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56-641: The Volapük Misplaced Pages ( Volapük : Vükiped Volapükik ) is the Volapük-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Misplaced Pages . It was created in February 2003, but launched in January 2004. As of 29 November 2024, it is the 110th-largest Misplaced Pages as measured by the number of articles, with about 39,000 articles, and the third-largest Misplaced Pages in a constructed language after the Esperanto Misplaced Pages and

112-602: A bot called SmeiraBot to create many new articles about Volapük-related topics, before massively adding stubs about cities primarily in France, Italy, and the United States. MalafayaBot was another active bot on the Volapük Misplaced Pages: It served primarily to greet new users, add interlanguage links , and clean up deprecated files, but also created hundreds of stubs about individual years. Between June and September 2007,

168-551: A brief renewal of popularity in the Netherlands and Germany under de Jong's leadership, but was suppressed (along with other constructed languages) in countries under Nazi rule and never recovered. Regarding the success of this constructed language, the Spanish scientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal wrote in the first edition of his Tonics of Willingness , in 1898: Nowadays, many scientific papers are published in more than six languages. To

224-468: A continuous Volapük speaker community since Schleyer's time, with an unbroken succession of Cifals (leaders). These were: The phonology of Volapük is as follows: Additionally, ⟨x⟩ represents the sequence / k s /. The letters C, J, S and Z are pronounced voiced after voiced consonants and unvoiced otherwise. There are no diphthongs; each vowel letter is pronounced separately. The letters ä , ö , and ü do not have alternative forms such as

280-414: A hyphen to indicate that it is not stressed in speech. A potential mood is formed with -öx : Reflexive forms are made from the active voice and the pronoun ok : In the third person, the periphrastic form of vatükomok (he washes himself) must use the reflexive pronoun, vatükom oki , as vatükom omi would mean "he washes him (someone else)". The plural -s may precede or follow the reflexive, as

336-572: A million adherents. Volapük was largely displaced between the late 19th and early 20th century by Esperanto . Schleyer first published a sketch of Volapük in May 1879 in Sionsharfe , a Catholic poetry magazine of which he was editor. This was followed in 1880 by a full-length book in German. Schleyer himself did not write books on Volapük in other languages, but other authors soon did. André Cherpillod writes of

392-528: A non-natural language to this day. Since then, the number of articles has remained relatively stable on the Volapük Misplaced Pages, while the edition's collaborative quality has increased, as more effort is put on improving current articles than creating new ones, which led to a doubling of the depth indicator since SmeiraBot made its last edit in April 2008, after a total of over 1,150,000. Following discussions about

448-482: A second, "more balanced request" was created, suggesting a radical cleanup of Volapük Misplaced Pages with the aim of removing all bot-created articles, and transferring the remaining articles to the Wikimedia Incubator . This proposal was also rejected, on 28 January 2008. The Esperanto Misplaced Pages's number of articles caught up, on 23 September 2009, two years after being surpassed, and it remains the largest Misplaced Pages in

504-577: A sequence of three consonants or a double el: li-pälogol? li-binoms? Participles, both active and passive, are formed in -öl : Binob penöl is literally 'I am writing', though penob is also used. For "I write" as habitual action, the habitual aspect is used. This is formed by adding -i- after the tense prefix, and here again the present-tense a- is required. The forms are thus active ai-, äi-, ei-, ii-, oi-, ui-, passive pai-, päi-, pei-, pii-, poi-, pui-. All are pronounced as two syllables. With temporal words, The imperative -öd follows

560-464: A smattering of German and French . Some words remain readily recognizable for a speaker of one of the source languages, but many others are modified beyond easy recognition. For instance, vol and pük are derived from the English words world and speak . Although unimportant linguistically, and regardless of the simplicity and consistency of the stress rule, these deformations were greatly mocked by

616-578: Is an approach shared by several other editions lacking an Exemption Doctrine Policy, including i.a. the Spanish , Swedish , Polish , Basque , Czech , Danish , and Latin Wikipedias. The exclusion of fair use images does not hinder the development of the project, because most material pertaining to the Volapük movement was published over a hundred years ago and is therefore in the public domain . In 2013 and 2014,

