The Ossetian Wikipedia (Ossetian: Ирон Википеди) is the Ossetian-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. It was created on 28 February 2005.[2][3] With approximately 19,000 articles, it is currently the 131st-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles.[4] Since its creation, the Ossetian Wikipedia has been called "what is perhaps the only website written entirely in Ossetian."[5]
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Type of site | Internet encyclopedia |
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Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
URL | os |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional |
Users | 25,276 registered accounts 72 contributors[a] (Feb. 2015) |
Launched | 28 February 2005; 19 years ago (2005-02-28) |
Content license | CC Attribution / Share-Alike 3.0 Most text also dual-licensed under GFDL, media licensed freely according to Wikimedia Commons licenses. |
On 3 March 2010, the Ossetian Wikipedia made headlines in local newspapers for reaching a double milestone. The edition was five years old and had just passed the 5000 articles threshold.[6]