Ukraine: Ukrainian Wikipedia’s Traffic Hiked as Russian Wikipedia Striked · Global Voices
Veronica Khokhlova

Watcher.com.ua reports [uk] that on July 10, when Wikipedia's Russian-language section suspended its service [en] for one day to protest the Russian draft law “On the Protection of Children From Information Harmful to Their Health and Development,” the Ukrainian-language Wikipedia saw a five-time traffic increase. On that day, according to Wikimedia-Ukraine Foundation [uk], there were over 103,000 visits to the uk.wikipedia.org homepage, which normally receives 20,000-25,000 visitors daily: “The Russian-language Wikipedia's strike shows that Ukrainian Wikipedia has a significant potential, which is not revealed because many Ukrainians prefer [to use Wikipedia in Russian].”