The Kazakh Wikipedia (Kazakh Cyrillic: Қазақша Уикипедия, Latin: Qazaqşa Uikipediia, Arabic: قازاقشا ۋيكيپەديا) is the Kazakh language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, founded on 2 June 2002. The Kazakh Wikipedia started in June 2002. The Kazakh Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales for his work on the Kazakh Wikipedia expansion. More information...
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