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Greek Wikipedia

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Greek Wikipedia
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inGreek
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLel.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedDecember 1, 2002; 21 years ago (2002-12-01)
Current statusActive

The Greek Wikipedia (also Hellenic Wikipedia, Elliniki Vikipedia, Greek: Ελληνική Βικιπαίδεια) is the Greek-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. It was started on December 1, 2002. It surpassed the 10,000 article mark on May 16, 2006, the 100,000 article mark on April 9, 2014, and the 200,000 article mark on November 27, 2021. As of March 18, 2024, it is the 49th largest Wikipedia, behind Kazakh and ahead of Minangkabau.

Greek Wikipedia is the main free internet encyclopedia written in Greek. Its main competitor, LivePedia [el], started on 2004, and had more than 100,000 articles. Many articles of Livepedia were republished articles from donations of various publishing houses and the site was also a wiki. Approximately 250 articles are coming at least partially from Livepedia, thanks to the Livepedia's use of GFDL until November 1, 2008. As of 2018, Greek Wikipedia's pageviews surpassed the 250 million mark annually. The daily pageviews of Greek Wikipedia vary within the year; peaking in the winter period (late November to mid March), while the months with the least pageviews are usually June, July and August.[1] The active users are 918 today (as of March 18, 2024). The highest and lowest active users' numbers are recorded in the same period.

The Greek Wikipedia's community has organized some meetups as well. Since 2011, the Wikimedia User Group Greece has aided in the organization of various promotional activities, as well as some article contests.

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Socrates is considered one of the founders of Western Philosophy, but you might not have guessed that from his early life. Socrates was born to a working-class family in ancient Greece, around 470 BC. His father was a sculptor who cut stone for the Parthenon and taught Socrates the stone-cutting trade. As an adult, Socrates worked as a stonemason, as well as serving in the military during three campaigns. It wasn’t until he retired that Socrates took up the occupation he is best known for - teaching. What are the great works of Socrates everyone should read? Well... there aren’t any. Socrates did not write. What we know of Socrates comes from the works of his students, Plato and Xenophon, as well as the playwright Aristophanes, who was a contemporary of Socrates. This is sometimes referred to as the “Socrates Problem” - we know about Socrates only through second-hand accounts. The Socrates Problem is compounded by the nature of the writing from this time. There is very little of what we would consider histories written during the Classic Era. Rather, they are mostly dramatised works - plays and philosophical dialogues. For instance, in Aristophanes’ play “The Clouds,” Socrates is depicted as a swindler who teaches his students clever acts of deception. But that was a satirical comedy, so should we believe that depiction? Plato said the play was slanderous. By contrast, Plato’s and Xenophon’s works presented a kinder portrayal of Socrates’ character, but even their accounts differ in many particulars. We are left to piece together what the man was like, finding common ground in the various depictions. Socrates’ reputation as a towering intellect began when one of his followers made a pilgrimage to the Oracle of Delphi. This was a priestess at the Temple of Apollo, who served as a medium through which the god of Apollo spoke. People traveled from all over Europe to hear her prophecies. The Oracle proclaimed no one was wiser than Socrates. When Socrates heard this statement, he took it to be a puzzle. He set out to find who WAS the wisest man. He interviewed the people of Athens who were most admired for their wisdom - teachers, politicians, artists - but he concluded that they all had a fatal flaw. These men all believed they knew a great deal, but were ignorant of what they did NOT know. Socrates said that he was as ignorant as any other man, with the very slight advantage that he at least KNEW he was ignorant - and in that way, he was the wisest of an entire population of ignorant people. Socrates said, “What I do not know I do not THINK I know." This is referred to as the “Socratic Paradox.” It may surprise you that Socrates, “the wisest man in Athens,” was not known for expounding and making speeches. Rather, he would ask questions; question after question, to pin down what did someone actually know. Often, logical inconsistencies in the answers would point out faulty lines of reason. In this way, both the teacher and student were led to knowledge. This was a new form of discourse that came to be known as “The Socratic Method.” It is still used to this day as one of the most successful teaching methods ever found. Sadly, this habit of pointing out people’s mistakes in reasoning may have won Socrates few friends in Athens. It didn’t help matters that he was also unappealing in appearance. In Plato’s “Symposium,” Socrates is described as quite unattractive - short and stocky, with bulging, staring eyes. He was said to have odd religious views, as well. What might have been the final straw was Aristophanes’ play “The Clouds,” which suggested that Socrates was associated with the Sophists. This was a group of teachers whom older generations feared were teaching the youth to be wild and disrespectful. In the end, his list of offenses grew too long. Socrates was charged with being an atheist and corrupting the youth of Athens. Socrates represented himself in the trial. As described in Plato’s “Apology,” and Xenophon’s “Apology of Socrates to the Jury,” Socrates denied being a Sophist, and gave evidence of his attempts to encourage virtue and elevated behavior from Athenians. But in true Socratic fashion, he did not try to win over the jury, but rather point out how poor their thinking was. The jury found him guilty and sentenced him to death. In Athens at this time, convicted criminals could propose an alternative to their punishments. Socrates jokingly suggested that he instead be given free meals at the Prytaneum, an honour reserved for the most admired citizens of Athens. The jury was not amused. Socrates’ followers wept, and encouraged him to flee (which was not an unusual occurrence at these sorts of trials). But, as if to dramatically win his argument that he always obeyed the rule of law, Socrates went to his death with no outward appearance of fear. He willingly drank the cup of deadly hemlock that was the means of his execution. He was 70 years old. Athens had put to death the man Plato called “the wisest and most just of all men.” Socrates the man may have died, but his ideas lived on through his disciples. The writings of Plato and Xenophon brought their teacher back to the world. Socrates’ philosophy continued to be studied through the Middle Ages, and reached a new peak during the Renaissance. To this day, the Socratic Method is used by teachers everywhere to find out what you know, and what you DON’T know. For our part, we strive to honour his memory at Socratica.

