Kazakh Wikipedia

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Web address kk.wikipedia.org
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Type of site
 Internet encyclopedia project
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Owner Wikimedia Foundation
Created by Kazakh wiki community
Launched 2 June 2002

The Kazakh Wikipedia is a Wikipedia in the Kazakh language.

History

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The Kazakh Wikipedia was started in June 2002. The Kazakh Wikipedia had a very high growth rate in 2011, going from 7000 articles to over 100,000 in less than one year,[1] largely due to the incorporation of materials from the Kazakh Encyclopedia, which have been released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License (CC BY-SA). This rapid expansion was initiated by the non-profit Wikibilim Foundation.[2] The Samruk Kazyna Foundation, Kazakhstan's sovereign oil wealth fund, sponsored the expansion, with 30 million tenge spent in 2011 for paid editing, digitalization, and author rights transfer.[3][4] At the Wikimania 2011 conference WikiBilim president Rauan Kenzhekhanuly was awarded the "Wikipedian of the Year" award by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales for his work on the Kazakh Wikipedia expansion.[4]

In April 2012 Tengri News reported that "in 2011, the Samruk Kazyna sovereign wealth fund allocated a total of $204 thousand to develop the Kazakh-language Wikipedia. This year, another $136 thousand will be earmarked", citing the Fund’s Press Service.[5] Wales thanked the Kazakh government for its support of the Kazakh Wikipedia at Wikimania 2012.[6]

The Kazakh Wikipedia's unique[citation needed] feature is that it is written in three different scripts: Cyrillic, Latin, and Arabic. On 26 October 2011, it passed the 100,000 articles threshold, and by early 2013 had just over 200,000 articles.[1]

Features

The Kazakh Wikipedia uses ZhengZhu's character mapping program to convert between Cyrillic, Latin, and Arabic scripts.[citation needed]

Relationship between WikiBilim and the Government of Kazakhstan

Questions have been asked about WikiBilim's closeness to the Kazakh government, given that WikiBilim president Rauan Kenzhekhanuly had a long prior career as a Kazakh government official and the Kazakh government has been widely criticised for its crackdown on free speech.[4][7] Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales' friendship with ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who advises the Kazakh government, has also come under scrutiny,[4][7] as has the neutrality of the Kazakh Wikipedia's content, much of which is a reproduction of the state-published national encyclopedia.[8][9]

Statistics

Origin of views (2012/03 - 2013/02) Source
Kazakhstan
  
 94.7%
Other
  
 5.3%

As of January 2025, the Kazakh Wikipedia counts about 216,000 articles. The overwhelming majority of its readers originate from Kazakhstan.

As of April 2013, the Kazakh Wikipedia's number of articles accounts for approximately 14% of all the articles written in a Turkic language, making it the second largest edition in the family after Turkish, which accounts for 28% of all Turkic articles.[10]

Gallery

  • Kazenc.jpg

    The letter from the Kazakh Encyclopedia stating the release of its materials under a CC BY-SA license.

  • Kazakh Wiki-logo-100000.png

    The Kazakh Wikipedia's 100K commemorative logo. (Fall 2011)

  • Kazakh Wiki-logo-TWC.png

    Kazakh Wikipedia logo at the time of the Turkic Wikimedia Conference. (April 2012)

  • Kazakh Wiki-logo-200000.png

    The Kazakh Wikipedia's 200K commemorative logo. (Nov 2012)

References

Notes

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External links

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