Kurdish Wikipedias

Kurdish Wikipedias

Logo of the Kurmanji Wikipedia (left) and the Sorani Wikipedia (right)
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Kurdish (Kurmanji · Sorani)
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Kurdish wiki community
URL	ku.wikipedia.org (Kurmanji) ckb.wikipedia.org (Sorani)
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Launched	7 January 2004 (2004-01-07)
Content license	Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies

There are two Kurdish editions of Wikipedia (Kurmanji Kurdish: Wîkîpediya kurdî, Sorani Kurdish: ویکیپیدیای کوردی), one written in Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish) and the other in Sorani (Central Kurdish).

The original one was founded in January 2004. As of August 2026, the Kurmanji Wikipedia has 91,947 articles and Sorani Wikipedia has 83,846 articles. There are also two other Wikipedia editions for Zazaki and Southern Kurdish with the latter still in the test phase.

A diagram of the progression of articles number of the Sorani Kurdish Wikipedia, 2009–2025

History

The Kurdish Wikipedia established on 7 January 2004, designed to contain articles in Kurmanji and Sorani at the same time. On 12 August 2009, Kurdish Wikipedia separated into two versions due to technical and linguistic issues. The old version (ku.) remained as Kurmanji Kurdish Wikipedia and a new version (ckb.) created for Sorani Kurdish Wikipedia.

See also

• Zazaki Wikipedia

Gallery

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  Kurdish women at a Wikimedia UK Wikipedia training event in London, December 2016
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  Kurdish Cultural Centre for Wikipedia training, October 2016

External links

Kurdish (Kurmanji)

• Kurmanji Kurdish Wikipedia
• Kurmanji Kurdish Wikipedia mobile version

Kurdish (Sorani)

• Sorani Kurdish Wikipedia
• Sorani Kurdish Wikipedia mobile version

Wikimedia

• Kurdish Wikimedians User Group