[11] The edition's initial growth was slow and some articles about important aspects of Latvian culture were missing at first.

A commemorative logo was uploaded for the occasion, and small parties among the community's "Wikiholics" ensued, as it is customary whenever a new milestone is reached.

An article outlining the internal politics between the Latvian Wikipedia's administrators and its most active users was written on 10 March 2011.

[22] Since 11 June 2014, a "!Bang" command on DuckDuckGo gives users the ability to redirect search queries to the Latvian Wikipedia by typing !wlv in their browser's URL bar.

According to the petition, "such restrictions are not reasonable for buildings, monuments, sculptures and other three-dimensional works that cannot be fully reproduced in two dimensions".

The Latvian Wikipedia has an Exemption Doctrine Policy (Godprātīga lietošana) that allows local uploads of non-free, fair use images and audio/video files (with copyright restrictions).

This stance is similar to the English Wikipedia's, and in contrast to some other editions, which rely strictly on Wikimedia Commons for images, sound, and other media files, including i.a.

the Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Basque, Czech, Danish, Volapük and Latin Wikipedias.

[38] It currently has a moderately high depth indicator of 71.9,[b] which is greater than other than that of Wikipedias in other Baltic languages[c] and some of the largest editions including Polish (34.9), Dutch (19.4), and Swedish (18.1).

[40] It is also the seventh most read edition on the island of Guernsey,[40] where there is an emerging Latvian diaspora of approximately 1,500 to 2,000 migrant workers.