Polish Wikipedia

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Polish Wikipedia is the Polish edition of Wikipedia. The ninth edition of Wikipedia, it was started in September 26, 2001. The founders of the Polish Wikipedia were Paweł Jochym, a physicist, and Wikipedia editor Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz (Kpjas), a doctor. As of February 2007, it has more than 350,000 articles and is the fourth largest Wikipedia edition (after the English, German, and French editions). It is also the largest edition in a Slavic language.

The Polish Wikipedia originated as an independent project under the domain wiki.rozeta.com.pl. On January 12, 2002—in accordance with the suggestion made by the founders of the English Wikipedia—it was incorporated in the international project on http://pl.wikipedia.com and since November 22 on http://pl.wikipedia.org. To avoid typosquatting that could frustrate many potential users, the Polish Wikipedia also has its own domain www.wikipedia.pl that redirects to pl.wikipedia.org.

The words "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" in Polish are Wikipedia, wolna encyklopedia, pronounced /vikiˈpɛdja ˈvɔlna ɛntsɨklɔˈpɛdja/.

1 Timeline
2 Polish Wikipedia on DVD
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Timeline

September 4, 2005: overtook the Dutch Wikipedia in the number of articles, however soon afterwards (9 September) it returned to seventh place after being overtaken by the Italian Wikipedia.
September 18, 2005: overtook the Swedish Wikipedia in the number of articles and became the sixth-largest wikipedia.
September 23, 2005: overtook the Italian Wikipedia and became the fifth-largest language edition.
January 15, 2006: overtook the Japanese Wikipedia and became the fourth-largest language edition.

Article growth

In July 2005, a task for tsca.bot (one of the bots in Polish Wikipedia) was written. The bot was programmed to upload statistics from official government pages about French, Polish and Italian municipalities. In a few months, the bot uploaded more than 40,000 articles.

[edit] Polish Wikipedia on DVD

The Polish Wikipedia was first published on a DVD together with the paper edition of the magazine Enter SPECIAL in August 2005. The releaser did not make any attempt to contact the Wikimedia Foundation prior to making the DVD available on the market and the edition itself turned out to be illegal as it violated the GNU GPL license. Additionaly, the software used in that edition worked improperly under Microsoft Windows 98.

Currently, a new DVD edition is being prepared as a joint project of the Polish branch of the Wikimedia Foundation (Wikimedia Polska) and the Polish publisher Helion. It will contain articles written before June 4, 2006. The works were completed on November 24, 2006 and the edition is scheduled to be released on spring 2007.