Southern Min Wikipedia

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Southern Min Wikipedia

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Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Southern Min
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
URL	zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Launched	July 2003 (project established) May 28, 2004; 17 years ago (2004-05-28) (joined Wikipedia)
Content license	CC-BY-SA 3.0

The Southern Min Wikipedia (Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Wikipedia Bân-lâm-gú) or Holopedia^[1] is the Southern Min edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. It is the second largest Wikipedia in a variety of Chinese, after Mandarin.^[2] Written in Pe̍h-ōe-jī, it mainly uses the Hokkien Taiwanese dialect. As of April 2020, it has over 400,000 articles.^[3]

History[]

The Southern Min Wikipedia was founded as an independent project known as Holopedia (a reference to Hō-ló-oē, a colloquial name for the Southern Min dialect) by Wikipedians Pektiong (Tân Pe̍k-tiong) and Kaihsu (Tè Khái-sū) in 2003. A request was then made at the Wikimedia Foundation's Meta-Wiki to create the Wikipedia project for this language.

ISO code[]

At the time of creation there was no ISO 639 code for Southern Min, so the founders decided to use "zh-min-nan", which had been registered as an IETF language tag.^[4] Now there is an ISO code for Southern Min (nan) and the domain http://nan.wikipedia.org redirects to http://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/.

The Southern Min Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia to have two hyphens in the code, although "be-x-old" was formerly used for the Belarusian Wikipedia in classical orthography.

In August 2015, the Wikipedians of Southern Min Wikipedia reached a new consensus to officially use "nan" as the language code; however, as of 2021, the consensus hasn't been executed yet.^[5][6]

See also[]

• Wikipedia in other varieties of Chinese
• Taiwanese Hokkien
• Peh-oe-ji

References[]

External links[]

Chinese (Min Nan) edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Southern Min Wikipedia

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