Maithili Wikipedia

Maithili language version of Wikipedia

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Main Page of Maithili Wikipedia in August 2018

Type of site

Internet encyclopediaAvailable inMaithiliOwnerWikimedia FoundationURLmai.wikipedia.orgCommercialNoRegistrationOptionalUsers14286Launched6 November 2014; 9 years ago (2014-11-06)

Content license

Creative Commons Attribution/
Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL)
Media licensing varies

The Maithili Wikipedia is the Maithili language version of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. The site was launched on November 6, 2014.^[1] As of May 2024, it has 14,103 articles and 14,286 registered users. Today, Maithili is written in the Devanagari script ^[2] and the site uses the same. Maithili is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Bihar and Jharkhand states of India and is one of the 22 recognised Indian languages^[3]^[4]^[5] which is also spoken in the eastern Terai of Nepal and is the second most prevalent language of Nepal. It is also one of the 122 recognized Nepalese languages.^[6]^[7]

History

The process of creating a Maithili language Wikipedia started in 2008.^[1]^[8]

Users and editors

Maithili Wikipedia statistics^[9]
Number of user accounts	Number of articles	Number of files	Number of administrators
14286	14103	120	5

References

^ ^a ^b थारु, बुनु. "जनकपुरका युवा जसले मैथिली विकिपिडियाको सुरुवात गरे". eKantipur (in Nepali).
^ Yadava, Y. P. (2013). Linguistic context and language endangerment in Nepal. Nepalese Linguistics 28 Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine: 262–274.
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2018-08-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Prakash Javadekar likely to call meeting of experts to promote Maithili script - मैथिली लिपि को बढ़ावा देने के लिए विशेषज्ञों की जल्द ही बैठक बुला सकते हैं प्रकाश जावड़ेकर". Archived from the original on 21 March 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
^ "मैथिली को भी मिलेगा दूसरी राजभाषा का दर्जा".
^ "Nepal". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
^ Sah, K. K. (2013). "Some perspectives on Maithili". Nepalese Linguistics (28): 179–188.
^ जोशी, यज्ञराज (3 June 2019). "मैथिली विकिपिडिया स्थापना गरेर जो विश्वका १८ योगदानकर्ताभित्र छानिए". nepalkhabar (in Nepali).
^ "List of Wikipedias". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved April 26, 2022.