Statistics

Origin of views (January 2021) [2]
Greece
72%
Cyprus
3%
Germany
1%
Other
24%

As of March 18, 2024, the Greek Wikipedia:[3]

  • is 49th-largest by number of articles (233,126)
  • has 22 administrators
  • has 416,967 registered users, of whom 918 were active
  • has 10,462,503 edits

As of May 2019, Greek Wikipedia is usually visited by 5,500,000 to 6,500,000 unique devices per month,[4] while the unique devices per day are approximately 440,000.[5]

The origin of pageviews is mainly from Greece. The remainder of the pageviews comes from Cyprus, Germany, United States, United Kingdom and other countries.[6] As of May 2019, Greece is the source for the bulk of the pageviews, being the source for nearly 27,000,000 pageviews out of 32,500,000 on the same month.[7]

As of May 2019, Greek Wikipedia receives approximately 30,000,000 pageviews per month, with a peak at winter months.[8] Together with an increasing number of articles and improvements on quality, the pageviews have improved substantially in the last three years.[8]

Since 2017, the annual article growth amounts to 15,000 articles annually, while the average monthly growth amounts to 1,020-1,300 articles per month. In 2021 a new record of new articles has been reached, as more than 17,000 articles have been created since the beginning of the year, while the previous record was with 16,510 in 2017. Users with at least one edit during 2021 are expected to surpass 8,500, while in 2020 it was 8,012 and 7,453 in 2019.

History

Early years

Greek Wikipedia was created on 1 December 2002. At the first months of existence, the new articles were very small and a handful of users were contributing, some of them just adding interwikis to other Wikipedias.[9] The first Wikiproject were launched in November 2005.[9]

Article count

The Greek Wikipedia was created on 4 December 2002. On 16 May 2006 it reached 10,000 articles. On 10 October 2006 it reached 15,000 articles, while on 17 March 2007 it reached 20,000 articles. On this period there were 30 new articles being created every day, while there were 50 active users.[10] In December of that year the Greek Wikipedia reached 30,000 articles,[11] while on 14 February 2009 it reached 40,000 articles. Fourteen months later, on 10 April 2010, it reached 50,000 articles; eleven months later, on 8 March 2011 it reached 60,000 articles. In February 2012 it had 70,000 articles, while 252 days later it reached 80,000 articles.

In July 2013, it reached 90,000 articles, while 271 days later it reached 100,000 articles, while 195 days later it reached 110,000 articles. On 11 July 2016, after 629 days, it reached 120,000 articles, due to the general recount of late March 2015 which removed several thousand redirects from the mainspace.[12] As a result, the article count fell to 105,500 articles, while before the recount the article count was 119,500 articles.[13] Greek Wikipedia is maintaining a pace of growth of around 15,000 articles per year. This trends are generally stable since 2017, when previously Greek Wikipedia had usually 10,000 to 25,000 articles.

