Ukrainian Wikipedia becomes world's 13th largest online encyclopedia

KYIV, February 22 /UKRINFORM/. The Ukrainian-language Wikipedia on the International Mother Language Day has become 13th on the number of papers among all the 284 language editions of the online encyclopedia worldwide, NGO Wikimedia Ukraine said in a statement Thursday.

"On February 21 the winner in the competition with Catalans was the entry 'The Roman School (music)", written by the user nicknamed Morigerato, a Ukrainian lawyer Oleksandr Oltovych. At this time, the Ukrainian Wikipedia had 365,896 articles, and the Catalan - 365,895," reads the statement.

Today the Ukrainian Wikipedia is the biggest encyclopedia in the Ukrainian language that has ever existed. There are over 360,000 entries. In terms of growth in popularity it is second only to the Chinese Wikipedia.

Among recent achievements there is a new record for attendance in the history of Ukrainian Wikipedia: in December 2011, 49.2 million pages were viewed.