Burmese Wikipedia Explained
The Burmese Wikipedia (Burmese: မြန်မာဝီကီပီးဒီးယား in Burmese pronounced as /mjəmà wɪkɨˈpiːdiə/) is the Burmese language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. This edition was started in July 2004, and has about articles as of .
As of, there are about users, admins and files on the Burmese Wikipedia, ranking by article count.[1]
History
Timeline
- 2004: Burmese Wikipedia launched.
- 2005: Some of Burmese Wikipedians joined and started writing.
- 2008: Content grew 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
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The Myanmar Computer Professionals Association had launched Wikipedia Myanmar project with the aim of expanding Wikipedia in 2010.[2]
The Burmese Wikipedia community had held their first joint workshop in Yangon, Burma (Myanmar) with the help of Telenor Myanmar in June 2014 to recruit new volunteers.[3] The Burmese Wikipedia Forum was held at Dagon University in July 2014 attracting over 2,000 people, including students.[4]
Challenges
The majority of Burmese internet users used the non-Unicode Zawgyi font so they have difficulty viewing Burmese Wikipedia before 2019.[2] [4] [5]
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Wikipedia Statistics - Tables - Burmese. wikimedia.org. 2015-03-14. 2018-12-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20181225035822/https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaMY.htm. live.
- Web site: Myanmar Wikipedia project targets 15,000 pages. The Myanmar Times. mmtimes.com. 22 November 2010. 2015-03-14. 2018-12-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20181225035811/https://www.mmtimes.com/national-news/4541-myanmar-wikipedia-project-targets-15-000-pages.html. live.
- Web site: Telenor Group - Bringing Wikipedia to Myanmar. Telenor Group. July 2014. 2015-03-14. 2018-12-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20181225035819/https://www.telenor.com/media/inside-telenor/2014/bringing-wikipedia-to-myanmar. live.
- Web site: Telenor hosts Wikipedia forum at Dagon University. Win Htut. Eleven Myanmar. 2015-03-14. 2018-12-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20181225035826/https://elevenmyanmar.com/?option=com_content&view=article&id=6784%3Atelenor-hosts-wikipedia-forum-at-dagon-university&catid=44%3Anational&Itemid=384. live.
- Web site: Spark of knowledge starts with Wikipedia. The Myanmar Times. mmtimes.com. 3 November 2014. 2015-03-14. 2015-02-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20150228045134/http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/business/technology/12171-spark-of-knowledge-starts-with-wikipedia.html. live.
