Nepali Wikipedia

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The Nepali Wikipedia (

Wikipedia.[2]

Nepali, using the Devanagari script, requires complex transliteration aids to be typed on devices. Thus, it has a phonetic Latin alphabet converter to Nepali, without having to use any special Nepali-typing software.

History

The Nepali Wikipedia was established on 3 June 2002, one year after the English Wikipedia was started, and it was among the first languages of South Asia to have its own Wikipedia.[3][4]

Statistics

As of March 2024, the Nepali Wikipedia has about 33,000 articles. The overwhelming majority of its readers originate from Nepal.

Origin of views (2018) Source
Nepal
53.6%
United States
13.9%
China
10.4%
France
8.1%
India
6.4%
Germany
3.7%
Other
3.9%

Users and editors

Nepali Wikipedia statistics
Number of user accounts Number of articles Number of files Number of administrators
66,603 32,979 1,302 7

See also

References

  1. ^ "विकिपिडिया". Kantipur (in Nepali). Retrieved 2022-11-08.
  2. ^ a b "List of Wikipedias". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved April 26, 2022.
  3. ^ "विकिपिडिया एक स्वतन्त्र विश्वकोश". Gorkhapatra (in Nepali). Retrieved 2022-11-08.
  4. ^ "नेपाली विकिपिडिया २० वर्षमा प्रवेश, कस्तो छ अवस्था ?". ICT Samachar (in Nepali). Retrieved 2022-11-08.

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