French Wikipedia
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Facts
Started: March 2001
Current size: 2,653,370 articles
Total edits: 220,768,198
Active editors: 17,576 in the past month
- Areas of strength
- Number of articles
- Quality of articles on particular topics (Ancient Greece)
- Areas of weakness
- General quality of articles
- Strength of community
- Contributors origin: very few contributors from French-speaking countries outside France/Quebec/Switzerland/Belgium. (very few Africans except a few Tunisians)
- What other prominent encyclopedias exist in this language (print, electronic, online)?
- (French) Encarta
- (French) Encyclopædia Britannica
- (French) Encyclopædia Universalis
- (French) Encyclopédie Hachette Multimédia
- (French) Encyclopédie contributive Larousse
Prominent milestones/events
- TK
- What has its impact been?
- TK
Features
- What language features are challenging?
- Diacritics usage in text
- Punctuation usage in wikilinks
- French quotes for citations
- Applying rules to document titles (write Le Petit Prince, not Le petit prince for instance)
- What would surprise the outside reader about the community?
- TK
- What are some unique practices/characteristics?
- Reference numbers have no square brackets around them.
- Who were the earliest participants, who started it?
- TK
- Other prominent Wikipedians?
Fork fears
- Fork threats for localised logo controversy.
- Fork fears by someone for some discussions with Jumbo about the role of the Wikimedia Foundation.