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| Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | Thai, Southern Thai |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | Thai wiki community |
| URL | th |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
The Thai Misplaced Pages (Thai: วิกิพีเดียภาษาไทย) is the Thai language edition of Misplaced Pages. It was started on 25 December 2003. As of January 2025, it has 170,342 articles and 491,981 registered users. As of March 2022, Misplaced Pages (all languages combined) was ranked 14th in Alexa's Top Sites Thailand.
As of January 2021, the Thai Misplaced Pages is the most visited Misplaced Pages in both Thailand and Laos. In Laos the position of the most popular language version of Misplaced Pages alternates between English and Thai.
On 31 January 2006, the Thai Misplaced Pages was first recognized along with English Misplaced Pages in the Thai press. In 2007, a thesis, Thai Misplaced Pages and Communicating Knowledge to the Public, was published by a graduate student from the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University.
The Thai Misplaced Pages was mentioned during a public forum during the 2005-2006 Thai political crisis when a speaker suggested that Thai people should read Misplaced Pages's article on Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister.
The Thai Misplaced Pages is the second online encyclopedia in the Thai language after the Thai Junior Encyclopedia Project, which was developed under the patronage of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
Timeline
| Thai Misplaced Pages (update) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Articles | 170342 | ||
| Files | 18826 | ||
| Edits | 12053537 | ||
| Users | 491981 | ||
| Active users | 1212 | ||
| Admins | 17 | ||
- 25 December 2003: The Thai main page created after first created on 16 March 2003 with the word "Describe the new page here."
- 27 December 2003: The first article created containing only one word "ดาราศาสตร์" (astronomy) and 32 interwiki links. After that it became a stub on 31 May 2004.
- 28 February 2004: The real first article, วิทยาการคอมพิวเตอร์ (computer science), was created.
- 21 April 2004: 100th article, ห้องอนาคต (Time & Time Travel, a fiction)
- 17 August 2004: 500th article, สนเกรวิลเลีย (Grevillea)
- 10 March 2005: 1,000th article, แฮร์รี่ พอตเตอร์ (Harry Potter)
- 1 May 2005: The first featured article, แฟร็กทัล (fractal)
- September 2005: More than 30 university students registered and wrote articles as their homework.
- 28 October 2005: 5,000th article, เปาบุ้นจิ้น (Bao Zheng)
- 31 January 2006: Press coverage in onopen.com
- March 2006: Mass content addition of articles about years from 543 BC (Buddhist Era 1) to about 1800 semi-manually by using JavaScript. About 2,500 stubs are added.
- 14 March 2006: 10,000th article, มหาวิทยาลัยเพนซิลเวเนียสเตต (Pennsylvania State University)
- 16 March 2007: 20,000th article, อาริเอส มู (Aries Mu)
- 10 December 2007: 30,000th article, หลิว เต๋อหัว (Andy Lau)
- 26 October 2008: 40,000th article, ฤทธิ์ดาบไม้ไผ่ (Bamboo Blade)
- 4 September 2009: 50,000th article, พระนันทะ (Nanda, half brother of Buddha)
- 30 January 2016: 100,000th article, คริสต์ทศวรรษ 1940 (1940s)
References
- "List of Wikipedias". Meta-Wiki. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- Top sites Thailand Archived 1 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine from Alexa
- Wikimedia Stats
- audio file Archived 2007-11-09 at the Wayback Machine on 26 July 2006
External links
- Thai Misplaced Pages (in Thai)
- Thai Misplaced Pages mobile version (in Thai)
- Press coverage in onopen.com (in Thai)