Irish Wikipedia

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Main Page of the Irish Wikipedia in April 2016
Type of site
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Available in Irish
Headquarters San Francisco, California
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URL ga.wikipedia.org
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Users 63,936 (total registered, as of 20 December 2024) [1]
LaunchedOctober 2003;21 years ago (2003-10)
Current statusActive
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The Irish Wikipedia (Irish : Vicipéid na Gaeilge), also known as An Vicipéid, is the Irish-language version of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation and established in October 2003, with the first article being written in January 2004. The founder of Vicipéid was Gabriel Beecham. [2] In September 2005 over 1600 articles had been written, with 173 contributors (both regular and irregular) having written material. [2] By March 2007, about 20 regular Wikipedians were writing articles, with up to 7,000 articles having been created. [3] As of December 2024, it was the 96th largest Wikipedia among 340 active Wikipedias. [4]

Contents

The Vicipéid draws (with permission) directly from Fréamh an Eolais, an Irish-language encyclopedia of science and technology, written by Matt Hussey. [5]

Evaluation

The Vicipéid has been favourably received by some Irish-language media. [2] [6] [7] In his paper on Putting the learning back into learning technology, Barry McMullin of Dublin City University suggested that while the Irish Wikipedia is never likely to contain as many articles as the Wikipedias in the world's most widespread languages, it is still a useful resource. [8]

Other academic sources have emphasised the site's educational value. [9] The role of the Vicipéid as an educational tool at tertiary level has been acknowledged in the context of Wikimedia use, involving projects supported by University of Galway. [10]

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