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The Alemannic Wikipedia (Alemannic: Alemannischi Wikipedia) is the Alemannic language edition of the Web-based free-content encyclopedia Wikipedia. The project was started on 13 November 2003, as an Alsatian language edition. A year later it was expanded to encompass all Alemannic dialects because of low activity in the first year. Since 2004 all Alemannic dialects are accepted on als:wp.

Contents

As of 4 June 2025, it has 31,181 articles and is the 115th-largest Wikipedia. Contributors and users include people from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Liechtenstein, and even a few Walser people from Italy.[ citation needed ]

Language

Articles and article titles

A peculiarity of the Alemannic Wikipedia is the wide range of dialects permitted; all varieties of Alemannic, including Swiss German, Swabian, Alsatian, and all others are accepted. Authors may not normally alter the dialect used by another contributor, though exceptions are made for local topics, in which modifying the text to reflect the local variety is encouraged. Articles may thus be written in a mix of different varieties. Since there is no standardized orthography for Alemannic, spelling rules are quite relaxed. However, contributors are encouraged to adhere to spelling conventions found in the Alemannic-language literature, and introducing new symbols is not tolerated. [1]

Article titles are in Standard German, but display is frequently manipulated to show Alemannic text.

Language codes

The code "als" was used because in 2003 there had been no language code for Alsatian. ISO 639-3 gives four codes for several Alemannic dialects:

As all of these four dialects are accepted on the Alemannic Wikipedia, it was decided not to move the Alemannic Wikipedia to gsw.wikipedia.org, even though the code als stands for Tosk Albanian in ISO 639-3. To solve this problem a request for a superior code for all Alemannic dialects has been submitted to SIL International by Alemannic Wikipedians. [2]

Despite the existence of dedicated ISO 639-3 codes and the possibility of more specific marking with country code subtags, all pages use 'gsw' in the HTML language tag.

List of dialects that are used on single-dialect pages

Below is a list of dialects that have a category in als:Kategorie:Wikipedia:Dialekt and where that category contains at least one article.

List of dialects used for a full article in the Alemannic Wikipedia
BCP 47Name (autonym)Name (English)CountryPart of
swg Schwäbisch SwabianDESchwäbisch
wae Wallisertiitsch Walser GermanCH, ATHöchstalemannisch
wae-AT Vorarlbärgischs Walsertüütsch ATHöchstalemannisch
gsw Oberrhiinalemannisch DE, FR?Niederalemannisch
gsw Bodeseealemannisch DE, CHMittelalemannisch
gsw-AT Vorarlbärgisch AT(several, group of dialects)
gsw-LI Liachtastänerisch LI(several, group of dialects)
gsw-FR Elsässisch Alsatian GermanFRNiederalemannisch > Oberrheinalemannisch
gsw-DE Markgräflerisch DEHochalemannisch
gsw-CH Aargauerdüütsch Aargau GermanCHHochalemannisch
gsw-CH Baselbieterdütsch CHHochalemannisch
gsw-CH Baseldytsch Basel GermanCHNiederalemannisch > Oberrheinalemannisch
gsw-CH Bärndütsch Bernese GermanCHHochalemannisch
gsw-CH Freiämtertütsch CHHochalemannisch
gsw-CH Glarnertüütsch CHHöchstalemannisch
gsw-CH Ostschwizertütsch CHHochalemannisch
gsw-CH Schwyzerdütsch CHHöchstalemannisch
gsw-CH Soledurnerdütsch CHHochalemannisch
gsw-CH St. Gallerdütsch CHHochalemannisch
gsw-CH Seislertütsch CHHöchstalemannisch
gsw-CH Züritüütsch Zürich GermanCHHochalemannisch

Other Wikipedias in German dialect

Alemannic Wikipedia was the first Wikipedia in a German dialect, followed by the Bavarian Wikipedia and the Ripuarian Wikipedia.

Alemannic in other Wikimedia projects

Other Wikimedia projects in Alemannic have also been created, such as an Alemannic Wiktionary, an Alemannic Wikiquote, and an Alemannic Wikibooks. As activity in these projects was low even after years, the community of the Alemannic Wikipedia decided to merge all Alemannic projects and import all contents of the other projects into the Alemannic Wikipedia. Since April 2008 these projects are separate namespaces within the Alemannic Wikipedia. Also an Alemannic Wikisource and an Alemannic Wikinews have been created as separate namespaces within als:wp.

Wikidata supports one language with code 'gsw' and name 'Swiss German'. A proposal to remove it has not been adopted.

Milestones

MilestoneDateArticle [3]
1 article2003-12-27 Chemie
1,000 articles2005-10-13 Le Landeron (Zunftwesen)
2,000 articles2006-06-07 Geschichte des Elsass
3,000 articles2007-05-01 Arlesheim
4,000 articles2008-07-12 Erklärung der Menschen- und Bürgerrechte
5,000 articles2009-05-08 Hunspach
6,000 articles2010-02-21 Amt Meienberg
7,000 articles2010-12-14 Batterf
8,000 articles2011-02-22 Buttwil
9,000 articles2011-05-16 Boron
10,000 articles2011-06-22 Josef Villiger
11,000 articles2012-02-21 Summerlied
12,000 articles2012-08-21 Quiberon
13,000 articles2012-12-13 Saint-Aubin-Sauges
14,000 articles2013-04-03 Riemschneider
15,000 articles2013-08-06 Baritonhorn
16,000 articles2014-02-04 Tenorhorn
17,000 articles2014-06-08 Basilius Amerbach der Ältere
18,000 articles2015-01-17 Siegfried Lehmann
19,000 articles2015-05-28 Lauingen (Donau)
20,000 articles2015-10-12 Gion Deplazes
21,000 articles2016-03-15 Fotze
22,000 articles2016-11-02 Bezirk Weinfelden
23,000 articles2017-06-19 Biermösl Blosn
24,000 articles2018-02-15 Schweizer Singbuch
25,000 articles2018-09-12 Schwyzer Meie
26,000 articles2019-07-12 Internationales Dialektinstitut
27,000 articles2020-02-25 Röllelibutzen

See also

References

  1. Wikipedia:Artikel#Froge un Antworte zum Dial.C3.A4kt
  2. look here
  3. Milestones on Alemannic Wikipedia