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Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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Available in | संस्कृतम् (Sanskrit) |
Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
Created by | Sanskrit wiki community |
URL | sa |
Commercial | Charitable |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | December 2003 |
Current status | Online |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
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 23 November 2024, it has 12,219 articles and is the 159th 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]
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