[2] The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society.

[5][non-primary source needed] Stubs on the wiki number in the hundreds of thousands, including most of the bot-generated articles.

An experimental Wikipedia edition in the obsolete chữ Nôm script began in October 2006 at the Wikimedia Incubator.

[7][non-primary source needed] The Vietnam Wikimedians User Group supports the development of the Vietnamese Wikipedia and other Vietnamese-language Wikimedia projects.

Several Vietnamese newspapers have reported on vandalism committed by users on the wiki, mainly on articles about celebrities.