The Uzbek language rose to 1st place in Central Asia and 45th place in the world in terms of the number of articles on Wikipedia

The Uzbek language rose to number one in Central Asia and number 45 in the world in terms of the number of articles on Wikipedia. Press service of the agency for Youth Affairs about this Kun.uz reported to'.

“On April 14-20 of this year, a project”WikiOromgoh “was organized by the Youth Affairs Agency at the youth camp, located in the District of Bostanlık, aimed at increasing the prestige of the Uzbek language in the World Wide Web.During the break, the participants are taught the skills of adding articles to the Uzbek Wikipedia by specialists, and work is carried out to enrich it with articles about Uzbekistan.Since the beginning of” WikiOromgoh", there has been an increase in the senses in the Uzbek Wikipedia. In particular, the number of Uzbek-language articles on Wikipedia by the time the retreat began was 224,317, while in the first three days the number of increases reached almost 10,000 articles and rose to 45th place on the world Wikipedia list, and reached the top in Central Asia. Previously, this place was occupied by Kazakh Wikipedia. At the moment, the number of Uzbek articles on Wikipedia has reached 233 thousand,” the report said.It is assumed that the WikiOromgoh project was organized as part of the WikiStipendiya project, which started in may last year, the first season took place in August 2022, the second season took place in November, and the second season exceeded the 200 thousand pass for the first time.As of the end of 2022, the number of Uzbek-language searches in Uzbekistan exceeded the number of Russian-language searches for the first time. And in the last season of the” WikiStipendiya " project, Uzbek Wikipedia was rich with almost 77 thousand articles and exceeded 217 thousand.