Judeo-Spanish Wikipedia

Ladino Wikipedia

Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
URL	lad.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Content license	Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies

The Ladino Wikipedia is the Judeo-Spanish language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. Started in 2006, ^[1] it has 3,866 articles as of October2025 and 29 active registered users. It reached 1,000 articles that same year ^[2] and 2,000 in 2009 ^[3] .

The Ladino Wikipedia should not be confused with the Ladin Wikipedia (a Romance language spoken in northern Italy) or the Latin Wikipedia.

History

The Ladino Wikipedia started as a project on Wikimedia Incubator in 2006. ^[4]

Features

The articles can be written in either Latin alphabet in two different ortographies, one being the one used by the magazine Aki Yerushalayim and which became the de facto standard alphabet after the creation of the Akademia Nasionala del Ladino (National Academy of the Judeo-Spanish language) in 2018, ^{[5] [6]} and the Hebrew alphabet in its merubba or block script; neither the Rashi script or its cursive form Solitreo, scripts that were used for centuries but nowadays are rarely used, are not available in this Wikipedia.

The Ladino Wikipedia has relatively high article per speaker ratios with around 6.4 articles per 100 native speakers. ^[7]

References

1. Petrovski, Aleksandar. Jewish Languages on Wikipedia. International Slavic University, Sveti Nikole - Bitola, North Macedonia. 2021
2. Wikimedia News/2006
3. Wikimedia News
4. Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Ladino
5. National Academy for Ladino to be established in Israel. Israel 21c
6. האקדמיה הלאומית הישראלית ללאדינו
7. "List of Wikipedias by speakers per article". meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 16 October 2025.