Favicon of Wikipedia Marathi Wikipedia
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Screenshot of the Marathi Wikipedia home page
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inMarathi
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLmr.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional, but required for certain tasks including
  •  editing of protected pages 
  •  non-talk page creation (autoconfirmed for articles) 
  •  page moving (autoconfirmed) 
Users159,912 as of 14 January 2024
Launched1 May 2003 (2003-05-01)
Content license
Creative Commons Attribution/
Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL)
Media licensing varies

The Marathi Wikipedia (Marathi: मराठी विकिपीडिया) is the Marathi language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia, and was launched on 1 May 2003. The project is one of the leading Wikipedia among other South Asian language Wikipedia's in various quality matrices.[1] It has grown on to become a wiki containing more than 90,000 articles. As of 14 January 2024, it has 94,577 articles and 159,912 registered users.[2] Among the most visited Marathi-language websites, the Marathi Wikipedia is ranked tenth by Alexa.[3]

History

Beginning

The Marathi Wikipedia was available in the wikipedia.org domain from 2003 May 1. 'Vasant Panchami'(वसंत पंचमी)[4] (Vasant Panchami) and 'Audumbar' (औदुंबर (कविता)), a poem by the poet Balkavi[5] were the first articles created on Marathi Wikipedia on 2 May 2003.

Initial growth phase

The Marathi Wikipedia picked up growth from 2006 onwards. On 13 January 2006 Marathi Wikipedia had 1500 articles.

On 27 February, Marathi Day is celebrated.

Progress [6]

Articles
Date Count
22 September 2008 20,000
2 July 2010 30,000
24 April 2011 33,333
27 February 2014 40,000
11 September 2016 44,444
22 December 2017 50,000
21 August 2020 60,000
24 December 2020 66,666
30 July 2021 77,777
23 September 2021 80,000
29 December 2022 88,888
12 February 2023 90,000

Users and editors

Marathi Wikipedia statistics
Number of user accountsNumber of articlesNumber of filesNumber of administrators
159912945771171210

Community and events

The Marathi Wikipedia has various events organised by volunteers from all over the state. Some of the notable events include,

  1. Marathi Wikipedia Vachan Prerna Saptah
  2. Wikipedia Asian Month
  3. Marathi Bhasha Gaurav Din etc.

Media coverage and increased growth

Marathi Daily news paper Maharashtra Times was the first to cover and recommend 'Marathi language Wikipedia' on 27 July 2006.

Fonts and input methods

Any one of Unicode Marathi fonts input system is fine for Marathi Wikipedia. Some people use inscript. Majority uses either Google phonetic transliteration or input facility Universal Language Selector provided on Marathi Wikipedia. Phonetic facility provided initially was java-based later supported by Narayam extension for phonetic input facility. Currently Marathi Wikipedia is supported by Universal Language Selector (ULS), that offers both phonetic keyboard (Aksharantaran, Marathi: अक्षरांतरण) and InScript keyboard (Marathi: मराठी लिपी).

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Wikipedia Statistics - Tables - Marathi". Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "List of Wikipedias - Meta". Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "Alexa - Top Sites by Category: World/Marathi". Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  4. ↑ ""वसंत पंचमी" चा संपादन इतिहास - विकिपीडिया".
  5. ↑ ""औदुंबर (कविता)" चा संपादन इतिहास - विकिपीडिया".
  6. ↑ "Wikipedia Statistics - Tables - Marathi". Retrieved 20 February 2023.
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