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“The transition of Church communities to OCU” became the top theme of Ukrainian Wikipedia in 2019

17.01.2020, 13:19
In 2019, users most often referred to the article of the Ukrainian Wikipedia "The transition of Church communities to OCU" – it had more than a million hits.

In 2019, users most often referred to the article of the Ukrainian Wikipedia "The transition of Church communities to OCU" – it had more than a million hits.

This is a record number of hits for the articles in Ukrainian Wikipedia previously the mark of one million a year was never attained by any article.

As noted in the press service of "Wikimedia Ukraine", last year the leaders of the list - "Ukraine" and "Taras Shevchenko" - were replaced for the first time in the last ten years.

Thanks to the elections in 2019, the list of the most popular themes included significantly more articles about politicians than in the year before last. In particular, the article about Volodymyr Zelensky was viewed 850 thousand times, the one about Petro Poroshenko - 421 thousand, about Dmytro Razumkov - 221 thousand times, about Oleksiy Honcharuk - 212 thousand times.

25 most popular articles in 2019:

  1. The transition of Church Communities to OCU
  2. Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy
  3. Ukraine
  4. Ukrainian Presidential Election 2019
  5. Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko
  6. Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko
  7. Kyiv
  8. WWII
  9. Chornobyl Disaster
  10. Franko Ivan Yakovych
  11. WWI
  12. Lesya the Ukrainian
  13. United States of America
  14. List of Ukrainian women's names
  15. Germany
  16. European Union
  17. Lviv
  18. Great Britain
  19. YouTube
  20. Kyivan Rus
  21. Proteins
  22. Holodomor in Ukraine (1932-1933)
  23. Bogdan Khmelnitsky
  24. List of Ukrainian male names
  25. Poland

The Ukrainian-language section of Wikipedia has more than 970 thousand articles. Last year, Wikipedia entered the top 15 most popular sites in Ukraine and took first place in popularity among non-commercial resources. This is reported by the website "Khmarochos".