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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Malayalam-language edition of Wikipedia}}<br />
{{Infobox website<br />
| name = {{Wiki favicon}} Malayalam Wikipedia<br />
| logo = [[File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-ml.svg|120px|Malayalam Wikipedia logo]]<br />
| screenshot = [[File:MalayalamWikipediaMainPage.PNG|border|300px|Screenshot of the Malayalam Wikipedia home page]]'<br />
| caption = Screenshot of the Malayalam Wikipedia home page<br />
| collapsible = yes<br />
| url = [http://ml.wikipedia.org/ ml.wikipedia.org]<br />
| commercial = No<br />
| launch_date = {{start date and age|df=yes|2002|12|21}}<br />
| type = [[Internet encyclopedia project]]<br />
| language = [[Malayalam]]<br />
| registration = Optional<br />
| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]<br />
}}<br />
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The '''Malayalam Wikipedia''' ({{lang-ml| മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയ}}) is the [[Malayalam]] edition of [[Wikipedia]], a free and publicly editable online [[encyclopedia]], and was launched on December 21, 2002. The project is the leading Wikipedia among other South East Asian language Wikipedias in various quality matrices.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaML.htm|title=Wikipedia Statistics - Tables - Malayalam|website=stats.wikimedia.org}}</ref> It has grown to be a wiki containing {{formatnum:{{NUMBEROF|articles|ml}}}} articles {{as of|{{CURRENTYEAR}}|{{CURRENTMONTH}}|lc=on}}, and ranks [[m:Wikipedia article depth|13th in terms of depth]] among Wikipedias.<ref name="scp">{{cite web|url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias |title=List of Wikipedias - Meta |publisher=Meta.wikimedia.org |access-date=14 October 2017}}</ref><br />
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== History ==<br />
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=== Beginning ===<br />
Malayalam language Wikipedia is available in the wikipedia.org domain from 2002 December 21. User Vinod M. P. had taken initiatives for it. For the two years following its creation, he had been the key person striving to keep the wiki active. Almost all the early users of Malayalam Wikipedia were non-resident [[Malayalaee|Malayalees]]. The growth of the Wikipedia during these times was heavily constrained due to OS and browser related issues, rendering issues, [[Unicode]] related issues, and so on.<br />
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=== Initial growth phase===<br />
By the middle of 2002, unicode and input tools had become popular. Blogging in Malayalam became widespread. Wikipedians started to use these tools and the Wikipedia reached 100 articles by December 2004. More users joined by the middle of 2005 and the wiki had its first sysop by September 2005. He became the first bureaucrat of the wiki after a month and the wiki became self-sufficient in terms of administration.<br />
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The year 2006 saw a number of users joining the wiki, following the widespread usage of Malayalam computing tools. 500th article was born on April 10, 2006; the following September the article count reached 1000. On January 15, 2007, this became 2000 and on June 30 it became 3000.<br />
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=== Media coverage and increased growth ===<br />
[[File:2010-07-11-gdansk-by-RalfR-001.jpg|thumb|[[Jimmy Wales]] introduces Malayalam Wikipedia CD of [[:ml:WP:Version 1|500 selected articles]] to WikiManians during his keynote address at Gdansk]]<br />
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The first major Media coverage about the Malayalam Wikipedia was on September 2, 2007, when Malayalam daily newspaper ''[[Mathrubhumi]]'' covered Malayalam Wikipedia project extensively in its Sunday Supplement.<ref>Sunday Supplement, [[Mathrubhumi]], September 2, 2007</ref> This generated significant interest in the Wikipedia project and large number of users joined the project and started to contribute.<ref>[[:ml:Special:Listusers]]</ref> The subsequent growth was exponential.<br />
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While the article count increased, extreme care was taken to maintain the quality of articles. The page depth of the wiki remains high at 301 ({{as of|2010|03|lc=on}}).<ref name="ReferenceA">[[m:List of Wikipedias|List of Wikipedias]]</ref> When the Wikipedia crossed 10,000 articles on June 1, 2009, a number of print and online newspapers covered the story.<ref><br />
{{cite news<br />
|title = A milestone for Malayalam Wiki<br />
|url = http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/11/stories/2009061157890200.htm<br />
|archive-url = https://archive.today/20130103024304/http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/11/stories/2009061157890200.htm<br />
|url-status = dead<br />
|archive-date = 3 January 2013<br />
|date = 11 June 2009<br />
|work = [[The Hindu]]<br />
|accessdate = 13 October 2009<br />
}}<br />
</ref><ref>[[Mathrubhumi]] print edition, June 1, 2009</ref><ref><br />
