Nepali Wikipedia

Nepali Wikipedia
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Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Nepali
Founded	3 June 2002; 22 years ago
Headquarters	Miami, Florida, United States
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Jimmy Wales
URL	ne.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional

The Nepali Wikipedia (Nepali: नेपाली विकिपिडिया) is the Nepali language edition of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation.^[1] As of November 2024 it has 31,378 articles and about 69,000 users, of which 6 are administrators.^[2] As of 8 November 2022, the Nepali Wikipedia is the 110st largest Wikipedia.^[2]

Nepali, using the Devanagari script, requires complex transliteration aids to be typed on devices. Thus, it has a phonetic Latin alphabet converter to Nepali, without having to use any special Nepali-typing software.

History

The Nepali Wikipedia was established on 3 June 2002, one year after the English Wikipedia was started, and it was among the first languages of South Asia to have its own Wikipedia.^[3]^[4]

Statistics

As of November 2024, the Nepali Wikipedia has about 31,000 articles. The overwhelming majority of its readers originate from Nepal.

Origin of views (2018) Source

Nepal			53.6%
United States			13.9%
China			10.4%
France			8.1%
India			6.4%
Germany			3.7%
Other			3.9%

Users and editors

Nepali Wikipedia statistics
Number of user accounts	Number of articles	Number of files	Number of administrators
69,412	31,378	1,321	6

References

^ "विकिपिडिया". Kantipur (in Nepali). Retrieved 8 November 2022.
^ ^a ^b "List of Wikipedias". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
^ "विकिपिडिया एक स्वतन्त्र विश्वकोश". Gorkhapatra (in Nepali). Retrieved 8 November 2022.
^ "नेपाली विकिपिडिया २० वर्षमा प्रवेश, कस्तो छ अवस्था ?". ICT Samachar (in Nepali). Retrieved 8 November 2022.

[1] "विकिपिडिया". Kantipur (in Nepali). Retrieved 8 November 2022.

[:0-2] "List of Wikipedias". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 26 April 2022.

[3] "विकिपिडिया एक स्वतन्त्र विश्वकोश". Gorkhapatra (in Nepali). Retrieved 8 November 2022.

[4] "नेपाली विकिपिडिया २० वर्षमा प्रवेश, कस्तो छ अवस्था ?". ICT Samachar (in Nepali). Retrieved 8 November 2022.

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v t e Wikipedia language editions by article count
6,000,000+	English Cebuano
2,000,000+	German French Swedish Dutch Russian
1,000,000+	Arabic Chinese Egyptian Arabic Italian Japanese Persian Polish Portuguese Spanish Ukrainian Vietnamese Waray
100,000 –999,999	Afrikaans Albanian Armenian Asturian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bengali Bulgarian Burmese Cantonese Catalan Croatian Czech Danish Esperanto Estonian Finnish Galician Georgian Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Kazakh Korean Ladin Latin Latvian Macedonian Norwegian (Bokmål/Riksmål) Norwegian (Nynorsk) Romanian Serbian Serbo-Croatian Simple English Slovak Slovene Southern Min Tamil Tatar Telugu Thai Turkish Urdu Uzbek Welsh
10,000 –99,999	Alemannic Aragonese Assamese Balinese Belarusian (Taraškievica) Bosnian Breton Chuvash Crimean Tatar Irish Javanese Kannada Kurdish (Kurmanji) Kurdish (Sorani) Maithili Malayalam Marathi Nepali Occitan Odia Ossetian Punjabi Samogitian Sanskrit Santali Scots Scottish Gaelic Silesian Sindhi Swahili Tagalog Volapük Western Punjabi Yiddish Zulu
<10,000	Bambara Bhojpuri Dutch Low Saxon Extremaduran Goan Konkani Guarani Kashmiri Northern Sami Ripuarian Tulu Wayuu Wolof Neo-Aramaic
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