Tulu Wikipedia

The Tulu Wikipedia is the Tulu language edition of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation.^[1] It currently has 2,844 articles and it is the 249th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count.^[2] It is the 23rd language of India to get a Wikipedia, after eight years in incubation.^[3][4]

Tulu Wikipedia

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Type of site	Internet encyclopedia
Available in	Tulu
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation[1]
URL	tcy.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Open read access. No registration needed for general editing, but necessary for certain tasks including • protected page edit  • page creation  • file upload
Users	7611
Launched	6 August 2016 (as full site)
Content license	Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies

History

Katherine Maher, the executive director of Wikimedia Foundation, announced the launch of the Tulu Wikipedia as a full site at WikiConference India 2016.^[1] It was in incubation since 2008. As of August 2016, it had 200 registered editors, with 10 of them being active, and over 1000 articles.^[5] It was the 23rd language from India to have a Wikipedia edition.^[6] By 2024, it had doubled in size, and had more than 2,100 articles. The Hindu noted in 2024 that the Tulu Wikipedia does not have any institutional support.^[7]

Users and editors

Tulu Wikipedia statistics

Number of user accounts	Number of articles	Number of files	Number of administrators
7611	2844	13	3

See also

• Kannada Wikipedia
• Malayalam Wikipedia
• Tamil Wikipedia
• Telugu Wikipedia