Ukrainian Wikipedia
Ukrainian-language edition of Wikipedia
The Ukrainian Wikipedia (Ukrainian: Українська Вікіпедія, romanized: Ukrainska Vikipediia) is the Ukrainian language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. The first article was written on 30 January 2004. As of September 2026, the Ukrainian Wikipedia has 1,435,407 articles and is the 14th largest Wikipedia edition.
As of November 2022, 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 a 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. In 2013, the Institute of History of Ukraine at the National Academy of Science gave permission to the Ukrainian Wikipedia to use the digital version of the Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine that was published online. The Higher School Academy of Science and Forest Engineering also allowed Wikipedia to freely use their information resources.
Generally, before the 2014 Maidan Revolution, Ukrainian Wikipedia held approximately 10 to 20 percent of the pageviews from Ukraine, depending on the season, and grew steadily, reaching a share of 20% in late 2013.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q199698. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004, 2026, 2022 and 2013.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ukrainian Wikipedia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.