{{cite news<br />
|author = Joseph Antony<br />
|title = 'മലയാളം വിക്കി'ക്ക് പതിനായിരത്തിന്റെ നിറവ്<br />
|url = http://mathrubhumi.com/php/newFrm.php?news_id=1230405&n_type=HO&category_id=3&Farc=&previous=Y<br />
|publisher = Mathrubhumi Online Edition<br />
|date = 1 June 2009<br />
|accessdate = 13 October 2009<br />
|language = Malayalam<br />
|url-status = dead<br />
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090611230404/http://www.mathrubhumi.com/php/newFrm.php?news_id=1230405&n_type=HO&category_id=3&Farc=&previous=Y<br />
|archivedate = 11 June 2009<br />
}}<br />
</ref><ref>Kerala Kaumudi print edition 4th June, 2009</ref><ref>Asianet News, June 1, 2009</ref><ref><br />
{{cite news<br />
|title = മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയില് 10000 ലേഖനങ്ങള്!<br />
|url = http://malayalam.webdunia.com/newsworld/news/currentaffairs/0906/01/1090601043_1.htm<br />
|publisher = Webdunia<br />
|date = 1 June 2009<br />
|accessdate = 13 October 2009<br />
|language = Malayalam<br />
}}</ref><ref><br />
{{cite news<br />
|title = മലയാളം വിക്കിയില് 10000 ലേഖനങ്ങള്<br />
|url = http://techvidya.com/article/2009/06/01/malayalam-wikipedia-crosses-10000-articles/<br />
|publisher = TechVidya<br />
|date = 1 June 2009<br />
|accessdate = 13 October 2009<br />
|language = Malayalam<br />
|url-status = dead<br />
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20091020120531/http://techvidya.com/article/2009/06/01/malayalam-wikipedia-crosses-10000-articles/<br />
|archivedate = 20 October 2009<br />
}}</ref><ref><br />
{{cite news<br />
|author = Johann P<br />
|title = മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയില് 10000 ലേഖനങ്ങള്<br />
|url = http://www.epathram.com/itsit/2009/06/10000.shtml<br />
|publisher = e-Pathram<br />
|date = 3 June 2009<br />
|accessdate = 13 October 2009<br />
|language = Malayalam<br />
}}</ref><ref>Siraj Newspaper, Print Edition, 3rd June, 2009, Page 5</ref><ref><br />
{{cite news<br />
|title = മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയ<br />
|url = http://kottayamvartha.com/ver02/FullStory/?NewsID=622009111049PM14321&Sid=10&Opps=1&Cnt=14498<br />
|publisher = KottayamVartha<br />
|date = 2 June 2009<br />
|accessdate = 13 October 2009<br />
|language = Malayalam<br />
|url-status = dead<br />
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090819042318/http://kottayamvartha.com/ver02/FullStory/?NewsID=622009111049PM14321&Sid=10&Opps=1&Cnt=14498<br />
|archivedate = 19 August 2009<br />
}}</ref><ref><br />
{{cite news<br />
|title = Malayalam Wikipedia completes 10,000 article milestone<br />
|url = http://www.kochivibe.com/malayalam-wikipedia-completes-10000-article-milestone/<br />
|publisher = kochivibe.com<br />
|date = 2 June 2009<br />
|accessdate = 13 October 2009<br />
}}</ref> Malayalam daily newspaper [[Madhyamam]] spent an editorial for the contributors of Malayalam Wikipedia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.madhyamam.com/news/221500/130412 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2013-05-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619175957/http://www.madhyamam.com/news/221500/130412 |archivedate=2013-06-19 }}</ref> The mobile version of the Malayalam Wikipedia was launched in February 2010.<br />
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== Fonts and input methods ==<br />
Although many Malayalam [[Unicode]] fonts are available for old and new Malayalam lipi, most users opt for fonts like AnjaliOldLipi, Rachana and Meera which follows the traditional Malayalam writing style. Early editors adopted specialized Malayalam Unicode input tools based on the ''Varamozhi keyboard'', a phonetic transliteration device. The project has an inbuilt input tool integrated to it.<br />
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== Users and editors ==<br />
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<center><br />
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"<br />
|+ '''Malayalam Wikipedia statistics'''<br />
|-<br />
! Number of user accounts !! Number of articles !! Number of files !!Number of administrators<br />
|-<br />
| {{NUMBEROF|USERS|ml}} || {{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|ml}} || {{NUMBEROF|FILES|ml}} || {{NUMBEROF|ADMINS|ml}}<br />
|}<br />
</center><br />
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==See also==<br />
* ''[[Britannica Malayalam Encyclopedia]]''<br />
* ''[[Sarvavijnanakosam]]''<br />
* [[Hindi Wikipedia]]<br />
* [[Tamil Wikipedia]]<br />
* [[Telugu Wikipedia]]<br />
* [[Kannada Wikipedia]]<br />
* [[Bengali Wikipedia]]<br />
* [[Punjabi Wikipedia (Eastern)]]<br />
* [[Marathi Wikipedia]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* [http://ml.wikipedia.org Main page]<br />
* {{in lang|ml}} [http://ml.m.wikipedia.org/ Malayalam Wikipedia mobile version]<br />
*[http://languagetype.com/malayalam/malayalam-fonts Download Malayalam Fonts]<br />
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[[Category:Malayalam-language mass media]]<br />
[[Category:Malayalam encyclopedias]]<br />
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