Number of articles Date Days intervening
1 1 December 2002
10,000 16 May 2006 1262
20,000 17 March 2007 305
30,000 27 December 2007 285
40,000 14 February 2009 415
50,000 10 April 2010 420
60,000 8 March 2011 332
70,000 22 February 2012 351
80,000 1 November 2012 254
90,000 12 July 2013 252
100,000 9 April 2014 271
110,000 21 October 2014 195
120,000 11 July 2016 629
130,000 18 April 2017 281
140,000 23 November 2017 219
150,000 1 August 2018 250
160,000 17 March 2019 227
170,000 9 November 2019 238
180,000 24 July 2020 259
190,000 21 March 2021 249
200,000 27 November 2021 251

Users and editors

Greek Wikipedia statistics
Number of user accounts Number of articles Number of files Number of administrators
416967 233126 18899 22

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In the press

In the press, Wikipedia has been referred as a good source of information;[14] however, periodically it has been criticised for having a non-neutral point of view in politics-related articles. Also, Greek Wikipedia has received extensive coverage from the Greek-language press for some of its actions, such as the anniversary of 10 years since its opening.[15][16] In addition to, full articles of Greek Wikipedia or parts of them are often included in news articles and other websites in the Greek language.

Notes

  1. ^ "Wikimedia Statistics - Ελληνικά Βικιπαίδεια - total page views". stats.wikimedia.org. Archived from the original on 24 January 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  2. ^ Wikimedia Stats
  3. ^ Meta-Wiki's list of Wikipedias
  4. ^ "Wikimedia Statistics - Ελληνικά Βικιπαίδεια - Unique devices". Wikimedia Statistics. Archived from the original on 24 January 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  5. ^ "Wikimedia Statistics - Ελληνικά Βικιπαίδεια - Unique devices". stats.wikimedia.org. Archived from the original on 24 January 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  6. ^ "Wikimedia Statistics - Ελληνικά Βικιπαίδεια - Pageviews by country". Wikimedia Statistics. Archived from the original on 24 January 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  7. ^ "Wikimedia Statistics - Ελληνικά Βικιπαίδεια - Page views by country". Wikimedia Statistics. June 1, 2019. Archived from the original on January 24, 2020. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
  8. ^ a b "Wikimedia Statistics - Ελληνικά Βικιπαίδεια - Total page views". Wikimedia Statistics. Archived from the original on 24 January 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  9. ^ a b "History of Greek Wikipedia". el.wikipedia.org. Archived from the original on 2015-10-17. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  10. ^ Article Κώστας Ονισένκο, Εγκυκλοπαίδεια που εμπλουτίζεται καθημερινά, Εφημ. Καθημερινή της Κυριακής, σ. 34., 24/03/2007
  11. ^ Website In.Gr, Ξεπέρασε τα 30.000 λήμματα η ελληνική έκδοση της Wikipedia, 27/12/2007
  12. ^ meta:List_of_Wikipedias/Table,   oldid 11718024
  13. ^ meta:List_of_Wikipedias/Table,   oldid 11678916
  14. ^ Κώστας Ονισένκο, Εγκυκλοπαίδεια που εμπλουτίζεται καθημερινά Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, Εφημ. Καθημερινή της Κυριακής, σ. 34., 24/03/2007
  15. ^ "10 χρόνια "κλείνει" η Βικιπαίδεια | Διαδίκτυο | Η ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ" [Wikipedia becomes 10 years old]. I Kathimerini's website, kathimerini.gr. 3 December 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  16. ^ "10 χρόνια Βικιπαίδεια: Οι αριθμοί λένε πως έχουμε εγκυκλοπαιδικές γνώσεις" [Wikipedia 10 years: The numbers say that we have encyclopedic khowledges]. in.gr. 3 December 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2019.

Further reading

Press

  • Εύη Γκολώνη (Evi Goloni), Wikipedia. Η διαδικτυακή εγκυκλοπαίδεια ενηλικιώνεται (Wikipedia. The Internet encyclopedia becomes an adult), Popular Science, τ. (volume) 44, page 23, May 2006).
  • Ανδρονίκη Κολοβού (Androniki Kolovu), "Wikipedia" Η ελεύθερη διαδικτυακή εγκυκλοπαίδεια για τους λάτρεις της γνώσης (Wikipedia, the free Internet encyclopedia for knowledge lovers), τεύχος (volume) "Η ζωή μας" (our life), ΠΡΩΤΟ ΘΕΜΑ (Proto Thema), 2 July 2006.
  • Ηλίας Μαγκλίνη (Ilias Maglini), Η παγκόσμια κοινότητα της Wikipedia, Ελληνικά: πλούτος και σκουπίδια (The global community of Wikipedia, Hellenic: wealth and trash), Η Καθημερινή (I Kathimerini), ένθετο (submagazine) Τέχνες και Γράμματα (Arts and letters), 20 August 2006).
  • Εύη Ελευθεριάδου (Evi Eleftheriadu), Οι Έλληνες της Βικιπαίδειας (The Hellenes of Wikipedia), ένθετο (submagazine) "Ορίζοντες" (Horizons), Τα Νέα, 13 December 2006.

External links

Other Wikipedias in Hellenic languages

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