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Main Page of Maithili Wikipedia in August 2018
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia
Available inMaithili
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLmai.wikipedia.org
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RegistrationOptional
Users13884
Launched6 November 2014; 9 years ago (2014-11-06)
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Creative Commons Attribution/
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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 January 2024, it has 14,076 articles and 13,884 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

Maithili Wikipedia statistics[9]
Number of user accounts Number of articles Number of files Number of administrators
13884 14076 120 5

See also

References

  1. ^ a b थारु, बुनु. "जनकपुरका युवा जसले मैथिली विकिपिडियाको सुरुवात गरे". eKantipur (in Nepali).
  2. ^ Yadava, Y. P. (2013). Linguistic context and language endangerment in Nepal. Nepalese Linguistics 28 Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine: 262–274.
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2018-08-23.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "Prakash Javadekar likely to call meeting of experts to promote Maithili script - मैथिली लिपि को बढ़ावा देने के लिए विशेषज्ञों की जल्द ही बैठक बुला सकते हैं प्रकाश जावड़ेकर". Archived from the original on 21 March 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
  5. ^ "मैथिली को भी मिलेगा दूसरी राजभाषा का दर्जा".
  6. ^ "Nepal". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
  7. ^ Sah, K. K. (2013). "Some perspectives on Maithili". Nepalese Linguistics (28): 179–188.
  8. ^ जोशी, यज्ञराज (3 June 2019). "मैथिली विकिपिडिया स्थापना गरेर जो विश्वका १८ योगदानकर्ताभित्र छानिए". nepalkhabar (in Nepali).
  9. ^ "List of Wikipedias". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved April 26, 2022.

External links

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