Kannada Wikipedia

The Kannada Wikipedia (Kannada: ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ) is the Kannada-language edition of Wikipedia. Started in June 2003, it is moderately active and as of August 2025, it has 33,879 articles with 128 active users.^[1][2] It is the twelfth-most popular Wikipedia in the Indian subcontinent.^[3]

Kannada Wikipedia

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Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Kannada
Headquarters	Miami, Florida
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
URL	kn.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Content license	Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies

The Kannada Wikipedia community held a meeting in Bangalore on 2 April 2006, which got fairly high press coverage.^[4]

History

The cake for the 9th anniversary of the Kannada Wikipedia.

As of 16 August 2009 the Kannada Wikipedia had about 6,800 articles,^[5] making it the 100th-biggest Wikipedia edition.

As of January 2016, the Kannada Wikipedia is the tenth-largest Indian-language Wikipedia, behind Urdu, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati, and Punjabi. Administrator Omshivaprakash attributes the lack of articles to a lack of interest among the Kannada-speaking community, a lack of awareness of the Kannada Wikipedia and Kannada typing tools, and limited Internet access in parts of Karnataka.^[6]

Users and editors

Kannada Wikipedia statistics

Number of user accounts	Number of articles	Number of files	Number of administrators
92590	33879	2356	4

See also

• Telugu Wikipedia
• Tamil Wikipedia
• Malayalam Wikipedia
• Tulu Wikipedia
• Marathi Wikipedia