The Nepali Wikipedia (Nepali: नेपाली विकिपिडिया) is the Nepali language edition of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation.[1] As of December 2024 it has 31,322 articles and about 70,000 users, of which 6 are administrators.[2] As of 8 November 2022, the Nepali Wikipedia is the 110st largest Wikipedia.[2]

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The main page of the Nepali Wikipedia
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inNepali
Founded3 June 2002; 22 years ago
HeadquartersMiami, Florida, United States
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
Created byJimmy Wales
URLne.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional

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

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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

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As of December 2024, the Nepali Wikipedia has about 31,000 articles. The overwhelming majority of its readers originate from Nepal.

Origin of views (2018) Source
Nepal
53.6%
United States
13.9%
China
10.4%
France
8.1%
India
6.4%
Germany
3.7%
Other
3.9%

Users and editors

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Nepali Wikipedia statistics
Number of user accounts Number of articles Number of files Number of administrators
69,532 31,322 1,323 6

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "विकिपिडिया". Kantipur (in Nepali). Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  2. ^ a b "List of Wikipedias". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  3. ^ "विकिपिडिया एक स्वतन्त्र विश्वकोश". Gorkhapatra (in Nepali). Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  4. ^ "नेपाली विकिपिडिया २० वर्षमा प्रवेश, कस्तो छ अवस्था ?". ICT Samachar (in Nepali). Retrieved 8 November 2022.
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