Misplaced Pages

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Korean Misplaced Pages

Screenshot Main Page of the Korean Misplaced Pages in December 2019
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Korean
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
URL	ko.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Content license	Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies

The Korean Misplaced Pages (Korean: 한국어 위키백과) is the Korean language edition of Misplaced Pages. It was founded on 11 October 2002. As of January 2025, it is the 2nd largest Korean language Wiki site and the 23rd largest Misplaced Pages, with 693,935 articles and 1,828 active users.

History

The Korean Misplaced Pages initially used an older version of MediaWiki. The software had problems representing Hangul, which limited usage. In August 2002, the software was upgraded and started to support non-English scripts such as Hangul. However, Internet Explorer continued to have an encoding problem, which kept contributions to the encyclopedia low. Nevertheless, from October 2002 to July 2003, the number of articles increased from 13 to 159, and in August 2003 it reached 348. Finally, in September 2003 the hangul problem was solved. From September 2003, with no accessing difficulty once the encoding error in IE was solved, the number of contributions and visits increased. The Korean Misplaced Pages's prospects became even more optimistic following the momentum created by substantial coverage in the Korean media.

It reached ten thousand articles on 4 June 2005. The Korean Misplaced Pages won the Information Trust Award in the general Internet culture branch in 2005.

Statistics

Comparisons to other Korean wikis and information services

Korean Misplaced Pages is the 2nd largest Korean language wiki, and the 33th most visited website of 2024 according to Similarweb. It is behind Namuwiki, in terms of both traffic (Namuwiki is fifth, compared to Korean wikipedia's thirty third) and article count (including redirects), where Namuwiki (6,525,085 articles) has almost double (1.98 times) the articles of Korean Misplaced Pages (3,290,720), as of October 5th, 2024. According to The Hankyoreh, Namuwiki has 7.2 times more traffic compared to the Korean Misplaced Pages as of October 2024. It is generally attributed that Korean Misplaced Pages is less substantive and influential compared to NamuWiki.

Jimmy Wales stated that in other countries, models like Misplaced Pages were first introduced during the early stages of the internet, leading to very enthusiastic responses. In contrast, in South Korea, because other collective collaboration services such as Naver's Jisik-in (지식인), a Quora style ask-and-answer website, were already available, leading it to receive much more lackluster responses.

Hangul and Hanja

The Korean Misplaced Pages is written almost entirely in hangul. Hanja is only used in order to clarify certain phrases, and is usually parenthesized. A group named Dajimo worked to introduce a mixed script system to the Korean Misplaced Pages. A request for a separate Misplaced Pages in mixed script, however, was rejected.

Dialects

There are two major standards in the Korean language: the South Korea standard, and the North Korea standard. North Koreans are underrepresented on the Korean Misplaced Pages due to censorship of the internet in North Korea. Therefore, most users of the Korean Misplaced Pages are South Koreans and most articles are written in the South Korean style. The official name of the Misplaced Pages is 한국어 위키백과 Hangugeo Wiki-baekgwa. Hangugeo is the name for the Korean language in South Korea, and baekgwa is a clipped form of 백과사전 baekgwasajeon "encyclopedia". The name of the Korean Misplaced Pages, following the North Korean standard, would be 조선말위끼백과 .

Services derived from Korean Misplaced Pages

Businesses heavily make use of the Korean Misplaced Pages in various ways since its license, the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License (CC BY-SA), allows modification and distribution for commercial purposes.

Empas integrated the Korean Misplaced Pages database in its search since 11 August 2005. The feature to search Korean Misplaced Pages using a mobile phone with a wireless Internet connection through Nate was available to the subscribers of SK Telecom from 6 July 2007. Since 21 August, Daum mirrored Korean Misplaced Pages and English Misplaced Pages on its portal, and Naver also started to present the search results from the Korean and English Misplaced Pages prior to others from 11 January 2008.

Politics

The South Korean right-wing youth group story K favors proactive involvement in contributing to Korean Misplaced Pages.

Human rights groups have sent copies of the Korean Misplaced Pages to North Korea on USB sticks by balloon.

Gallery

• Korean Misplaced Pages's 30,000 article logo (14 December 2006)
• Korean Misplaced Pages's 40,000 article logo (2 August 2007)
• Korean Misplaced Pages's 50,000 article logo (4 January 2008)
• Korean Misplaced Pages's 60,000 article logo (24 April 2008)
• Korean Misplaced Pages's 70,000 article logo (7 August 2008)
• Korean Misplaced Pages's 80,000 article logo (20 November 2008)
• Korean Misplaced Pages's 100,000 article logo (4 June 2009)
• Korean Misplaced Pages's 150,000 article logo (15 December 2010)
• Korean Misplaced Pages's 200,000 article logo (19 May 2012)
• Korean Misplaced Pages's 250,000 article logo (3 October 2013)
• Korean Misplaced Pages's 300,000 article logo (5 January 2015)
• Korean Misplaced Pages's 400,000 article logo (22 October 2017)
• Korean Misplaced Pages's 500,000 article logo (15 June 2020)
• Korean Misplaced Pages's 600,000 article logo (16 August 2022)

Notes

1. ^ Park, Kang-soo (30 October 2024). "Ruling party and Korea Communications Commission 'Considering blocking access to Namuwiki'… Intention to censor and control criticism?". The Hankyoreh (in Korean).
2. "List of Wikipedias" (Web). Wikimedia Foundation Inc. 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
3. http://web.archive.org/ – This site shows the Korean Misplaced Pages in 2002 with the Misplaced Pages Logo in 2002.
4. "대한민국". Archived from the original on 22 August 2003. Retrieved 22 August 2003. – Article 대한민국 in 2003. Encoding can be seen to be broken.
5. "Meta Milestones Page" (Web). Wikimedia Foundation Inc. 2005. Retrieved 6 September 2007.
6. "Republic of Korea: Top Websites Ranking". Similarweb. Archived from the original on 17 September 2023. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 5 October 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 5 October 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
9. https://web.archive.org/web/20160701022444/http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2008/04/25/2008042500727.html?related_all
10. Wikimedia Meta-Wiki, Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Hanja. Accessed 11 September 2010.
11. Choe, Sang-Hun (30 August 2006). "Koreas: Divided by a Common Language". The New York Times/ International Herald Tribune. Archived from the original on 8 October 2024.
12. 'Misplaced Pages', an encyclopedia authorized by netizens ...Empas – iNews24, 11 August 2005
13. Misplaced Pages on your phone - ETNews, 6 July 2007
14. Daum, Encyclopedia improved ... Archived 23 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine'Misplaced Pages' search presented Archived 23 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine – eDaily, 21 August 2007
15. Naver, Misplaced Pages Search service launched – ETNews, 11 January 2008. On Naver's search results page, the search results from Misplaced Pages, which was categorized as "knowledge base", were listed prior to the results categorized as "web page".
16. story K Official Website
17. 北 편들고 南 깎아내리는 위키피디아 (Korean Misplaced Pages that favors North Korea; does not favor South Korea) 16 July 2011 Donga Ilbo
18. Williams, Martyn (20 January 2014). "Misplaced Pages enters North Korea ... via balloon". North Korea Tech. Retrieved 21 December 2017.

External links

• Official website (in Korean)
• Korean Misplaced Pages mobile version (in Korean)

• Wikipedias by language
• Korean-language websites
• Internet properties established in 2002
• 2002 establishments in South Korea