The Nepali Wikipedia (Nepali: नेपाली विकिपिडिया, romanized: Nēpālī Vikipiḍiyā) is the Nepali language edition of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation.[1] As of September 2026 it has 30,054 articles and about 80,000 users, of which 5 are administrators.[2] As of 8 November 2022, the Nepali Wikipedia is the 110st largest Wikipedia.[2]
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Website type | Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | Nepali |
| Founded | 3 June 2002; 24 years ago |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida, United States |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Creator | Jimmy Wales |
| Website | ne.wikipedia.org |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
Nepali, using the Devanagari script, requires complex transliteration aids to be typed on devices. Thus, it has a phonetic Latin alphabet converter to Nepali, without having to use any special Nepali-typing software.
History
editThe Nepali Wikipedia was established on 3 June 2002, one year after the English Wikipedia was started, and it was among the first languages of South Asia to have its own Wikipedia.[3][4]
Statistics
editAs of September 2026, the Nepali Wikipedia has about 30,000 articles. The overwhelming majority of its readers originate from Nepal.
Users and editors
edit| Number of user accounts | Number of articles | Number of files | Number of administrators |
|---|---|---|---|
| 79,708 | 30,054 | 1,505 | 5 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ↑ "विकिपिडिया". Kantipur (in Nepali). Retrieved 8 November 2022.
- 1 2 "List of Wikipedias". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
- ↑ "विकिपिडिया एक स्वतन्त्र विश्वकोश". Gorkhapatra (in Nepali). Retrieved 8 November 2022.
- ↑ "नेपाली विकिपिडिया २० वर्षमा प्रवेश, कस्तो छ अवस्था ?". ICT Samachar (in Nepali). Retrieved 8 November 2022.
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