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672-491: Is based on that of typical European languages, but with an agglutinative character: grammatical inflections are indicated by stringing together separate affixes for each element of meaning. Nouns inflect for case and number, but not for gender. The following is the declension of the Volapük word vol "world": As in German , the Volapük noun has four cases: nominative , genitive , dative and accusative . In compound words,

728-421: Is composed of morphemes vü- ("inter-", "among") and kiped ("to keep", "to preserve", "to maintain"), and has an implied meaning that roughly translates as: "the effort to maintain this Misplaced Pages is shared among a group of folks". The word was adopted in early 2004, for its autological conveyance of a central aspect of Misplaced Pages's nature and because it is both phonologically and orthographically similar to

784-466: Is the subject of multiple discussions about terminology and usage, being often linked to as a reference for language points. Several prominent figures in the development of Volapük, including Arden R. Smith , link to Vükiped on their websites and it is predominantly featured on the official website of Flenef Bevünetik Volapüka ("The International Community of Friends of Volapük") maintained by volapükologists Ralph Midgley and Michael Everson . Beyond

840-471: Is unique among translations of the name Misplaced Pages because it conveys an adaptation of the original word's connotations while being composed entirely of existent Volapük morphemes . Instead of opting for an habitual calque of the English portmanteau of wiki and encyclopedia , the Volapük Misplaced Pages's community preferred to devise a neologism , since a borrowing of the prefix wiki- would be inconsistent with Volapük morphology . The resulting Vükiped

896-847: The Center for Documentation and Study about the International Language in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland ; and the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . In 2000 there were an estimated 20 Volapük speakers in the world. In December 2007 it was reported that the Volapük version of Misplaced Pages had recently jumped to 15th place among language editions, with more than 112,000 articles. A few months earlier there had been only 797 articles. The massive increase in

952-494: The Esperanto Misplaced Pages to become the largest Misplaced Pages in a constructed language. While among the largest editions, the Volapük Misplaced Pages received a considerable amount of attention from the Misplaced Pages community, bloggers, and even some media coverage. In early September, Smeira's work was criticized by a few Wikipedians including Chuck Smith , founder of the Esperanto Misplaced Pages , who asked about his motive for favoring "quantity at

1008-503: The Ido Misplaced Pages. The edition is most notable for raising questions about the role of bots on Misplaced Pages, which initiated the development of policies and alternative measures of Wikipedias' quality. Its large number of bot-generated articles brought attention to the Volapük language, which often exemplifies the extent of Misplaced Pages's multilingualism across national , minority , dead and constructed languages alike. In 2022, most of

1064-472: The Language Creation Society . Volap%C3%BCk language Volapük conventions took place in 1884 ( Friedrichshafen ), 1887 ( Munich ) and 1889 ( Paris ). The first two conventions used German , and the last conference used only Volapük. By 1889, there were an estimated 283 clubs, 25 periodicals in or about Volapük, and 316 textbooks in 25 languages; at that time the language claimed nearly

1120-466: The Volapük Rigik 'Original Volapük' of Schleyer). This revision was accepted by the few speakers of the language. De Jong simplified the grammar, eliminating some rarely used verb forms, and eliminated some gendered pronouns and gendered verb endings. He also rehabilitated the phoneme /r/ and used it to make some morphemes more recognizable. For instance, lömib "rain" became rein . Volapük enjoyed

1176-503: The ae , oe , and ue of German , but Schleyer proposed alternate forms ꞛ , ꞝ , and ꞟ for them, all of which are part of Unicode since version 7.0 released in June 2014: The author Alfred A. Post mentions in his Comprehensive Volapük Grammar some additional letters created by Schleyer: [REDACTED] Modern Volapük has minimal l–r pairs such as rel "religion" versus lel "iron". Polysyllabic words are always stressed on

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1232-417: The article wizard to submit a draft for review, or request a new article . Search for " List of Wikipedias by sample of articles " in existing articles. Look for pages within Misplaced Pages that link to this title . Other reasons this message may be displayed: If a page was recently created here, it may not be visible yet because of a delay in updating the database; wait a few minutes or try

1288-838: The Internet, the Volapük Misplaced Pages was presented as an illustration of the Volapük community's continuance during the Esperanto, Elvish, and Beyond: The World of Constructed Languages exhibit held at the Cleveland Public Library from May through August 2008 and at the Third Language Creation Conference on 21–22 March 2009. It was created by Donald Boozer, then a Subject Department Librarian in Literature and currently Coordinator of Ohio's statewide online reference service (KnowItNow24x7) as well as librarian and secretary of

