Turkish Wikipedia
Encyclopedia
Turkish Wikipedia is the Turkish language
edition of Wikipedia
, spelled Vikipedi. Started in December 2002, this edition has over 166,000 articles, and was the 20th largest Wikipedia edition based on article count as of January 2011.
In November 2006, Turkish Wikipedia was nominated under the Science
category for Altın Örümcek Web Ödülleri (Golden Spider Web Awards), which are commonly known as the "Web Oscars" for Turkey. In January 2007, Turkish Wikipedia was given the award for "Best Content" in this competition. The award was given in a ceremony on 25 January 2007 at Istanbul Technical University
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As of January 2011, Turkish Wikipedia had the third-highest depth of content amongst the Wikipedias containing over 100,000 articles.
Turkish language
Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...
edition of Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,...
, spelled Vikipedi. Started in December 2002, this edition has over 166,000 articles, and was the 20th largest Wikipedia edition based on article count as of January 2011.
In November 2006, Turkish Wikipedia was nominated under the Science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
category for Altın Örümcek Web Ödülleri (Golden Spider Web Awards), which are commonly known as the "Web Oscars" for Turkey. In January 2007, Turkish Wikipedia was given the award for "Best Content" in this competition. The award was given in a ceremony on 25 January 2007 at Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul Technical University is an international technical university located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the world's third oldest technical university dedicated to engineering sciences as well as social sciences recently, and is one of the most prominent educational institutions in Turkey...
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As of January 2011, Turkish Wikipedia had the third-highest depth of content amongst the Wikipedias containing over 100,000 articles.
Timeline
- The Turkish version of Wikipedia was launched in December 2002.
- 100 articles were recorded by January 2004.
- In July 2004 it passed 1,000 articles
- By April 2005 it enjoyed an accelerated growth in membership and passed 10,000 articles in November 2005.
- By March 12, 2006, it had over 18,500 articles and over 14,000 Users.
- By March 18, 2007, it had 54,923 articles and 74,114 users.
- As of May 9, 2007, the article count has already increased to 78,252 with 86,947 users.
- By July 16, 2007, it had 85,923 articles and 97,114 users.
- As of November 19, 2007, it had 95,245 articles and 118,881 users.
- As of January 4, 2008, it had 97,700 articles and 127,000 users.
- As of April 29, 2008, it had 105.900 articles and 151.870 users.
- As of November 18, 2008, it had 119.195 articles, 186.639 users and 4.712.173 edits.