Latvian Wikipedia

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Screenshot of the main page of the Latvian Wikipedia on 12 August 2023
Type of site
Online encyclopedia
Available inLatvian
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLlv.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Users124,218 registered accounts
2,192 contributors[a] (Dec 2018)
14 administrators
Launched6 June 2003; 21 years ago (2003-06-06)
Content license
CC Attribution / Share-Alike 3.0
Most text also dual-licensed under GFDL. Media licensing varies.

The Latvian Wikipedia (Latvian: Vikipēdija latviešu valodā [ˈvikipɜːdija] ⓘ) is the Latvian-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. It was created on 6 June 2003.[2][3][4] With more than 129,000 articles, it is currently the 68th-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles[5] and the second-largest Wikipedia in a Baltic language after the Lithuanian Wikipedia.[6]

As of February 2021, it was the most visited language Wikipedia in Latvia.[7] It ranked before the Russian Wikipedia and the English Wikipedia.[8][9]

  1. ^ "Wikipedia Statistics — Tables — Contributors". stats.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  2. ^ ""Vikipēdijas" latviešu versijai jau desmit gadi" (in Latvian). Neatkarīgā Rīta Avīze. 5 June 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  3. ^ Zachte, Erik. "Creation history / Accomplishments". stats.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  4. ^ "Vikipēdija:Aktualitātes". Vikipēdija (in Latvian). Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
  5. ^ "List of Wikipedias". Meta-Wiki. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  6. ^ "List of Wikipedias by language group". Meta-Wiki. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  7. ^ Page views by country - Latvian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Statistics
  8. ^ Page views by country - Russian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Statistics
  9. ^ Page views by country - English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Statistics


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