Latin Wikipedia

Latin Wikipedia
The logo of Latin Wikipedia, an incomplete sphere made of large, white, jigsaw puzzle pieces. Each puzzle piece contains one glyph from a different writing system, with each glyph written in black. The Latin Wikipedia wordmark displays the name Vicipædia, written in all caps. The V and the A are the same height and both are taller than the other letters which are also all the same height.
The logo of Latin Wikipedia, a globe featuring glyphs from various writing systems
Main Page of the Latin Wikipedia
Type of site
Online encyclopedia
Available inLatin
Country of originUnited States
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
Created byJimmy Wales
URLla.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
Users154
LaunchedMay 2002
Current statusActive

The Latin Wikipedia (Latin: Vicipaedia or Vicipaedia Latina) is the Latin language edition of Wikipedia, created in May 2002. As of November 2024, it has about 140,000 articles. While all primary content is in Latin, modern languages such as English, Italian, French, German or Spanish are often used in discussions, since many users find this easier.

Professional Latinists have observed a gradual improvement in the encyclopedia. According to Robert Gurval, chairman of the UCLA classics department, "the articles that are good are in fact very good," though some contributors do not write the language perfectly.[1] The Latin Wikipedia was the first edition of Wikipedia written in a defunct language; others such as the Old Church Slavonic Wikipedia came later.[2]

  1. ^ Gomes, Lee (29 September 2007). "Veni, Vidi, Wiki: Latin Isn't Dead on 'Vicipaedia' – Online Reference Features Britannia Spears, Disneyi; Disputing Computatrum". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
  2. ^ Kamusella, Tomasz (17 June 2021). Politics and the Slavic Languages. Routledge. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-000-39599-0.