Sindhi Wikipedia
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Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | Sindhi |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | sd.wikipedia.org |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 6 February 2006 |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
The Sindhi Wikipedia (Sindhi: سنڌي وڪيپيڊيا) is a free encyclopedia, started 6 February 2006. It is the Sindhi language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. It has 18,573 articles.[1][2] Since 2014, the encyclopedia has experienced an overall increase in content.[3]
History
[edit]2006 to 2008
[edit]The Sindhi Wikipedia was started on 10 February 2006, by Professor Ahsan Ahmed Aursani.[citation needed]
2009 to 2011
[edit]During this time, Sindhi Wikipedia progressed slowly.
2012 to 2014
[edit]During this time, Sindhi Wikipedia also progressed slowly.
2015 to 2017
[edit]During this time, the Sindhi Wikipedia was expanded and some technical issues was resolved. Sindhi Wikipedia users improved content, references, technical issues, categorization, templates, and infoboxes. Sindhi Wikipedians arranged a Wikipedia awareness workshop in Karachi.[4][5][6][7]
In 2017, JogiAsad and Muhammad Arif Soomro were interviewed in a KTN News program, which was the first televised interview covering the project and communities.[7]
Milestones
[edit]| Date | Milestone | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1000 | |
| 2018 | 10,000[8] |
Users and editors
[edit]| Number of user accounts | Number of articles | Number of files | Number of administrators |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19566 | 18573 | 157 | 4 |
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ سنڌي وڪيپيڊيا
- ^ Sindhi Wikipedia, Retrieved on June 10, 2012
- ^ Muzammiluddin, Syed (18 June 2016). "Seeing great potential in the Sindhi Wikipedia: Mehtab Ahmed". Wikimedia Blogs. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
- ^ پاکستان میں پہلی سندھی ویکیپیڈیا ورکشاپ کا کراچی میں انعقاد ، اُردو پوائنٹ ٹیکنالوجی. UrduPoint (in Urdu). Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ^ Sindhi language newspaper (28 May 2017). پاڪستان ۾ پهريون سنڌي وڪيپيڊيا ورڪشاپ منعقد A first Sindhi Wikipedia Workshop in Pakistan. Daily Waka.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Sindhi News, Epaper, Sindhi tv, Sindhi News". Awami Awaz.
- ^ a b Muzammiluddin, Syed (19 December 2019). "How playwright, professor, and Wikimedian Aziz Kingrani contributes his expertise in preserving Sindhi heritage to the Wikimedia movement". Diff. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- ^ "انگ اکر". Sindhi Wikipedia. سنڌي وڪيپيڊيا. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
- ^ "List of Wikipedias". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
External links
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Media related to Sindhi Wikipedia at Wikimedia Commons- (in Sindhi) Sindhi Wikipedia
- (in Sindhi) Sindhi Wikipedia mobile version (homepage not yet configured)
