Wikimedia Ukraine - Вікімедіа Україна Ukrainian language projects

Milestones

• 31.05.2009 – establishing• 15.09.2009 – state registration• 16.02.2010 – first offering

First wikimedians

• Andriy Bondarenko• Yury Perohanych• Olexa Yurchenko• Anatoly Goncharov• Vasyl Babych

Kyiv, 31th of May, 2009

17 wikimedians

• 27.06.2009, wikimeeting in Kyiv

Ukrainian-language projects

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wikibooks

w ikinews

w ikiquote

w ikisource

w iktionary

w ikipedia

Disbalance?

• Wikipedia is much more well-known

• Users are not able to distinguish genres of encyclopedia, dictionary, newspaper etc.

Ukrainian Wikipedia grows

------ Atricles (200K+)

------ Active users (250+)

Recognition

Ivan Vakarchuk

Science and education minister of Ukraine

2007-2010

Viktor Grinchenko

Academic of National Academy

of Sciences of Ukraine

Adress by I.Vakarchuk to write to Wiki

Volodymyr Biletsky

Doctor of Sciences, author of Small Mining Encyclopedia

Thank you for attention!Дякуємо за увагу!

...and welcome to Ukraine!