Sanskrit Wikipedia

Favicon of Wikipedia Sanskrit Wikipedia
संस्कृत विकिपीडिया
Sanskrit Wikipedia logo
Screenshot
Screenshot of Sanskrit Wikipedia's Main Page in January 2005
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inसंस्कृतम् (Sanskrit)
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
Created bySanskrit wiki community
URLsa.wikipedia.org
CommercialCharitable
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedDecember 2003; 20 years ago (2003-12)
Current statusOnline
Content license
Creative Commons Attribution/
Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL)
Media licensing varies
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Sanskrit Wikipedia (Sanskrit: संस्कृत विकिपीडिया; IAST: Saṃskṛta Vikipīḍiyā) (also known as sawiki) is the Sanskrit edition of Wikipedia, a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its five thousand articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, with major concentration of contributors in India and Nepal.

Founded in December 2003, it reached five thousand articles by August 2011.[1][2][3][4]

The Sanskrit Wikipedia Community also participated in a project named Tell us about your Wikipedia,[5] and Community news from Sanskrit Wikipedia also came on WikiPatrika, a community-written and community-edited newspaper, covering stories, events and reports related to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation sister projects in India.[2]

As of 21 September 2024, it has 12,207 articles and is the 158th largest version of Wikipedia.[6] The Times of India considered that "Sanskrit was making a comeback, thanks to Wikipedia community"[7] Mother India considered the Sanskrit Wikipedia as a "wonderful learning tool"[8]

  1. ^ "Who Says Sanskrit Is Dead? It's Rocking the Wiki World". Quint. 27 October 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  2. ^ a b "WikiPatrika/2011-06/Community News/sa". Wikimedia India Chapter. 9 June 2011. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
  3. ^ "Wikimedia News". Meta, discussion about Wikimedia projects. 6 August 2011. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
  4. ^ "Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-08-08/News and notes". Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 11 August 2011. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
  5. ^ "Tell us about Sanskrit Wikipedia". Meta, discussion about Wikimedia projects. 20 May 2011. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
  6. ^ Meta contributors (28 August 2016). "List of Wikipedias". Meta, discussion about Wikimedia projects. Retrieved 28 August 2016. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  7. ^ The Times of India: Sanskrit makes a comeback, thanks to Wikipedia community
  8. ^ The Mother India: Exploring Sanskrit Bharati’s Sanskrit Wikipedia (Internet Archive Copy)