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Wikipedia is a free-content, open-collaboration online encyclopedia hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. The original edition is the English Wikipedia, with hundreds of other language editions available. Wikipedia's coverage of Toki Pona has varied over the language's history.

Toki Pona Wikipedia[edit | edit source]

Proposed Toki Pona Wikipedia logo from 2022

On 31 March 2004, Sonja Lang asked on the Wikipedia-l mailing list how to add a Toki Pona language edition of Wikipedia.[1][2] On 4 April, a Toki Pona Wikipedia was created at tp.wikipedia.org.[3] The choice of subdomain was debated; other proposals included art-toki-pona, [4][5] art-tp, x-toki-pona,[6] and x-tp.[7] There were disputes about the address and about the existence of this edition of Wikipedia.[8][9]

The Toki Pona Wikipedia reached 100 articles on 28 May 2004;[10] the 100th article was "Jan Juta".

On 16 November 2004, Wikipedia cofounder Jimbo Wales closed the Toki Pona Wikipedia.[11][12][13][14] It later[when?] moved to Wikicities[a] before being independently hosted as lipu Wikipesija. By 2010, "[a]fter being closed and its database locked some time ago, the Tokipona Wikipedia ha[d] been completely removed."[15][16]

Tokiponists have occasionally speculated on whether a new Toki Pona Wikipedia will be created or migrated from Wikipesija. In 2022, one was requested using Wikipesija as the required "test project". The request is still open but mostly supported as of March 2024.[17]

History of articles about Toki Pona[edit | edit source]

English Wikipedia article[edit | edit source]

On 8 April 2002, with the English Wikipedia at only about 30 000 articles,[18] Chuck Smith created the article "Toki Pona language".[19]

In 2005, the article was proposed for deletion but was kept.[20] In 2007, it was deleted,[21] then reinstated with newfound sources.[22]

In 2008, "Toki Pona" became a language and literature good article, albeit through a vague review.[23] In 2010, it was delisted due to unreferenced sections, inconsistent citation formatting, overreliance on primary sources and personal websites, and excess detail. The reassessment's only reply agreed, "As a major writer of the article, … it doesn't feel particularly GA to me. More fun than encyclopedic."[24]

Two more deletion proposals failed in 2012[25] and 2013.[26][27]

In 2018, the article peaked in viewership[28] from the Langfocus video on Toki Pona.

A good article renomination took most of 2019 to pass.[29][30] Select facts were then filed for the main page's "Did you know" column.[31] A fact about the number of words (as recognized pre-ku) ran on 4 November,[29][32] to another view spike.[33][34]

Did you know ... that Toki Pona, a constructed language devised in 2001, uses only around 120 to 125 root words?

Articles on other Wikipedias[edit | edit source]

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In 2020, the English Wikipedia's article was translated onto Slovak Wikipedia and designated a good article there.[35][36][37]

sitelen pona article[edit | edit source]

Articles on sitelen pona had existed on the Spanish and Hebrew Wikipedias since 2021. An English Wikipedia article for the script, which was previously covered in a section of "Toki Pona", was mainspaced on 4 April 2024.

Notes[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Later known as Wikia and Fandom

References[edit | edit source]

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  1. ↑ Sonja Lang. (31 March 2004). "[Wikipedia-l] Adding a new language". lists.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  2. ↑ Andre Engels. (19 September 2004). "[Wikipedia-l] Re: Gothic Wikipedia". lists.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  3. ↑ Brion Vibber. (4 April 2003). "[Wikipedia-l] New wikipedias: tpi, tp, io". lists.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  4. ↑ Timwi. (4 April 2004). "[Wikipedia-l] Re: New wikipedias: tpi, tp, io". lists.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  5. ↑ Karl Eichwalder. (4 April 2004). "[Wikipedia-l] Re: New wikipedias: tpi, tp, io". lists.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  6. ↑ Evan Prodromou. (4 April 2004). "[Wikipedia-l] Re: New wikipedias: tpi, tp, io". lists.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  7. ↑ Ralesk Ne'vennoyx. (4 April 2004). "[Wikipedia-l] Re: New wikipedias: tpi, tp, io". lists.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  8. ↑ "April 2004 Archives by thread". lists.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  9. ↑ "May 2004 Archives by thread". lists.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  10. ↑ "Wikimedia News/2004". Wikimedia.
  11. ↑ "User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive C § Closed wikipedia(s)". English Wikipedia. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  12. ↑ http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=342
  13. ↑ "lipu lawa". lipu Wikipesija. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  14. ↑ "History of the Klingon Wikipedia". Wikimedia.
  15. ↑ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News/2010#March_2010
  16. ↑ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Deletion_of_Toki_Pona_Wikimedia_projects
  17. ↑ metawikimedia:Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Toki Pona 2. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
  18. ↑ Wikipedia Statistics English. Wikimedia. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  19. ↑ Chuck Smith (8 April 2002). Toki Pona - Wikipedia article. Toki Pona Forums. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  20. ↑ "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Toki Pona". English Wikipedia. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  21. ↑ "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Toki Pona (2nd nomination)". English Wikipedia. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  22. ↑ "Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 July 9". English Wikipedia. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  23. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toki_Pona/GA1
  24. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toki_Pona/GA2
  25. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Toki_Pona_(3rd_nomination)
  26. ↑ "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Toki Pona (4th nomination)". English Wikipedia. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  27. ↑ jan Mato [janMato]. (16 March 2013). "toki pona article on wikipedia up for deletion". Toki Pona Forums. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  28. ↑ https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2018-02-24&end=2018-04-24&pages=Toki_Pona Before the video usually about 200 people visited the page every day. On the day of the publication it is 650, the next day the number reaches as high as 1819, and the two following days, 997 and 633, respectively.
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toki_Pona
  30. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toki_Pona/GA4
  31. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Toki_Pona
  32. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions#5_November_2019
  33. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Did_you_know/Statistics#November_2019
  34. ↑ https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2019-10-20&end=2019-11-05&pages=Toki_Pona (over 9,000 views, compared to a typical 280–380 views)
  35. ↑ https://sk.wikipedia.org/?diff=6975108
  36. ↑ https://sk.wikipedia.org/?diff=6975154
  37. ↑ https://sk.wikipedia.org/?diff=6975264
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