The Chuvash Wikipedia (Chuvash: Чӑваш Википедийӗ) is the Chuvash language edition of Wikipedia. It was founded on 22 November 2004. Its 50,000th article was created in October 2022.
Policies
Difficult issues are resolved through the Arbitration Committee, which handles content disputes, blocks users or prohibits certain users from editing articles on certain topics.
Administrators (currently 2) are elected through a vote; administrators who have become inactive (i.e. have not used administrative tools, such as "delete" or "block" buttons, at least 25 times in six months) may lose their privileges by an Arbitration Committee decision.
History
The Chuvash Wikipedia was created on 22 November 2004. Jimmy Wales used it at Wikimania 2009 as an example of the value of Wikipedia for the languages on the verge of extinction[vague].[1][failed verification]
Timeline
On 16 December 2004, the main page was created.
On 9 March 2006, the 2,000th article was created.
On 22 August 2006, the 4,000th[2] article was created.
On 22 November 2006, the 4,500th article was created.
In January 2007, the 5,000th article was created.
In September 2007, the 6,000th[3] article was created.
On 14 January 2008, the 7,000th article was created.
On 17 July 2008, the 8,000th article was created.
On 6 April 2009, the 10,000th[4] article was created.
On 13 February 2010, the 11,000th article was created.
On 4 October 2010, the 11,451st article was created.
On 31 August 2011, the 13,000th article was created.