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Changing short description from "The Maithili language version of Wikipedia" to "Maithili language version of Wikipedia" (Shortdesc helper)

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{{Short description|Maithili language version of Wikipedia}}
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The '''Maithili Wikipedia''' is the [[Maithili language]] version of [[Wikipedia]], run by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]]. The site was launched on November 6, 2014.<ref name="eKantipur">{{cite web |last1=थारु |first1=बुनु |title=जनकपुरका युवा जसले मैथिली विकिपिडियाको सुरुवात गरे |url=https://ekantipur.com/feature/2021/01/26/161167080558668870.html |website=[[Kantipur (daily)|eKantipur]] |language=ne}}</ref> As of {{Currentmonth}} {{Currentyear}}, it has {{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|mai|N}} articles and {{NUMBEROF|USERS|mai|N}} registered users. Today, Maithili is written in the [[Devanagari]] script <ref name=Yadava2013>Yadava, Y. P. (2013). Linguistic context and language endangerment in Nepal. [http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/nepling/pdf/Nep_Ling_28.pdf Nepalese Linguistics 28] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231341/http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/nepling/pdf/Nep_Ling_28.pdf |date=3 March 2016 }}: 262–274.</ref> and the site uses the same. Maithili is an [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan language]] spoken in the [[Bihar]] and [[Jharkhand]] states of [[India]] and is one of the 22 [[Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India|recognised]] [[languages of India|Indian languages]]<ref name="mha.nic.in">{{Cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/hindi/sites/upload_files/mhahindi/files/pdf/Eighth_Schedule.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-08-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305010536/http://mha.nic.in/hindi/sites/upload_files/mhahindi/files/pdf/Eighth_Schedule.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Archived copy">{{cite web |url=https://khabar.ndtv.com/news/india/prakash-javadekar-likely-to-call-meeting-of-experts-to-promote-maithili-script-1826774 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-03-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321192835/https://khabar.ndtv.com/news/india/prakash-javadekar-likely-to-call-meeting-of-experts-to-promote-maithili-script-1826774 |archive-date=2018-03-21 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="m.livehindustan.com">https://m.livehindustan.com/jharkhand/story-maithili-will-get-second-state-language-status-in-jharkhand-1835624.html</ref> which is also spoken in the eastern [[Terai]] of [[Nepal]] and is the second most prevalent language of Nepal. It is also one of the 122 recognized [[Languages of Nepal|Nepalese language]]s.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/country/NP/languages|title=Nepal|work=Ethnologue|access-date=2018-07-17|language=en}}</ref><ref name=Sah2013>{{cite journal |author=Sah, K. K. |year=2013 |title=Some perspectives on Maithili |journal=Nepalese Linguistics |issue=28 |pages=179–188 }}</ref>

==History==
The process of creating a Maithili language Wikipedia started in 2008.<ref name="eKantipur"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=जोशी |first1=यज्ञराज |title=मैथिली विकिपिडिया स्थापना गरेर जो विश्वका १८ योगदानकर्ताभित्र छानिए |url=https://nepalkhabar.com/society/50111-2021-02-13-13-23-59 |website=nepalkhabar |language=Nepali}}</ref>

== Users and editors ==
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|+ '''Maithili Wikipedia statistics'''
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! Number of user accounts !! Number of articles !! Number of files !!Number of administrators
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| {{NUMBEROF|USERS|mai}} || {{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|mai}} || {{NUMBEROF|FILES|mai}} || {{NUMBEROF|ADMINS|mai}}
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== See also ==
* [[Bhojpuri Wikipedia]]
* [[Hindi Wikipedia]]
* [[Tamil Wikipedia]]
* [[Telugu Wikipedia]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website|mai.wikipedia.org|Maithili Wikipedia official website}}
* [//www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia.org multilingual portal]
* [https://wikimediafoundation.org/ Wikimedia Foundation]
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{{Commons category|Maithili Wikipedia}}

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