Kazakh Wikipedia

Kazakh Wikipedia
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Web address	kk.wikipedia.org
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Registration	Optional
Available language(s)	Kazakh
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Kazakh wiki community
Launched	June 2002

The Kazakh Wikipedia is a Wikipedia in the Kazakh language. It started in June 2002. The Kazakh Wikipedia has a very high growth rate, going from 7000 articles to 100,000 in 1 year period,^[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). The rapid expansion of Kazakh Wikipedia started in 2011. It was initiated by the non-profit Wikibilim Foundation.^[2] Eventually, the state-supported Samruk Kazyna Foundation sponsored the expansion, with 30 million tenge spent in 2011 for paid editing, digitalization, and author rights transfer.^[3]

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.^[4]

Its 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 the end of December 2012 had just over 200,000 articles.

Statistics[edit]

Origin of views (2012/03 - 2013/02) Source

Kazakhstan			94.7%
Other			5.3%

As of June 2013, the Kazakh Wikipedia counts about 203,000 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.^[5]

Gallery[edit]

The letter from the Kazakh Encyclopedia stating the release of its materials under a CC BY-SA license.
The Kazakh Wikipedia's 100K commemorative logo. (Fall 2011)
Kazakh Wikipedia logo at the time of the Turkic Wikimedia Conference. (April 2012)
The Kazakh Wikipedia's 200K commemorative logo. (Nov 2012)