Burmese Wikipedia

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 109,027 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.

• 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.

The Myanmar Computer Professionals Association had launched Wikipedia Myanmar project with the aim of expanding Wikipedia in 2010.

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. The Burmese Wikipedia Forum was held at Dagon University in July 2014 attracting over 2,000 people, including students.

The majority of Burmese internet users used the non-Unicode Zawgyi font so they have difficulty viewing Burmese Wikipedia before 2019.

• (in Burmese) Burmese Wikipedia
• (in Burmese) Burmese Wikipedia mobile version