Burmese Wikipedia
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Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | Burmese |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | Burmese Wikipedia community |
| URL | my.wikipedia.org |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 30 July 2004 |
| Current status | Active but banned in Myanmar |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
The Burmese Wikipedia (Burmese: မြန်မာဝီကီပီးဒီးယား pronounced [mjəmà wɪkɨˈpiːdiə]) is the Burmese language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. This edition was started in July 2004, and has 109,029 articles as of 8 May 2025.
As of May 2025, there are about 129,000 users, 4 admins and 2,914 files on the Burmese Wikipedia, ranking 72nd by article count.[1]
History
[edit]Timeline
[edit]- 2004: Burmese Wikipedia launched.
- 2005: Some of Burmese Wikipedians joined and started writing.
- 2008: Content grew drastically.
- 2010: First Burmese Wikipedia workshop held at Bangkok, Thailand with people from Wikimedia Foundation, local and international Unicode experts and Burmese Wikipedians.
- 2012: Burmese Wikipedia was introduced at Barcamp Yangon.
Events and promotions
[edit]| Burmese Wikipedia | |||
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| Articles | 109029 | ||
| Files | 2914 | ||
| Edits | 870158 | ||
| Users | 128527 | ||
| Active users | 139 | ||
| Admins | 4 | ||
The Myanmar Computer Professionals Association had launched Wikipedia Myanmar project with the aim of expanding Wikipedia in 2010.[2]
The Burmese Wikipedia community had held their first joint workshop in Yangon, Burma (Myanmar) with the help of Telenor Myanmar in June 2014 to recruit new volunteers.[3] The Burmese Wikipedia Forum was held at Dagon University in July 2014 attracting over 2,000 people, including students.[4]
Challenges
[edit]The majority of Burmese internet users used the non-Unicode Zawgyi font so they have difficulty viewing Burmese Wikipedia before 2019.[2][4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Wikipedia Statistics - Tables - Burmese". wikimedia.org. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
- ^ a b The Myanmar Times (22 November 2010). "Myanmar Wikipedia project targets 15,000 pages". mmtimes.com. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
- ^ "Telenor Group - Bringing Wikipedia to Myanmar". Telenor Group. July 2014. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
- ^ a b Win Htut. "Telenor hosts Wikipedia forum at Dagon University". Eleven Myanmar. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
- ^ The Myanmar Times (3 November 2014). "Spark of knowledge starts with Wikipedia". mmtimes.com. Archived from the original on 2015-02-28. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
External links
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- (in Burmese) Burmese Wikipedia
- (in Burmese) Burmese Wikipedia mobile version