"Уикипедия" redirects here. For the Bulgarian Misplaced Pages, see Bulgarian Misplaced Pages.
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| Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | Kazakh |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | Kazakh wiki community |
| URL | kk.wikipedia.org |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 3 June 2002; 22 years ago (2002-06-03) |
| Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
The Kazakh Misplaced Pages (Kazakh Cyrillic: Қазақша Уикипедия, Latin: Qazaqşa Uikipediia, Arabic: قازاقشا ۋيكيپەديا) is the Kazakh language edition of the free online encyclopedia Misplaced Pages, founded on 3 June 2002.
History
The Kazakh Misplaced Pages started in June 2002. The Kazakh Misplaced Pages had a very high growth rate in 2011, going from 7,000 articles to over 100,000 in less than one year, largely due to the incorporation of materials from the Kazakh Encyclopedia, which have been released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License (CC BY-SA). This rapid expansion was initiated by the non-profit Wikibilim Foundation. The Samruk Kazyna Foundation, Kazakhstan's sovereign oil wealth fund, sponsored the expansion, with 30 million tenge spent in 2011 for paid editing, digitalization, and author rights transfer. At the Wikimania 2011 conference WikiBilim president Rauan Kenzhekhanuly was awarded the Wikipedian of the Year award by Misplaced Pages co-founder Jimmy Wales for his work on the Kazakh Misplaced Pages expansion.
In April 2012, the Tengrinews.kz reported that "in 2011, the Samruk Kazyna sovereign wealth fund allocated a total of $204 thousand to develop the Kazakh-language Misplaced Pages. This year, another $136 thousand will be earmarked", citing the Fund's Press Service. Wales thanked the Kazakh government for its support of the Kazakh Misplaced Pages at Wikimania 2012.
The Kazakh Misplaced Pages can be viewed and written in three different scripts: Cyrillic, Latin, and Arabic. On 26 October 2011, it passed the 100,000 articles threshold, and by early 2013 had just over 200,000 articles.
On 2–3 September 2023, the First Kazakh Wiki Conference was held at the Eurasian National University in Astana.
Features
The Kazakh Misplaced Pages used ZhengZhu's character mapping program to convert between Cyrillic, Latin, and Arabic scripts, while its Latin script utilized Kazinform's own romanization system.
The character conversion system was removed from the Kazakh Misplaced Pages in 2023.
Controversies
Questions have been asked about WikiBilim's closeness to the Kazakh government, given that WikiBilim president Rauan Kenzhekhanuly had a long prior career as a Kazakh government official and the government has been widely criticised for its crackdown on free speech. Misplaced Pages co-founder Jimmy Wales' friendship with ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who advises the Kazakh government, has also come under scrutiny, as has the neutrality of the Kazakh Misplaced Pages's content, much of which is a reproduction of the state-published national encyclopedia.
In 2015, Jimmy Wales stated on Reddit that at the time he gave Kenzhekhanuly the inaugural Wikipedian of the Year award, he'd been unaware of Kenzhekhanuly's prior positions as first secretary at Kazakhstan's embassy in Moscow and as an adviser to the governor of Kazakhstan's Mangystau region; by 2015, Kenzhekhanuly had gone on to become deputy governor of Kazakhstan's Kyzylorda region and founding director of Eurasian Council on Foreign Affairs, a think-tank funded by the Kazakh government.
Statistics
As of January 2025, the Kazakh Misplaced Pages has about 239,000 articles. The overwhelming majority of its readers originate from Kazakhstan.
As of April 2013, the Kazakh Misplaced Pages's number of articles accounts for approximately 14% of all the articles written in a Turkic language, making it the second largest edition in the family after Turkish, which accounts for 28% of all Turkic articles.
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Gallery
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The letter from the Kazakh Encyclopedia stating the release of its materials under a CC BY-SA license.
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The Kazakh Misplaced Pages's 100K commemorative logo. (Fall 2011)
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Kazakh Misplaced Pages logo at the time of the Turkic Wikimedia Conference. (April 2012)
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The Kazakh Misplaced Pages's 200K commemorative logo. (Nov 2012)
References
- ^ "Misplaced Pages Statistics Kazakh". Wikimedia Foundation.
- Проект по расширению казахскоязычной части "Википедии" стартовал в Казахстане (in Russian). gazeta.kz. Archived from the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2012.
- На развитие "Казахской Википедии" выделили 50 миллионов тенге (in Russian). Tengri News. 20 April 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2012.
- ^ Williams, Christopher (24 December 2012). "Misplaced Pages co-founder Jimmy Wales restricts discussion of Tony Blair friendship". The Telegraph. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
- "$136 thousand channeled into development Kazakh-language Misplaced Pages. Internet. Tengrinews.kz". En.tengrinews.kz. 23 April 2012. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
- Lotto Persio, Sofia (23 July 2012). "Kazakh Misplaced Pages awarded for its impressive development". netprophet.tol.org. Archived from the original on 2 January 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
- Higgins, Andrew (15 January 2018). "Kazakhstan Cheers New Alphabet, Except for All Those Apostrophes". The New York Times.
- ^ Morris, Kevin (25 December 2012). "The Daily Dot – Misplaced Pages's odd relationship with the Kazakh dictatorship". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
- Hermans, Steven (8 January 2013). "Critics question neutrality of Kazakh Misplaced Pages". NET PROPHET. Archived from the original on 28 April 2019. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
- Smith, Myles G. (27 December 2012). "Kazakhstan Misplaced Pages Controversy Raises Questions About the Crowd". EURASIANET.org. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
- Michel, Casey G. (2 April 2015). "Misplaced Pages Founder Distances Himself from Kazakhstan PR Machine". EURASIANET.org. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
- "List of Wikipedias by Language Group". Meta.wikimedia.org. 13 December 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
Sources
- Lih, Andrew. The Misplaced Pages Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia. Hyperion, New York City. 2009. First Edition. ISBN 978-1-4013-0371-6 (alkaline paper).
External links
Media related to Kazakh Misplaced Pages at Wikimedia Commons- (in Kazakh) Kazakh Misplaced Pages
- (in Kazakh) Kazakh Misplaced Pages mobile version
- WikiBilim: About Foundation
- Wikimedia Community of Kazakh language User Group 27 March 2020
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