Tulu Wikipedia

Tulu Wikipedia
Type of site
 Internet encyclopedia
Available in Tulu
Headquarters Miami, Florida
Owner Wikimedia Foundation[1]
Website tcy.wikipedia.org
Commercial No
Registration

Open read access.
No registration needed for general editing, but necessary for certain tasks including

  • • protected page edit 
  • • page creation 
  • • file upload 
Users 200
Launched August 2016 (as full site)
Content license
 Creative Commons Attribution/
Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL)
Media licensing varies

The Tulu Wikipedia is the Tulu language edition of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation.[1] It currently has over 1,000 articles. It is the 23rd language of India to get a Wikipedia.[2] This followed eight years in incubation.[3]

History

Katherine Maher, the executive director of Wikimedia Foundation announced the launch of Tulu Wikipedia as a full site at the WIkiConference 2016.[1] It was in incubation since 2008. As of August 2016, it had 200 registeted editors with 10 of them being active, and over 1000 articles.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "After eight years, Tulu Wikipedia goes live". The Hindu: Mobile Edition. 2016-08-07. Retrieved 2016-08-10.
  2. ↑ "India's 23rd Regional Language Wikipedia Goes Live in Tulu". Gadgets360. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "Exercise to correct articles in Tulu Wikipedia begins". The Hindu. April 28, 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  4. ↑ http://www.medianama.com/2016/08/223-wikipedia-tulu-launch/
Tulu edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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