1344-770: The Volapük Misplaced Pages contained 79%, and was deemed "the exception". The graph was based on data from the Terra Incognita project, which was developed by Gavin Baily and Sarah Bagshaw at TraceMedia, and was supported by funding from the Arts Council England Grants for Arts and the National Lottery . In 2014, Tobias Treppmann created Misplaced Pages Worldmap, a program for comparative visualization of geocoded Misplaced Pages articles by language. He compared various pairs of Misplaced Pages editions, including Esperanto and Volapük, and came to

1400-412: The Volapük Misplaced Pages grew very quickly with the use of bots. On 7 September 2007, it became the 15th Misplaced Pages to reach the milestone of 100,000 articles, surpassing many editions in much larger languages including Arabic , Turkish , Indonesian , Korean , Vietnamese , and Danish . Starting with only some 5,000 articles in June, it had over 110,000 articles by November of the same year, surpassing even

1456-508: The Volapük Misplaced Pages has, by far, the greatest number of articles per speaker of any edition of Misplaced Pages. These figures were based on a very optimistic estimate of 200 speakers of Volapük. Its editing community currently consists of 2 administrators (7.7% of all active users) and 26 active contributors, of which on average between 1 and 3 are very active every month, and there are in total 8 users with over 1,000 edits (excluding bots). As it mainly consists of "Poplar Bluff" style articles, it fits

1512-674: The Volapük Misplaced Pages or have shorter translations in other languages. As of 29 November 2024, 9 articles on the English Misplaced Pages could be expanded by translating from the Volapük Misplaced Pages. In 2013, the Oxford Internet Institute created a graph, as part of its Information Geographies project, and found that the Volapük Misplaced Pages had the 11th-largest amount of geocoded articles of any Misplaced Pages edition. It also noted that although most editions contained "between 12% (Italian Misplaced Pages) and 20% (English Misplaced Pages) of geocoded articles",

1568-420: The Volapük Misplaced Pages was presented as evidence that the internet is helping revive the Volapük movement, albeit merely as a hobby, devoid of its former internationalist aim. As one of the largest works written in the language over the last century, it has an impact on the development of modern Volapük neologisms , particularly geographical terms. On the online discussion group Volapükalised , the Volapük Misplaced Pages

1624-477: The ability to redirect a search to the Volapük Misplaced Pages or to access it directly by typing !wvo . In addition to the Volapük Misplaced Pages, the Wikimedia Foundation hosts a Volapük Wiktionary ( Vükivödabuk ), which contains over 22,000 words. There is also an Idiom Neutral wiki hosted by Wikia . As of November 2024, the Volapük Misplaced Pages's approximately 39,000 articles account for approximately 8% of all

1680-554: The articles written in a constructed language, making it the second-largest edition in the family after the Esperanto edition, whose share is 73%. The Volapük edition currently has a relatively low depth indicator of 193.2, which is below the Esperanto edition's 17.1, but higher than the Dutch, Kazakh, Cebuano, and Waray-Waray Wikipedias' (which have a depth indicator of 19.3, 15.3, 2.2, and 4.2 respectively). At close to 600 articles per speaker,

1736-508: The bot's articles have been deleted. The Volapük Misplaced Pages was created in February 2003, alongside the Croatian , Lithuanian , Armenian , and Bihari Wikipedias. The main page was created on 27 January 2004, marking the edition's official launch. It underwent a redesign on 3 March 2004, and a second one on 15 December 2006, which serves as the basis for the current layout. In January 2007, Wikipedian Sérgio Meira ( Smeira ) began to actively use

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1792-504: The conclusion that "Esperanto doesn't seem very interested in the U.S., but does cover Japan. Volapük, however, does know the U.S. and has a curiosity for the Baltics and some place in south west Africa". The Volapük Misplaced Pages holds no files locally, relying strictly on Wikimedia Commons for images, sound, and other media files. All of its files are freely available under a Creative Commons license and there are thereby no fair use works. It

