Ukrainian Wikipedia

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The logo of Ukrainian Wikipedia, a globe featuring glyphs from several writing systems. Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the logo is covered with the colors of the flag of Ukraine.
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Main Page of the Ukrainian Wikipedia in December 2020
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inUkrainian
HeadquartersMiami, Florida
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLuk.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Users775203
Launched30 January 2004; 20 years ago (2004-01-30)

The Ukrainian Wikipedia (Ukrainian: Українська Вікіпедія, romanizedUkrainska Vikipediia) is the Ukrainian language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. The first article was written on 30 January 2004. As of November 2024, the Ukrainian Wikipedia has 1,354,211 articles and is the 14th largest Wikipedia edition.[1]

As of November 2022, it is the second most visited language Wikipedia in Ukraine, with 90 million page views,[2] behind the Russian Wikipedia, at 100 million page views.[3] There is a long-term trend for the Ukrainian language edition to be increasingly favored in comparison to the historically dominant Russian language edition.[4][5]

  1. ^ List of Wikipedias
  2. ^ "Wikistats - Statistics For Wikimedia Projects". stats.wikimedia.org. p. Monthly overview for Wikipedia - Ukrainian. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  3. ^ "Wikistats - Statistics For Wikimedia Projects". stats.wikimedia.org. p. Monthly overview for Wikipedia - Russian. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  4. ^ Вовк, Іван [Ivan Vovk] (8 November 2022). "Российская "Википедия" стремительно теряет популярность в Украине" [Russian Wikipedia rapidly loses popularity in Ukraine]. Запоізьки Вісті (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  5. ^ Пероганич, Юрій [Yuriy Perohanych] (3 February 2021). "Українська Вікіпедія пережене за популярністю російську в 2025" [Ukrainian Wikipedia will surpass Russian in popularity in 2025]. Вікі: медіа і технології [Wiki: media and technology] (in Ukrainian).