Maithili Wikipedia

Maithili Wikipedia
	Screenshot Main Page of Maithili Wikipedia in August 2018
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia
Available in	Maithili
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Website	mai.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Launched	6 November 2014; 9 years ago
Content license	Creative Commons Attribution/; Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL); Media licensing varies

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The Maithili Wikipedia is the Maithili language version of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. The site was launched on November 6, 2014.^[1] As of February 2024, it has articles and registered users. Today, Maithili is written in the Devanagari script ^[2] and the site uses the same. Maithili is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Bihar and Jharkhand states of India and is one of the 22 recognised Indian languages^[3]^[4]^[5] which is also spoken in the eastern Terai of Nepal and is the second most prevalent language of Nepal. It is also one of the 122 recognized Nepalese languages.^[6]^[7]

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The process of creating a Maithili language Wikipedia started in 2008.^[1]^[8]

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**Maithili Wikipedia statistics**
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↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 थारु, बुनु. "जनकपुरका युवा जसले मैथिली विकिपिडियाको सुरुवात गरे". eKantipur (in नेपाली).
↑ Yadava, Y. P. (2013). Linguistic context and language endangerment in Nepal. Nepalese Linguistics 28 Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine: 262–274.
↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2018-08-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 March 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ https://m.livehindustan.com/jharkhand/story-maithili-will-get-second-state-language-status-in-jharkhand-1835624.html
↑ "Nepal". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
↑ Sah, K. K. (2013). "Some perspectives on Maithili". Nepalese Linguistics (28): 179–188.
↑ जोशी, यज्ञराज. "मैथिली विकिपिडिया स्थापना गरेर जो विश्वका १८ योगदानकर्ताभित्र छानिए". nepalkhabar (in Nepali).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

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[eKantipur-1] 1.0 ^1.1 थारु, बुनु. "जनकपुरका युवा जसले मैथिली विकिपिडियाको सुरुवात गरे". eKantipur (in नेपाली).

[Yadava2013-2] Yadava, Y. P. (2013). Linguistic context and language endangerment in Nepal. Nepalese Linguistics 28 Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine: 262–274.

[mha.nic.in-3] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2018-08-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[Archived_copy-4] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 March 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[m.livehindustan.com-5] ttps://m.livehindustan.com/jharkhand/story-maithili-will-get-second-state-language-status-in-jharkhand-1835624.html

[6] "Nepal". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-17.

[Sah2013-7] Sah, K. K. (2013). "Some perspectives on Maithili". Nepalese Linguistics (28): 179–188.

[8] जोशी, यज्ञराज. "मैथिली विकिपिडिया स्थापना गरेर जो विश्वका १८ योगदानकर्ताभित्र छानिए". nepalkhabar (in Nepali).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

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