Name | Japanese Wikipedia |
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Screenshot | of the Japanese Wikipedia on May 1, 2008.]] |
Collapsible | yes |
Logo | |
Caption | Mainpage of the Japanese Wikipedia. |
Url | ja.wikipedia.org |
Commercial | No |
Location | Miami, Florida |
Type | Internet encyclopedia project |
Language | Japanese |
Registration | Optional |
Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
is the Japanese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. It has over }} articles, making it the seventh largest language edition of Wikipedia after the English, German, French, Polish, Italian and Spanish editions. Started in September 2002, the edition attained the 200,000 article mark in April 2006 and the 500,000 article mark in June 2008. It is the largest Wikipedia in a non-European language, the next largest being the twelfth placed Chinese language edition.
The first article was named "Nihongo no Funimekusu" (though incorrect, it was probably intended to mean onso taikei (音素体系, phonemics) and was written entirely in romaji. Until late December in that year, there were only two articles.
In the same month, translation of the Wikipedia interface into Japanese began. By the end of the year, pages describing the editing process and the GNU Free Documentation License had been translated. In mid-December, there were around 10 registered users; the number of articles also stood at around 10.
On February 12, 2003, the Japanese edition of Wikipedia reached the 1000-page milestone, two years after the English edition. Given that accomplishment, Slashdot Japan posted a story about the Japanese Wikipedia. Several days after that, the number of participants doubled, attesting to the power of the Slashdot effect. Because of this exposure, a variety of articles started to appear, among them physics, biology, information technology, literature, music, games, manga, and celebrities.
On July 15, 2003 the Japanese Wikipedia reached 10,000 articles, four months and three days after the 1000-article milestone, beating the time it took the English Wikipedia to achieve the same feat. By early 2004 the Japanese Wikipedia contained 30,000 articles. The increase in both articles and contributors was steady after that, and by late September it had reached 75,000 articles.
The major force behind the expansion appeared to be a number of links at Yahoo! Japan News. It is unknown exactly when Yahoo! started to put links to the edition in their articles, but , dozens of news articles posted on Yahoo! Japan contained links to the edition to explain terms in the articles. Lately, the developers of Wikipedia have noticed that certain spikes in server usage correspond to the publishing of Yahoo! Japan news articles containing links to Wikipedia.
Nobuo Ikeda, a known public policy academic and media critic in Japan, has suggested an ongoing 2channel-ization phenomenon on the Japanese Wikipedia. Ikeda argues that by allowing anonymous IP users, the community spawns a type of culture seen in the likes of anonymous message boards such as 2channel, where hate speech, personal attacks and derogatory expressions are common, and also the source of entertainment. He also remarks on the "emotional-outlet"/"get rid of stress" aspect of Japanese internet culture where 90% of blogs are anonymous, compared to the U.S. where 80% of blogs are expressed under one's own name. Ikeda's arguments are not the only sources hinting cultural correlation, influence, overlapping users from 2channel.
Category:Wikipedias by language Category:Internet properties established in 2001 Category:Science and technology in Japan
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