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 April 2025, it has 14,201 articles and 15,418 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]

History

The process of creating a Maithili language Wikipedia started in 2008.[1][8] Tulsi Bhagat is the co-founder of Maithili Wikipedia,[9] and it was launched on 6 November 2014.[1]

Users and editors

Maithili Wikipedia statistics[10]
Number of user accounts Number of articles Number of files Number of administrators
15418 14201 125 5

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c 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. ^ Bhagat, Tulsi. "About Tulsi". Tulsi Bhagat. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  10. ^ "List of Wikipedias". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
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