Tulu Wikipedia
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Type of site
Internet encyclopedia
Available inTulu
OwnerWikimedia Foundation[1]
URLtcy.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOpen read access.
No registration needed for general editing, but necessary for certain tasks including
  • • protected page edit 
  • • page creation 
  • • file upload 
Users5860
Launched6 August 2016 (as full site)
Content license
Creative Commons Attribution/
Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL)
Media licensing varies

The Tulu Wikipedia is the Tulu language edition of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation.[1] It currently has 1,965 articles and it is the 255th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count.[2] It is the 23rd language of India to get a Wikipedia after eight years in incubation.[3][4]

History

Katherine Maher, the executive director of Wikimedia Foundation announced the launch of the Tulu Wikipedia as a full site at the WIkiConference 2016.[1] It was in incubation since 2008. As of August 2016, it had 200 registered editors with 10 of them being active, and over 1000 articles.[5] It was the 23rd language from India to have a Wikipedia edition.[6]

Users and editors

Tulu Wikipedia statistics
Number of user accountsNumber of articlesNumber of filesNumber of administrators
58601965123

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "After eight years, Tulu Wikipedia goes live". The Hindu: Mobile Edition. 7 August 2016. Archived from the original on 24 September 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "List of Wikipedias". Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  3. ↑ "Exercise to correct articles in Tulu Wikipedia begins". The Hindu. 28 April 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "India's 23rd Regional Language Wikipedia Goes Live in Tulu". Gadgets360. 8 August 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "Wikipedia launches 23rd Indic language Wiki with Tulu". www.medianama.com. 9 August 2016. Archived from the original on 25 January 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  6. ↑ "Tulu Wikipedia enters fifth year on August 6". The Hindu. 5 August 2020. Retrieved 8 August 2020.

Further reading

Tulu edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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