The Asturian Wikipedia (Asturian: Wikipedia n'asturianu) is the Asturian language edition of Wikipedia[1] started in July 2004. As of 17 October 2024, the Asturian Wikipedia has 136,697 articles, making it the 67th-largest Wikipedia. It also has 128,029 registered users, most of them global accounts created automatically, since the monthly active users amount to 107 of which 8 are administrators. It has 4,287,503 edits. The Asturian Wikipedia ranks 16th among Wikipedias by articles per speaker population.[2]
History
After its foundation in July 2004, the Asturian Wikipedia reached 1,000 articles on 1 September 2004.
In 2015, Wikipedia was awarded with the SpanishPrincess of Asturias Award on International Cooperation.[3] Speaking at the Asturian Parliament in Oviedo, the city that hosts the awards ceremony, Jimmy Wales praised the work of the Asturian language Wikipedia users.[4] The night of the ceremony, members of the Wikimedia Foundation held a meeting with Wikipedians from all parts of Spain, including the local Asturian community.
Old Asturian Wikipedia logo
4 years logo (2008)
The 10,000th article was created on 20 November 2007