Burmese Wikipedia

The Burmese Wikipedia (Burmese: မြန်မာဝီကီပီးဒီးယား pronounced [mjəmà wɪkɨˈpiːdiə]) is the Burmese language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. This edition was started in July 2004, and has about 46,000 articles as of August 2020.

Burmese Wikipedia
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Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inBurmese
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
Created byBurmese Wikipedia community
URLmy.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedJuly 2004

As of August 2020, there are 83,000 users, 5 admins and 2,870 files on the Myanmar Wikipedia[1] ranking 85th by article count.

History

Timeline
  • 2004: Burmese Wikipedia launched.
  • 2005: Some of Burmese Wikipedians joined and started writing.
  • 2008: Content grew drastically.
  • 2010: First Burmese Wikipedia workshop held at Bangkok, Thailand with people from Wikimedia Foundation, local and international Unicode experts and Burmese Wikipedians.
  • 2012: Burmese Wikipedia was introduced at Barcamp Yangon.

Events and promotions
Burmese Wikipedia
Articles46398
Files2870
Edits530457
Users83203
Active users237
Admins5

Myanmar Computer Professionals Association had launched Wikipedia Myanmar project with the aim of expanding Wikipedia in 2010.[2]

Burmese Wikipedia community had held their first joint workshop in Yangon, Burma (Myanmar) with the help of Telenor Myanmar in June 2014 to recruit new volunteers.[3] The Burmese Wikipedia Forum was held at Dagon University in July 2014 attracting over 2,000 people, including students.[4]

Challenges

The majority of Burmese internet users use the non-Unicode Zawgyi font so they have difficulty viewing Burmese Wikipedia.[2][4][5]

gollark: Yep!
gollark: "Economy" means "any sort of system which coordinates production/allocates resources".
gollark: Now, part of that is probably that you can't really trust whoever is asking to use those resources properly, and that's fair. But there are now things for comparing the effectiveness of different charities and whatnot.
gollark: But if you ask "hey, random person, would you be willing to give up some amount of money/resources/etc to stop people dying of malaria", people will just mostly say no.
gollark: If you *ask* someone "hey, random person, would you like people in Africa to not die of malaria", they will obviously say yes. Abstractly speaking, people don't want people elsewhere to die of malaria.

References
  1. "Wikipedia Statistics - Tables - Burmese". wikimedia.org.
  2. The Myanmar Times. "Myanmar Wikipedia project targets 15,000 pages". mmtimes.com.
  3. "Telenor Group - Bringing Wikipedia to Myanmar". Telenor Group.
  4. Win Htut. "Telenor hosts Wikipedia forum at Dagon University". Eleven Myanmar.
  5. The Myanmar Times. "Spark of knowledge starts with Wikipedia". mmtimes.com.
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