Yiddish Wikipedia


Yiddish Wikipedia is the Yiddish-language version of Wikipedia. It was founded on March 3, 2004, and the first article was written November 28 of that year.

Current status

The Yiddish Wikipedia now has articles. There are registered users ; are active, including administrators.
Like all Wikipedias it generates hits from Yiddish words typed in Google, with Wikipedia articles appearing at the top of the results for that word.
In accordance with the norms for the Yiddish language, it is written almost exclusively in Hebrew script, and not in Latin script.

Milestones

The Yiddish Wikipedia reached 6,000 articles on March 8, 2009. The 6,000th article is :yi:יהושע העשיל תאומים-פרענקל |יהושע העשיל תאומים-פרענקל, a rabbi. The 7,000th article is :yi:חנינא סגן הכהנים|חנינא סגן הכהנים, a page about the tanna Hanina Segan ha-Kohanim created on December 24, 2009.

Point of view

Combined, the different Hasidic groups form the largest Yiddish-speaking community in the world today. Many new articles are about Hasidic rabbis.