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The Turkish Wikipedia (Turkish: Türkçe Vikipedi) is the Turkish language edition of Wikipedia, spelled Vikipedi. Started in December 2002, as of 26 March 2017 this edition has 293,784 articles and is the 29th largest Wikipedia edition.
In November 2006, the Turkish Wikipedia was nominated under the Science category for Altın Örümcek Web Ödülleri (Golden Spider Web Awards), which are commonly known as the "Web Oscars" for Turkey. In January 2007, the Turkish Wikipedia was given the award for "Best Content" in this competition. The award was given in a ceremony on 25 January 2007 at Istanbul Technical University.
In 2015, its banner drawing attention to the gender bias on Wikipedia drew the attention of Turkish media.
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Turkish Wikipedia Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA