Min Nan Wikipedia

Min Nan Wikipedia
Web address zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org
Slogan Chū-iû ê Pek-kho-choân-su (the free encyclopedia)
Commercial No
Type of site
 Internet encyclopedia project
Registration Optional
Available in Min Nan
Content license
 CC-BY-SA 3.0
Owner Wikimedia Foundation

The Min Nan Wikipedia (Pe̍h-ōe-jī) Wikipedia Bân-lâm-gú or Holopedia[1] is the Min Nan edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. It is the second largest Wikipedia in a variety of Chinese.[2] Written in Pe̍h-ōe-jī, it mainly uses the Taiwanese dialect. As of February 2016, it has over 136,430 articles.[3]

History

The Min Nan Wikipedia was founded as an independent project known as Holopedia (a reference to Hō-ló-oē, a colloquial name for the Min Nan dialect) by Wikipedians Pektiong and Kaihsu (Tè Khái-sū) in 2003. A request was then made at the Wikimedia Foundation's Meta-Wiki to create the Wikipedia project for this language.

ISO code

At the time of creation there was no ISO 639 code for Min Nan, so the founders decided to use “zh-min-nan”, which had been registered as an IETF language tag.[4] Now there is an ISO code for Min Nan (nan) and the domain http://nan.wikipedia.org redirects to http://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/.

The Min Nan Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia to have two hyphens in the code, although "be-x-old" was formerly used for the Belarusian Wikipedia in classical orthography.

In August 2015, the Wikipedians of Min Nan Wikipedia reached a new consensus to officially use "nan" as the language code; however, the consensus hasn't been executed yet.[5][6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ zh:闽南语维基百科
  2. ↑ List of Wikipedias
  3. ↑ List of Wikipedias on Meta-Wiki.
  4. ↑ language tag registration form: zh-min-nan
  5. ↑ Rename zh-min-nan -> nan
  6. ↑ Wikipedias with zh-* language codes waiting to be renamed
Chinese (Min Nan) edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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