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 Screenshot of the Malayalam Wikipedia home page |
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| URL | http://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 is the Malayalam-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia, and was launched on December 21, 2002. The project is also the leading Wikipedia among other South East asian language Wikipedias in page depth, average edits per page, number of active users, number of uploaded images.[1] It has grown to be a wiki comprising of more than 12,000 articles as of February 2010.[2]
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Malayalam language Wikipedia was created under the initiative of a research student, Vinod Menon M.P. on December 21st, 2002. For the two years following the creation, he has been the key person striving to keep the wiki active. Almost all of the users of the wikipedia were non-resident Malayalees. The growth of the Wikipedia during these times was heavily constrained by the absence of Unicode standard for Malayalam. There was little growth in the initial two years.
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 10th, 2006; the following September the article count reached 1000. On January 15th 2007, this became 2000 and on June 30th it became 3000.
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.
The page depth of the wiki remains high at 292 (as of February 2010)[5]. When the Wikipedia crossed 10,000 articles on June 1st, a number of print and online newspapers covered the story.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] A mobile version of the Malayalam Wikipedia was up by the end of February 2010.
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 translation device. Inscript keyboard is preferred by some users, although the project now has an in-built input tool integrated with it.
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Screenshot [[File:|border|300px|Screenshot of the Malayalam Wikipedia home page]] Screenshot of the Malayalam Wikipedia home page | |
| URL | http://ml.wikipedia.org/ |
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| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
| Registration | Optional |
| Available language(s) | Malayalam |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Launched |
21 December 2002 |
Contents |
Malayalam language Wikipedia was created under the initiative of a research student, Vinod Menon M.P. on December 21, 2002. For the two years following the creation, he has been the key person striving to keep the wiki active. Almost all of the users of the wikipedia were non-resident Malayalees. The growth of the Wikipedia during these times was heavily constrained by the absence of Unicode standard for Malayalam. There was little growth in the initial two years.
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.
[[File:|thumb|Jimmy Wales introduces Malayalam Wikipedia CD of 500 selected articles to WikiManinas during his key note 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.[4]. This generated significant interest in the Wikipedia project and large number of users joined the project and started to contribute.[5] 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])[6]. When the Wikipedia crossed 10,000 articles on June 1, a number of print and online newspapers covered the story.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] The mobile version of the Malayalam Wikipedia was launched on February 2010.
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 integrated with it.
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