Silesian Wikipedia

The Silesian Wikipedia (Silesian: Ślůnsko Wikipedyjo / Ślōnskŏ Wikipedyjŏ) is the Silesian edition of Wikipedia. It was started on 26 May 2008.

Silesian Wikipedia

Screenshot The Main Page of the Silesian Wikipedia (December 2009).
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Silesian
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
URL	szl.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No. Charitable
Registration	Optional
Launched	26 May 2008
Content license	Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies

History

Screen of first day of action Silesian Wikipedia

The first attempt to launch the Silesian Wikipedia project took place in March 2006,^[1] but because of negative comments in the discussion section, the proposal was rejected.^[2] In 2007 Wikipedia officially registered the Silesian language in its list of languages.^{[clarification needed]} The International Linguistic Organization SIL International followed this step on 18 July 2007 and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigned it the ISO code "szl".^[3][4][5][6]

A second application for a Wikipedia project in the Silesian language was submitted on 19 March 2008^[7] as a result of discussions on the removal of articles written in Silesian language, which remained in the Polish edition of Wikipedia (in Silesia Wikiproject).^[8][9] After the initial acceptance of the proposal (100% positive, 0% negative votes) 31 March 2008, a test project was created in the Incubator Wikimedia projects. The following month it contained 100 articles in Silesian, including more than 1,800 separate pages. After two months all the eight requirements necessary to create a new Wikipedia were implemented. In reply to the Wikimedia Foundation's query, on 16 May 2008, the then sole academic authority on the Silesian language, Tomasz Kamusella, supported this initiative.^[10] Finally, a Silesian Wikipedia was founded on 26 May 2008.^{[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]} The 1,000th article was included on 15 November 2008.

In October 2010, the Silesian Wikipedia was mentioned as one of the arguments for Silesian to become one of the regional languages in Poland. The project of the law implementing Silesian as a regional language was introduced to Sejm by parliament member Marek Plura.^[19]

Statistics

Data from 2 September 2025:^[20]

Number of edits	~378,000
Articles	59,186
All pages	75,495
Registered users	27,668
Administrators	3