The Burmese Wikipedia (Burmese: မြန်မာဝီကီပီးဒီးယား pronounced [mjəmà wɪkɨˈpiːdiə]) is the Burmese language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. This edition was started in July 2004, and has about 108,000 articles as of September 2024.
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Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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Available in | Burmese |
Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
Created by | Burmese Wikipedia community |
URL | my.wikipedia.org |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | 30 July 2004 |
As of September 2024, there are about 123,000 users, 4 admins and 2,909 files on the Burmese Wikipedia, ranking 71st by article count.[1]
History
editTimeline
edit- 2004: Burmese Wikipedia launched.
- 2005: Some of Burmese Wikipedians joined and started writing.
- 2008: Content grew drastically.
- 2010: First Burmese Wikipedia workshop held at Bangkok, Thailand with people from Wikimedia Foundation, local and international Unicode experts and Burmese Wikipedians.
- 2012: Burmese Wikipedia was introduced at Barcamp Yangon.
Events and promotions
editBurmese Wikipedia | |||
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Articles | 108271 | ||
Files | 2909 | ||
Edits | 844650 | ||
Users | 122933 | ||
Active users | 125 | ||
Admins | 4 |
The Myanmar Computer Professionals Association had launched Wikipedia Myanmar project with the aim of expanding Wikipedia in 2010.[2]
The Burmese Wikipedia community had held their first joint workshop in Yangon, Burma (Myanmar) with the help of Telenor Myanmar in June 2014 to recruit new volunteers.[3] The Burmese Wikipedia Forum was held at Dagon University in July 2014 attracting over 2,000 people, including students.[4]
Challenges
editThe majority of Burmese internet users used the non-Unicode Zawgyi font so they have difficulty viewing Burmese Wikipedia before 2019.[2][4][5]
References
edit- ^ "Wikipedia Statistics - Tables - Burmese". wikimedia.org. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
- ^ a b The Myanmar Times (22 November 2010). "Myanmar Wikipedia project targets 15,000 pages". mmtimes.com. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
- ^ "Telenor Group - Bringing Wikipedia to Myanmar". Telenor Group. July 2014. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
- ^ a b Win Htut. "Telenor hosts Wikipedia forum at Dagon University". Eleven Myanmar. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
- ^ The Myanmar Times (3 November 2014). "Spark of knowledge starts with Wikipedia". mmtimes.com. Archived from the original on 2015-02-28. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
External links
edit- (in Burmese) Burmese Wikipedia
- (in Burmese) Burmese Wikipedia mobile version