Kurdish Wikipedia ( kmr, Wîkîpediya kurdî, ckb, ویکیپیدیای کوردی) refers to two
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 refer ...
editions which are written in two forms of
Kurdish language
Kurdish (, ) is a language or a group of languages spoken by Kurds in the geo-cultural region of Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora. Kurdish constitutes a dialect continuum, belonging to Western Iranian languages in the Indo-European lan ...
;
Kurmanji and
Sorani
Central Kurdish (), also called Sorani (), is a Kurdish dialect or a language that is spoken in Iraq, mainly in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as the provinces of Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and West Azerbaijan in western Iran. Sorani is one of the two o ...
.
The original one was founded in January 2004. As of , the
Kurmanji Wikipedia has articles and
Sorani Wikipedia has articles.
There are also two other Wikipedia editions for
Zazaki and
Southern Kurdish
Southern Kurdish ( ku, کوردی باشووری ,کوردی خوارگ, Kurdî Başûrî, Kurdî Xwarig) is one of the dialects of the Kurdish language, spoken predominantly in northeastern Iraq and western Iran. The Southern Kurdish-speaking r ...
with the latter still in the test phase.
History
The Kurdish Wikipedia established on January 7, 2004,
designed to contain articles in Kurmanji and Sorani at the same time. On August 12, 2009, Kurdish Wikipedia separated into two versions due to technical and linguistic issues. The old version (ku.) remained as
Kurmanji Kurdish Wikipedia and a new version (ckb.) created for
Sorani Kurdish Wikipedia.
See also
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Kurmanji Kurdish Wikipedia
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Sorani Kurdish Wikipedia
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Zazaki Wikipedia
Gallery
Kurdish teachers Wikipedia training Wikimedia UK 18.jpg, Kurdish women at a Wikimedia UK Wikipedia training event in London, December 2016
Kurdish teachers Wikipedia training Wikimedia UK 13.jpg,
Kurdish Cultural Centre Wikipedia training 05 copy.jpg,
References
External links
;Kurdish (Kurmanji)
Kurmanji Kurdish WikipediaKurmanji Kurdish Wikipedia mobile version;Kurdish (Sorani)
Sorani Kurdish WikipediaSorani Kurdish Wikipedia mobile version;Wikimedia
Kurdish Wikimedians User Group
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Kurdish-language encyclopedias
Kurdish-language websites
Wikipedias by language
Internet properties established in 2004