Thai Wikipedia

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The Thai Wikipedia is the edition of Wikipedia in the Thai language started in December 2003. As of March 2006, it has more than 15,000 articles, 6 Wikipedia Portals, more than 14,000 registered users, and 17 administrators including 10 bureaucrats.

Along with Thai Wikipedians, two administrators, Ahoerstemeier and Waerth, from Germany and the Netherlands respectively, take a leading role in the project. As of December 2005, there are 150 Wikipedians.

Since Thai Wikipedia is stored in a different database from the majority of Wikipedia editions, where stats.wikimedia.org runs statistics against, many of the statistics on the website are out of date.

As of December 2006, Thai Wikipedia is ranked 17^th in Alexa Top Sites Thailand^[1].

1 Timeline
2 Data
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Timeline

Thai Wikipedia statistics as of March 4^th, 2006. Currently there are 7,652 articles and predicting 10,000 articles in May 2006

25 December 2003: The Thai main page created after first created in 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 in 31 May.
28 February 2004: The real first article created, Computer Science.
21 April 2004: 100 articles, Time & Time Travel (a fiction).
17 April 2004: 500 articles, Grevillea
10 March 2005: 1,000 articles, Harry Potter.
1 May 2005: The first featured article, Fractal.
September 2005: More than 30 university students registered and wrote articles as their homework.
28 October 2005: 5,000 articles, Bao Qingtian.
31 January 2006: Press coverage in onopen.com
March 2006: Mass contenting adding of the year articles from 543 BC (Buddhist Era 1) to about 1800 semi-manually by using JavaScript. About 2,500 stubs are added.
14 March 2006: 10,000 articles, Pennsylvania State University