Logo of L'Enciclopèdia in Valencian language

L'Enciclopèdia in Valencian is an encyclopedia on internet that was created following the stocks in the technology wiki, which is defined as the free encyclopedia in Valencian language. L'Enciclopèdia in Valencian uses a free software called MediaWiki. L'Enciclopèdia in valencian and the website www.lenciclopedia.org are not a part of the Wikimedia Foundation, provider of this free software.

L'Enciclopèdia in valencian was created on December 2, 2007. L'Enciclopèdia is the only encyclopedia in Valencian that exists in internet and the only encyclopedia that uses a Valencian orthographic rules for the Valencian, the Normes d'El Puig of the Royal Academy of Valencian Culture, dated from 1981. It's also the only encyclopedia writed in Valencian from the Valencian Community, with a Valencian perspective and aimed at a Valencian audience.

L'Enciclopèdia aims to create a great free encyclopedia in Valencian and spread the Valencian language through the internet. This project aims to make an electronic encyclopedia in Valencian, free and open to all. Most of the content can be improved by anyone accessing L'Enciclopèdia en valencià.

With your help and collaboration L'Enciclopèdia in Valencian will have many more articles and information. Every day, many collaborators make dozens of editions and create new articles in L'Enciclopèdia.

L'Enciclopèdia Embassy

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Historical evolution

 
Logo of L'Enciclopèdia in Valencian in December 2017, celebrating 10 years since its foundation.
  • The project has been evolving as new users and encyclopedists have been incorporated, which have allowed it to be provided with more content and updates.

In a hypothetical classification close to the encyclopedias of the Wikimedia Foundation would be in a position 110 of 271 encyclopedias, having the L'Enciclopèdia in valencian more articles that 161 encyclopedias of the above mentioned foundation, that is to say, it possesses more articles that the majority of encyclopedias of the Wikimedia Foundation overcoming more than 58%.

Statistics

  • The current evolution of L'Enciclopèdia in Valencian is the following:
    • 36 754 articles.
    • 60 698 pages.
    • 370 780 edits.
    • 2243 images.
    • 1195 users.
    • 18 administrators.

Historical record of articles

 
Logo of L'Enciclopèdia in Valencian commemorating the edition of article number 15,000.
Date Articles
December 2007 -
March 12, 2009 500
May 7, 2009 1.000
May 25, 2009 2.000
May 28, 2009 3.000
June 3, 2009 4.000
June 18, 2009 5.000
December 31, 2009 6.000
July 26, 2011 7.000
June 18, 2013 8.000
July 25, 2014 9.000
December 26, 2014 10.000
April 23, 2016 11.000
October 15, 2016 12.000
March 24, 2018 13.000
October 28, 2019 14.000
June 28, 2020 15.000
November 24, 2021 20.000
September 14, 2022 25.000

L'Enciclopèdia mobile version

  • L'Enciclopèdia in Valencian launched on February 10, 2015 L'Enciclopèdia version for mobile devices which improves navigation on mobiles and tablets and allows easy and fast consultation from mobile phones.
  • Currently more than 25% of the accesses to L'Enciclopèdia are made from mobile devices and the percentage is expected to continue increasing.

L'Enciclopèdia on social networks

L'Enciclopèdia in Valencian has more than 5,000 followers on social networks and is present in facebook, twitter and instagram. If you wish, you can click on the following links and join the social networks of L'Enciclopèdia in Valencian:

L'Enciclopèdia on mass media

Summary of news about L'Enciclopèdia in Valencian on the mass media and internet websites.


Activities of L'Enciclopèdia

Distinction of the Royal Academy of Valencian Culture

 
Distinction of the Royal Academy of Valencian Culture to L'Enciclopèdia

On the occasion of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Valencian orthographic rules Normes d'El Puig, the Royal Academy of Valencian Culture awarded L'Enciclopèdia en valencià on April 6, 2022 with a diploma "in recognition of its valuable contribution to the development, use and consolidation of the Valencian language and the rules of Normes d'El Puig".

Varieties of the language in L'Enciclopèdia

In the articles relating to places, cultures or typical elements between others, of a concrete place, always respecting the procedure of the Royal Academy of Valencian Culture [1], can be in use the local dialect.

Ideology

L'Enciclopèdia is defined as a free encyclopedia in Valencian language that everyone can edit all and in the responsibility of L'Enciclopèdia en valencià says expressly that it is not a project of partisan but impartial ideology and written entirely in Valencian, in addition asks in case of finding some sample of partisan ideology, and denounce it to L'Enciclopèdia's sysops and will be withdrawn as rapidly as possible.

To be able to write in the above mentioned encyclopedia, one does not ask to have any ideology, any person is free to begin and write, providing that he does it respecting the orthographic rules of the Normes d'El Puig of the Royal Academy of Valencian Culture for the Valencian language.

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