The Leonese language wiki “Llionpedia“, which was started by a handful creative and language activists at the end of June, has been the minority language related successful summer story 2009. Created from scratch, it has quickly developed into the most read Leonese language source of our days. As for 25th of September 2009, it contains more than 15.000 articles on the most varied subjects of human knowledge, with some 500 entries over 2000 bytes.
I have been monitoring the project and occasionally contributing with a few drafts over language groups and linguistics. The gross of the work has been done by the other 60 active users I would like to congratulate here. They have written lots of articles and in many cases have performed outstanding, making of the Llionpedia a quality online encyclopedia in this tiny but lovely Romance minority language. And, by the way, it is now the most large one of the three existing Leonese language group wikis (the Leonese language groups includes also the direct descendants of Leonese, Asturian Bable and Mirandese):
- Leonese language Llionpedia has got about 15.000 articles with more than 250 editions daily and can be taken as an example for accuracy and language use.
- Bable language Uiquipedia , created some years ago, has got about 12.000 entries and no more than 30 editions per day, being a clear example of a politically biased wiki taken hostage by the most recalcitrant ethnic Asturian nationalists (see the article about Galician in Asturias for a un-philological politically motivated view of this Galician dialect spoken in Western Asturias).
- Newly born Mirandese language Biquipédia is the smallest of the three wikis, counting about 200 articles with about 15-20 editions per day, is the first attempt to create a wide rage of general information pages in that language.
I will continue monitoring the three of them and reporting about success and failure.


