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Cebuano Misplaced Pages

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Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Cebuano
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
URL	ceb.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Launched	22 June 2005; 19 years ago (2005-06-22)
Content license	Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies

The Cebuano Misplaced Pages (Cebuano: Wikipedya sa Sinugboanong Binisayâ) is the Cebuano-language edition of Misplaced Pages, the free online encyclopedia. Despite being the second-largest Misplaced Pages in numbers of articles, it has a small community of only 160 active users; nearly all of the 6,116,865 articles were initially created through automatic programs, most notably Sverker Johansson's Lsjbot.

Importance in the language area

It is the largest Philippine-language Misplaced Pages by number of articles, ahead of Waray Misplaced Pages and Tagalog Misplaced Pages (which as of 6 January 2025 have 1,266,588 and 48,100 articles respectively).

Cebuano is the second most spoken language in the Philippines with about 20 million speakers. The Cebuano-language Misplaced Pages community has claimed to be the only online encyclopedia in this language.

However, Cebuano Misplaced Pages does not appear to be widely used in the Philippines; as of March 2021, 90 percent of Misplaced Pages views from that country were directed at English Misplaced Pages, with 5 percent going to Tagalog and 3 percent to Russian Misplaced Pages. About 30 percent of Cebuano Misplaced Pages views come from China, 22 percent from the United States, and only about 11 percent from the Philippines (roughly the same number as from France).

History and growth of articles

The Cebuano-language Misplaced Pages was launched in June 2005. In January 2006, 1,000 articles were created, while in November 2006 there were 1,400 articles. At the end of 2006 and 2007, the bots created ten thousand articles on municipalities in France.

By the end of 2012, the number of articles increased to about 30,000. In December 2012, Lsjbot began to create articles. As a result, the number of articles increased dramatically in 2013, and from February to December 2013, the number of articles increased ninefold. By the end of 2015, about 99 percent of the then 1.4 million articles had been created by bots, including about 25,000 articles about localities and the rest of articles about living beings by Lsjbot.

On 16 July 2014, the Cebuano-language Misplaced Pages comprised one million articles, making it the twelfth-largest Misplaced Pages. After overtaking Spanish-, Italian-, Russian-, French-, Dutch- and German-speaking Misplaced Pages within a year and a half, in February 2016 it reached the two-million mark. After about half a year, followed by the third million, and another half a year later, the fourth million. In August 2017, the five millionth article was created, and it became the second largest Misplaced Pages.

• The number of articles in Cebuano Misplaced Pages
• New articles by user groups, bots in blue
• Typical automated article by Lsjbot

An analysis of Cebuano Misplaced Pages content on Wikidata in July 2015 showed that of the then 1.21 million articles, 95.8 percent are living beings and biological species (1,160,787) and 3.3 percent are cities and communities (39,420).

References

1. ^ "List of Wikipedias by speakers per article – Meta". Meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
2. Cebuano Informational Report (PDF; 864 kB) Christopher DeFraga, Rhode Island College, 2011
3. "Tell us about Cebuano Misplaced Pages – Meta". meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
4. "Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report - Misplaced Pages Page Views Per Country - Breakdown". stats.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
5. "Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report - Page Views Per Misplaced Pages Language - Breakdown". stats.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
6. "Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Cebuano". meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
7. ^ Meta: List of Wikipedias, 1 January 2006
8. ^ Meta: List of Wikipedias, 1 November 2006
9. ^ "Misplaced Pages Statistics – Bot article creations only". 30 November 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
10. ^ "Wikimedia project at a glance: Cebuano Misplaced Pages". stats.wikimedia.org. November 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
11. Meet the Stats Master Making Sense of Misplaced Pages's Massive Data Trove Ashik Siddique, wired.com, 27 December 2013
12. Meta: List of Wikipedias, 9 July 2005
13. Meta: List of Wikipedias, 30 August 2005
14. Meta: List of Wikipedias, 1 January 2007
15. Meta: List of Wikipedias, 7 February 2007
16. "Wikimedia News – Meta". Retrieved 16 January 2016.
17. "Cebuano Misplaced Pages, Wikidata:Statistics/Wikipedia". Wikidata. 17 July 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2016.

External links

• Cebuano Misplaced Pages
• Cebuano Misplaced Pages mobile

• Internet properties established in 2005
• Wikipedias by language
• Philippine encyclopedias