Hungarian Wikipedia
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The Hungarian Wikipedia (Magyar Wikipédia) is the Hungarian/Magyar
Hungarian language
Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

 version of Wikipedia
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, the free encyclopedia
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. Started on July 8, 2003, this version reached the 200,000 article milestone in September 2011.

History

The first Wikipedia related to the Hungarian language was created on September 5, 2001 by Larry Sanger
Larry Sanger
Lawrence Mark "Larry" Sanger is an American philosopher, co-founder of Wikipedia, and the founder of Citizendium....

, the English language Wikipedia coordinator at the time. He created the address at http://hu.wikipedia.com/. At that time Wikipedia was still running on UseModWiki
UseModWiki
UseModWiki is a wiki engine written in the Perl programming language. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License. Pages in UseModWiki are stored in ordinary files, not in a relational database. Something similar to the interface can be seen in MediaWiki with the classic skin.- History...

. 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 Peter Gervai
Péter Gervai
Péter Gervai is a Hungarian IT development engineer, the founder of the Hungarian Wikipedia and the chair of Wikimedia Hungary...

 on July 8, 2003. On this day, the opening page was made available with a Hungarian interface and in Hungarian, at its current address of http://hu.wikipedia.org/. Since its launch it has been growing steadily, moving up in the multilingual ranking from the 34th place in 2003 to 18th place in December 2005 and 17th in December 2009.

On October 31, 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.

Milestones

The Hungarian Wikipedia reached the 50,000 article milestone on February 7, 2007, the 100,000th on July 17, 2008, and the 150,000th article on December 25, 2009. The 200,000 article milestone was reached in September 2011, and it was marked by a new version of the Wikipedia globe showing 200000 moving onward.

On June 17, 2010 the number of featured articles reached 500.

External links

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