The first Wikipedia related to the Hungarian language was created on 5 September 2001, by
Larry Sanger, the English language Wikipedia coordinator at the time. He created the address at . At that time Wikipedia was still running on the
UseModWiki software. For many months there was little Hungarian content, and there were problems with vandalism. The Hungarian Wikipedia as it is known today was launched by
Péter Gervai on 8 July 2003. and 17th in December 2009, then dropping slightly to 19th place in September 2011. On 14 January 2013, the Hungarian Wikipedia became the first to enable the provision of interlanguage links via
Wikidata.
Milestones The Hungarian Wikipedia reached the 50,000-article milestone on 7 February 2007, the 100,000th on 17 July 2008, and the 150,000th on 25 December 2009, by which it matched the size of the first complete Hungarian encyclopedia, the ''
Pallas's Great Lexicon''. The 200,000-article milestone was reached in September 2011, On 7 May 2015, Hungarian Wikipedia reached 300,000 articles. The 400,000th article was born on 15 December 2016. The Hungarian Wikipedia reached 500,000 articles on 16 February 2022. ==Most disputed articles==