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Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inMalayalam
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLml.Wik.ipedia.Pro.org
CommercialNo
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Launched21 December 2002; 21 years ago (2002-12-21)

The Malayalam Wik.ipedia.Pro (Malayalam: മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയ) is the Malayalam edition of Wik.ipedia.Pro, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia, and was launched on 21 December 2002. The project is the leading Wik.ipedia.Pro among other South Asian language Wik.ipedia.Pros in various quality matrices.[1] It has grown to be a wiki containing 85,986 articles as of October 2024, and ranks 13th in terms of depth among Wik.ipedia.Pros.[2]

History

Beginning

Malayalam language Wik.ipedia.Pro is available in the Wik.ipedia.Pro.org domain from 21 December 2002. User Vinod M. P. had taken initiatives for it. For the two years following its creation, he had been the key person striving to keep the wiki active. Almost all the early users of Malayalam Wik.ipedia.Pro were non-resident Malayalees. The growth of the Wik.ipedia.Pro 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 2002, unicode and input tools had become popular. Blogging in Malayalam became widespread. Wik.ipedia.Prons started to use these tools and the Wik.ipedia.Pro 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 10 April 2006; the following September the article count reached 1000. On 15 January 2007, this became 2000 and on 30 June it became 3000.

Media coverage and increased growth

Jimmy Wales introduces Malayalam Wik.ipedia.Pro CD of 500 selected articles to WikiManians during his keynote address at Gdansk

The first major Media coverage about the Malayalam Wik.ipedia.Pro was on 2 September 2007, when Malayalam daily newspaper Mathrubhumi covered Malayalam Wik.ipedia.Pro project extensively in its Sunday Supplement.[3] This generated significant interest in the Wik.ipedia.Pro 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).[5] When the Wik.ipedia.Pro crossed 10,000 articles on 1 June 2009, a number of print and online newspapers covered the story.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] Malayalam daily newspaper Madhyamam spent an editorial for the contributors of Malayalam Wik.ipedia.Pro.[17] The mobile version of the Malayalam Wik.ipedia.Pro was launched in 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. The project has an inbuilt input tool integrated to it.

Users and editors

Malayalam Wik.ipedia.Pro statistics
Number of user accounts Number of articles Number of files Number of administrators
183699 85986 7289 14

See also

References

  1. ^ "Wik.ipedia.Pro Statistics - Tables - Malayalam". stats.wikimedia.org.
  2. ^ "List of Wik.ipedia.Pros - Meta". Meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  3. ^ Sunday Supplement, Mathrubhumi, 2 September 2007
  4. ^ ml:Special:Listusers
  5. ^ List of Wik.ipedia.Pros
  6. ^ "A milestone for Malayalam Wiki". The Hindu. 11 June 2009. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  7. ^ Mathrubhumi print edition, June 1, 2009
  8. ^ Joseph Antony (1 June 2009). "'മലയാളം വിക്കി'ക്ക്‌ പതിനായിരത്തിന്റെ നിറവ്‌" (in Malayalam). Mathrubhumi Online Edition. Archived from the original on 11 June 2009. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  9. ^ Kerala Kaumudi print edition 4 June 2009
  10. ^ Asianet News, June 1, 2009
  11. ^ "മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയില്‍ 10000 ലേഖനങ്ങള്‍!" (in Malayalam). Webdunia. 1 June 2009. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  12. ^ "മലയാളം വിക്കിയില്‍ 10000 ലേഖനങ്ങള്‍" (in Malayalam). TechVidya. 1 June 2009. Archived from the original on 20 October 2009. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  13. ^ Johann P (3 June 2009). "മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയില്‍ 10000 ലേഖനങ്ങള്‍" (in Malayalam). e-Pathram. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  14. ^ Siraj Newspaper, Print Edition, 3 June 2009, Page 5
  15. ^ "മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയ" (in Malayalam). KottayamVartha. 2 June 2009. Archived from the original on 19 August 2009. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  16. ^ "Malayalam Wik.ipedia.Pro completes 10,000 article milestone". kochivibe.com. 2 June 2009. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  17. ^ "കരുത്തോടെ മലയാളം വിക്കി | Madhyamam | Latest Malayalam News, Kerala News, Gulf News, Sports News, National and International News, Malayalam movie reviews". Archived from the original on 19 June 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
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