WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community News/ne



General
Nepali Wikipedia was started on June 2, 2002. However, there was not much progress till September 2010, and it had only 5000 articles in September 2010. However, this Wikipedia got a fresh lease of life after September 2010, the number of articles crossed the margin of 20,000 as a result of hard work of Wikipedians. Now it has 20,069+ articles. It has 9,437+ registered users and 258,124+ total edits till 7.4.2012. According to the article count, active users and edits, the wiki is in the 84th position.

Meetus and Activities

 * Wiki 11 was celebrated Jan 15th 2012 in Kathmandu .Academicians,Journalists,Technologists,students were present in the occasion.
 * Rajesh Panedey Released Android Version of Nepali Wikipedia Translator.
 * Outreach Session was conducted in Sharada College, Bhaktapur.
 * Nepali Wikipedia participated in " National Conference on Use of ICT in Rural Nepal: Technology Influences (March 22-23, 2012)" Organized by Language Technology Kendra and Kathmandu University  and also presented in a session.
 * Nepali Wikipedia Participated in the Nepali Linguists Meet in Kathmandu.
 * An Outreach Session was conducted in Kathmandu University to the Computer Science Students.

Achievements

 * Number of articles crossed the margin of 20,000 ,has 20,069+ articles.
 * 9,437+ registered users and 258,124+ total edits till 7.4.2012.

Achievements

 * Nepali Wikibooks has 5489+ of total edits.
 * Nepali Wikibooks has 10+ average active Users.

Achievements

 * Nepali Wiktionary has 13859+ total Edits.
 * NepalI Wiktionary has 9+ average active users.