Vietnamese Wikipedia
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The Vietnamese Wikipedia (Template:Langx) is the Vietnamese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, publicly editable, online encyclopedia supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Like the rest of Wikipedia, its content is created and accessed using the MediaWiki wiki software.
Content
As of 1 May 2026, it has Template:NUMBEROF articles and is the Script error: No such module "Ordinal".-largest Wikipedia. It is the fifth-largest Wikipedia in a non-European language, as well as the third-largest in a language which is official in only one country. In contrast to the English Wikipedia, the Vietnamese Wikipedia allows bots to create articles: as of 2023, more than 58% of its articles had been generated in this way.[1]
History
The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society. The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003[2] and the newer, Unicode-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after.
By August 2008, the Vietnamese Wikipedia had grown to more than 50,000 articles—of these, approximately 432 of were created by bots.[3]Template:Primary source inline By the time the project reached 100,000 articles on September 12, 2009, bot-generated articles made up around 5% of its corpus.[4]Template:Primary source inline 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.[5] It was deleted in April 2010.[6]Template:Primary source inline
The Vietnam Wikimedians User Group supports the development of the Vietnamese Wikipedia and other Vietnamese-language Wikimedia projects. It gained formal recognition as a Wikimedia user group on 28 August 2018.[7]Template:Primary source inline
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The wiki reached the 500,000-article milestone on 28 September 2012, and the 1,000,000-article milestone on 15 June 2014.
Software
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Vandalism
Several Vietnamese newspapers have reported on vandalism committed by users on the wiki, mainly on articles about celebrities.[8][9]
Pro-Kremlin disinformation
In April 2022, the European Union's East StratCom Task Force reported that four pro-Kremlin disinformation news outlets (SouthFront, NewsFront, InfoRos and the Strategic Culture Foundation) were referenced in 32 articles of the Vietnamese Wikipedia. This made it the fifth Wikipedia language edition most affected by such disinformation, behind the Russian, Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese Wikipedias.[10] The report said: <templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />
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See also
References
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- ↑ Data compiled using Escaladix's created articles list and a list of bots at the Vietnamese Wikipedia.
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External links
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