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Screenshot  Homepage of the Bengali Wikipedia, 14 January 2021 | |
Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | Bengali |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida, United States |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | bn.wikipedia.org উইকিপিডিয়া.বাংলা |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | 474,993 |
| Launched | 27 January 2004 |
| Current status | Active, most users are based in Bangladesh and India |
The Bengali Wikipedia or Bangla Wikipedia (Bengali: বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া) is the Bengali language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. Launched on 27 January 2004, it surpassed 10,000 articles in October 2006, becoming the second South-Asian language to do so.[1] On 25 December 2020, the site achieved the milestone of 100,000 articles. As of 23 November 2024, the Bengali Wikipedia has 160,151 articles.[2][3] Though, it joined later compared to top Wikipedias, it ranks 5th in terms of article depth among 318 active wikipedias by language.[4]
As of June 2020, the Bengali Wikipedia is the only online free encyclopedia written in the Bengali language. It is also one of the largest Bengali content related sites on the internet. The mobile version of the Bengali Wikipedia was launched in 2010.[5]
It also has a phonetic Latin alphabet to Bengali script tool so Latin alphabet keyboards can be used to type Bengali without downloading any software. Community-produced news publications include WikiBarta. Similar to most Wikipedias of the region, the median age of the Bengali Wikipedia's editors is younger than that of many European Wikipedias.
- ^ Noronha, Frederick (30 September 2006). "Bengali Wikipedia crosses 10,000 articles". Indo-Asian News Service. Monsters and Critics. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
- ^ This prediction is based on {{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|bn|N}} Wikipedia template that automatically updates article numbers. So this is not a permanent or fixed count. The number of articles shown here, change in real-time as soon as a new article is created or removed. Therefore, this is not a reliable source and the numbers shown here are subject to change without prior notice.
- ^ "A decade of Bangla Wikipedia An open call". The Daily Star. 17 March 2014. Archived from the original on 23 March 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
- ^ "Wikipedia article depth - Meta". meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
- ^ এবার মোবাইল ফোনে বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া. Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 30 April 2019. Retrieved 26 January 2019.