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{{Infobox website
| name = {{Wiki favicon}} Kazakh Wikipedia
| logo = [[File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-kk.svg]]
| screenshot = [[File:KazWıkı-main page.png|330px]]
| collapsible = yes
| caption =
| url = [http://kk.wikipedia.org/ kk.wikipedia.org]
| commercial = No
| location = [[Miami, Florida]]
| type = [[Internet encyclopedia project]]
| language = [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]]
| registration = Optional
| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]
| author = Kazakh wiki community
| launch date = 2 June 2002
}}

The '''Kazakh Wikipedia''' is the [[Kazakh language]] edition of the free online encyclopedia [[Wikipedia]], founded on 2 June 2002.

==History==
[[File:2011-08 Wikimania ZVD 10.jpg|thumb|left|[[WikiBilim]]]]

The Kazakh Wikipedia was 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,<ref name=KKstats/> 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.gazeta.kz/art.asp?aid=343248|script-title=ru:Проект по расширению казахскоязычной части "Википедии" стартовал в Казахстане|publisher=[[gazeta.kz]]|language=Russian|accessdate=27 April 2012}}</ref> The [[Samruk-Kazyna|Samruk Kazyna Foundation]], Kazakhstan's sovereign oil wealth fund, sponsored the expansion, with 30 million [[Kazakhstani tenge|tenge]] spent in 2011 for paid editing, digitalization, and author rights transfer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_news/212582/|script-title=ru:На развитие "Казахской Википедии" выделили 50 миллионов тенге|publisher=Tengri News|language=Russian|accessdate=27 April 2012}}</ref><ref name="Telegraph Kazakh">{{cite web |url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/9764719/Wikipedia-co-founder-Jimmy-Wales-restricts-discussion-of-Tony-Blair-friendship.html |title = Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales restricts discussion of Tony Blair friendship |last = Williams |first = Christopher |date = 24 December 2012 |work = The Telegraph |accessdate= 8 September 2013}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Telegraph Kazakh"/>

In April 2012 Tengri News reported that "in 2011, the Samruk Kazyna [[sovereign wealth fund]] allocated a total of $204 thousand to develop the Kazakh-language Wikipedia. This year, another $136 thousand will be earmarked", citing the Fund’s Press Service.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.tengrinews.kz/internet/Samruk-Kazyna-assisting-to-develop-Kazakh-language-Wikipedia-9355/ |title=$136 thousand channeled into development Kazakh-language Wikipedia. Internet. Tengrinews.kz |publisher=En.tengrinews.kz |date= |accessdate=2013-12-25}}</ref> Wales thanked the Kazakh government for its support of the Kazakh Wikipedia at [[Wikimania 2012]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://netprophet.tol.org/2012/07/23/kazakh-wikipedia-awarded-for-its-impressive-development/ |title=Kazakh Wikipedia awarded for its impressive development |last=Lotto Persio| first = Sofia|date=23 July 2012|website=netprophet.tol.org|accessdate= 8 September 2013 }}</ref>

The Kazakh Wikipedia's unique{{Citation needed|date=April 2013}} feature is that it is written in three different scripts: [[Cyrillic]], [[Latin script|Latin]], and [[Arabic script|Arabic]]. On 26 October 2011, it passed the 100,000 articles threshold, and by early 2013 had just over 200,000 articles.<ref name=KKstats>{{cite web |publisher=Wikimedia Foundation |url=http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaKK.htm |title=Wikipedia Statistics Kazakh}}</ref>

==Features==
The Kazakh Wikipedia uses ZhengZhu's character mapping program to convert between Cyrillic, Latin, and Arabic scripts.{{cn|date=August 2014}}
==Relationship between WikiBilim and the Government of Kazakhstan==
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 Kazakh government has been widely criticised for its crackdown on free speech.<ref name="Telegraph Kazakh"/><ref name="Daily Dot Kazakh"/> Wikipedia co-founder [[Jimmy Wales]]' friendship with ex-British Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]], who advises the Kazakh government, has also come under scrutiny,<ref name="Telegraph Kazakh"/><ref name="Daily Dot Kazakh">{{cite web |url = http://www.dailydot.com/politics/wikipedia-kazakhstan-dictatorship/ |title = The Daily Dot – Wikipedia's odd relationship with the Kazakh dictatorship |last = Morris |first = Kevin |date = 25 December 2012 |website = The Daily Dot |accessdate= 8 September 2013 }}</ref> as has the neutrality of the Kazakh Wikipedia's content, much of which is a reproduction of the state-published national encyclopedia.<ref name="netprophet">{{cite web |url = http://netprophet.tol.org/2013/01/08/critics-question-neutrality-of-kazakh-wikipedia/ |title = Critics question neutrality of Kazakh Wikipedia |last = Hermans |first = Steven |date = 8 January 2013 |website = NET PROPHET |accessdate= 8 September 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eurasianet.org/node/66343|title=Kazakhstan Wikipedia Controversy Raises Questions About the Crowd|last=Smith|first=Myles G.|date=27 December 2012|website = EURASIANET.org|accessdate=8 September 2013}}</ref>

==Statistics==
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As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}, the Kazakh Wikipedia counts about {{formatnum:{{#expr:{{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|kk}} round -3}}}} articles. The overwhelming majority of its readers originate from [[Kazakhstan]].

As of April 2013, the Kazakh Wikipedia's number of articles accounts for approximately 14% of all the articles written in a [[Turkic languages|Turkic language]], making it the second largest edition in the family after Turkish, which accounts for 28% of all Turkic articles.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_language_group |title=List of Wikipedias by Language Group |publisher=Meta.wikimedia.org |date=2013-12-13 |accessdate=2013-12-25}}</ref>{{-}}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Kazenc.jpg|The letter from the Kazakh Encyclopedia stating the release of its materials under a CC BY-SA license.
File:Kazakh Wiki-logo-100000.png|The Kazakh Wikipedia's 100K commemorative logo. (Fall 2011)
File:Kazakh Wiki-logo-TWC.png|Kazakh Wikipedia logo at the time of the [[:meta:Turkic Wikimedia Conference 2012|Turkic Wikimedia Conference]]. (April 2012)
File:Kazakh Wiki-logo-200000.png|The Kazakh Wikipedia's 200K commemorative logo. (Nov 2012)
</gallery>

== References ==
* [[Andrew Lih|Lih, Andrew]]. ''[[The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia]]''. [[Hyperion Books|Hyperion]], [[New York City]]. 2009. First Edition. ISBN 978-1-4013-0371-6 (alkaline paper).

==Notes==
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== External links ==
{{InterWiki|code=kk}}
* {{commonscat-inline|Kazakh Wikipedia}}
* {{kk icon}} [http://kk.wikipedia.org/ Kazakh Wikipedia]
* {{kk icon}} [http://kk.m.wikipedia.org/ Kazakh Wikipedia mobile version]
* [http://wikibilim.kz/index.php/english/about-foundtion WikiBilim: About Foundation]
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