The Tamil Wikipedia () is the

Tamil language Tamil (; ' , ) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. Tamil is an official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the sovereign nations of Sri Lanka and Singapore, and the Indian territory of P ...

edition of

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established in September 2003, run by the

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. The Tamil Wikipedia is the second largest Wikipedia among Indian languages and the largest Wikipedia by article count(As of

It is also the first and only Wikipedia of Dravidian languages, 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. It has articles and registered users . It crossed 100,000 articles in May 2017.

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Contrary to common academic

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in the Western countries, the Tamil Wikipedia is widely regarded as an important source of information in the

on the Internet.Tamil Wikipedia 1000 Articles CD Project Proposal – Version 1.0 : MAYU’s Personal Blog
The encyclopedia undergoes far less vandalism compared to larger Wikipedia projects, largely because the project has slower growth, mainly due to the lack of computers or Internet service in rural areas of

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil language ...

and Sri Lanka. Most of the project's development comes from the overseas

Tamil diaspora The Tamil diaspora refers to descendants of the Tamil immigrants who emigrated from their native lands (Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Sri Lanka) to other parts of the world. They are found primarily in Malaysia, Arab states of the Persian Gulf, ...

. In April 2010, the Tamil Internet Conference held a contest for college students across the state of Tamil Nadu, India for increasing content on the Tamil Wikipedia. The contest was made with regards to the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010, a meeting of

Tamil Tamil may refer to: * Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia **Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils **Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia * Tamil language, nativ ...

scholars across the world who discuss modern development of the language. With over 2000 contestants enrolled, the contest concluded with the creation of 1,200 new academically reviewed articles on the Tamil Wikipedia in various subjects. In September 2013, the Tamil Wikipedia celebrated its 10th anniversary. For Tamil Wikipedia, 2017 was a very productive year. More than 27,000 articles were written; the majority of them were written in the period between May and July. In June and July, a teacher education program took place, in 3 districts of Tamil Nadu, giving thousands of articles in Tamil Wikipedia.

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* Tamil Wikipedia
Tamil Wikipedia mobile version
* Tamil Wikipedia on Meta-Wiki * /www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia.org multilingual portal
Wikimedia Foundation
* Statistics for Tamil Wikipedia by Erik Zachte * Tamil Wikipedia: A case study, presented at Wikimania 2009 by L. Balasundara Raman {{Wikipedias in Dravidian languages Wikipedias by language Internet properties established in 2003 Tamil-language websites Tamil language encyclopedias Wikipedia in India

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