Wikipedia’s Uzbek section ranked first in Central Asia and 45th in the world by the number of articles, the Youth Affairs Agency said on Minday.
WikiOromgoh project was organized by the Youth Affairs Agency at Yoshlar Oromgohi (Youth’s resort) in Bostonliq district of Tashkent province on April 14-20.
During the camp, the participants were taught how to add articles to the Uzbek Wikipedia.
Since the beginning of WikiOromgoh, the Uzbek Wikipedia has experienced significant growth. While, before the start of the camp, the number of Uzbek-language articles on Wikipedia was 224,317, and in the first three days, the number of articles increased to nearly 10,000, ranking 45th in the list of world wikipedias and was ranked the first in Central Asia. Before that, this place was occupied by the Kazakh Wikipedia. At the moment, the number of Uzbek articles on Wikipedia stands at 233,000.
It was noted that the WikiOromgoh project was organized as part of the WikiStipendiya project, which was launched in May of last year.
By the end of 2022, for the first time in Uzbekistan, the number of searches in the Uzbek language version surpassed the number of searches in the Russian language. In the last season of the WikiStipendiya project, the nearly 77,000 articles were added to the Uzbek Wikipedia surpassing 217,000.
