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This page is a descriptive article on the '''[[<tvar name="1">de:</tvar>|German Wikipedia]]''', feel free to add any comment.

== Facts == <!--T:2-->

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Started: March 2001

'''<translate><!--T:3--> Started:</translate>''' {{DateT|2001|03}}

'''<translate><!--T:5--> Current size:</translate>''' <translate><!--T:6--> <tvar name="1">{{formatnum:{{NUMBEROF|articles|de}}}}</tvar> articles</translate>

Areas of strength

* General article quality

* Several cooperations with third parties regarding e.g. Persondata (German national library) or CD-/DVD-production (Directmedia)

* High grade of face-to-face contacts by means of regular meetings (so called “Stammtische”)

* Creativity in inventing new ways of quality enhancement e.g. writing contests (“Schreibwettbewerb”), concepts as featured (“exzellente”) and good (“lesenswerte”) articles or events as “Wikipedia Academy” (involvement of experts)

'''<translate><!--T:7--> Total edits:</translate>''' {{formatnum:{{NUMBEROF|edits|de}}}}

Areas of weakness

* Still a low amount of animations and sounds.

'''<translate><!--T:8--> Active editors:</translate>''' <translate><!--T:9--> <tvar name="1">{{formatnum:{{NUMBEROF|activeusers|de}}}}</tvar> in the past month</translate>

Who is the competition (print, online)?

* The general PR talking points are that we don't see them as competitors as they could take our content and sell it under the CC/GFDL terms. Competitors to those companies would be other companies that are using wikipedia content to build up products (like Directmedia publishing)

* Bibliographisches Institut & F.A. Brockhaus (Brockhaus, Meyers) (online, physical electronic product, print)

* Encarta (physical electronic product and online)

* Bertelsmann (online, physical electronic product, print)

; <translate><!--T:10--> Areas of strength</translate>

== Prominent milestones/events ==

* <translate><!--T:11--> General article quality</translate>

* first [[Meetup#28th._October_in_Munich|meetup in Munich]] on 28th October 2003 in Munich

* <translate><!--T:12--> Several cooperation with third parties regarding e.g. Persondata (German national library) or CD-/DVD-production (Directmedia)</translate>

* 100.000 articles in June 2004 on the very same "Wikipedia day" when Jimmy Wales was in Berlin and the german association "Wikimedia Germany" was founded.

* <translate><!--T:13--> High grade of face-to-face contacts by means of regular meetings (so called <tvar name="1">“Stammtische”</tvar>)</translate>

* first [[:de:Wikipedia:DVD|Wikipedia CD]] October 2004 published by [[:en:Directmedia_Publishing]]

* <translate><!--T:14--> Creativity in inventing new ways of quality enhancement e.g. writing contests (<tvar name="1">“Schreibwettbewerb”</tvar>), concepts as featured (<tvar name="2">“exzellente”</tvar>) and good (<tvar name="3">“lesenswerte”</tvar>) articles or events as “Wikipedia Academy” (involvement of experts)</translate>

* first Wikipedia DVD April 2005 published by Directmedia_Publishing

* <translate><!--T:15--> Convenient <tvar name="1"><code>BD:</code></tvar> shorthand alias for <tvar name="2">"User_talk:"</tvar> (<tvar name="3">"Benutzer_Diskussion:"</tvar>) namespace.</translate>

* first [[Wikimania05|Wikimania]] conference in Frankfurt in August

* 500.000 articles in November 2006

* 1.000.000 articles in December 2009

What has its impact been?

* TK

; <translate><!--T:16--> Areas of weakness</translate>

== Features ==

* <translate><!--T:17--> Still a low amount of animations and sounds.</translate>

; <translate><!--T:18--> Who is the competition (print, online)?</translate>

What language features are challenging?

* <translate><!--T:19--> The general PR talking points are that we don't see them as competitors as they could take our content and sell it under the CC/GFDL terms. Competitors to those companies would be other companies that are using wikipedia content to build up products (like Directmedia publishing)</translate>

* German Grammar changes combined nouns so that a <nowiki>[[term]]genitivesuffix</nowiki> does not always work.

