Malay Wikipedia

Wikipedia Bahasa Melayu
ويکيڤيديا بهاس ملايو
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Wikipedia Bahasa Melayu
Type of site
 Online encyclopedia
Available in Malay
Headquarters Miami, Florida
Owner Wikimedia Foundation
Website ms.wikipedia.org
Commercial No
Registration Optional
Launched October 26, 2002

Malay Wikipedia (Malay: Wikipedia Bahasa Melayu, Jawi alphabet: ويکيڤيديا بهاس ملايو, abbreviation: mswiki) is the Malay edition of Wikipedia. This edition was started in October 26, 2002 and has about 178,000 articles in February 2013 and is the 30th largest Wikipedia. The system was activated by Wikipedia administrator Brion Vibber.[1][2]

Despite the similarities between Malay and Indonesian, the Malay Wikipedia and Indonesian Wikipedia were started separately by two different user groups. The Indonesian Wikipedia was started about six months after the Malay Wikipedia was. As of 2009, the Indonesian Wikipedia had three times the number of active editors and articles the Malay Wikipedia had. In 2009 Andrew Lih wrote "Because these groups are drawn on national boundaries, merging is not likely to happen soon."[3]

Starting July 27, 2016, file upload at the Malay Wikipedia (along with Czech, Spanish, Basque, Gujarati, Portuguese, Simple English and Swedish Wikipedia)[lower-alpha 1] is no longer facilitated and instead redirected to Wikimedia Commons due to copyright infringement issues. However, file upload at the English, Indonesian and other languaged Wikipedia remains facilitated.

Since 2016, Malay Wikipedia has a lack of administrators.

Milestones

Graph of outgrowth of Malay Wikipedia (in Malay).

References

  • Lih, Andrew. The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia. Hyperion, New York City. 2009. First Edition. ISBN 978-1-4013-0371-6 (alkaline paper).

Notes

  1. ↑ Open content encyclopedia ... Wikipedia ... in Malay
  2. ↑ Contributions of Brion VIBBER
  3. ↑ Lih, p. 136.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ See Commons:Tuning off local uploads for more details.
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