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Malayalam Wikipedia
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Malayalam Wikipedia
Type of site Internet encyclopedia project
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language(s)
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 encyclope-
dia, and was launched on December 21, 2002. The project
is the leading Wikipedia among other South East Asian Jimmy Wales introduces Malayalam Wikipedia CD of 500 se-
language Wikipedias in various quality matrices.[1] It has lected articles to WikiManians during his keynote address at
grown to be a wiki containing more than 22,000 articles Gdansk
as of January 2012.[2].
While the article count increased, extreme care was
History taken to maintain the quality of articles. The page depth
of the wiki remains high at 301 (as of March 2010).[5]
Beginning When the Wikipedia crossed 10,000 articles on June 1,
a number of print and online newspapers covered the
Malayalam language Wikipedia is available in the
story.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] The mobile version
wikipedia.org domain from 2002 December 21. User Vin-
of the Malayalam Wikipedia was launched on February
od Menon M.P. had took initiatives for it. For the two
2010.
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. Fonts and input methods
The growth of the Wikipedia during these times was Although many Malayalam Unicode fonts are available
heavily constrained due to OS and browser related issues, for old and new Malayalam lipi, most users opt for fonts
rendering issues, Unicode related issues, and so on. AnjaliOldLipi,
like AnjaliOldLipi rachana, and Meera which follows the
traditional Malayalam writing style. Early editors adopt-
Initial growth phase ed specialized Malayalam Unicode input tools based on
By the middle of 2004, unicode and input tools had be- the Varamozhi keyboard, a phonetic transliteration de-
come popular. Blogging in Malayalam became wide- vice. Inscript keyboard is preferred by some users, al-
spread. Wikipedians started to use these tools and the though the project now has an in-built input tool
Wikipedia reached 100 articles by December 2004. More (Narayam) integrated to it.
users joined by the middle of 2005 and the wiki had its
first sysop by September 2005. He became the first bu-
reaucrat of the wiki after a month and the wiki became
References
self-sufficient in terms of administration. [1] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/
The year 2006 saw a number of users joining the wiki, TablesWikipediaML.htm
following the widespread usage of Malayalam computing [2] Quick Statistics
tools. 500th article was born on April 10, 2006; the follow- [3] Sunday Supplement, Mathrubhumi, September 2,
ing September the article count reached 1000. On January 2007
15, 2007, this became 2000 and on June 30 it became 3000. [4] ml:Special:Listusers
[5] List of Wikipedias
Media coverage and increased growth [6] "A milestone for Malayalam Wiki". The Hindu. 11
The first major Media coverage about the Malayalam June 2009. http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/11/
Wikipedia was on September 2, 2007, when Malayalam stories/2009061157890200.htm. Retrieved 13
daily newspaper Mathrubhumi covered Malayalam October 2009.
Wikipedia project extensively in its Sunday Supple- [7] Mathrubhumi print edition, June 1, 2009
ment.[3]. This generated significant interest in the [8] Joseph Antony (1 June 2009). "’മലയാളം
Wikipedia project and large number of users joined the വിക്കി’ക്ക് പതിനായിരത്തിന്െറ നിറവ്"
project and started to contribute.[4] The subsequent (in Malayalam). Mathrubhumi Online Edition.
growth was exponential. http://mathrubhumi.com/php/
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[14] Siraj Newspaper, Print
newFrm.php?news_id=1230405&n_type=HO&category_id=3&Farc=&previous=Y. Edition, 3rd June, 2009, Page
Retrieved 13 October 2009. 5
[9] "ഇവിെട കല്ിക്ക് െചയയ്ുക” Kerala Kaumudi [15] "മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയ" (in Malayalam).
print edition 4th June, 2009 KottayamVartha. 2 June 2009.
[10] Asianet News, June 1, 2009 http://kottayamvartha.com/ver02/FullStory/
[11] "മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയില് 10000 ?NewsID=622009111049PM14321&Sid=10&Opps=1&Cnt=14498.
േലഖനങ്ങള്!" (in Malayalam). Webdunia. 1 June Retrieved 13 October 2009. , June 02, 2009
2009. http://malayalam.webdunia.com/ [16] "Malayalam Wikipedia completes 10,000 article
newsworld/news/currentaffairs/0906/01/ milestone". kochivibe.com. 2 June 2009.
1090601043_1.htm. Retrieved 13 October 2009. http://www.kochivibe.com/malayalam-wikipedia-
[12] "മലയാളം വിക്കിയില് 10000 േലഖനങ്ങള്" completes-10000-article-milestone/. Retrieved 13
(in Malayalam). TechVidya. 1 June 2009. October 2009.
http://techvidya.com/article/2009/06/01/
malayalam-wikipedia-crosses-10000-articles/.
Retrieved 13 October 2009.
External links
[13] Anoop P (3 June 2009). "മലയാളം • (Malayalam) Main page
വിക്കിപീഡിയയില് 10000 േലഖനങ്ങള്" • (Malayalam) Malayalam Wikipedia mobile version
(in Malayalam). e-Pathram.
http://www.epathram.com/itsit/2009/06/
10000.shtml. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malayalam_Wikipedia&oldid=470732088"
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