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Malayalam Wikipedia
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Screenshot of the Malayalam Wikipedia home pageURL ml.wikipedia.org Commercial? No Type of site Internet encyclopedia project Registration Optional Available language(s) Malayalam Owner Wikimedia Foundation Launched 21 December 2002 The Malayalam Wikipedia (Malayalam: മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയ) is the Malayalam language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia, and was launched on December 21, 2002. The project is the leading Wikipedia among other South East Asian language Wikipedias in various quality matrices.[1] It has grown to be a wiki containing more than 19,000 articles as of August 2011[update].[2].
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History
Beginning
Malayalam language Wikipedia is available in the wikipedia.org domain from 2002 December 21. User Vinod Menon M.P. had took initiatives for it. For the two years following its creation, he has been the key person striving to keep the wiki active. Almost all the early users of Malayalam Wikipedia were non-resident Malayalees. The growth of the Wikipedia during these times was heavily constrained due to OS and browser related issues, rendering issues, Unicode related issues, and so on.
Initial growth phase
By the middle of 2004, unicode and input tools had become popular. Blogging in Malayalam became widespread. Wikipedians started to use these tools and the Wikipedia reached 100 articles by December 2004. More users joined by the middle of 2005 and the wiki had its first sysop by September 2005. He became the first bureaucrat of the wiki after a month and the wiki became self-sufficient in terms of administration.
The year 2006 saw a number of users joining the wiki, following the widespread usage of Malayalam computing tools. 500th article was born on April 10, 2006; the following September the article count reached 1000. On January 15, 2007, this became 2000 and on June 30 it became 3000.
Media coverage and increased growth
Jimmy Wales introduces Malayalam Wikipedia CD of 500 selected articles to WikiManians during his keynote address at Gdansk
The first major Media coverage about the Malayalam Wikipedia was on September 2, 2007, when Malayalam daily newspaper Mathrubhumi covered Malayalam Wikipedia project extensively in its Sunday Supplement.[3]. This generated significant interest in the Wikipedia project and large number of users joined the project and started to contribute.[4] The subsequent growth was exponential.
While the article count increased, extreme care was taken to maintain the quality of articles. The page depth of the wiki remains high at 301 (as of March 2010[update]).[5] When the Wikipedia crossed 10,000 articles on June 1, a number of print and online newspapers covered the story.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] The mobile version of the Malayalam Wikipedia was launched on February 2010.
Fonts and input methods
Although many Malayalam Unicode fonts are available for old and new Malayalam lipi, most users opt for fonts like AnjaliOldLipi, rachana, and Meera which follows the traditional Malayalam writing style. Early editors adopted specialized Malayalam Unicode input tools based on the Varamozhi keyboard, a phonetic transliteration device. Inscript keyboard is preferred by some users, although the project now has an in-built input tool (Narayam) integrated to it.
References
- ^ http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaML.htm
- ^ Quick Statistics
- ^ Sunday Supplement, Mathrubhumi, September 2, 2007
- ^ ml:Special:Listusers
- ^ List of Wikipedias
- ^ "A milestone for Malayalam Wiki". The Hindu. 11 June 2009. http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/11/stories/2009061157890200.htm. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
- ^ Mathrubhumi print edition, June 1, 2009
- ^ Joseph Antony (1 June 2009). "'മലയാളം വിക്കി'ക്ക് പതിനായിരത്തിന്റെ നിറവ്" (in Malayalam). Mathrubhumi Online Edition. http://mathrubhumi.com/php/newFrm.php?news_id=1230405&n_type=HO&category_id=3&Farc=&previous=Y. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
- ^ "ഇവിടെ ക്ലിക്ക് ചെയ്യുക” Kerala Kaumudi print edition 4th June, 2009
- ^ Asianet News, June 1, 2009
- ^ "മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയില് 10000 ലേഖനങ്ങള്!" (in Malayalam). Webdunia. 1 June 2009. http://malayalam.webdunia.com/newsworld/news/currentaffairs/0906/01/1090601043_1.htm. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
- ^ "മലയാളം വിക്കിയില് 10000 ലേഖനങ്ങള്" (in Malayalam). TechVidya. 1 June 2009. http://techvidya.com/article/2009/06/01/malayalam-wikipedia-crosses-10000-articles/. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
- ^ Anoop P (3 June 2009). "മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയില് 10000 ലേഖനങ്ങള്" (in Malayalam). e-Pathram. http://www.epathram.com/itsit/2009/06/10000.shtml. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
- ^ Siraj Newspaper, Print Edition, 3rd June, 2009, Page 5
- ^ "മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയ" (in Malayalam). KottayamVartha. 2 June 2009. http://kottayamvartha.com/ver02/FullStory/?NewsID=622009111049PM14321&Sid=10&Opps=1&Cnt=14498. Retrieved 13 October 2009. , June 02, 2009
- ^ "Malayalam Wikipedia completes 10,000 article milestone". kochivibe.com. 2 June 2009. http://www.kochivibe.com/malayalam-wikipedia-completes-10000-article-milestone/. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
External links
- (Malayalam) Main page
- (Malayalam) Malayalam Wikipedia mobile version
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