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Italian Wikipedia is the
Italian-language edition of
Wikipedia. This edition was started in
January 2002 and has more than 220,438 articles, as of
December 5,
2006.
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In August 2005 the Italian Wikipedia overtook the
Spanish and
Portuguese language editions, becoming the 8th largest
edition by article count. The primary reason for the rapid leap
from 56,000 to 64,000 articles was an automated
bot which created stub articles on more than 8,000
municipalities of
Spain
in an operation dubbed "Comuni spagnoli".
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On
September 8, the Italian Wikipedia overtook the
Dutch Wikipedia and one day later, on September 9, it passed
100,000 articles. On
September 11, it overtook the
Swedish Wikipedia, becoming the fifth-largest language
edition. Again, automated scripts contributed heavily to the
growth. For instance, a bot created more than 35,000 articles on
municipalities of
France.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Comuni_della_Francia]
However it was overtaken by the
Polish edition on
September 23,
2005.
During
December, the Italian Wikipedia had more than 220,000
articles and passed 100,000 users, and 88
sysop. The amount of administrators has considerably
increased during the last few months because of the growing
problem with
vandalism and copyright violations (which, in some cases,
have gone undetected for two or three years). A greater number
of administrators will probably be required to get rid of the
copyright violations, which haven been spread to several
hundreds of articles. Because of this, general policies are
being discussed and new measures are being taken. For example,
new users will now be able to follow an exhaustive "tutorial"
regarding copyrights of text and images.
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