Thai Wikipedia
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Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | Thai, Southern Thai |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | Thai wiki community |
| URL | th |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
The Thai Wikipedia (Thai: วิกิพีเดียภาษาไทย) is the Thai language edition of Wikipedia. It was started on 25 December 2003. As of December 2019, it had more than 134,000 content pages and 371,363 registered users.[1] As of December 2017, Wikipedia (all languages combined) was ranked 13th in Alexa's Top Sites Thailand.[2]
As of January 2021, the Thai Wikipedia is the most visited Wikipedia in both Thailand and Laos.[3]
On 31 January 2006, the Thai Wikipedia was first recognized along with English Wikipedia in the Thai press. In 2007, a thesis, Thai Wikipedia and Communicating Knowledge to the Public, was published by a graduate student from the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University.
The Thai Wikipedia was mentioned during a public forum during the 2005-2006 Thai political crisis when a speaker suggested that Thai people should read Wikipedia's article on Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister.[4]
The Thai Wikipedia is the second online encyclopedia in the Thai language after the Thai Junior Encyclopedia Project, which was developed under the patronage of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
Timeline
| Thai Wikipedia | |||
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| Articles | 144305 | ||
| Files | 27667 | ||
| Edits | 9781051 | ||
| Users | 414379 | ||
| Active users | 1054 | ||
| Admins | 16 | ||
- 25 December 2003: The Thai main page created after first created on 16 March 2003 with the word "Describe the new page here."
- 27 December 2003: The first article created containing only one word "ดาราศาสตร์" (astronomy) and 32 interwiki links. After that it became a stub on 31 May 2004.
- 28 February 2004: The real first article, วิทยาการคอมพิวเตอร์ (computer science), was created.
- 21 April 2004: 100th article, ห้องอนาคต (Time & Time Travel, a fiction)
- 17 August 2004: 500th article, สนเกรวิลเลีย (Grevillea)
- 10 March 2005: 1,000th article, แฮร์รี่ พอตเตอร์ (Harry Potter)
- 1 May 2005: The first featured article, แฟร็กทัล (fractal)
- September 2005: More than 30 university students registered and wrote articles as their homework.
- 28 October 2005: 5,000th article, เปาบุ้นจิ้น (Bao Zheng)
- 31 January 2006: Press coverage in onopen.com
- March 2006: Mass content addition of articles about years from 543 BC (Buddhist Era 1) to about 1800 semi-manually by using JavaScript. About 2,500 stubs are added.
- 14 March 2006: 10,000th article, มหาวิทยาลัยเพนซิลเวเนียสเตต (Pennsylvania State University)
- 16 March 2007: 20,000th article, อาริเอส มู (Aries Mu)
- 10 December 2007: 30,000th article, หลิว เต๋อหัว (Andy Lau)
- 26 October 2008: 40,000th article, ฤทธิ์ดาบไม้ไผ่ (Bamboo Blade)
- 4 September 2009: 50,000th article, พระนันทะ (Nanda, half brother of Buddha)
- 30 January 2016: 100,000th article, คริสต์ทศวรรษ 1940 (1940s)
References
- "List of Wikipedias". Meta-Wiki. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- Top sites Thailand from Alexa
- Wikimedia Stats
- audio file Archived 2007-11-09 at the Wayback Machine on 26 July 2006
External links
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Thai edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
- Thai Wikipedia (in Thai)
- Thai Wikipedia mobile version (in Thai)
- Press coverage in onopen.com (in Thai)