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 about 46,000 articles as of June 2020.

Burmese Wikipedia
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Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inBurmese
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
Created byBurmese Wikipedia community
URLmy.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedJuly 2004

As of June 2020, there are 81,000 users, 5 admins and 2,850 files on the Myanmar Wikipedia[1] ranking 85th by article count.

History

Timeline
  • 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.

Events and promotions
Burmese Wikipedia
Articles45889
Files2850
Edits519726
Users80515
Active users206
Admins5

Myanmar Computer Professionals Association had launched Wikipedia Myanmar project with the aim of expanding Wikipedia in 2010.[2]

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.[3] The Burmese Wikipedia Forum was held at Dagon University in July 2014 attracting over 2,000 people, including students.[4]

Challenges

The majority of Burmese internet users use the non-Unicode Zawgyi font so they have difficulty viewing Burmese Wikipedia.[2][4][5]

References
  1. "Wikipedia Statistics - Tables - Burmese". wikimedia.org.
  2. The Myanmar Times. "Myanmar Wikipedia project targets 15,000 pages". mmtimes.com.
  3. "Telenor Group - Bringing Wikipedia to Myanmar". Telenor Group.
  4. Win Htut. "Telenor hosts Wikipedia forum at Dagon University". Eleven Myanmar.
  5. The Myanmar Times. "Spark of knowledge starts with Wikipedia". mmtimes.com.
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