* <translate><!--T:20--> Bibliographisches Institut & F.A. Brockhaus (Brockhaus, Meyers) (online, physical electronic product, print)</translate>

*: Example: Das Bibliographische Institut (nominative).

* <translate><!--T:21--> Encarta (physical electronic product and online)</translate>

*: Des Bibliographische'''n''' Institut'''s''' (genitive).

* <translate><!--T:22--> Bertelsmann (online, physical electronic product, print)</translate>

* Not challenging per se, but the square and curly bracket characters on standard German keyboard need to be inserted using a special key combination using the Alt key. On Mac keyboards, they are not even shown on the key caps.

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== Prominent milestones/events == <!--T:23-->

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* <translate><!--T:24--> first [[<tvar name="1">Wikipedia meetup/Archive#28th. October in Munich</tvar>|meetup in Munich]] on 28th October 2003 in Munich</translate>

* <translate><!--T:25--> 100.000 articles in June 2004 on the very same "Wikipedia day" when Jimmy Wales was in Berlin and the German association "Wikimedia Germany" was founded.</translate>

* <translate><!--T:26--> first [[:de:Wikipedia:DVD|Wikipedia CD]] October 2004 published by [[:en:Directmedia Publishing]]</translate>

* <translate><!--T:27--> first Wikipedia DVD April 2005 published by Directmedia_Publishing</translate>

* <translate><!--T:28--> first [[<tvar name="1">Wikimania05</tvar>|Wikimania]] conference in Frankfurt in August</translate>

* <translate><!--T:29--> 500.000 articles in November 2006</translate>

* <translate><!--T:30--> 1.000.000 articles in December 2009</translate>

* <translate><!--T:31--> [[<tvar name="1">w:Superprotect</tvar>|Media Viewer superprotect incident]] (2014)</translate>

; <translate><!--T:32--> What has its impact been?</translate>

What would surprise the outside reader about the community?

* TK

* its radical attitude towards deletion (see controversy about the deletion of Linux distribution in the German press April 2007)

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== Features == <!--T:33-->

What are some unique practices/characteristics?

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* Current events articles are highly discouraged

; <translate><!--T:34--> What language features are challenging?</translate>

* Stubs are not marked as stubs; this is considered pointless

* <translate><!--T:35--> German Grammar changes combined nouns so that a <nowiki>[[term]]genitivesuffix</nowiki> does not always work.</translate>

* Users are banned by public vote. An arbitration committee like the one on en.wp was approved by the community in April 2007.

*: <translate><!--T:36--> Example: Das Bibliographische Institut (nominative).</translate>

*: <translate><!--T:37--> Des Bibliographische'''n''' Institut'''s''' (genitive).</translate>

* <translate><!--T:38--> Not challenging per se, but the square and curly bracket characters on standard German keyboard need to be inserted using a special key combination using the Alt key. On Mac keyboards, they are not even shown on the key caps.</translate>

; <translate><!--T:39--> What would surprise the outside reader about the community?</translate>

Who were the earliest participants, who started it?

* <translate><!--T:40--> its radical attitude towards deletion (see controversy about the deletion of Linux distribution in the German press April 2007)</translate>

* Kurt Jansson (now Vice Chair of [[Wikimedia Deutschland]]), Magnus Manske (MediaWiki developer)

; <translate><!--T:41--> What are some unique practices/characteristics?</translate>

Other prominent Wikipedians?

* <translate><!--T:42--> Current events articles are highly discouraged.</translate>

* Achim Raschka (initiator of the writing contest), Southpark, Bdk, Henriette Fiebig, Ulrich Fuchs (ex-Wikipedian, founder of fork Wikiweise), Hans Bug (most prominent banned user)

* <translate><!--T:43--> [[:en:WP:Stub|Stubs]] (short articles) are not marked as such, as it is considered pointless.</translate>

