Punjabi Wikipedia
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Logo of the Western Punjabi Wikipedia (above) and Eastern Punjabi Wikipedia (below) | |
| Web address |
pnb pa |
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| Slogan |
کھلا انسائیکلوپیڈیا ਇੱਕ ਅਜ਼ਾਦ ਗਿਆਨਕੋਸ਼ The Free Encyclopaedia |
| Commercial? | No |
Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
| Registration | Optional |
| Available in | Punjabi |
| Users |
6,449 (September 2013)[1] 33,379 (March 2015) |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 and GFDL, Media licensing varies |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Launched |
October 24, 2008 (Western Punjabi) June 3, 2002 (Eastern Punjabi) |
| Current status | Active |
The Punjabi Wikipedia (Punjabi: پنجابی وکیپیڈیا (Shahmukhi); ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ (Gurmukhi)) is the Punjabi language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.[2][3] There are two Punjabi Wikipedia editions viz. Western Punjabi Wikipedia (in Shahmukhi script) and Eastern Punjabi Wikipedia (in Gurmukhi script).
The Western edition was started on October 24, 2008 via the Wikimedia Incubator and its domain came into existence on August 13, 2009. It has 18,219 articles as of August 27, 2015.
The Eastern edition domain came into existence on June 3, 2002[3][4] but the first three articles were only written in August 2004[5] In July 2012, it had reached 2,400 articles.[3]
Eastern edition
Since August 2012, it has about 26 million readers from all over the world.[6]
The first Punjabi Wikipedia workshop was organized in Ludhiana on July 28, 2012[2] and later another on August 16, 2012 at the Punjabi University in Patiala[7] to inform people how to edit and add to the Wiki.
Western edition
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Punjabi-language writer Anwar Masood certifying the launch of the Western Punjabi Wikipedia.
References
- ↑ Panjabi Wikipedia statistics
- 1 2 "Punjabi Wikipedia workshop in Delhi on 27th, Ludhiana on 28th of July". July 27, 2012. YesPunjab.com. Retrieved October 14, 2012. External link in
|publisher=(help) - 1 2 3 "Contribute to Wikipedia Punjabi, says representative". Tribune India (Ludhiana). July 29, 2012. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
- ↑ pa:Special:Permalink/1
- ↑ Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics (2004)
- ↑ "Articles can be compiled in the Punjabi Version of Wikipedia". News. PunjabNewsExpress. August 18, 2012. Retrieved October 14, 2012. External link in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ "Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop at Punjabi University, Patiala". News. CIS-India.org. September 28, 2012. Retrieved October 14, 2012. External link in
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External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Punjabi Wikipedia workshops. |
- (Western Panjabi) Western Punjabi Wikipedia
- (Western Panjabi) Western Punjabi Wikipedia mobile version
- (Punjabi) Eastern Punjabi Wikipedia
- (Punjabi) Eastern Punjabi Wikipedia mobile version
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