Ukrainian Wikipedia

[4][5] In the Ukrainian Wikipedia, one area of knowledge has been covered to an extent greater than all other Wikipedias—the subject of mining, due to the considerable contribution by one person, Volodymyr Biletsky, a professor at Donetsk National Technical University.

The Higher School Academy of Science and Forest Engineering also allowed Wikipedia to freely use their information resources.

[7] Generally, before the 2014 Maidan Revolution, Ukrainian Wikipedia hold approximately the 10 to 20 percent of the pageviews from Ukraine, depending on the season and steadily growing, reaching for first time a share of above 20% in late 2013.

Ukrainian Wikipedians were ranked 4th among 36 participating countries for the number of uploads of images as part of this project in 2012.

However, the popularity of Ukrainian Wikipedia in Ukraine is increasing every year, compared to the Russian version.

A study in August 2012 counted over 8,000 articles mentioning the term "Ukrainian language" and over 1,400 articles with the term "history of Ukrainian language" and concluded that collectively represented a good coverage of its history and concepts.

Despite that the population of Ukraine is decreasing, Ukrainian Wikipedia has recorded an ever-increasing amount of active contributors throughout the 2010s and the early 2020s.

Apart from online editathons, Wikimedia Ukraine also hosts Wikimarathon,[20] an article creation contest that includes article creation workshops which take place in various cities of Ukraine with the coordination of various Ukrainian Wikipedians.

[23] On 21 January 2014, in the events of the Euromaidan, the Ukrainian Wikipedia community joined the protest against "dictatorship laws" in Ukraine, that restrict the freedom of speech and pose a threat to the portal.

[24][25] The group of laws would allow the government to block websites that are engaged in spreading broadly defined "extremist information".

Page views statistics (in millions) of the Ukrainian Wikipedia (2016-2023)
Monthly page views statistics (in millions) of the Ukrainian Wikipedia (2016-2023)
Growth in the number of Ukrainian Wikipedia articles