Malay Wikipedia

Wikipedia Bahasa Melayu
ويکيڤيديا بهاس ملايو

Screenshot  Wikipedia Bahasa Melayu
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Malay
Headquarters	Miami, Florida
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Website	ms.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional

Malay Wikipedia (Malay: Wikipedia Bahasa Melayu, Jawi script: ويکيڤيديا بهاس ملايو, abbreviation: mswiki) is the Malay edition of Wikipedia. This edition was started in October 26, 2002 and has about 178,000 articles in February 2013 and is the 30th largest Wikipedia. The system was activated by Wikipedia administrator Brion Vibber.^[1][2]

Despite the similarities between Malay and Indonesian, the Malay Wikipedia and Indonesian Wikipedia were started separately by two different user groups. The Indonesian Wikipedia was started about six months after the Malay Wikipedia was. As of 2009, the Indonesian Wikipedia had three times the number of active editors and articles the Malay Wikipedia had. In 2009 Andrew Lih wrote "Because these groups are drawn on national boundaries, merging is not likely to happen soon."^[3]

Starting July 27, 2016, file upload is no longer facilitated at the Malay Wikipedia and instead redirected to Wikimedia Commons. It is the only Wikipedia to do so, however, file upload at the English and other languaged Wikipedia remains facilitated.

Milestones

• 200,000 - March 21, 2013 - Belforte Monferrato
• 190,000 - February 25, 2013 - Galeri Petronas
• 178,000 - February 6, 2013 - Doubravice (Daerah České Budějovice).
• 125,000 - November 15, 2011 - Morbecque.
• 120,000 - June 9, 2011 - La Biolle
• 115,000 - March 22, 2011 - Raj British
• 110,000 - February 23, 2011 - Oëlleville
• 105,000 - February 2, 2011 - Bassy
• 100,000 - January 9, 2011 - Pressigny-les-Pins.

Gallery

Graph of outgrowth of Malay Wikipedia (in Malay).

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  Main Page (March 11, 2004)
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  Main Page (June 30, 2004)
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  Main Page (November 26, 2004)
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  Main Page (September 4, 2006)
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  Main Page (April 1, 2009)
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  Main Page (July 13, 2010)

References

• Lih, Andrew. The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia. Hyperion, New York City. 2009. First Edition. ISBN 978-1-4013-0371-6 (alkaline paper).

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External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Malay Wikipedia.

Malay edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For a list of words relating to Malay Wikipedia, see the Malay language category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Malay

Meta has related information at: Tell us about Malay Wikipedia

Malay Wikipedia repository of Wikisource, the free library

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Malay phrasebook.

• (in Malay) Mobile version of Malay Wikipedia
• (in Malay) History of Malay Wikipedia