Santali Wikipedia

The Santali Wikipedia is the Santali language version of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. The site was launched on 2 August 2018.[1] Santali language's own alphabet, Ol Chiki, has been used as the alphabet of this Wikipedia.[1][2] Santali is a language in the Munda subfamily of Austroasiatic languages, spoken by around 7.4 million people in South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Bhutan and Nepal).

Santali Wikipedia
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Type of site
Internet encyclopedia
Available inSantali
HeadquartersMiami, Florida
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLsat.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedAugust 2, 2018 (2018-08-02)[1]
Content license
Creative Commons Attribution/
Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL)
Media licensing varies

History

The process of creating a Santali-language Wikipedia began in 2012 and, later on, picked up momentum in February 2017. [3] Back in 2012, Wikimedia Bangladesh organized a Wikipedia meetup and workshop with the Santali Language Community in Dinajpur District of Bangladesh with the goal of launching a Santali Language Wikipedia.[4] However, that process slowed after some time.[5]

Then in September 2017, Wikimedia Bangladesh organized another meeting with the Santali Language Community in a Dhaka Wikipedia meetup where a decision was made to expedite the launch of the Wikipedia. [3][6] Following that discussion, a workshop was organized in Dhaka by Wikimedia Bangladesh for the Santali-language community on 30 December 2017. [4] The Santali-language community from India also participated in that program through online discussion. Subsequently, another workshop was organized for the Santali-language community in Odisha, India, on 11 March 2018 in collaboration with the Odia Wikimedians User Group.

After months of work, the Wikimedia Language Committee approved the Santali-language Wikipedia on 28 June 2018 and the Santali Wikipedia site was finally launched on 2 August 2018. [4][6]

Users and editors
Santali Wikipedia statistics
Number of user accountsNumber of articlesNumber of filesNumber of administrators
334257483
  • First Santali Wikipedia workshop in Bangladesh (2012).
  • Workshop for Santali Wikipedia Community in Bangladesh (2017)
  • First Santali Wikipedia workshop in India (2018)
  • santali wikipedia workshop in Bangladesh (2020)

See also

References
  1. উইকিপিডিয়ায় সাঁওতালি ভাষা - banglatribune.com.
  2. Team, Samakal Online. উইকিপিডিয়ায় সাঁওতালি ভাষা.
  3. Tanvi, Patel (10 August 2018). "This Tribal Language Just Became India's First to Have Wikipedia Edition in Own Script!". The Better India.
  4. "Santhali becomes India's first tribal language to get own Wikipedia edition". 9 August 2018.
  5. ক্ষুদ্রজাতির ভাষায় বিশ্বকোষ - কালের কণ্ঠ. Kaler Kantho (in Bengali).
  6. Bhandari, Tannistha. নজির গড়ে উইকিপিডিয়ায় স্বীকৃতি পেল সাঁওতালি ভাষা. kolkata24x7.com.


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