The Ukrainian Wikipedia ( uk, Українська Вікіпедія, ''Ukrainska Vikipediia'') is the

Ukrainian language Ukrainian ( uk, украї́нська мо́ва, translit=ukrainska mova, label=native name, ) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family. It is the native language of about 40 million people and the official state lan ...

edition of the free

online encyclopedia An online encyclopedia, also called an Internet encyclopedia, or a digital encyclopedia, is an encyclopedia accessible through the internet. Examples include Wikipedia and ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Digitization of old content In January 199 ...

Wikipedia Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read refer ...

. The first article was written on January 30, 2004. the Ukrainian Wikipedia has articles and is the largest Wikipedia edition. it is the second most visited language Wikipedia in

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

, with 90 million page views, behind the Russian Wikipedia, at 100 million page views. There is a long-term trend for the Ukrainian language edition to be increasingly favored in comparison to the historically dominant Russian language 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 Donetsk National Technical University (DonNTU, formerly Donetsk Polytechnic Institute and other names) is the biggest and oldest higher education establishment in Donbas, founded in 1921. In its early years, it was attended by Nikita Khrushchev. ...

. Using the '' Mining Encyclopedia'', Biletsky has contributed over 10,000 articles on the subject to Ukrainian Wikipedia. In 2013, the

Institute of History of Ukraine Institute of History of Ukraine is a research institute in Ukraine that is part of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine department of history, philosophy and law and studies a wide spectrum of problems in history of Ukraine. The institute ...

at the National Academy of Science gave permission to the Ukrainian Wikipedia to use the digital version of the ''

Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine ''Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine'' ( uk, Енциклопедія історії України, ЕІУ) is an illustrated encyclopedia on history of Ukraine in 10 volumes. It was published in Ukrainian language in 2003–2013 and 2019Ihor S ...

'' 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 the winners of the contest that year. the Ukrainian Wikipedia is the second most popular Wikipedia in Ukraine, well below Russian, despite that both language versions have more than a million articles. This is attributed to the historic bilingualism in Ukraine, the Russification of Ukraine and the Ukrainian language during the Tsarist and Soviet era, and the popularity of Russian-language content and media in present-day Ukraine. However, the popularity of Ukrainian Wikipedia in Ukraine is increasing every year, compared to the Russian version. In January 2016, the ratio of Russian to Ukrainian Wikipedia use was 4.6 times, decreasing to 2.6 times in January 2019, 2.4 times in January 2020, and 2 times in January 2021. Extrapolation shows that in 2025, in Ukraine, the popularity of the Ukrainian Wikipedia will be higher than the popularity of the Russian Wikipedia. Since the Russian invasion in Ukraine in 2022 the difference between the two languages has further decreased, and in October 2022 it was just ten million pageviews (100 million pageviews for Russian in Ukraine and 90 million pageviews for Ukrainian), the lowest ever recorded.

Articles

Some articles of the Ukrainian Wikipedia have been taken from various sources, such as the Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies(about 6500), the

Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia The ''Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia'' ( uk, Українська радянська енциклопедія, ''Ukrayinska radyanska entsyklopediya'') was a multi-purpose encyclopedia of Ukraine, issued in the USSR. First attempt Following th ...

, the Handbook of the History of Ukraine (edited by Podkova and Shust), the Encyclopedia of Mining of

Volodymyr Biletskyy Volodymyr Stefanovych Biletskyy ( uk, Володимир Стефанович Білецький; born 26 January 1950 in Matviivka, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian mining engineer, D.Sc. scientist and researcher in the field of coal mining, publisher ...

and from official sources of information of state institutions.

History of the Ukrainian language

A significant number of articles in Ukrainian Wikipedia relate to the history of the development of the

. 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 The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

, linguicide and the banning of Ukrainian language by the Russian Government.

History and science

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

Community

In average, approximately 20 thousand users make at least one edit in Ukrainian Wikipedia, and the most months have at least 3 thousand active users each. Despite that the population of Ukraine is decreasing, Ukrainian Wikipedia has recorded an ever-increasing amount of active contributors throughout the 2010s and the early 2020s. Wikimedia Ukraine is the chapter of Wikimedia foundation in Ukraine. It is charged with promoting Wikipedia in Ukraine. Apart from online editathons, Wikimedia Ukraine also hosts Wikimarathon, an article creation contest that includes article creation workshops which take place in various cities of Ukraine with the coordination of various Ukrainian Wikipedians. Wikimarathon takes place in late January, honouring the creation of Ukrainian Wikipedia in January 30th, 2004. Wikimarathon workshops, as well the contest itself, have received significant coverage from Ukrainian media. The most contributors of Ukrainian Wikipedia are from Ukraine. Many of them are from Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Other Ukrainian oblasts which constitute the homeland of many Ukrainian Wikipedians are Lviv and Donetsk oblasts.

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 by far had content larger than the largest printed encyclopedia at that time — the ''

''. On March 23, 2020, the Ukrainian Wikipedia reached 1,000,000 articles, when use
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. the Ukrainian Wikipedia has articles and nearly 3.6 million visitors every day. The Ukrainian Wikipedia at that time was on the 16th place in the ranking of the world's Wikipedias.

Milestones

Number of articles in Ukrainian Wikipedia

* 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 * March 23, 2020 — 1,000,000 articles

Gallery

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Notes

References

External links

* List of Wikipedias and their ranking by number of articles
Wikipedia Statistics Ukrainian

* ttp://uk.wikipedia.org Ukrainian Wikipedia
Ukrainian Wikipedia mobile version

Wikipedia at Wikimedia Ukraine Weblog
* Bozhena Sheremeta

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