first edition of Wikipedia and remains the largest, with more than three times as many articles as the next largest, the German Wikipedia. As of 2010[update], 20 Wikipedias).
- 7 February: 5,000 articles.
- 19 February: 6,000 articles.
- 7 March: 7,000 articles.
- 27 March: 8,000 articles.
- 13 April: Overtakes Polish Wikipedia to become the third largest Wikipedia, behind the English Wikipedia The English Wikipedia is the English language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Founded on January 15, 2001 and reaching three million articles by August 2009, it was the first edition of Wikipedia and remains the largest, with more than three times as many articles as the next largest, the German Wikipedia. As of 2010[update], 20 and German Wikipedia The German Wikipedia is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and mostly publicly editable online encyclopedia. It is the second largest Wikipedia, after the English Wikipedia, and was one of the first to be created with 9,051 articles.
- 15 May: 10,000 articles.
- 18 May: The main page has been viewed 100,000 times since the counter was implemented.
- 7 July: Wikipédia has 20,000 pages, including about 12,800 articles.
- mid-July: The number of pages calculation is modified. According to the old calculation mode detecting at least a comma, 13,058 encyclopaedia articles are present, and the new calculation that detects at least one link, indicates 13,789 articles.
- 5 August: 15,000 articles; over 20,000 changes have been recorded since the implementation of phase III software.
- 20 August: Inhibition of some functions in order to increase performance.
- 4 September: 16,000 articles.
- ? October: New logo.
- 3–11 November: Papotages is the first user blocked forever as the author of severe and repeated vandalism.
- 17 November: Lorraine is the first article of the week. 38 users participated in its redaction.
- 22 November: 20,000 articles.
- 2004
- 26 January: 25,000 articles.
- 14 March: 30,000 articles.
- End of March: Switch to UTF-8 UTF-8 is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set, but unlike them it has the special property of being backwards-compatible with ASCII. For this reason, it is steadily becoming the dominant character encoding for files, e-mail, web pages, and.
- 1 May: 35,000 articles.
- 16 June: 40,000 articles.
- 23 July: 45,000 articles.
- 29 August: 50,000 articles with nèfle.
- 2 November at 23:33: 60,000 articles with Lord Yarborough.
- 22 December: 70,000 articles with Borée.
- 2005
- 6 February: 80,000 articles.
- 14 March: 90,000 articles.
- 21 April: 100,000 articles with Pierre Séguier.
- June : Opening of the first Atelier graphique (Graphic Lab), with wikigraphists improving submitted images.
- 4 December: 200,000 articles with George Corliss.
- 2006
- 4 March: 250,000 articles with John Anglin.
- 10 June: 300,000 articles with Federal Government (Germany).
- 24 November: 400,000 articles with Neuropathie.
- 2007
- 2 May: During the 2007 French presidential debates French presidential debates traditionally occur between the two rounds of the presidential elections, and are broadcast on TV, the article about the EPRs (Réacteur pressurisé européen) undergoes numerous edits after a mistake of Nicolas Sarkozy Nicolas Sarkozy, Co-Prince of Andorra (pronounced [nikɔla saʁkɔzi] , born Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa on 28 January 1955) is the 23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He assumed the office on 16 May 2007 after defeating the then Socialist Party candidate Ségolène Royal 10 days on the generation number (4 instead of 3).[1]
- 28 May: 500,000 articles with Aitken (cratère).
- 28 December: 600,000 articles with Python birman (the first author is the same as the 250,000th article[2])
- 2008
- 20 February: The popular French encyclopaedia, Quid, cancels its 2008 edition blaming falling sales on competition from the French Wikipedia.[3]
- 30 August: 700,000 articles.
- 2009
- 14 January: 750,000 articles
- 6 May: 800,000 articles
- 2010
- 14 January: 900,000 articles
References
- ^ Réécrire l’histoire des réacteurs nucléaires - 20Minutes.fr, information en continu
- ^ « 600 000 articles sur la Wikipédia francophone », Journal Chrétien, 2007-12-28.
- ^ France's favourite encyclopaedia falls victim to Wikipedia
External links
French Wikipedia edition of Wikipedia Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 16 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site. Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales, the free encyclopedia- (French) French Wikipedia
Categories: Internet properties established in 2001
|
Namke von Federlein
hu, 13 Aug 2009 04:44:55 GM
These songs can help you to learn Quebec . French. . While we are building this blog, please enjoy the songs. We feel that there is no need to hide them while we work on them! For now, you can find more information about the Quebec artists on . Wikipedia. (search for 'Music of Quebec'). Some of the . Wikipedia. pages (at the bottom) provide useful links to lyrics and more. You can also search for more songs by the artist on YouTube. Thanks for your patience! ...
