It was founded on 6 December 2003, and on 12 June 2015 it passed the 200,000 articles threshold.

As of 17 February 2025, it has 302,668 articles and is the 40th largest Wikipedia edition.

Bulgarian Wikipedia has a Bulgarian alphabet (Cyrillic) interface and users can include Cyrillic letters for their Wikipedia names.

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 may be hard to read or pronounce.