Tamil Wikipedia
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The Tamil Wikipedia (Tamil: தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா) is the Tamil language edition of Wikipedia established in September 2003, run by the Wikimedia Foundation.[1] The Tamil Wikipedia is the second largest Wikipedia among Indian languages and the 60th largest Wikipedia by article count (as of 22 May 2024). It is also the first and only Wikipedia of Dravidian origin to possess more than 150,000+ articles (as of 2022). The project is one of the leading Wikipedia among other South Asian language Wikipedia's in various quality matrices.[2] It has 165,485 articles and 232,821 registered users as of May 2024[update].[3] It crossed 100,000 articles in May 2017.[4]
Type of site | Internet encyclopedia |
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Available in | Tamil |
Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
URL | ta |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Open read access. No registration needed for general editing, but necessary for certain tasks including
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Users | 196,339+ (as of October 2021) |
Launched | September 2003; 20 years ago (2003-09) |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |