User:PK2/Cebuano Wikipedia

The Cebuano Wikipedia (Wikipedya sa Sinugboanon) is the Cebuano-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Founded on 22 June 2005, it is the second-largest edition of Wikipedia after the English Wikipedia, and has ceb:Special:Statistics articles as of 29 July 2024, of which more than 99 percent was created by bots.

Significance for the language area
It is the largest Philippine-language Wikipedia by number of articles and is ahead of the Waray and Tagalog Wikipedias.

Cebuano is the second most widely spoken language in the Philippines, with approximately 20 million speakers. There are currently no printed or online dictionaries or encyclopedias in Cebuano, making the Cebuano Wikipedia the only Cebuano-language encyclopedia.

History and article growth
The Cebuano Wikipedia was started in June 2005. In January 2006 there were 1,000 articles, while in November 2006 there were 1,400 articles. At the end of 2006 and 2007, bots created tens of thousands of articles about municipalities in France.

By the end of 2012, the number of articles increased to about 30,000. In December 2012, Lsjbot began to create articles. As a result, the number of articles increased dramatically in 2013, and from February to December 2013, the number of articles increased ninefold. By the end of 2015, about 99 percent of the then 1.4 million articles had been created by bots, including about 25,000 articles about localities and the rest of articles about living beings by Lsjbot.

On 16 July 2014, the Cebuano-language Wikipedia comprised one million articles, making it the twelfth largest Wikipedia. After overtaking the Spanish, Italian, Russian, French, Dutch and the German Wikipedias within a year and a half, it reached the two-million mark in February 2016. The third millionth article was created after about six months, and the fourth million about another six months later. In August 2017, the fifth millionth article was created.

Milestones

 * 30 December 2005 — the 1,000th article was created
 * 19 December 2006 — the 10,000th article was created
 * 21 January 2013 — the 50,000th article was created and the Cebuano Wikipedia became the 61st-largest Wikipedia by number or articles
 * 2 February 2013 — the 100,000th article was created and the Cebuano Wikipedia became the 42nd-largest Wikipedia by number or articles
 * 9 February 2013 — the 150,000th article was created and the Cebuano Wikipedia became the 33rd-largest Wikipedia by number or articles
 * 16 February 2013 — the 200,000th article was created and the Cebuano Wikipedia became the 26st-largest Wikipedia by number or articles
 * 18 March 2013 — the 300,000th article was created and the Cebuano Wikipedia became the 19th-largest Wikipedia by number or articles
 * 26 June 2013 — the 400,000th article was created and the Cebuano Wikipedia became the 16th-largest Wikipedia by number or articles
 * 18 July 2013 — the 500,000th article was created and the Cebuano Wikipedia became the 15th-largest Wikipedia by number or articles
 * 7 August 2013 — the 600,000th article was created and the Cebuano Wikipedia became the 14th-largest Wikipedia by number or articles
 * 20 August 2013 — the 700,000th article was created and the Cebuano Wikipedia became the 15th-largest Wikipedia by number or articles
 * 10 September 2013 — the 800,000th article was created and the Cebuano Wikipedia became the 13th-largest Wikipedia by number or articles
 * 18 June 2014 — the 900,000th article was created and the Cebuano Wikipedia remained the 13th-largest Wikipedia by number or articles
 * 16 July 2014 — the 1,000,000th article was created and the Cebuano Wikipedia became the 12th-largest Wikipedia by number or articles
 * 15 August 2014 — the Cebuano Wikipedia overtook the Waray Wikipedia and became the 10th-largest Wikipedia by number or articles
 * 21 August 2014 — the Cebuano Wikipedia overtook the Vietnamese Wikipedia and became the 9th-largest Wikipedia by number or articles
 * 26 August 2014 — the Cebuano Wikipedia overtook the Spanish Wikipedia and became the 8th-largest Wikipedia by number or articles
 * 31 August 2014 — the Cebuano Wikipedia overtook the Italian Wikipedia and became the 7th-largest Wikipedia by number or articles
 * 1 September 2014 — the Cebuano Wikipedia overtook the Russian Wikipedia and became the 6th-largest Wikipedia by number or articles
 * 9 October 2014 — viene superata dall'edizione in waray-waray e ritorna ad essere la settima edizione per numero di voci
 * 31 March 2015 — viene superata dall'edizione in russo e ritorna ad essere l'ottava edizione per numero di voci
 * 16 July 2015 — viene superata dall'edizione in italiano e ritorna ad essere la nona edizione per numero di voci
 * 6 September 2015 — supera di nuovo l'edizione in italiano e ridiventa l'ottava edizione per numero di voci
 * 8 November 2015 — supera di nuovo l'edizione in waray-waray e ridiventa la settima edizione per numero di voci
 * 9 November 2015 — supera di nuovo l'edizione in russo e ridiventa la sesta edizione per numero di voci
 * 7 December 2015 — supera 1.500.000 voci
 * 1 January 2016 — supera l'edizione in francese e diventa la quinta edizione per numero di voci
 * 15 January 2016 — supera l'edizione in olandese e diventa la quarta edizione per numero di voci
 * 19 January 2016 — supera l'edizione in tedesco e diventa la terza edizione per numero di voci
 * 14 February 2016 — supera 2.000.000 di voci
 * 25 September 2016 — supera 3.000.000 di voci
 * 16 January 2017 — supera l'edizione in svedese e diventa la seconda edizione per numero di voci
 * 11 February 2017 — supera 4.000.000 di voci
 * 9 August 2017 — supera 5.000.000 di voci