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(July 2014) | content license = Most text also dual-licensed under GFDL. Media licensing varies. | owner = Wikimedia Foundation }} The Catalan Wikipedia ((カタルーニャ語、バレンシア語:Viquipèdia en català)) is the Catalan-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. It was created on 16 March 2001, just a few minutes after the first non-English Wikipedia, the German edition. With about }} articles, it is currently the -largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles, and the fifth-largest Wikipedia in a Romance language. The edition is most notable for its large amount of quality articles, which illustrates the Catalan language's important online presence despite being a minority language. ==Creation== On March 16, 2001, Jimmy Wales announced that he wanted to create Wikipedias in other languages and mentioned that there was interest in creating a Catalan version.〔(Jimbo Wales' message about creating first foreign Wikipedias )〕 The first tests were made on the deutsche.wikipedia.com,〔(Message confirming the creation of the German domain )〕 and a few minutes later, the Catalan Wikipedia was created in the catalan.wikipedia.com domain.〔(First history of the Catalan Wikipedia Main Page, hours in Pacific Timezone )〕 The first edit on a non-English Wikipedia was at 21:07 UTC, March 16, 2001, made to the Catalan Main Page. The first contribution in a non-English article dates from March 17 at 01:41 UTC in the article ''Àbac''.〔(First edit in a non-English article (Àbac) )〕 Despite being created after the German Wikipedia, for about two months it was the only non-English Wikipedia that contained articles.〔Multilingual monthly statistics〕 After some time, the domain changed to ''ca.wikipedia.com'' and later to ''ca.wikipedia.org''. About 2003 its community started to use the name "Viquipèdia" when talking about this edition of Wikipedia. Nowadays this word is used in Catalan language to refer the whole Wikipedia. About 2005 the domain ''www.viquipedia.net'' was registered and it redirects to ''ca.wikipedia.org''. In 2007 ''www.viquipedia.cat'' was also registered and redirected. The first registered user was probably ''AstroNomer'', presumably used only to make some registration tests, but the first registered user to make lasting contributions was Cdani, the same user cited in Jimbo Wales' message. In 2005 the Catalan Wikipedia community debated on which name(s) of the Catalan language to present in the main page and other policy pages, either ''català'', "Catalan", ''valencià'', "Valencian", or a combination of both ''català-valencià'' and ''català o valencià''. Although there was not a consensus on any of the proposals, users agreed that in articles relevant to the Valencian Community, the name "Valencian" was to be used; on all other articles "Catalan" is preferred.〔See debate in the decision making process about usage of the names of the language〕 The main page avoids making reference to a particular nomenclature, by simply stating ''aquesta versió'', "this version". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catalan Wikipedia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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