Maithili Wikipedia
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Screenshot ![]() Main Page of Maithili Wikipedia in August 2018 | |
Type of site | Internet encyclopedia |
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Available in | Maithili |
Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
URL | mai |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional |
Users | 11235 |
Launched | 6 November 2014 |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
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 March 2022, it has 13,712 articles and 11,235 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]
History[]
The process of creating a Maithili language Wikipedia started in 2008.[1][8]
Users and editors[]
Number of user accounts | Number of articles | Number of files | Number of administrators |
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11235 | 13712 | 115 | 5 |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ a b थारु, बुनु. "जनकपुरका युवा जसले मैथिली विकिपिडियाको सुरुवात गरे". eKantipur (in Nepali).
- ^ Yadava, Y. P. (2013). Linguistic context and language endangerment in Nepal. Nepalese Linguistics 28 Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine: 262–274.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 March 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "मैथिली को भी मिलेगा दूसरी राजभाषा का दर्जा".
- ^ "Nepal". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
- ^ Sah, K. K. (2013). "Some perspectives on Maithili". Nepalese Linguistics (28): 179–188.
- ^ जोशी, यज्ञराज. "मैथिली विकिपिडिया स्थापना गरेर जो विश्वका १८ योगदानकर्ताभित्र छानिए". nepalkhabar (in Nepali).
External links[]
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Maithili edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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