Ukrainian Wikipedia

The Ukrainian Wikipedia (, Ukrayins'ka Vikipediya) is the Ukrainian language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. The first article was written on January 30, 2004. Currently ( ), Ukrainian Wikipedia has  articles and is the 17th largest Wikipedia edition.

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. 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.

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. In 2014 Ukrainian Wikipedians were winners.

In 2019 the Ukrainian Wikipedia has 249 thousand unique categories and 18.58% of them do not have appropriate page in the category namespace. The average article in this language version has 8 categories, while number of unique categories per articles ratio is 0.277. The largest number of articles has Geography (21%) and Politics (13%) category. In Ukrainian Wikipedia articles related to Crime and Organizations has the highest average quality. Content about Philosophy is read more often and articles in Crime category have the highest authors' interest on average.

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.

Articles about history and science 

At the end of 2012 Ukrainian Wikipedia contained over 1,500 articles relating to Ukrainian history. 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.

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.

Statistics 

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.

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

As of  , the Ukrainian Wikipedia has  articles and nearly 2.5 million visitors every day. The Ukrainian Wikipedia at that time was on the 16th place in the ranking of the World's Wikipedias.

Milestones 

 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
 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
 June 4, 2017 — 700,000 articles
 July 10, 2018 — 800,000 articles
 April 19, 2019 — 900,000 articles

Notes

References

External links 

 List of Wikipedias and their ranking by number of articles
 Wikipedia Statistics Ukrainian
 Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report - Wikipedia Page Views Per Country
 Ukrainian Wikipedia 
 Ukrainian Wikipedia mobile version 
 Wikipedia at Wikimedia Ukraine Weblog 
 Bozhena Sheremeta, Ukrainian Wikipedia hits growth peak with over 500,000 articles, Kyiv Post, November 24, 2014

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