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The Hungarian Wikipedia (Hungarian: Magyar Wikipédia) is the Hungarian/Magyar version of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Started on 8 July 2003, this version reached the 300,000-article milestone in May 2015.[1] The 500,000th article was born on 16 February 2022.[2] As of 19 December 2023, this edition has 534,404 articles and is the 29th largest Wikipedia edition.[3]

History

The first Wikipedia related to the Hungarian language was created on 5 September 2001, by Larry Sanger, the English language Wikipedia coordinator at the time. He created the address at http://hu.wikipedia.com/. At that time Wikipedia was still running on UseModWiki. For many months there was little Hungarian content, and there were problems with vandalism.

The Hungarian Wikipedia as it is known today was launched by Péter Gervai on 8 July 2003.[4] On this day, the opening page was made available with a Hungarian interface and in Hungarian, at its current address of http://hu.wikipedia.org/. Since its launch it has been growing steadily, moving up in the multilingual ranking from 34th place in 2003 to 18th place in December 2005[5] and 17th in December 2009,[6] then dropping slightly to 19th place in September 2011.[1]

On 31 October 2010, the Hungarian Wikipedia contained 179,894 articles with 8,992,153 edits by 38 administrators, 153,779 registered users as well as many unregistered ones.[7]

On 14 January 2013, the Hungarian Wikipedia became the first to enable the provision of interlanguage links via Wikidata.

Milestones

The Hungarian Wikipedia reached the 50,000-article milestone on 7 February 2007, the 100,000th on 17 July[4] 2008, and the 150,000th on 25 December 2009, by which it matched the size of the first complete Hungarian encyclopedia, the Pallas's Great Lexicon.[8] The 200,000-article milestone was reached in September 2011,[1] and it was marked by a new version of the Wikipedia globe showing 200,000 moving onward.

On 17 June 2010, the number of featured articles reached 500.[9]

On 7 May 2015 Hungarian Wikipedia reached 300,000 articles.[10]

The 400,000th article was born on 15 December 2016.[11]

The Hungarian Wikipedia reached 500,000 articles on 16 February 2022.[12]

Most disputed articles

According to a 2013 Oxford University study, the most-disputed article on the Hungarian Wikipedia was "Gypsy crime".[13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 300 000 szócikk a magyar Wikipédián from Hungarian Wikipedia Magazine, 7 May 2015 (in Hungarian)
  2. ↑ "Wikipédia:Sajtóközlemények/Félmillió szócikk a magyar Wikipédián", Wikipédia (in Hungarian), 2022-02-17, retrieved 2022-02-17
  3. ↑ List of Wikipedias
  4. 1 2 Százezres a magyar Wikipédia, in Népszabadság, 17 July 2008 (in Hungarian)
  5. ↑ Wikipedia:Multilingual ranking December 2005
  6. ↑ Wikipedia:Multilingual ranking December 2009
  7. ↑ List of Wikipedias, Meta-Wiki, October 31, 2010
  8. ↑ A Wikipédia szócikkek tekintetében behozta a Pallas lexikont Archived 2018-03-01 at the Wayback Machine in Mix Magazin, 26 December 2009 (in Hungarian)
  9. ↑ IT café: Megszületett a Wikipédia 500. kiemelt szócikke June 21, 2010 (in Hungarian)
  10. ↑ hu:Wikipédia:A magyar Wikipédia fontosabb eseményei
  11. ↑ Wikipédia:Mérföldkövek
  12. ↑ "Elérte a félmillió szócikket a magyar Wikipédia". 24.hu (in Hungarian). 2022-02-17. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
  13. ↑ Gross, Doug. "Wiki wars: The 10 most controversial Wikipedia pagesArchived April 12, 2016, at the Wayback Machine." (Archive) CNN. July 24, 2013. Retrieved on July 26, 2013.
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