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Malayalam-language edition of Misplaced Pages

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Type of siteInternet encyclopedia project
Available inMalayalam
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLml.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Launched21 December 2002; 22 years ago (2002-12-21)
Content licenseCreative Commons Attribution/
Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL)
Media licensing varies

The Malayalam Misplaced Pages (Malayalam: മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയ) is the Malayalam edition of Misplaced Pages, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia, and was launched on 21 December 2002. The project is the leading Misplaced Pages among other South Asian language Wikipedias in various quality matrices. It has grown to be a wiki containing 86,527 articles as of January 2025, and ranks 13th in terms of depth among Wikipedias.

History

Beginning

Malayalam language Misplaced Pages is available in the wikipedia.org domain from 21 December 2002. 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 Misplaced Pages were non-resident Malayalees. The growth of the Misplaced Pages during these times was heavily constrained due to OS and browser related issues, rendering issues, Unicode related issues, and so on.

Initial growth phase

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 Misplaced Pages 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.

The year 2006 saw a number of users joining the wiki, following the widespread usage of Malayalam computing tools. 500th article was born on 10 April 2006; the following September the article count reached 1000. On 15 January 2007, this became 2000 and on 30 June it became 3000.

Media coverage and increased growth

Jimmy Wales introduces Malayalam Misplaced Pages CD of 500 selected articles to WikiManians during his keynote address at Gdansk

The first major Media coverage about the Malayalam Misplaced Pages was on 2 September 2007, when Malayalam daily newspaper Mathrubhumi covered Malayalam Misplaced Pages project extensively in its Sunday Supplement. This generated significant interest in the Misplaced Pages project and large number of users joined the project and started to contribute. The subsequent growth was exponential.

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 March 2010). When the Misplaced Pages crossed 10,000 articles on 1 June 2009, a number of print and online newspapers covered the story. Malayalam daily newspaper Madhyamam spent an editorial for the contributors of Malayalam Misplaced Pages. The mobile version of the Malayalam Misplaced Pages was launched in February 2010.

Fonts and input methods

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.

Users and editors

Malayalam Misplaced Pages statistics
Number of user accounts Number of articles Number of files Number of administrators
189681 86527 7362 14

See also

References

  1. "Misplaced Pages Statistics - Tables - Malayalam". stats.wikimedia.org.
  2. "List of Wikipedias - Meta". Meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  3. Sunday Supplement, Mathrubhumi, 2 September 2007
  4. ml:Special:Listusers
  5. List of Wikipedias
  6. "A milestone for Malayalam Wiki". The Hindu. 11 June 2009. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  7. Mathrubhumi print edition, June 1, 2009
  8. Joseph Antony (1 June 2009). "'മലയാളം വിക്കി'ക്ക്‌ പതിനായിരത്തിന്റെ നിറവ്‌" (in Malayalam). Mathrubhumi Online Edition. Archived from the original on 11 June 2009. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  9. Kerala Kaumudi print edition 4 June 2009
  10. Asianet News, June 1, 2009
  11. "മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയില്‍ 10000 ലേഖനങ്ങള്‍!" (in Malayalam). Webdunia. 1 June 2009. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  12. "മലയാളം വിക്കിയില്‍ 10000 ലേഖനങ്ങള്‍" (in Malayalam). TechVidya. 1 June 2009. Archived from the original on 20 October 2009. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  13. Johann P (3 June 2009). "മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയില്‍ 10000 ലേഖനങ്ങള്‍" (in Malayalam). e-Pathram. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  14. Siraj Newspaper, Print Edition, 3 June 2009, Page 5
  15. "മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയ" (in Malayalam). KottayamVartha. 2 June 2009. Archived from the original on 19 August 2009. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  16. "Malayalam Misplaced Pages completes 10,000 article milestone". kochivibe.com. 2 June 2009. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  17. "കരുത്തോടെ മലയാളം വിക്കി | Madhyamam | Latest Malayalam News, Kerala News, Gulf News, Sports News, National and International News, Malayalam movie reviews". Archived from the original on 19 June 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2013.

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