Burmese Wikipedia

Burmese Wikipedia

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Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Burmese
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Burmese Wikipedia community
URL	my.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Launched	30 July 2004
Current status	Active but banned in Myanmar
Content license	Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies

The Burmese Wikipedia (Burmese: မြန်မာဝီကီပီးဒီးယား pronounced [mjəmà wɪkɨˈpiːdiə]) is the Burmese language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. This edition was started in July 2004, and has about 109,000 articles as of January 2025.

As of January 2025, there are about 126,000 users, 4 admins and 2,914 files on the Burmese Wikipedia, ranking 71st 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

Burmese Wikipedia (update)
Articles	108601
Files	2914
Edits	856322
Users	126007
Active users	141
Admins	4

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]

References

1. "Wikipedia Statistics - Tables - Burmese". wikimedia.org. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
2. The Myanmar Times (22 November 2010). "Myanmar Wikipedia project targets 15,000 pages". mmtimes.com. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
3. "Telenor Group - Bringing Wikipedia to Myanmar". Telenor Group. July 2014. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
4. Win Htut. "Telenor hosts Wikipedia forum at Dagon University". Eleven Myanmar. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
5. The Myanmar Times (3 November 2014). "Spark of knowledge starts with Wikipedia". mmtimes.com. Archived from the original on 2015-02-28. Retrieved 2015-03-14.

External links

• (in Burmese) Burmese Wikipedia
• (in Burmese) Burmese Wikipedia mobile version