Thai Wikipedia

The Thai Wikipedia (Thai: วิกิพีเดียภาษาไทย) is the Thai language edition of Wikipedia. It was started on 25 December 2003. As of December 2019, it has more than 134,000 content pages and 371,363 registered users.[1] As of December 2017, Wikipedia (all languages combined) was ranked 13th in Alexa's Top Sites Thailand.[2]

Thai Wikipedia
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inThai, Southern Thai
HeadquartersMiami, Florida
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
Created byThai wiki community
URLth.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional

On 31 January 2006 Thai Wikipedia was first recognized along with English Wikipedia in the Thai press. In 2007, a thesis, Thai Wikipedia and Communicating Knowledge to the Public, was published by a graduate student from the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University.

Thai Wikipedia was mentioned during a public forum during the 2005-2006 Thai political crisis when a speaker suggested that Thai people should read Wikipedia's article on Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister.[3]

Thai Wikipedia is the second online encyclopedia in the Thai language after the Thai Junior Encyclopedia Project, which was developed under the patronage of the King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

Timeline
Thai Wikipedia statistics as of October 4th, 2007. It shows about 28,000 articles (shown in dots) and 32,000 users (orange bars).
  • 25 December 2003: The Thai main page created after first created on 16 March 2003 with the word "Describe the new page here."
  • 27 December 2003: The first article created containing only one word "ดาราศาสตร์" (astronomy) and 32 interwiki links. After that it became a stub on 31 May 2004.
  • 28 February 2004: The real first article created, Computer science.
  • 21 April 2004: 100 articles, Time & Time Travel (a fiction).
  • 17 August 2004: 500 articles, Grevillea
  • 10 March 2005: 1,000 articles, Harry Potter.
  • 1 May 2005: The first featured article, Fractal.
  • September 2005: More than 30 university students registered and wrote articles as their homework.
  • 28 October 2005: 5,000 articles, Judge Bao.
  • 31 January 2006: Press coverage in onopen.com
  • March 2006: Mass contenting adding of the year articles from 543 BC (Buddhist Era 1) to about 1800 semi-manually by using JavaScript. About 2,500 stubs are added.
  • 14 March 2006: 10,000 articles, Pennsylvania State University.
  • 16 March 2007: 20,000 articles, Aries Mu.
  • 10 December 2007: 30,000 articles, Andy Lau.
  • 26 October 2008: 40,000 articles, Bamboo Blade.
  • 4 September 2009: 50,000 articles, Nanda (Buddhist).
  • 30 January 2016: 100,000 articles, 1940s.

Topics

As of 2019 Thai Wikipedia has 73,000 unique categories and 34.37% of them do not have an appropriate page in the category namespace. The average article in Thai has seven categories, while number of unique categories per articles ratio is 0.559. The largest number of articles has the categories Law (12%) and Society (11%). Thai Wikipedia articles related to Events and Military have the highest average quality. Content about Military is read more often and articles in the Arts category have the highest authors' interest on average.[4]

References
  1. "List of Wikipedias". Meta-Wiki. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  2. Top sites Thailand from Alexa
  3. audio file Archived 2007-11-09 at the Wayback Machine on 26 July 2006
  4. Lewoniewski, Włodzimierz; Węcel, Krzysztof; Abramowicz, Witold (2019). "Multilingual Ranking of Wikipedia Articles with Quality and Popularity Assessment in Different Topics". Computers. 8 (3): 60. doi:10.3390/computers8030060.
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