The Sindhi Wikipedia (Sindhi: سنڌي وڪيپيڊيا) is a free encyclopedia, started February 6, 2006. It is the Sindhi language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. It has 17,401 articles.[1][2] Since 2014, the encyclopedia has experienced an overall increase in content.[3]
Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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Available in | Sindhi |
Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
URL | sd.wikipedia.org |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | 6 February 2006 |
History edit
2006 to 2008 edit
The Sindhi Wikipedia was started on February 10, 2006, by Professor Ahsan Ahmed Aursani.[citation needed]
2009 to 2011 edit
During this time Sindhi Wikipedia progressed slowly.
2012 to 2014 edit
During this time Sindhi Wikipedia progressed slowly.
2015 to 2017 edit
During this time, the Sindhi Wikipedia has expanded and some technical issues have been resolved. Sindhi Wikipedia users have improved content, references, technical issues, categorization, templates, and infoboxes. Recently, Sindhi Wikipedians arranged a Wikipedia awareness workshop in Karachi.[4][5][6][7]
In 2017, JogiAsad and Muhammad Arif Soomro were interviewed in a KTN News program, which was the first televised interview covering the project and communities.[7]
Milestones edit
Date | Milestone | Comment |
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2015 | 1000 | |
2018 | 10,000[8] |
Users and editors edit
Number of user accounts | Number of articles | Number of files | Number of administrators |
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18661 | 17401 | 150 | 4 |
See also edit
References edit
- ^ سنڌي وڪيپيڊيا
- ^ Sindhi Wikipedia, Retrieved on June 10, 2012
- ^ Muzammiluddin, Syed (18 June 2016). "Seeing great potential in the Sindhi Wikipedia: Mehtab Ahmed". Wikimedia Blogs. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
- ^ "پاکستان میں پہلی سندھی ویکیپیڈیا ورکشاپ کا کراچی میں انعقاد ، اُردو پوائنٹ ٹیکنالوجی". UrduPoint (in Urdu). Retrieved 2017-06-05.
- ^ Sindhi language newspaper (May 28, 2017). "پاڪستان ۾ پهريون سنڌي وڪيپيڊيا ورڪشاپ منعقد A first Sindhi Wikipedia Workshop in Pakistan". Daily Waka.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Sindhi News, Epaper, Sindhi tv, Sindhi News". Awami Awaz.
- ^ a b Muzammiluddin, Syed (2019-12-19). "How playwright, professor, and Wikimedian Aziz Kingrani contributes his expertise in preserving Sindhi heritage to the Wikimedia movement". Diff. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
- ^ "انگ اکر". Sindhi Wikipedia. سنڌي وڪيپيڊيا. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
- ^ "List of Wikipedias". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved April 26, 2022.
External links edit
- Media related to Sindhi Wikipedia at Wikimedia Commons
- (in Sindhi) Sindhi Wikipedia
- (in Sindhi) Sindhi Wikipedia mobile version (homepage not yet configured)