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| January 2024 |
Urdu Wikipedia
Urdu Wikipedia recorded 6 million page views, demonstrating substantial user engagement and interest in the platform.
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| January 7 2024 |
Urdu Wikipedia
Urdu Wikipedia became the first South Asian-language Wikipedia to surpass 200,000 articles, marking a significant milestone in its growth and development.
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| December 2023 |
Hindi Wikipedia
In December 2023, the Hindi Wikipedia received 91 million page views.
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| January 2023 |
Bengali Wikipedia
End of the 12-month statistical period, during which Bengali Wikipedia was viewed approximately 248 million times globally, with significant page views from Bangladesh, India, the United States, and Saudi Arabia.
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| 2022 |
Hindi Wikipedia
The decline in active users continued, but at a slower pace. In the last four months of 2022, the number of active users began to grow again.
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| November 2022 |
Bengali Wikipedia
Bengali Wikipedia improved its ranking to 65th in the list of largest Wikipedias by number of articles.
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| May 2022 |
Bengali Wikipedia
Bengali Wikipedia received 12 million pageviews from Bangladesh and 4 million pageviews from India.
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| February 2022 |
Bengali Wikipedia
Beginning of a 12-month period tracking Bengali Wikipedia's active editor and page view statistics, which showed an average of 346 active editors during this time.
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| 2021 |
Hindi Wikipedia
The number of active users decreased to 12.2 thousand in 2021.
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| 2021 |
Bengali Wikipedia
Signs of pageview recovery emerged, though the number of active users remained stagnant.
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| January 2021 |
Hindi Wikipedia
By January 2021, the share of Hindi Wikipedia increased from 2% to 8% of pageviews.
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| 2020 |
Hindi Wikipedia
Hindi Wikipedia had 15.2 thousand active users in 2020.
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| 2020 |
Bengali Wikipedia
COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the typical seasonal growth pattern of pageviews and active users.
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| December 25 2020 |
Bengali Wikipedia
Bengali Wikipedia reached the milestone of 100,000 articles.
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| February 2020 |
Urdu Wikipedia
The Dehalvi Wikimedia User Group hosted its first educational program in Deoband, promoting Urdu Wikipedia activities in India.
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| November 23 2019 |
Urdu Wikipedia
Urdu Wikipedia reaches 150,000 articles milestone
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| September 2019 |
Hindi Wikipedia
The Ministry of Science and Technology of India announced a plan to translate science articles into Hindi and other Indian languages, though the plan was not ultimately proceeded with.
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| January 2019 |
Bengali Wikipedia
Bengali Wikipedia ranked 80th in the list of largest Wikipedias by number of articles.
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| 2018 |
Hindi Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation research found that only 32% of internet users in Madhya Pradesh had heard of Wikipedia.
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| 2018 |
Sindhi Wikipedia
Sindhi Wikipedia reached 10,000 articles milestone
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| August 2018 |
Bengali Wikipedia
An unregistered user added a fake date of death to Muhammed Zafar Iqbal's Wikipedia article, which drew significant media attention in Bangladesh.
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| April 2018 |
Bengali Wikipedia
Bangladeshi media reported controversy regarding Wikipedia's inclusion of Runa Laila in a Top 30 Bengali people collage, causing confusion about her representation.
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| 2017 |
Hindi Wikipedia
Research revealed that Hindi Wikipedia readers are primarily motivated by intrinsic learning.
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| January 2016 |
Hindi Wikipedia
At the start of 2016, Hindi Wikipedia's share of pageviews was around 2%.
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| January 2016 |
Urdu Wikipedia
Urdu Wikipedia achieved the top ranking among Indian language Wikipedias in terms of number of articles.
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| February 26 2015 |
Bengali Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia co-founder, visited Bangladesh to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Bengali Wikipedia.
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| October 3 2011 |
Bengali Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation approved the local chapter Wikimedia Bangladesh to promote educational content in Bengali.
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| August 30 2011 |
Hindi Wikipedia
Hindi Wikipedia became the first South Asian-language Wikipedia to surpass 100,000 articles on this date.
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| 2010 |
Bengali Wikipedia
Mobile version of the Bengali Wikipedia was launched, expanding its accessibility to mobile users.
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