 Logo of the Tamil Wikipedia | |
Screenshot  The homepage of the Tamil Wikipedia (December 2013) | |
Type of site | Internet encyclopedia |
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| Available in | Tamil |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | ta |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Open read access. No registration needed for general editing, but necessary for certain tasks including
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| Users | 196,339+ (as of October 2021) |
| Launched | September 2003 |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
The Tamil Wikipedia (Tamil: தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா) is the Tamil language edition of Wikipedia established in September 2003, run by the Wikimedia Foundation.[1] The Tamil Wikipedia is the largest Wikipedia among Indian languages and the 60th largest Wikipedia by article count (as of 23 November 2024).[1] It is also the first and only Wikipedia of Dravidian origin to possess more than 150,000+ articles (as of 2022). The project is one of the leading Wikipedia among other South Asian language Wikipedia's in various quality matrices.[2] It has 169,575 articles and 238,306 registered users as of November 2024[update].[3] It crossed 100,000 articles in May 2017.[4]
- ^ Frederick, Prince (21 May 2009). "The Tamil Wiki…six years on". The Hindu. Chennai, India. Archived from the original on 28 May 2009. Retrieved 26 May 2009.
- ^ stats:EN/TablesWikipediaTA.htm
- ^ "List of Wikipedias". meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
- ^ of Wikipedias