Turkish Wikipedia

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Available inTurkish
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLtr.wikipedia.org
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Launched5 December 2002; 21 years ago (2002-12-05)
Current statusActive. Regional block lifted on 15 January 2020

The Turkish Wikipedia (Turkish: Türkçe Vikipedi) is the Turkish language edition of Wikipedia, spelled Vikipedi. Started on 5 December 2002, as of 23 April 2024, this edition has 605,909 articles and is the 25th largest Wikipedia edition, and ranks 16th in terms of depth among Wikipedias.[1] Turkish Wikipedia has around 3 billion pageviews each year.[2]

In March 2017, before the block of Wikipedia in Turkey, 90% of pageviews of Turkish Wikipedia were from within the country. Germany was second with 2% share, as there are many Turks in Germany. Azerbaijan was the third country with 1.4% share, as Turkish and Azerbaijani are mutually intelligible Oghuz languages.[3] Although the block was lifted in 2020, statistics for pageviews in Turkey and most other Turkic speaking countries are no longer published; but those for some countries; such as Kyrgyzstan, Germany and the United States are.[4]

History

In 2006, the Turkish Wikipedia was nominated under the Science category for Altın Örümcek Web Ödülleri [tr] (Golden Spider Web Awards), which are commonly known as the "Web Oscars" for Turkey.[5] In January 2007, the 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.[6][7]

In 2015, its banner drawing attention to the gender bias on Wikipedia drew the attention of the Turkish media.[8]

On 29 April 2017, the Turkish government

freedom of expression. On 15 January 2020, the ban was lifted after 991 days.[12]

Statistics

As of 2024[update], the Wikimedia Foundation says about Türkiye and Turkmenistan:

These countries and territories are at higher risk of action being taken against Wikimedia community members for on-platform activities.

so it:

can publish aggregated data about (Turkey) only using differential privacy such that any consumer of the data will be (in the worst case) at most 2.5% more certain about a data subject's presence or absence in the dataset.[13]

The censored variation of the logo used during the block

Milestones

  • January 2004 — 100 articles
  • July 2004 — 1,000 articles
  • November 2005 — 10,000 articles
  • March 2007 — 55,000 articles
  • February 2008 — 100,000 articles[14]
  • 9 December 2012 — 200,000 articles[15]
  • 27 April 2021 — 400,000 articles
  • 8 July 2022 — 500,000 articles[16]
  • 6 April 2024 — 600,000 articles

References

  1. ^ "List of Wikipedias - Meta". Meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Wikistats - Statistics For Wikimedia Projects". stats.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  3. ^ "Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report - Page Views Per Wikipedia Language - Breakdown". stats.wikimedia.org. March 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  4. ^ "Wikistats - Statistics For Wikimedia Projects". stats.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  5. ^ "5. Altın Örümcek Web Ödülleri".
  6. ^ "Altın Örümcek - Geçmiş Yıllar - Değerlendirme Süreci". Archived from the original on 9 December 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  7. ^ "Altın Örümcek ödülleri açıklandı". 10 April 2008.
  8. ^ "Google 8 Mart Dünya Kadınlar Günü doodle'ı hazırladı" (in Turkish). Radikal. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  9. ^ "Turkish authorities block Wikipedia". BBC News. BBC. 29 April 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  10. ^ "Terör destekçisi Wikipedia'ya yasak" (in Turkish). Sabah. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
  11. ^ "Turkey blocks Wikipedia over what it calls terror 'smear campaign'". CNN. 29 April 2017. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
  12. ^ "Turkey restores access to Wikipedia after 991 days". NetBlocks. 15 January 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  13. ^ "Wikimedia Foundation Country and Territory Protection List - Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki". foundation.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  14. ^ "List of Wikipedias/Table - Meta".
  15. ^ Wikipedia:Milestone statistics
  16. ^ Wikipedia:Milestone statistics

External links

Turkish edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Turkish Wikipedia.
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