Wikilala, as of 2024 in its beta version, consists of more than 109,000 printed Ottoman Turkish texts, including over 45,000 newspapers, 32,000 journals, 4,000 books and 26,000 articles.
[2] The project was started in 2019 by Sadi Özgür, lecturer of Department of History, Istanbul Aydın University in collaboration with Harun Tuncer.
The library consists of a detailed account of Ottoman literature, social and cultural life, and political environment.
Once uploaded, documents are run through optical character recognition (OCR) to extract the text.
[3] The Turkish dictionary titled el-Hazînetü'l-Azîziye fi'l-Lügati'l-Osmâniyye by Sir James Redhouse was lost for a time.