Ekşi Sözlük

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Ekşi Sözlük
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Screenshot of the page showing the topic "vikipedi" as of 2023.
Type of site
 Online dictionary, social networking service
Available in Turkish
OwnerEkşi Teknoloji ve Bilişim A.Ş. [1]
Founder(s) Sedat Kapanoğlu (known as "ssg" in the website)
URL eksisozluk.com
CommercialWebsite and Mobile App
RegistrationRequired for posting and voting, not required for viewing
Launched15 February 1999;25 years ago (1999-02-15)
Current statusActive

Ekşi Sözlük (Turkish pronunciation: [ecˈʃisœzˈlyc] , lit. 'sour dictionary', stylized as ekşi sözlük) is a Turkish collaborative hypertext dictionary, a type of social network based on dictionaries. [2] It is one of the largest online communities in Turkey and one of the oldest Turkish websites still in operation. Unlike what its name may imply, Ekşi Sözlük is not a dictionary in the strict sense; users are not required to write correct information. As an online public sphere, Ekşi Sözlük is utilized by users for information sharing on various topics ranging from scientific subjects to everyday life issues, but also used as a virtual socio-political community to communicate disputed political contents and to share personal views. [3]

Contents

History

Ekşi Sözlük was launched by self-taught coder Sedat Kapanoğlu in 1999, for humorous information sharing and communicating with his friends, as he was inspired by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. When it was launched, Ekşi Sözlük was an interactive part of a satire website sourtimes.org which was named after the Portishead song "Sour Times", and it was named "Ekşi (Sour)" for this reason. [4] [5] [6]

Former logo of Eksi Sozluk, used from early 2000s to 2016. Eksi Sozluk logo.png
Former logo of Ekşi Sözlük, used from early 2000s to 2016.

Ekşi Sözlük has been successful, many other websites that use this concept has emerged, like İTÜ Sözlük  [ tr ] in Turkish. [7] Turkish sociologist Zeynep Tüfekçi says it is like "Wikipedia, a social network and Reddit rolled into one". [8]

On February 21, 2023, access to the website was blocked in Turkey by the Information and Communication Technologies Authority of Turkey. [9] [10] On March 2, 2023, the 4th Ankara Criminal Court of Peace decided to remove the access barrier, but the decision was reversed by a higher court and it remained blocked [11] until January 22, 2024. [12]

Rules and structure

Enrollment periods to the dictionary and the criteria of acceptance are changeable. [13] Ekşi Sözlük does not accept new authors continuously; there are specific times in which new authors are accepted. There is a waiting period for new members who want to become authors in which they must post at least 10 entries. All entries are inspected according to the dictionary rules and their quality, and if they pass inspection, the new user becomes an author. However, this process might take from months to years.

Titles are limited to 50 characters in length. Entries have no length limit.

Newcomer, Newcomer awaiting approval, Registered reader, Praetors, and Hacıvat are some of the user roles in Ekşi Sözlük. [13]

Since there are no practical [a] restrictions on entries, moderators and informers are responsible for catching and deleting any inappropriate entry. Informers are usually the older generation authors who voluntarily report any bad content to moderators for examination. If the moderators find the entries inappropriate, they are deleted.

Site statistics [14] are updated on a daily basis. There are 300 to 400 posts on average for each author. More than half of the authors are at the age of 18–25 and the number of male users is two times more than that of female ones.[ citation needed ]

No capital letters are allowed in the posts. [15] This prevents all-caps shouting.[ citation needed ]

Mobile application

An official application for Ekşi Sözlük has been released in 2017 for iOS and Android platforms. [16]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ There are a few policies on the website governing how an entry should be structured. They are not strictly enforced.

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References

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  10. ↑ "Ekşi Sözlük hakkında erişimin engellenmesi kararı" (in Turkish). Gazete Duvar. 21 February 2023. Archived from the original on 21 February 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  11. ↑ "Turkish court once again blocks access to popular social network Ekşi Sözlük". Gazete Duvar . 3 February 2023. Archived from the original on 4 March 2023. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
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  13. 1 2 "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 April 2012. Retrieved 8 November 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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  15. ↑ Trivially verifiable by looking at any post at the website at eksisozluk.com
  16. ↑ "Ekşi Sözlük'ün kendi uygulaması yayınlandı! - Teknoloji Haberleri". 22 July 2017. Archived from the original on 22 July 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2020.

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