Kannada Wikipedia

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The Kannada Wikipedia (Kannada: ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ, romanized: Kannaḍa Viśvakōśa) is the Kannada-language edition of Wikipedia. Started in June 2003, it is moderately active and as of October 2026, it has 34,874 articles with 236 active users. It is the twelfth-most popular Wikipedia in the Indian subcontinent.

The Kannada Wikipedia community held a meeting in Bangalore on 2 April 2006, which got fairly high press coverage.

History

The cake for the 9th anniversary of the Kannada Wikipedia.

As of 16 August 2009 the Kannada Wikipedia had about 6,800 articles, making it the 100th-biggest Wikipedia edition.

As of January 2016, the Kannada Wikipedia is the tenth-largest Indian-language Wikipedia, behind Urdu, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati, and Punjabi. Administrator Omshivaprakash attributes the lack of articles to a lack of interest among the Kannada-speaking community, a lack of awareness of the Kannada Wikipedia and Kannada typing tools, and limited Internet access in parts of Karnataka.

Users and editors

Kannada Wikipedia statistics
Number of user accountsNumber of articlesNumber of filesNumber of administrators
1006443487423626

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kiran Joseph J K V (7 October 2014). "Kannada Wiki finds going tough". Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  2. ↑ Kamila, Raviprasad (29 March 2024). "Tulu Wikipedia more than doubles in size in seven years". The Hindu. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
  3. ↑ Phadnis, Renuka (26 February 2014). "Workshops to teach Wikipedia editing". The Hindu.
  4. ↑ "Wikipedia Event Press Coverage" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 September 2018. Retrieved 25 November 2007.
  5. ↑ Statistics - Wikipedia (in Kannada)
  6. ↑ Khajane, Muralidhara (19 January 2016). "Kannada Wikipedia not on top of the charts". The Hindu. Retrieved 29 March 2016.

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