Nepali Wikipedia

The Nepali Wikipedia (Nepali: नेपाली विकिपिडिया) is the Nepali language edition of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation.^[1] As of September 2025 it has 29,461 articles and about 73,000 users, of which 4 are administrators.^[2] As of 8 November 2022, the Nepali Wikipedia is the 110st largest Wikipedia.^[2]

Nepali Wikipedia

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Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Nepali
Founded	3 June 2002; 23 years ago
Headquarters	Miami, Florida, United States
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Jimmy Wales
URL	ne.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

Nepali, using the Devanagari script, requires complex transliteration aids to be typed on devices. Thus, it has a phonetic Latin alphabet converter to Nepali, without having to use any special Nepali-typing software.

History

The Nepali Wikipedia was established on 3 June 2002, one year after the English Wikipedia was started, and it was among the first languages of South Asia to have its own Wikipedia.^[3][4]

Statistics

As of September 2025, the Nepali Wikipedia has about 29,000 articles. The overwhelming majority of its readers originate from Nepal.

Origin of views (2018) Source Nepal   53.6% United States   13.9% China   10.4% France   8.1% India   6.4% Germany   3.7% Other   3.9%

Users and editors

Nepali Wikipedia statistics

Number of user accounts	Number of articles	Number of files	Number of administrators
72,798	29,461	1,461	4

See also

• Tamil Wikipedia
• Bhojpuri Wikipedia
• Maithili Wikipedia
• Hindi Wikipedia
• Sanskrit Wikipedia
• Bengali Wikipedia