Maithili Wikipedia

The Maithili Wikipedia is the Maithili language version of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. The site was launched on November 6, 2014.[1] As of April 2022, it has 13,712 articles and 11,368 registered users. Today, Maithili is written in the Devanagari script [2] and the site uses the same. Maithili is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Bihar and Jharkhand states of India and is one of the 22 recognised Indian languages[3][4][5] which is also spoken in the eastern Terai of Nepal and is the second most prevalent language of Nepal. It is also one of the 122 recognized Nepalese languages.[6][7]

Maithili Wikipedia
Screenshot
Main Page of Maithili Wikipedia in August 2018
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia
Available inMaithili
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLmai.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Users11368
Launched6 November 2014 (2014-11-06)
Content license
Creative Commons Attribution/
Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL)
Media licensing varies

History

The process of creating a Maithili language Wikipedia started in 2008.[1][8]

Users and editors
Maithili Wikipedia statistics[9]
Number of user accountsNumber of articlesNumber of filesNumber of administrators
11368137121155

See also

References
  1. थारु, बुनु. "जनकपुरका युवा जसले मैथिली विकिपिडियाको सुरुवात गरे". eKantipur (in Nepali).
  2. Yadava, Y. P. (2013). Linguistic context and language endangerment in Nepal. Nepalese Linguistics 28 Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine: 262–274.
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2018-08-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 March 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "मैथिली को भी मिलेगा दूसरी राजभाषा का दर्जा".
  6. "Nepal". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
  7. Sah, K. K. (2013). "Some perspectives on Maithili". Nepalese Linguistics (28): 179–188.
  8. जोशी, यज्ञराज. "मैथिली विकिपिडिया स्थापना गरेर जो विश्वका १८ योगदानकर्ताभित्र छानिए". nepalkhabar (in Nepali).
  9. "List of Wikipedias". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved April 26, 2022.


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