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| Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
|---|---|
| Available in | Waray |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | war |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | September 25, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-09-25) |
| Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
The Waray Misplaced Pages is the Waray language edition of Misplaced Pages. It is hosted on servers run by the Wikimedia Foundation since September 25, 2005. As of January 6, 2025, this edition has 1,266,588 articles and is the 16th largest Misplaced Pages edition. The Waray Misplaced Pages has very few active users (78), and instead owes its large size to automatically generated articles created by bots, most of them by Sverker Johansson's Lsjbot.
Waray (or Waray-Waray) is spoken by approximately 3.6 million people in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines.
History
The Waray Misplaced Pages was first organized in Tacloban on September 25, 2005, by Harvey Fiji. The wiki had a small number of contributors, with fewer than ten editors per month until April 2009. The first meet-up of editors took place in January 2013 in Tacloban.
By early 2011 the Waray Misplaced Pages had attracted notice for including more than twice as many articles as the Tagalog Misplaced Pages, which is based on the principal language of the Philippines. This discrepancy was explained by the very large number of articles added automatically by bots, with no direct human input. By early June 2014 the Waray Misplaced Pages had attained a very high article count of 1 million, but a very low article depth of less than 3. Article depth is an attempt to measure the collaborative quality of articles, based on the number of edits per article.
According to automatically updated Wikimedia data, as of January 6, 2025, the Waray Misplaced Pages has 2,870,249 pages (including user pages, help pages, etc.), 78 active users, and 7,700,070 total edits. The article depth of Waray Misplaced Pages is 4.3—a rough indicator of the article's collaborative quality—compared to 145.83 for the Tagalog Misplaced Pages. (Waray and Tagalog are related languages belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family.)
However, Waray Misplaced Pages does not appear to be widely used in the Philippines; as of March 2021, 90% of Misplaced Pages views from that country were directed at English Misplaced Pages, with 5% going to Tagalog and 3%, to Russian Misplaced Pages. About 35% of Waray Misplaced Pages views come from China, 25% from the United States, about 15% from Germany and France, and less than 8% from the Philippines.
Milestones
- On August 26, 2010, the Waray Misplaced Pages passed the 100,000-article milestone, making it the 35th largest language edition at that time.
- On June 8, 2014, the encyclopedia passed the 1 million article mark, which was mostly made by Lsjbot. It was the very first Misplaced Pages for a language in the Philippines and Asia that reached 1 million articles.
References
- "Start of the Waray Misplaced Pages". War.wikipedia.org. September 25, 2005.
- "Mga Estadistika". War.wikipedia.org. Retrieved January 31, 2016.
- List of Wikipedias
- For This Author, 10,000 Misplaced Pages Articles is a Good Day's Work - WSJ
- The world's most prolific writer - Features – N by Norwegian
- "Hans robot har skrivit halva Misplaced Pages - Internetworld". Archived from the original on August 29, 2017. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
- "Waray". Ethnologue. Summer Institute of Linguistics. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
- ^ Locsin, Joel (June 10, 2014). "Waray Misplaced Pages hits 1 million articles". GMA News Online. Retrieved September 25, 2023.
- ^ "Misplaced Pages Statistics Waray". Stats.wikimedia.org. Retrieved January 31, 2016.
- Martin W. Lewis (April 18, 2011). "The Linguistic Geography of the Misplaced Pages". GeoCurrents.info.
- Siddique, Ashik (December 27, 2013). "Meet the Stats Master Making Sense of Misplaced Pages's Massive Data Trove". Wired.
- "Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report - Misplaced Pages Page Views Per Country - Breakdown". stats.wikimedia.org. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
- "Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report - Page Views Per Misplaced Pages Language - Breakdown". stats.wikimedia.org. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
- Locsin, Joel (June 10, 2014). "Waray Misplaced Pages hits 1 million articles". Yahoo News Philippines. Archived from the original on August 7, 2020. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
- Nazareno, Eileen (August 5, 2015). "A Virtual Pool of Free Knowledge on Eastern Visayas". The Freeman. Archived from the original on March 10, 2016. Retrieved July 24, 2019 – via The Philippine Star.
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Further reading
- Ballesteros, Joseph F.; Bernas-Ballesteros, Belinda T.; Ong, Michael Glen U. (February 2020). "Disseminating Information Using an Indigenous Language – the Waray Misplaced Pages Experience" (PDF). Aboriginal Education World. 91. National Chengchi University: 82. - Originally written in English, it includes a Mandarin Chinese translation (titled "族語傳遞資訊──瓦萊語維基百科經驗談") by Chen Yingrou (陳穎柔).
External links
- Meetup page of Waray Misplaced Pages
- Milestones of the Waray Misplaced Pages
- Waray Misplaced Pages mobile version
- Improving Wikimedia Projects Content through Collaboration - Waray Misplaced Pages Experience, 2014-2017