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Sanskrit Wikipedia संस्कृत विकिपीडिया
Sanskrit Wikipedia logo
Screenshot
Screenshot of Sanskrit Wikipedia's Main Page in January 2005
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available in
संस्कृतम् (Sanskrit)
Owner
Wikimedia Foundation
Created by
Sanskrit wiki community
URL
sa.wikipedia.org
Commercial
Charitable
Registration
Optional
Launched
December 2003; 20 years ago (2003-12)
Current status
Online
Content license
Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies
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Sanskrit Wikipedia (Sanskrit: संस्कृत विकिपीडिया; IAST: Saṃskṛta Vikipīḍiyā) (also known as sawiki) is the Sanskrit edition of Wikipedia, a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its five thousand articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, with major concentration of contributors in India and Nepal.
Founded in December 2003, it reached five thousand articles by August 2011.[1][2][3][4]
The Sanskrit Wikipedia Community also participated in a project named Tell us about your Wikipedia,[5] and Community news from Sanskrit Wikipedia also came on WikiPatrika, a community-written and community-edited newspaper, covering stories, events and reports related to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation sister projects in India.[2]
As of 7 May 2024, it has 12,179 articles and is the 158th largest version of Wikipedia.[6]The Times of India considered that "Sanskrit was making a comeback, thanks to Wikipedia community"[7]Mother India considered the Sanskrit Wikipedia as a "wonderful learning tool"[8]
^"Who Says Sanskrit Is Dead? It's Rocking the Wiki World". Quint. October 27, 2016. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
^ ab"WikiPatrika/2011-06/Community News/sa". Wikimedia India Chapter. June 9, 2011. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved September 22, 2011.
^"Wikimedia News". Meta, discussion about Wikimedia projects. August 6, 2011. Retrieved September 21, 2011.
^"Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-08-08/News and notes". Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. August 11, 2011. Retrieved September 21, 2011.
^"Tell us about Sanskrit Wikipedia". Meta, discussion about Wikimedia projects. May 20, 2011. Retrieved September 22, 2011.
^Meta contributors (August 28, 2016). "List of Wikipedias". Meta, discussion about Wikimedia projects. Retrieved August 28, 2016. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
^The Times of India: Sanskrit makes a comeback, thanks to Wikipedia community
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