The Hungarian Wikipedia ( hu, Magyar Wikipédia) is the
Hungarian/Magyar version of
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read referenc ...
, the free
encyclopedia
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. Started on 8 July 2003, this version reached the 300,000-article milestone in May 2015.
[''300 000 szócikk a magyar Wikipédián''](_blank)
from Hungarian Wikipedia Magazine, 7 May 2015 The 500,000th article was born on 16 February 2022. As of , this edition has
articles and is the largest Wikipedia edition.
History
The first Wikipedia related to the Hungarian language was created on 5 September 2001, by
Larry Sanger
Lawrence Mark Sanger (; born July 16, 1968) is an American Internet project developer and philosopher who co-founded the online encyclopedia Wikipedia along with Jimmy Wales. Sanger coined the name and wrote much of Wikipedia's original governin ...
, the English language Wikipedia coordinator at the time. He created the address at . At that time Wikipedia was still running on
UseModWiki
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. 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.
On this day, th
opening pagewas made available with a Hungarian interface and in Hungarian, at its current address of . 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 and 17th in December 2009, then dropping slightly to 19th place in September 2011.
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.
On 14 January 2013, the Hungarian Wikipedia became the first to enable the provision of interlanguage links via
Wikidata
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.
Milestones
The Hungarian Wikipedia reached the 50,000-article milestone on 7 February 2007, the 100,000th on 17 July
[''Százezres a magyar Wikipédia''](_blank)
in Népszabadság
''Népszabadság'' (; means "Liberty of the People") was a major Hungarian newspaper which was formerly the official press organ of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party during the Hungarian People's Republic.
History and profile
''Népszab ...
, 17 July 2008 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''. The 200,000-article milestone was reached in September 2011,
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.
On 7 May 2015 Hungarian Wikipedia reached 300,000 articles.
The 400,000th article was born on 15 December 2016.
The Hungarian Wikipedia reached 500,000 articles on 16 February 2022.
Most disputed articles
According to a 2013
Oxford University
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study, the most-disputed article on the Hungarian Wikipedia was "
Gypsy crime".
[Gross, Doug.]
Wiki wars: The 10 most controversial Wikipedia pages
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''CNN
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''. July 24, 2013. Retrieved on July 26, 2013.
Gallery
Wikipedia-logo-400000-hu-gold.png, Hungarian Wikipedia 400,000 articles logo
Wikipédia 500.000 Szócikk ünnepi logó.png, Hungarian Wikipedia 500,000 articles logo
References
External links
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Hungarian Wikipedia
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Hungarian Wikipedia mobile version*
Archived pages from the arcane times of the Hungarian Wikipedia*
Hungarian Wikipedia major events
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Hungarian Wikipedia milestones
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Press articles about the Hungarian Wikipedia
{{Wikipedias in Uralic languages
Wikipedias by language
Internet properties established in 2003
Hungarian-language websites
Hungarian encyclopedias