Bulgarian Wikipedia

Bulgarian Wikipedia

Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Bulgarian
Headquarters	Miami, Florida
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Slogan(s)	Свободната енциклопедия (Svobodnata entziklopedia, English: The Free Encyclopedia)
Website	bg.wikipedia.org
Commercial	Charitable
Registration	Optional
Users	204677
Launched	6 December 2003
Content license	Creative Commons ShareAlike License 3.0

The Bulgarian Wikipedia (Bulgarian: Българоезична Уикипедия) is the Bulgarian-language edition of Wikipedia. It is written in Bulgarian (Cyrillic) Alphabet. As of 8 December 2016 it has 223,446 articles and is the 36th largest Wikipedia edition.^[1] It was founded on 6 December 2003, and on 12 June 2015 it passed the 200,000 articles threshold.

Users

At this moment Bulgarian Wikipedia has 204677 registered users and 738 of them were actively working on articles during the last 30 days. Bulgarian Wikipedia has a Bulgarian alphabet (Cyrillic) interface and users can include Cyrillic letters for their Wikipedia names, although the common practice is that the user name is registered in Latin alphabet and the userboxes and all other personal content is in Cyrillic. This is also due to the need of one username for all Wikipedia languages registrations and edits, while many of the Bulgarian Wikipedians also contribute to the English, French, etc. Wikipedias where Cyrillic nicknames may be hard to read or pronounce.

History

Growth of articles number in Bulgarian Wikipedia

Bulgarian web award received in 2009, Bulgarian Wikipedia was nominated Bg Site for its contributions to the development of the Bulgarian web.

The Bulgarian Wikipedia was created on 6 December 2003. In 2005 Bulgarian Wikipedia added its 20,000th article and was the 21st largest Wikipedia at the time. Later in 2007 it was the 30th largest Wikipedia by article count, with over 50,000 articles.^[2]^[3] On 24 May 2010, the distinctive Wikipedia globe logo for the Bulgarian Wikipedia was temporarily altered to include the number 100,000 to commemorate the 100,000 article milestone, it became the 32nd largest Wikipedia by size and now it holds 36th place with more than 150,000 articles.

Timeline

On 3 October 2004, the 10,000th article was created.
On 26 December 2007, the 50,000th article.
On 24 May 2010, the 100,000th article.
On 17 July 2013, the 150,000th article and
On 12 June 2015, the 200,000th article.

Multimedia

As of March 2010 Bulgarian Wikipedia uses only Commons for pictures and multimedia uploads and local uploads are switched off. The existing files are gradually moved to Commons.

References

↑ List of Wikipedias
↑ Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics
↑ Bulgarian Wikipedia statistics

External links

Bulgarian edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Bulgarian) Bulgarian Wikipedia
(Bulgarian) Bulgarian Wikipedia mobile version

List of Wikipedias by article count

5,000,000+	English

2,000,000+	Swedish Cebuano German

1,000,000+	Dutch French Russian Italian Spanish Waray Polish Vietnamese Japanese

500,000+	Portuguese Chinese Ukrainian Catalan Persian

200,000+	Norwegian (bokmål/riksmål) Arabic Serbo-Croatian Finnish Hungarian Indonesian Romanian Czech Korean Serbian Turkish Malay Basque Esperanto Bulgarian Minangkabau Danish Kazakh Slovak Armenian Min Nan

100,000+	Hebrew Lithuanian Croatian Chechen Slovene Estonian Galician Norwegian (nynorsk) Uzbek Latin Greek Belarusian Simple English Volapük Hindi Thai Azerbaijani Georgian Urdu

50,000+	Occitan Macedonian Tamil Welsh Bosnian Latvian Telugu Tagalog Breton Albanian

20,000+	Javanese Asturian Marathi Cantonese Malayalam Bengali Afrikaans Irish Scots Chuvash West Frisian Burmese Swahili Aragonese Yoruba Ido Nepal Bhasa Sicilian Bishnupriya Manipuri Punjabi Alemannic

10,000+	Kannada Sundanese Mongolian Egyptian Arabic Yiddish Odia Ossetian Sanskrit

1,000+	Northern Sami Pashto Dutch Low Saxon Sindhi Jamaican Creole Crimean Tatar Silesian Assamese Ripuarian Konkani Tulu Wolof

100+	Zulu Xhosa Bambara Venda Cree

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