National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan

[2] The encyclopedia was printed in Cyrillic even though it was published long after Uzbekistan introduced the Latin script to Uzbek.

In 2013, all of the articles of the National Encyclopedia were added to the Uzbek Wikipedia with the help of a bot.

In 2022, the Agency of Information and Mass Communications under the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan officially released the OʻzME under a CC BY 4.0 license.

The bulk of the National Encyclopedia (40 percent) is devoted to subjects about Uzbekistan.

[4] The encyclopedia praises Islam Karimov, the late president of Uzbekistan, and his administration.

Agency of Information and Mass Communications Letter to WMF on releasing OʻzME under a CC BY 4.0 license