The world’s largest online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has changed its spelling of Ukraine’s capital from Kiev to Kyiv, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba announced on Sept. 18.
This change is important because Wikipedia is the fifth-most visited website in the world and many international media, civic organizations and companies refer to it when they write about Kyiv.
Although the first article about Ukraine’s capital appeared on English-language Wikipedia in 2002, it spelled the name of the city incorrectly. Wikipedia used the Russian transliteration “Kiev,” rather than Ukrainian “Kyiv.”
