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The Portuguese Wikipedia (Portuguese: Wikipédia em português) is a Portuguese
language edition of Wikipedia (written Wikipédia, in Portuguese),
the free encyclopedia. It was the fifth edition of Wikipedia,
started in June 2001. It
is currently the ninth largest Wikipedia by article count,
containing 536,451 articles.
From late 2004, the edition
grew rapidly. During May
2005, it overtook both the Spanish and Italian
language Wikipedias. By comparison, in May 2004 it was only the 17th Wikipedia by the
number of articles.
Portuguese articles can contain small variations of writing, as
European
Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese have minor
variations in vocabulary and usage. Articles can contain written
characteristics of one or the other variant depending on who wrote
the article.
In 2005, a proposal to fork Portuguese Wikipedia
and create a Brazilian Portuguese
(pt-br) version was voted down by the Wikimedia community.
Characteristics
The Portuguese language Wikipedia is different from the English
one in a number of aspects.
- Proposed deletion is unavailable. In order for a page to be
deleted, one must take it to "Eliminação rápida" (Quick
elimination, similar to the speedy deletion) or "Páginas para
eliminar" (Pages to eliminate, similar to the articles for
deletion).
- The articles for deletion process isn't headed towards a
consensus, but towards a proportion of votes. If the proportion of
delete/keep votes reaches 2/3, the page is deleted, and the reverse
applies just the same. This was decided via another voting
process.[1] The
discussion page is kept for at least seven days, after which an
administrator will close the debate if the proportion has been
reached. In case not, the discussion is prolonged for seven more
days.[2] Editors
do not necessarily need to provide a reason for their vote,
although they need to have the "right to vote". To earn this right,
editors must be logged in, must have done a valid (undeleted and
unreverted) edit at least 45 days ago, and must have at least 100
valid edits.[3]
- Fair use images have always been forbidden. However, debates
have been raised[4][5]
concerning the fair use policy, all of them failing to have the
uploading of such images allowed. Actually, uploading pictures at
the Portuguese wikipedia has been fully disabled.[6] In
order to have a picture at an article, one must create an account
at the Wikimedia Commons and then link it to the page. On-going
campaigns are reuniting people in favour[7]
and against[8]
the usage of fair use. As of February 2009, the number of editors
in favour is higher than the number of editors against it.[7][8]
In August 2009, though, a new debate was raised in order for users
to aprove or deny the creation of a policy of uploading fair use
media (named "Uso Restrito de Conteúdo" there, which translates as
Restricted Use of Contents). This debate resulted in 142
votes for "yes" against 120 votes for "no", which means the policy
was aproved.[9] Now, it
is on its way of implementation. [10]
- As much as the English language, Portuguese language also has
significant regional differences on vocabulary, grammar and
spelling. It is accepted that an article written in Brazilian
Portuguese should be kept as it is, and the same applies to
articles in European Portuguese. However, if one rewrites the
article in another dialect (provided content was changed, not
merely the language), but leave some words in the former dialect,
these words should be rewritten in accordance with the new
version's dialect of the article.[11]
- Completion of a CAPTCHA
image is required for a user to make any edit if the user is not
using a registered username.
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