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Burmese Wikipedia

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Available in
  
Burmese

Website
  
my.wikipedia.org

Owner
  
Wikimedia Foundation

Burmese Wikipedia

Type of site
  
Internet encyclopedia project

Created by
  
Burmese Wikipedia community

Slogan(s)
  
အခမဲ့လွတ်လပ်စွယ်စုံကျမ်း

The Burmese Wikipedia (Burmese: မြန်မာဝီကီပီးဒီးယား [mjəmà wɪkɨˈpiːdiə]) is the Burmese language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. This edition was started in July 2004, and has about 35,000 articles as of March 2017.

Contents

As of March 2017, there are 42,000 users, 5 admins and 3,450 files on the Myanmar Wikipedia ranking 85th by article count.

Timeline

  • 2004: Burmese Wikipedia launched.
  • 2005: Some of Burmese Wikipedians joined and started writing .
  • 2008: Content grows drastically.
  • 2010: First Burmese Wikipedia workshop held at Bangkok, Thailand with people from Wikimedia Foundation, local and international Unicode experts and Burmese Wikipedians.
  • 2012: Burmese Wikipedia was Introduced at Barcamp Yangon.

    • Events and promotions

    Myanmar Computer Professionals Association had launched Wikipedia Myanmar project with the aim of expanding Wikipedia in 2010.

    Burmese Wikipedia community had held their first joint workshop in Yangon, Burma (Myanmar) with the help of Telenor Myanmar in June 2014 to recruite new volunteers. The Burmese Wikipedia Forum was held at Dagon University in July 2014 attracting over 2,000 people, including students.

    Challenges

    The majority of Burmese internet users use the non-Unicode Zawgyi font so they have difficulty viewing Burmese Wikipedia.

    References

    Burmese Wikipedia Wikipedia
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