Northern Sami Wikipedia

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The Northern Sami Wikipedia is the edition of

Northern Sami language.[1]

It was used as one example of how Wikipedia's categories system works (in the context of social ontologies).[2]

Statistics

It started in 2004 and has 7,873 articles, ranking 183rd of all Wikipedias.[3]

Readers

It is 134th of about 290 in number of page requests: half a million page requests per month, but not possible to know how many human readers.

Content

It is 137th of about 290 in number of articles (there are 7,873); articles are about 500 characters long on average with approximately 400 000 words in total. It's above average in terms of editors/speakers and articles/speakers, there are many articles about towns around the world (mostly automated creations).

User activity

There were almost no new articles in 2008–2011, new articles usually come in bursts; in 2013 editing activity was lower than in previous years with fewer than 10 active editors per month making fewer than 100 edits per month.[4] There are currently 34 active users and activity is still low.

Notes

  1. ^ (in Northern Sami) Yle Ođđasat Saamenkieliset tv-uutiset, Digisaame Archived 2014-03-19 at archive.today, Yle TV1, 2014-02-24. (Section in the Sami news of the main TV channel of Finland.)
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  3. ^ "List of Wikipedias". Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  4. ^ All these statistics from Erik Zachte, Wikipedia Statistics Northern Sami, stats.wikimedia.org (accessed 19 March 2014).

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