Maithili Wikipedia

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Available in Maithili
Owner Wikimedia Foundation
URL mai.wikipedia.org
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Users 15549
Launched6 November 2014;10 years ago (2014-11-06)
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The Maithili Wikipedia is the Maithili language version of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. The site was launched on 6 November 2014. [1] As of May2025, it has 14,212 articles and 15,549 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]

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History

The process of creating a Maithili language Wikipedia started in 2008. [1] [8] [1] and it was launched on 6 November 2014. [1]

Users and editors

Maithili Wikipedia statistics [9]
Number of user accountsNumber of articlesNumber of filesNumber of administrators
15549142121255

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 थारु, बुनु. "जनकपुरका युवा जसले मैथिली विकिपिडियाको सुरुवात गरे". eKantipur (in Nepali).
  2. ↑ Yadava, Y. P. (2013). Linguistic context and language endangerment in Nepal. Nepalese Linguistics 28 Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine : 262–274.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ↑ "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.
  5. ↑ "मैथिली को भी मिलेगा दूसरी राजभाषा का दर्जा".
  6. ↑ "Nepal". Ethnologue. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  7. ↑ Sah, K. K. (2013). "Some perspectives on Maithili". Nepalese Linguistics (28): 179–188.
  8. ↑ जोशी, यज्ञराज (3 June 2019). "मैथिली विकिपिडिया स्थापना गरेर जो विश्वका १८ योगदानकर्ताभित्र छानिए". nepalkhabar (in Nepali).
  9. ↑ "List of Wikipedias". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
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