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Bengali Wikipedia
The Bengali Wikipedia or Bangla Wikipedia (Bengali: বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া, romanized: Bāṅlā Uikipiḍiẏā) is the Bengali language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. Launched on 27 January 2004, it surpassed 10,000 articles in October 2006, becoming the second South Asian language edition to do so. On 25 December 2020, the site achieved the milestone of 100,000 articles. As of 14 May 2026, the Bengali Wikipedia has 187,240 articles. Although it joined later compared to top Wikipedias, it ranks 5th in terms of article depth among 318 active Wikipedias by language.
As of June 2020, the Bengali Wikipedia is the only online free encyclopedia written in the Bengali language. It is also one of the largest Bengali-content-related sites on the internet. The mobile version of the Bengali Wikipedia was launched in 2010.
It also has a phonetic Latin alphabet-to-Bengali script tool so Latin alphabet keyboards can be used to type Bengali without downloading any software. Community-produced news publications include WikiBarta. Similar to most Wikipedias of the region, the median age of the Bengali Wikipedia's editors is younger than that of many European Wikipedias.
In the 12-month period between February 2022 and January 2023, the Bengali Wikipedia had an average of 346 active editors and was viewed about 248 million times from all over the world.
As of January 2023, the largest amount of pageviews came from Bangladesh, India, the United States and Saudi Arabia, respectively, reflecting the spread of the Bengali language and the geographical reach of Bengali-speaking immigrants. The article সুভাষচন্দ্র বসু (English: Subhas Chandra Bose) was the most viewed article with 74,239 page views.
In February 2002, the developers started creating language-code-based subdomains for different language Wikipedias. Along with other Wikipedia subdomains, the Bengali language subdomain was created at that time. A placeholder page was created automatically in that subdomain on 1 June 2002. On 9 December 2003, a Bangladeshi PhD student at Canada's McGill University, Shah Asaduzzaman, emailed Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales with a request to create the Bengali Wikipedia. As a result, the developers created a test page on Wikipedia named "Home Page" on 26 December of the same year.
The Main Page of the Bengali Wikipedia was created on 27 January 2004, from an IP address, marking the official beginning of the Bengali Wikipedia. 'বাংলা ভাষা' ("Bānglā Bhāshā"; Bengali language in English) was the first article on the Bengali Wikipedia, created on 24 May 2004.
The Bengali Wikipedia launched on 27 January 2004. At that time, the Bengali-speaking population had little interest in Wikipedia. A few students and scholars used the English Wikipedia, but it was not accountable. Besides that, there were various difficulties contributing in Bengali. This scenario changed in 2006. During that time, the Bengali blogging world was growing slowly, and many people became accustomed to Bengali computing, where a free and open-source Bengali typing tool, Avro Keyboard, played a key role. On 25 March 2006, a Wiki team was created by the Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) to popularize Wikipedia throughout the country. The aim was to represent Bengalis to the world through Wikipedia and build a complete encyclopedia in Bengali.
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Bengali Wikipedia
The Bengali Wikipedia or Bangla Wikipedia (Bengali: বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া, romanized: Bāṅlā Uikipiḍiẏā) is the Bengali language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. Launched on 27 January 2004, it surpassed 10,000 articles in October 2006, becoming the second South Asian language edition to do so. On 25 December 2020, the site achieved the milestone of 100,000 articles. As of 14 May 2026, the Bengali Wikipedia has 187,240 articles. Although it joined later compared to top Wikipedias, it ranks 5th in terms of article depth among 318 active Wikipedias by language.
As of June 2020, the Bengali Wikipedia is the only online free encyclopedia written in the Bengali language. It is also one of the largest Bengali-content-related sites on the internet. The mobile version of the Bengali Wikipedia was launched in 2010.
It also has a phonetic Latin alphabet-to-Bengali script tool so Latin alphabet keyboards can be used to type Bengali without downloading any software. Community-produced news publications include WikiBarta. Similar to most Wikipedias of the region, the median age of the Bengali Wikipedia's editors is younger than that of many European Wikipedias.
In the 12-month period between February 2022 and January 2023, the Bengali Wikipedia had an average of 346 active editors and was viewed about 248 million times from all over the world.
As of January 2023, the largest amount of pageviews came from Bangladesh, India, the United States and Saudi Arabia, respectively, reflecting the spread of the Bengali language and the geographical reach of Bengali-speaking immigrants. The article সুভাষচন্দ্র বসু (English: Subhas Chandra Bose) was the most viewed article with 74,239 page views.
In February 2002, the developers started creating language-code-based subdomains for different language Wikipedias. Along with other Wikipedia subdomains, the Bengali language subdomain was created at that time. A placeholder page was created automatically in that subdomain on 1 June 2002. On 9 December 2003, a Bangladeshi PhD student at Canada's McGill University, Shah Asaduzzaman, emailed Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales with a request to create the Bengali Wikipedia. As a result, the developers created a test page on Wikipedia named "Home Page" on 26 December of the same year.
The Main Page of the Bengali Wikipedia was created on 27 January 2004, from an IP address, marking the official beginning of the Bengali Wikipedia. 'বাংলা ভাষা' ("Bānglā Bhāshā"; Bengali language in English) was the first article on the Bengali Wikipedia, created on 24 May 2004.
The Bengali Wikipedia launched on 27 January 2004. At that time, the Bengali-speaking population had little interest in Wikipedia. A few students and scholars used the English Wikipedia, but it was not accountable. Besides that, there were various difficulties contributing in Bengali. This scenario changed in 2006. During that time, the Bengali blogging world was growing slowly, and many people became accustomed to Bengali computing, where a free and open-source Bengali typing tool, Avro Keyboard, played a key role. On 25 March 2006, a Wiki team was created by the Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) to popularize Wikipedia throughout the country. The aim was to represent Bengalis to the world through Wikipedia and build a complete encyclopedia in Bengali.