The Ukrainian Wikipedia () is the Ukrainian language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. The first article was written on 30 January 2004. the Ukrainian Wikipedia has articles and is the largest Wikipedia edition.

it is the second most visited language Wikipedia in Ukraine, 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, the subject of mining has been covered to an greater extent than all other Wikipedias, due to the considerable contribution by one person, Volodymyr Biletsky, a professor at Donetsk National Technical University. Using the Mining Encyclopedia, Biletsky has contributed over 10,000 articles on the subject to Ukrainian Wikipedia.

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.

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 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. Due to the fact that many students consult Ukrainian Wikipedia for information about the literature works, the writers and other parts of the school curriculum, the pageviews of Ukrainian Wikipedia are generally halving during the summer. This trend is observed in many other Wikipedias of the former Soviet space, including Kazakh and Uzbek ones. The impact of this trend tends however to decrease as of 2023. In July 2023 Ukrainian had 61 million pageviews and Russian 87 million pageviews in Ukraine which is lesser than half of the difference 72 million pageviews (112 to 40) in July 2021.

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 Handbook of the History of Ukraine (edited by Podkova and Shust), the Encyclopedia of Mining of Volodymyr Biletskyy 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 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. have made at least one edit in Ukrainian Wikipedia. On average, three thousand editors are active per month.

Despite the decrease in Ukraine's population, the 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 on January 30, 2004. Wikimarathon workshops, as well the contest itself, have received significant coverage from Ukrainian media. Additionally, a goal of Wikimedia Ukraine according to one of its administrators is to make the Ukrainian language Wikipedia more popular than the Russian language one by cooperating with Google to place Ukrainian-language pages higher up in Google search results if an article in both languages exists.

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.

Criticism

In 2023 Ukrainian Wikipedia published on its social media an article by Vira Motorko, the Functionary of the Year 2024, saying that despite public outrage, Ukrainian Wikipedia cannot change its Polivanov system developed for the Russian language while there is no obvious consensus between notable institutions in the field. Ukrainian Wikipedia has been criticized for giving Russian scientists more academic authority than Ukrainian ones.

Valentyna Kodola, an ex-member of Wikimedia Ukraine and ex-editor, claims that some Putinists are present among the administrators, and that is why she was banned for her patriotic position.

Blackout

On 21 January 2014, in the events of the Euromaidan, the Ukrainian Wikipedia community joined the protest against "dictatorship laws" in Ukraine, that restrict the freedom of speech and pose a threat to the portal.

the Ukrainian Wikipedia has nearly 3.6 million visitors every day.

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  • 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