Ukrainian Wikipedia

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The Main Page of the Ukrainian Wikipedia on November 16th, 2015.
The homepage of the Ukrainian Wikipedia.
Web address uk.wikipedia.org
Slogan Ukrainian: Вільна енциклопедія (The Free Encyclopedia)
Commercial? No
Type of site
 Internet encyclopedia project
Registration Optional (but required to create articles)
Available in Ukrainian
Users 318848
Owner Wikimedia Foundation

The Ukrainian Wikipedia (Ukrainian: Українська Вікіпедія, Ukrayins'ka Vikipediya) is the Ukrainian language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. The first article was written on January 30, 2004. Currently (April 2024), Ukrainian Wikipedia has 637017 articles.

Quality of articles and popularity

In the Ukrainian Wikipedia one area of knowledge has been covered to an extent greater than all other Wikipedias — the subject of mining, due to the considerable contribution by one person, Volodymyr Biletsky, a professor at Donetsk National Technical University. Using as a basis his published Encyclopedia of Mining, Biletsky has contributed over 10,000 articles on the subject to Ukrainian Wikipedia.[1] Also, in 2013 the Institute of History of Ukraine at the National Academy of Science gave permission to the Ukrainian Wikipedia to use the digital version of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine's History that was published online. The Higher School Academy of Science and Forest Engineering also allowed Wikipedia to freely use their information resources.[2]

One of the areas where activity is notable is in Wiki Loves Monuments project, an annual international photo contest focused on cultural and historical monuments. Ukrainian Wikipedians were ranked 4th among 36 participating countries for the number of uploads of images as part of this project in 2012.[2][3] In 2014 Ukrainian Wikipedians were winners.

Articles about the history of Ukrainian language

A significant number of articles in Ukrainian Wikipedia relate to the history of the development of the Ukrainian language. A study in August 2012 counted over 8,000 articles mentioning the term "Ukrainian language" and over 1,400 articles with the term "history of Ukrainian language" and concluded that collectively represented a good coverage of its history and concepts. Articles about the history of Ukrainian language included articles about early publications like bibles printed in Ukrainian, grammar books, changes in phonetics through time, Ukrainian calligraphy, history of Ukrainian language within the context of the Soviet Union, linguicide and the banning of Ukrainian language by the Russian Government.[4]

Articles about history and science

At the end of 2012 Ukrainian Wikipedia contained over 1,500 articles relating to Ukrainian history.[5] As of June 2012 the Ukrainian Wikipedia contained 52 specific articles about Ukrainian astronomers and astronomo-geodesists, which have now been collated into a published book.[6]

Blackout

On January 21, 2014, the Ukrainian Wikipedia community decided to block access to the portal every day between 4:00 and 4:30 PM in protest of "dictatorship laws" in Ukraine, that restrict the freedom of speech and pose a threat to the portal.[7][8]

Statistics

Ukrainian Wikipedia (update)
Articles 637017
Files 80086
Edits 18418244
Users 318848
Active users[9] 2967
Admins 45

On October 1, 2005, Ukrainian Wikipedia reached the 20,000-article mark. The milestone of 250,000 articles was officially reached on 21 December 2010, and 860,000 people had viewed 30 million articles in that month alone.[10]

By 2012, with over 400,000 articles and 100 million words, Ukrainian Wikipedia many times over had content larger than the largest printed encyclopedia at that time — the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia.[1]

As of April 2024, Ukrainian Wikipedia has 637017 articles and nearly 2.5 million visitors every day.[11][12] Ukrainian Wikipedia at that time was on the 16th place in the ranking of the World's Wikipedias.[11]

Milestones

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Growth in the number of Ukrainian Wikipedia articles between 2004 and 2015.
  • January 30, 2004 — 1st article
  • April 4, 2004 — 1,000 articles
  • June 18, 2004 — 5,000 articles
  • December 16, 2004 — 10,000 articles
  • October 1, 2005 — 20,000 articles
  • October 15, 2006 — 30,000 articles
  • November 12, 2006 — 40,000 articles
  • January 16, 2007 — 50,000 articles
  • May 17, 2007 — 60,000 articles
  • September 9, 2007 — 70,000 articles
  • December 13, 2007 — 80,000 articles
  • January 24, 2008 — 90,000 articles
  • March 28, 2008 — 100,000 articles
  • July 13, 2008 — 120,000 articles
  • May 30, 2009 — 150,000 articles
  • April 7, 2010 — 200,000 articles
  • December 20, 2010 — 250,000 articles[10]
  • July 7, 2011 — 300,000 articles
  • December 28, 2011 - 350 000 articles
  • September 20, 2012 — 400,000 articles
  • May 12, 2014 — 500,000 articles
  • November 13, 2015 — 600,000 articles

Notes and references

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  8. ↑ Вікіпедія:Закон № 721-VII — Вікіпедія, Retrieved 2014-03-06[better source needed]
  9. ↑ Registered users who have performed an action in the last 30 days; the number of unregistered active users is not compiled
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 List of Wikipedias[better source needed]
  12. ↑ Page Views for Wikipedia, All Platforms, Normalized

External links

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