The Nepali Wikipedia (Nepali: नेपाली विकिपिडिया) is the Nepali language edition of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation.[1] As of June 2024 it has 31,975 articles and about 67,000 users, of which 7 are administrators.[2] As of 8 November 2022, the Nepali Wikipedia is the 110st largest Wikipedia.[2]
Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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Available in | Nepali |
Founded | 3 June 2002; 21 years ago |
Headquarters | Miami, Florida, United States |
Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
Created by | Jimmy Wales |
URL | ne.wikipedia.org |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional |
Nepali, using the Devanagari script, requires complex transliteration aids to be typed on devices. Thus, it has a phonetic Latin alphabet converter to Nepali, without having to use any special Nepali-typing software.
History edit
The Nepali Wikipedia was established on 3 June 2002, one year after the English Wikipedia was started, and it was among the first languages of South Asia to have its own Wikipedia.[3][4]
Statistics edit
As of June 2024, the Nepali Wikipedia has about 32,000 articles. The overwhelming majority of its readers originate from Nepal.
Users and editors edit
Number of user accounts | Number of articles | Number of files | Number of administrators |
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67,398 | 31,975 | 1,305 | 7 |
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "विकिपिडिया". Kantipur (in Nepali). Retrieved 2022-11-08.
- ^ a b "List of Wikipedias". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved April 26, 2022.
- ^ "विकिपिडिया एक स्वतन्त्र विश्वकोश". Gorkhapatra (in Nepali). Retrieved 2022-11-08.
- ^ "नेपाली विकिपिडिया २० वर्षमा प्रवेश, कस्तो छ अवस्था ?". ICT Samachar (in Nepali). Retrieved 2022-11-08.