Belarusian Wikipedia

There are two Belarusian Wikipedias: one in the orthography of the Belarusian language which is official in modern Belarus (Narkomovka,  prefix "be:"), and another one in the pre-reform of 1933, classical orthography (Taraškievica, prefix "be-tarask:", formerly "be-x-old:").

 History 
The first Belarusian Wikipedia was started on August 12, 2004. One of its creators and  first administrators was Uladzimir Katkouski (user name: rydel)."How to Find Wikipedia... Using the Classical Orthography" , Polskie Radio, August 11, 2007 "To stand for the Belarusian – in Belarusian!" (“Калі адстойваць беларускае, то па-беларуску!”) , an interview with the parents of Uladzimir Katkouski by Radio Liberty, May 19, 2008  Katkouski/rydel (who died in 2007) created over 1,300 articles in the Belarusian Wikipedia alone. In the 2020s, the Belarusian government started to persecute Wikipedia editors by arresting and detaining them for writing about things the government does not like.

References

Other websites

 Belarusian Wikipedia in the official orthography 
 Belarusian Wikipedia in Taraškievica orthography (Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography))
Statistics for the normative Belarusian Wikipedia
Statistics for the classical Belarusian Wikipedia

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