1848-544: The definition of a "botopedia" ( Russian : ботопедия ), as coined by the Russian Misplaced Pages . Nevertheless, the Volapük Misplaced Pages also has 14 featured articles ( Yegeds gudik ), and a relatively low proportion of 0.12 featured articles per 1000 articles, on par with the Uzbek , Lithuanian , and Danish Wikipedias. It features a rich collection of articles about the history of the Volapük movement that are mostly unique to

1904-555: The economic views of authors and editors consent in a different way. However, some years later (1920), in the third edition of the same book, he added the following footnote to the former assertion: "As it was presumable, nowadays -1920-, the brand new Volapük has been forgotten definitively. We forecast the same for Esperanto." Large Volapük collections are held by the International Esperanto Museum in Vienna , Austria ;

1960-410: The final vowel; for example, neai "never" is pronounced [ne.a.ˈi] . Exceptionally, the question clitic "-li" does not shift the stress of the word it attaches to. When words are compounded together, secondary stress is retained on the final syllables of the compounded elements, as long as that doesn't result in adjacent stressed syllables. Schleyer adapted the vocabulary mostly from English , with

2016-405: The first part of the compound is usually separated from the second by the genitive termination -a , e.g.  Vola-pük , "of-world language": "language of the world". However, the other case endings ( -e dative, -i accusative) are sometimes used if applicable, or the roots may be agglutinated in the nominative, with no separating vowel. Adjectives , formed by the suffix -ik , normally follow

2072-433: The great expense of quality". In response to the criticism, Smeira wrote: I thought I could try to get some new people interested in learning the language and contributing by doing something a little crazy -- like increasing the size of the Volapük Misplaced Pages as fast as I could, with Python programs for copying and pasting information onto pre-translated templates. In many Wikipedias this had already been done (I actually got

2128-511: The idea from the US city articles in the English Misplaced Pages). Soon after, on 21 September 2007, a proposal was submitted to Meta-Wiki to close the Volapük Misplaced Pages. A long discussion followed, as did eventual disputes and even vandalism. Wikipedians were divided on the issue and the discussion was closed on 6 November 2007. The final decision was to keep the Volapük Misplaced Pages. On 25 December 2007,

2184-425: The language's detractors. It seems to have been Schleyer's intention, however, to alter its loan words in such a way that they would be hard to recognise, thus losing their ties to the languages (and, by extension, nations) from which they came. Conversely, Esperanto and Interlingua are commonly criticized as being much easier to learn for Europeans than for those with non-European native languages. The grammar

2240-484: The language, and Schleyer, who insisted strongly on retaining his proprietary rights. This led to schism, with much of the Academy abandoning Schleyer's Volapük in favor of Idiom Neutral and other new constructed language projects. Another reason for the decline of Volapük may have been the rise of Esperanto . In 1887 the first Esperanto book ( Unua Libro ) was published. Many Volapük clubs became Esperanto clubs. By 1890

2296-418: The likely attempt of restoring Latin or using Esperanto as the universal language of science, wise men have responded by multiplying the number of languages in which scientific works are published. We have to acknowledge that Volapük or Esperanto are practically one more language to be learnt. This result was predictable because neither the essentially popularized and democratic tendencies of modern knowledge, nor

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2352-530: The movement was in disarray, with violent arguments among the members. Schleyer resigned from the Volapük Academy and created a rival academy. Derived languages such as Nal Bino , Balta, Bopal, Spelin, Dil and Orba were invented and quickly forgotten. In the 1920s, Arie de Jong , with the consent of the leaders of the small remnant of Volapük speakers, made a revision of Volapük which was published in 1931 (now called Volapük Nulik "New Volapük" as opposed to

2408-403: The noun they qualify. They do not agree with the noun in number and case in that position, but they do if they precede the noun, are separated from it by intervening words, or stand alone. Adverbs are formed by suffixing -o , either to the root or to the adjectival -ik ( gudik "good", gudiko "well"); they normally follow the verb or adjective they modify. The pronouns begin with o-. In

2464-456: The original term Misplaced Pages . The first Misplaced Pages logo made for the Vükiped was created by Nohat and transferred to Wikimedia Commons on 8 June 2005. Until May 2013, the Volapük Misplaced Pages was the only edition with over 100,000 articles still using the first generation of Misplaced Pages's logo. It was among the last Wikipedias to make the switch to the second-generation logo. The second-generation logo

