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Bhojpuri Wikipedia

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Type of site
Internet encyclopedia
Available inBhojpuri
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
URLbh.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Users36821
Launched21 February 2003; 21 years ago (2003-02-21)[citation needed]
Content license
Creative Commons Attribution/
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4.0
(most text also dual-licensed under GFDL)
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The Bhojpuri Wikipedia (Bhojpuri: भोजपुरी विकिपीडिया) is the Bhojpuri language version of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. The site was launched on 21 February 2003.[1][need quotation to verify] Bhojpuri is today written in the Devanagari script. Bhojpuri is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in northern-eastern India and the Terai region of Nepal.[2] It is chiefly spoken in western Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh.[3] The language is a minority language in Fiji, Guyana, Mauritius, South Africa, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Users and editors

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Bhojpuri Wikipedia statistics[4]
Number of user accounts Number of articles Number of files Number of administrators
36821 8923 54 2

References

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  1. ^ A Study on the Usage of Internet by Working Women of Vadodara City for Performing Their Household Responsibilities. Anchor Academic Publishing. 2016. ISBN 978-3-96067-551-8.
  2. ^ Bhojpuri Ethnologue World Languages (2009)
  3. ^ Ethnologue's detailed language map Archived 16 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine of western Madhesh; see the disjunct enclaves of language #9 in SE.
  4. ^ "List of Wikipedias". Retrieved 19 April 2022.