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 Main Page of Maithili Misplaced Pages in August 2018 | |
| Type of site | Internet encyclopedia |
|---|---|
| Available in | Maithili |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | mai |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | 15070 |
| Launched | 6 November 2014; 10 years ago (2014-11-06) |
| Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
The Maithili Misplaced Pages is the Maithili language version of Misplaced Pages, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. The site was launched on 6 November 2014. As of January 2025, it has 14,138 articles and 15,070 registered users. Today, Maithili is written in the Devanagari script and the site uses the same. Maithili is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Bihar and Jharkhand states of India and is one of the 22 recognised Indian languages which is also spoken in the eastern Terai of Nepal and is the second most prevalent language of Nepal. It is also one of the 122 recognized Nepalese languages.
History
The process of creating a Maithili language Misplaced Pages started in 2008. Tulsi Bhagat is the co-founder of Maithili Misplaced Pages, and it was launched on 6 November 2014.
Users and editors
| Number of user accounts | Number of articles | Number of files | Number of administrators |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15070 | 14138 | 120 | 5 |
See also
References
- ^ थारु, बुनु. "जनकपुरका युवा जसले मैथिली विकिपिडियाको सुरुवात गरे". eKantipur (in Nepali).
- Yadava, Y. P. (2013). Linguistic context and language endangerment in Nepal. Nepalese Linguistics 28 Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine: 262–274.
- "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - "Prakash Javadekar likely to call meeting of experts to promote Maithili script - मैथिली लिपि को बढ़ावा देने के लिए विशेषज्ञों की जल्द ही बैठक बुला सकते हैं प्रकाश जावड़ेकर". Archived from the original on 21 March 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
- "मैथिली को भी मिलेगा दूसरी राजभाषा का दर्जा".
- "Nepal". Ethnologue. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
- Sah, K. K. (2013). "Some perspectives on Maithili". Nepalese Linguistics (28): 179–188.
- जोशी, यज्ञराज (3 June 2019). "मैथिली विकिपिडिया स्थापना गरेर जो विश्वका १८ योगदानकर्ताभित्र छानिए". nepalkhabar (in Nepali).
- Bhagat, Tulsi. "About Tulsi". Tulsi Bhagat. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
- "List of Wikipedias". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
External links
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