2520-403: The past or future. For example, from del 'day', The passive voice is formed with p- , and here the a is required for the present tense: The infinitive is formed with the suffix -ön . It can be combined with tense/aspect prefixes: Yes–no questions are indicated with the particle li : The hyphen indicates that the syllable li does not take stress. It occurs before the verb to avoid

2576-412: The person suffix: Optative -ös is used for courteous requests, and jussive -öz an emphatic command. Conditionals are formed with -la for the protasis ( if -clause) and -öv for the apodosis ( then -clause): Note that the tense changes as well, so that in the first example the past tense is used even though the present tense is intended. Like the question particle, the -la is written with

2632-472: The simple present, the pronouns are suffixed to the verb stem: etc. The present passive takes the prefix pa- : The three tenses in the indicative , and the three perfect aspects, each take a characteristic vowel prefix: The present-tense prefix is omitted in the active voice, so: These are seen as being more distant from the present tense the further the vowel is from [a] in vowel space , and they can be used with temporal words to indicate distance in

2688-442: The singular, they are ob "I", ol " thou ", om "he/it", of "she", os (impersonal), on "one", ok "oneself". They are pluralized with -s : obs "we", ols "ye", oms "they". The possessive may be formed with either the genitive -a or with adjectival -ik : oba or obik "my". Prepositions, conjunctions and interjections are also formed from noun roots by appending appropriate suffixes. In later, reformed Volapük, om

2744-559: The size of "Vükiped", bringing it ahead of the Esperanto Misplaced Pages, was due to an enthusiast who had used a computer program to automatically create geographical articles, many on small villages. The motive was to gain visibility for the language. By March 2013 the Esperanto Misplaced Pages, with a very active user community, had risen to 176,792 articles, while the Volapük Misplaced Pages had at that point 119,091 articles. There has been

2800-1045: The speaker chooses: List of Wikipedias by sample of articles Look for List of Wikipedias by sample of articles on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for List of Wikipedias by sample of articles in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use

2856-454: The status and future of the Volapük Misplaced Pages, several initiatives led to the creation of measures to promote the development of quality articles throughout Misplaced Pages. On 7 November 2007, Sérgio Meira introduced the List of Wikipedias by sample of articles , a ranking of Wikipedias based on the size of its articles in a predefined sample based on the List of articles every Misplaced Pages should have . It

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2912-518: The third Volapük convention, In August 1889 the third convention was held in Paris . About two hundred people from many countries attended. And, unlike in the first two conventions, people spoke only Volapük. For the first time in the history of mankind, sixteen years before the Boulogne convention , an international convention spoke an international language. The Dutch cryptographer Auguste Kerckhoffs

2968-515: Was created to serve as a measure of Wikipedias' quality, alternative to the list of Wikipedias by size. Two months later, on 8 January 2008, a Proposal for Policy on overuse of bots in Wikipedias was created on Meta-Wiki. Its purpose was to address perceived problems resulting from "massive flood of additions from bots", but as of July 2014, it remains a proposal and is still in the process of gathering consensus for adoption. The word Vükiped

3024-502: Was for a number of years Director of the Academy of Volapük , and introduced the movement to several countries. The French Association for the Propagation of Volapük was authorized on 8 April 1886, with A. Lourdelet as president and a central committee that included the deputy Edgar Raoul-Duval . However, tensions arose between Kerckhoffs and others in the Academy, who wanted reforms made to

3080-453: Was narrowed down to males only, whereas on got the meaning of 'it' as well as impersonal 'they'. The verb carries a fine degree of detail, with morphemes marking tense , aspect , voice , person , number and (in the third person) the subject's gender . However, many of these categories are optional, and a verb can stand in an unmarked state. A Volapük verb can be conjugated in 1,584 ways (including infinitives and reflexives). For

3136-437: Was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons on 12 June 2010, but only published on the Volapük Misplaced Pages almost 3 years later, on 4 June 2013, because priority was given to a Misplaced Pages's reach, as opposed to its size. The Volapük Misplaced Pages is the only edition with over 100,000 articles that has never replaced its logo with a commemorative version upon reaching new milestones. There is a "!Bang" command available on DuckDuckGo , giving users

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