Turkish Wikipedia
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "check for clobbered parameters". The Turkish Wikipedia (Template:Langx) is the Turkish language edition of Wikipedia, spelled Vikipedi. Started on 5 December 2002, as of 24 December 2025, this edition has [[:tr:Special:Statistics|Template:NUMBEROF articles]] and is the Template:Ordinal largest Wikipedia edition, and ranks 16th in terms of depth among Wikipedias.[1] Turkish Wikipedia has around 3 billion pageviews each year.[2]
In March 2017, before the block of Wikipedia in Turkey, 90% of pageviews of Turkish Wikipedia were from within the country. Germany was second with 2% share, as there are many Turks in Germany. Azerbaijan was the third country with 1.4% share, as Turkish and Azerbaijani are mutually intelligible Oghuz languages.[3] Although the block was lifted in 2020, statistics for pageviews in Turkey and most other Turkic speaking countries are no longer published; but those for some countries; such as Kyrgyzstan, Germany and the United States are.[4]
History
In 2006, the Turkish Wikipedia was nominated under the Science category for Template:Interlanguage link multi (Golden Spider Web Awards), which are commonly known as the "Web Oscars" for Turkey.[5] In January 2007, the Turkish Wikipedia was given the award for "Best Content" in this competition. The award was given in a ceremony on 25 January 2007 at Istanbul Technical University.[6][7]
In 2015, its banner drawing attention to the gender bias on Wikipedia drew the attention of the Turkish media.[8]
On 29 April 2017, the Turkish government blocked access to Wikipedia.[9] While the reasons for the blockage were unrevealed, some believe that the encyclopedia had been blocked due to the Turkish government's concerns about articles critical of its actions regarding Turkey–ISIL cooperation.[10][11] In December 2019, the Constitutional Court of Turkey ruled that the ban violated freedom of expression. On 15 January 2020, the ban was lifted after 991 days.[12]
Accuracy and updates
Experienced editors have been criticised for being unfriendly to new editors,[13] and for being slow to correct misinformation.[14]
Statistics
Template:As of, the Wikimedia Foundation says about Türkiye and Turkmenistan:
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These countries and territories are at higher risk of action being taken against Wikimedia community members for on-platform activities. The Wikimedia Foundation can publish aggregated data about them only using differential privacy such that any consumer of the data will be (in the worst case) at most 2.5% more certain about a data subject's presence or absence in the dataset.[15]
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Milestones
- January 2004 — 100 articles
- July 2004 — 1,000 articles
- November 2005 — 10,000 articles
- March 2007 — 55,000 articles
- February 2008 — 100,000 articles[16]
- 9 December 2012 — 200,000 articles[17]
- 27 April 2021 — 400,000 articles
- 8 July 2022 — 500,000 articles[17]
- 6 April 2024 — 600,000 articles
References
External links
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