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Screenshot  The Main Page of the Ripuarian Wikipedia as of July 2011. | |
Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | Ripuarian |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | ksh.wikipedia.org |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 6 July 2005 |
The Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages (Kölsch: Wikipedia op Ripoarisch Platt) is the Ripuarian edition of Wikipedia. It was started on 6 July 2005, as WiKoelsch on a private server, and was converted to an official Wikipedia during April 2006. As only about a million people[1] speak the Ripuarian languages, the Ripuarian Wikipedia is relatively small. Since both the use of Ripuarian, and the population capable of using a Ripuarian language, are decreasing, it is also an endangered language Wikipedia. The total number of edits on this Wikipedia is 1,609,047.
- ^ This is an estimate based on the quarter million estimate of Colognian speakers published 1997 by H. Jakobs according to http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ksh or in print in: M. Paul Lewis (editor): Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 16th edition, ISBN 978-1-55671-216-6. There is no language census about Ripuarian speakers.