The homepage of the Tamil Wikipedia (December 2013)
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia
Available in
Tamil
Headquarters
Miami, Florida
Owner
Wikimedia Foundation
URL
ta.wikipedia.org
Commercial
No
Registration
Open read access. No registration needed for general editing, but necessary for certain tasks including
• protected page edit
• page creation
• file upload
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
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 2 May 2024).[1] 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 165,183 articles and 232,227 registered users as of May 2024[update].[3] It crossed 100,000 articles in May 2017.[4]
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