The Wayuu Wikipedia (Wikipeetia süka wayuunaiki) is an edition of Wikipedia in the Wayuu language. It was created on 27 February 2023. The Wayuu Wikipedia project was in the Wikimedia Incubator between 2008 and 2023 and was developed by activists, teachers, professors, directors and leaders of the Wayuu people with the support of the Wayuu Digital Network.[1][2]
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Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
|---|---|
| Available in | Wayuu |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | guc |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 27 February 2023 |
History
editIn August 2008, a group of Venezuelan activists presented the Wikipedia and Wiktionary projects in Wayuu to the language committee of the Wikimedia Foundation. Both projects were approved and entered the Wikimedia Incubator.[3]
Milestones
edit- 7 August 2008: The Wayuu project is created at the Wikimedia Incubator.[4]
- 27 February 2023: The Wayuu Wikipedia is launched with 459 articles.
References
edit- ^ "Activismo Lenguas - Wikipedia en Wayuunaiki (Wikiakuaipa)". Activismo Digital de Lenguas Indígenas (in Spanish). 2020-02-11. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- ^ Gutemonik (2021-08-18). "Wikipedia y Wikipeetia en comunidades Wayuú en la Guajira Colombo-Venezolana". Diff (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- ^ leonfd1992 (2023-05-31). "Wikipeetia süka wayuunaiki, un repositorio del conocimiento wayuu". Diff (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2023-05-31.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Wp/guc - Wikimedia Incubator". incubator.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 2023-03-02.
External links
edit- Wikipeetia
- Wikiakua’ ipa, tejiendo ancestralidad en Wikipedia (in Revista de Divulgación Científica (2020), Colombia: Universidad del Rosario, pp. 44–47)