Bulgarian Wikipedia

Bulgarian Wikipedia
Web address bg.wikipedia.org
Slogan Свободната енциклопедия (Svobodnata entziklopedia,
English: The Free Encyclopedia)
Commercial? Charitable
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Registration Optional
Available in Bulgarian
Users 190323
Content license
Creative Commons ShareAlike License 3.0
Owner Wikimedia Foundation
Launched 6 December 2003

The Bulgarian Wikipedia (Bulgarian: Българоезична Уикипедия) is the Bulgarian-language edition of Wikipedia. It is written in Bulgarian (Cyrillic) Alphabet and as of 18 February 2016 it has 213255 articles. It was founded on 6 December 2003, and on 12 June 2015 passed the 200,000 articles threshold.

Users

At this moment Bulgarian Wikipedia has 190323 registered users and 870 of them were actively working on articles during the last 30 days. Bulgarian Wikipedia has Bulgarian alphabet (Cyrillic) interface and users can include Cyrillic letters for their Wikipedia names although the common practice is that the user name is registered in Latin alphabet and the userboxes and all other personal content is in Cyrillic. This is also due to the need of one username for all Wikipedia languages registrations and edits while many of the Bulgarian Wikipedians also contribute to the English, French, etc. Wikipedias where Cyrillic nicknames maybe hard to read or guess.

History

Growth of articles number in Bulgarian Wikipedia
Bulgarian web award received in 2009, Bulgarian Wikipedia was nominated Bg Site for its contributions to the development of the Bulgarian web.

The Bulgarian Wikipedia was created on 6 December 2003. In 2005 Bulgarian Wikipedia added its 20,000th article and was the 21st largest Wikipedia at the time. Later in 2007 it was the 30th largest Wikipedia by article count, with over 50,000 articles.[1][2] On 24 May 2010, the distinctive Wikipedia globe logo for the Bulgarian Wikipedia was temporarily altered to include the number 100,000 to commemorate the 100,000 article milestone, it became the 32nd largest Wikipedia by size and now it holds 36th place with more than 150,000 articles.

Timeline

Multimedia

As of March 2010 Bulgarian Wikipedia uses only Commons for pictures and multimedia uploads and local uploads are switched off. The existing files are gradually moved to Commons.

References

  1. Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics
  2. Bulgarian Wikipedia statistics

External links

Bulgarian edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, February 02, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.