* <translate><!--T:44--> More [[<tvar name="1">Special:MyLanguage/Immediatism</tvar>|immediatism]] than on the [[<tvar name="2">Special:MyLanguage/English Wikipedia</tvar>|English Wikipedia]].</translate> <translate><!--T:45--> For example, there exist no equivalents to [[<tvar name="1">:en:template:citation needed</tvar>|the <tvar name="2">"&#91;citation needed&#93;"</tvar> tag]] and its sisters, and only sleek and minimalistic article notice boxes like <tvar name="3">[[:de:Vorlage:Belege fehlen]]</tvar> instead of prominent ones like <tvar name="4">[[:en:Template:Unreferenced]]</tvar> and <tvar name="5">[[:en:Template:Multiple_issues]]</tvar> as used on the English Wikipedia.</translate>

* <translate><!--T:62--> No [[:w:Template:Efn/doc|explanatory footnotes]]. Explanatory details are mentioned inline, as prose in an article.</translate>

* <translate><!--T:61--> No hatnotes. In comparison, [[<tvar name="1">{{lwp|Wikipedia:Hatnote}}</tvar>|italic boxless hatnotes]] are frequently found on the English-language Wikipedia, including in the article space.</translate>

* <translate><!--T:46--> Users are banned by public vote. An arbitration committee like the one on en.wp was approved by the community in April 2007.</translate>

* <translate><!--T:47--> The "rollback" tool is not granted through a standalone user right but included in the <tvar name="1"><code>editor</code></tvar> ("active sighter") user right.</translate>

* <translate><!--T:48--> The new protection level "active sighters only" between "semi-protection" and "administrators only" was [[<tvar name="1">:de:Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Zusätzliche_Seitenschutzstufe</tvar>|introduced in April 2015]]. It is reminiscent of the extended confirmed protection level introduced a year later on the [[<tvar name="2">English Wikipedia#Milestones/events</tvar>|English Wikipedia]].</translate>

* <translate><!--T:49--> Instead of being [[:en:WP:G5|deleted]], pages found to have been created by banned users but without content-related issues are moved into [[<tvar name="1">:de:Wikipedia:Artikelwerkstatt</tvar>|a draft-like space]] and move-protected so only active sighters and above can move them back at their responsibility after review, allowing editors to decide autonomously between taking over and starting from scratch.</translate> <translate><!--T:50--> ([[<tvar name="1">:de:Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Umgang mit den Artikeln von dauerhaft gesperrten Benutzern</tvar>|2018 community consensus]])</translate>

* <translate><!--T:60--> Unblock discussions are largely held on [[<tvar name="1">:de: Wikipedia:Sperrprüfung</tvar>|a centralized noticeboard]] rather than users' individual talk pages.</translate>

* <translate><!--T:51--> No use of padlock icons to indicate page protection like on the English and [[<tvar name="1">Special:MyLanguage/French Wikipedia</tvar>|French Wikipedia]]s.</translate>

* <translate><!--T:52--> Since early 2016, both "Edit" (visual) and "Edit source" tabs and links are shown by default, whereas the English Wikipedia only shows "Edit" (indicated as "Edit source" while logged in) by default; showing both can be enabled at <tvar name="1">[[:en:Special:Preferences#mw-input-wpvisualeditor-tabs]]</tvar>.</translate>

; <translate><!--T:53--> Who were the earliest participants, who started it?</translate>

==Statistics==

* Kurt Jansson <translate><!--T:54--> (former Vice Chair of [[<tvar name="1">Wikimedia Deutschland</tvar>|Wikimedia Deutschland]])</translate>, Magnus Manske <translate><!--T:55--> (MediaWiki developer)</translate>

===First test made by [[User:Toira|Toira]] on 25/02/07===

; <translate><!--T:56--> Other prominent Wikipedians?</translate>

Using alt-shift-x (to display a random page) 20 times I got:

* Achim Raschka <translate><!--T:57--> (initiator of the writing contest)</translate>, Southpark, Bdk, Henriette Fiebig, Ulrich Fuchs <translate><!--T:58--> (ex-Wikipedian, founder of fork Wikiweise)</translate>, Hans Bug <translate><!--T:59--> (most prominent banned user)</translate>

*19 articles with decent content. [95%]

*1 "small" article (10 lines). [5%]

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