Kannada Wikipedia

Kannada Wikipedia
Type of site
 Internet encyclopedia project
Available in Kannada
Headquarters Miami, Florida
Owner Wikimedia Foundation
Website kn.wikipedia.org
Commercial No
Registration Optional

The Kannada Wikipedia is the Kannada language edition of Wikipedia. Started in June 2003, it's moderately active and as of December 2016, it has 21,617 articles with 600 active users.[1] Also, It is the 12th most popular Wikipedia in the Indian subcontinent.[2]

The Kannada Wikipedia community held a meeting in Bangalore on April 2, 2006, which got fairly high press coverage.[3]

History

As of August 16, 2009 the Wiki had about 6,800 articles,[4] making it the 100th biggest Wikipedia edition.

As of January 2013, it has 12,961 articles with 93 active users and 2,680 images, making it the 108th Wikipedia by articles count, at that time.[2]

As of January 2016, the Kannada Wikipedia is the tenth largest and thus the smallest Wikipedia among other Indian language Wikipedias. 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.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kiran Joseph J K V (October 7, 2014). "Kannada Wiki finds going tough". Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  2. 1 2
  3. ↑ Wikipedia Event Press Coverage
  4. ↑ Statistics - Wikipedia (Kannada)
  5. ↑ Khajane, Muralidhara (19 January 2016). "Kannada Wikipedia not on top of the charts". The Hindu. Retrieved 29 March 2016.

Further reading

Kannada edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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