There are two Belarusian Encyclopedias: one in the orthography of the Belarusian language which is official, normative in modern Belarus (narkomovka, prefix be:) [1], and another one the pre-reform, classical, orthography (Taraškievica, prefix be-x-old:)[2].
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The initial Belarusian Wikipedia was started on August 12, 2004. One of its creators and first administrators was Uladzimir Katkouski (user name: rydel).[3][4] Katkouski/Rydel (diseased in 2007) created over 1,300 articles in Belarusian Wikipedia alone.[4]
Articles in Belarusian wikipedia were inconsistently written in both variants of the orthography, which had led to conflicts between the adherents of the two.[5][6]
A "clean" version in the official orthography was initiated in the "Incubator" of wikipedias at Wikimedia's Meta-Wiki.[6] However the first application for a new wikipedia was rejected in December 2006 by the Board of Trustees and Language Commission for technical reasons, quoting: "This discussion was created before the implementation of the Language proposal policy, and it is incompatible with the policy."[7] A redrafted proposal was approved in March 2007.[8]
Upon the approval, in the evening of the same day, over 6,000 articles written in clean pre-reform orthography were transferred from the 'be.wikipedia.org' domain to 'be-x-old.wikipedia.org', while the 3,500 pages from "incubator" were moved[9] to 'be.wikipedia.org'.[6] However due to a software bug the move didn'd go smoothly: in the morning the articles seem disappeared, and the users could not log in.[10] This had led to a number of news reports that articles in old Belarusian orthography were deleted from wikipedia.[11][12]
Including the time in the "incubator", the current variant of be-wikipedia exists since August 2006.[13]
Initially the normative Belarusian wikipedia overtook the classical one, but in about a year, it slowed down, and in fall 2008, the classical one was ahead.[5]
On March 15, 2008 the normative Belarusian encyclopedia created the 10,000th article,[13]
On June 17, 2009, the classical Belarusian encyclopedia created the 20,000th article, holding the 65th place among other wikipedias. At that time, the normative Belarusian wikipedia had abouit 16,000 articles, holding the 71th place.[5]
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