The Azerbaijani Wikipedia is a Wikipedia in Azerbaijani language, launched in January 2002. As of 30 November 2010 it had 42,518 articles and 14,523 uploaded files in its content, as well as 23,766 registered users. The editorial process is being supported by forty bots. Within the first two years of its creation the Azerbaijani Wikipedia reached 3,000 articles. As of November 2010the locallist of requested articles contains ten entries. Pending November 2010 translation requests comprise three English and three Turkish entries. The is maintained through nine topic categories: culture, geography, history, life, mathematics, nature, science, society and technology. embrace 111 entries. The backlog category contains 14 subcategories. There are also fourteen about architecture, biology, chemistry, history, Islam, geography, literature, medicine, philosophy, Azerbaijani cinema, Azerbaijani military, as well as country-specific ones about Georgia, Turkey and Azerbaijan itself. Azerbaijani Wikipedia is constantly increasing its number of articles, but at some point in 2015 this number somewhat decreased returning to values smaller than 100,000.
History
In 2010, Azerbaijani Wikipedia books published by professor Rasim Aliguliyev and senior scientist Irada Alakbarova. The book edited by Alovsat Aliyev.
The article timeline
2 June 2002 – Creation of first section in Azerbaijani Wikipedia.
The first meetup was held in Baku on 6 December 2009. The event was organized in order to establish relations of friendship and familiarity between Wikipedians and a number of other issues – including technical problems and prospects for future development. In order to solve the problems, an emergency meeting was organized on 23 October 2010 in Baku. About 9 users participated in it.
Topics
In 2019 the Azerbaijani Wikipedia has 66 thousand unique categories and 3.21% of them do not have appropriate page in the category. The average article in this language version has 6 categories, while number of unique categories per articles ratio is 0.452. The largest number of articles has Technology and Geography category. In Azerbaijani Wikipedia articles related to Government and Crime has the highest average quality. Content about Government is read more often and has the highest authors' interest on average.
