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Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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Available in | Kannada |
Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
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Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional |
The Kannada Wikipedia ( Kannada: ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ) is the Kannada-language edition of Wikipedia. Started in June 2003, it is moderately active and as of June 2024, it has 32,164 articles with 133 active users. [1] [2] It is the twelfth-most popular Wikipedia in the Indian subcontinent. [3]
The Kannada Wikipedia community held a meeting in Bangalore on April 2, 2006, which got fairly high press coverage. [4]
As of August 16, 2009 the Kannada Wikipedia had about 6,800 articles, [5] making it the 100th-biggest Wikipedia edition.
As of January 2016, the Kannada Wikipedia is the tenth-largest Indian-language Wikipedia, behind Urdu, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati, and Punjabi. Administrator Omshivaprakash attributes the lack of articles to a lack of interest among the Kannada-speaking community, a lack of awareness of the Kannada Wikipedia and Kannada typing tools, and limited Internet access in parts of Karnataka. [6]
Number of user accounts | Number of articles | Number of files | Number of administrators |
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87075 | 32164 | 2433 | 4 |