Tell us about Greek Wikipedia

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Greek Wikipedia

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Questionaire

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Contributors

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  • Wikimedia Statistics can be difficult to interprete. What is your impression, how many steady contributors do you have?
  • Are your contributors mostly native speakers?
  • Where do your contributors live (regions/country)?
  • How common is it that your contributors meet in real life?
  • Rarely. It's not common for Greek people to meet in real their net friends, and most want to keep their anonymity. --Geraki TL 08:41, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • There aren't usually organized events that Greek wikipedians could attend and meet each other. Administrators have aknowledged they have met. Also, meeting each other is common for students studying at the same university, or people that come from the same town.--Lady 6thofAu 14:03, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Very rarely. The last meeting of the community took place in 2013, however in the last two months we had the first two digital meetings of the Greek Wikipedia's community. NikosLikomitros (talk) 16:40, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Other Wikipedias

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  • Do you have special contacts with another Wikipedias (maybe in related languages)?
  • Do you translate a lot from other Wikipedias? Which ones?

Organization and support

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  • Is there a Wikimedia chapter in your country? How does your language relate to it?
  • Are there work groups in other organizations about Wikipedia?

Your Wikipedia and the linguistic community

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  • Is there a language institution for your language, like an Academy, or a club of people interested in your language? Do you have contact with them?
  • Who (else) supports you?
  • Nobody but the community. The press is supporting a little getting us known, but mostly motivated from the success of the english wikipedia. --Geraki TL 08:41, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Just the community. Fora, blogs and daily conversations bring new people. Lately media show interest about the existence of the Greek wikipedia, mainly reporting it as an English wikipedia Greek variant and/or as a translation of it.--Lady 6thofAu 14:27, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Nobody else but the community. There are some periodical articles on the media about the most popular articles of the year and some other news about Greek Wikipedia, but nothing more. NikosLikomitros (talk) 16:40, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • How looks your public outreach for your edition? Do you have flyers, give lectures, trainings etc.?
  • Do you get feedback from readers?
  • What other encyclopedias exist in your language?
  • There are less than a dozen encyclopedias currently in circulation including both paper and digital encyclopedias. There is only one proprietary online general encyclopedia and some very small special encyclopedias. There is one more wiki based encyclopedia licensed to the GFDL, inspired of course from wikipedia. Its content was imported from two proprietary digital encyclopedias/dictionaries. That makes it uneven as there are articles with great length and others that are only a word definition, but their count is over 100.000 articles. There is not much of a community in that wiki to edit the content. --Geraki TL 08:41, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • There are plenty of them in paper, an average Greek person doesn't usually have access to such material as they cost a lot. Libraries at small cities are extremely small and rarely people know them. Most people legally or illegally get access to proprietary encyclopedias in cd-rom format.--Lady 6thofAu 14:27, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • There are many print encyclopedias that have been published and are still available in many homes (or sold as used products) but the most of Greeks haven't access to a print encyclopedia. There is an ongoing digitisation of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, which was published in Greek translation with additional articles about Greek topics. There was also another wiki-based encyclopedia, Livepedia which closed in 2017 (it was largely inactive for years). As of 2021, Wikipedia is the main encyclopedia in Greek. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by NikosLikomitros (talk)

Content

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  • Does your edition concentrates on certain topics, like your region and language, or Latin Wikipedia on Roman history and Christianity?
  • Did your edition enjoy text donations, for example from older encyclopedias?

Language

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  • Is there a generally accepted norm about your language (spelling, dictionary, pronunciation)?
  • How do you deal with different spellings, dialects etc. (like B.E. lift and A.E. elevator)?
  • Usually the form that is used in education is accepted, except on some special cases there was a lot of critic from academics and in this cases we leave it on the preference of the main contributors. --Geraki TL 08:41, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Dialects are rarely used in Greek wikipedia. Different spellings between old and new forms usually cause debates and edit wars (e.g. Χείλων-Χίλων, κτήριο-κτίριο), especially because a major dictionary supported "right" spellings that are quite odd and different to those learned in schools.--Lady 6thofAu 14:38, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • The form used in education is most common, but words with different spellings (e.g. εταιρεία-εταιρία) have their spellings both used in Greek Wikipedia. NikosLikomitros (talk) 16:40, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]