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{{Infobox website
| name = {{Wiki favicon}} Tamil Wikipedia
| logo = [[File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-ta.svg|135px]]
| logo_size = 89%
| logo_caption = Logo of the Tamil Wikipedia
| screenshot = Tamil Wikipedia main page screenshot 15.12.2013.png
| caption = The homepage of the Tamil Wikipedia (December 2013)
| collapsible = yes
| url = {{URL|ta.wikipedia.org}}
| commercial = No
| type = [[Internet encyclopedia]]
| registration = Open read access.<br />No registration needed for general editing, but necessary for certain tasks including {{unbulleted list|•{{thinsp|[[protected page]] edit}}|•{{thinsp|page creation}}|•{{thinsp|file upload}}}}
| language = [[Tamil language|Tamil]]
| num_users = 109,691+ (as of March 2017)
| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]
| author =
| launch_date = September 2003
| location = [[Miami, Florida]]
| content_license = {{nobr|[[Creative Commons licenses|Creative Commons Attribution/<br />Share-Alike]] 3.0}} (most text also dual-licensed under [[GFDL]])<br />Media licensing varies
}}

The '''Tamil Wikipedia''' ({{Lang-ta|தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா}}) is the [[Tamil language]] edition of [[Wikipedia]], run by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]].<ref name=hindu>{{cite news
|url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2009/05/21/stories/2009052150760100.htm
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090528101435/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2009/05/21/stories/2009052150760100.htm
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=May 28, 2009
|title=The Tamil Wiki…six years on
|work=[[The Hindu]]
|access-date=May 26, 2009
|last=Frederick
|first=Prince
|date=May 21, 2009
|location=Chennai, India
}}</ref> It was established in September 2003 and crossed 91,000 articles in March 2017. As of 1 July 2020, the Tamil Wikipedia is the 61st largest Wikipedia and the second largest Wikipedia among Indian languages by article count.[https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Wikipedias&oldid=2828674] It is also the first Wikipedia of [[Dravidian languages|Dravidian origin]] to possess more than 10,000 articles. The project is one of the leading Wikipedia among other South Asian language Wikipedia's in various quality matrices.<ref>[[:stats:EN/TablesWikipediaTA.htm]]</ref> It has more than 91,610 articles and 109,691 registered users {{as of|2017|03|lc=on}}.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Wikipedias&oldid=2828674|title=List of Wikipedias|website=meta.wikimedia.org|access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> It crossed 100,000 articles in May 2017.<ref>[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LIst of Wikipedias]</ref>

== Cultural Significance ==
Contrary to common academic [[Reliability of Wikipedia|criticism of Wikipedia]] in the Western countries, the Tamil Wikipedia is widely regarded as an important source of information in the [[Tamil language]] on the Internet.<ref name="mayuonline.com">[http://mayuonline.com/eblog/2007/01/04/tamil-wikipedia-1000-articles-cd-project-proposal-%E2%80%93-version-10/ Tamil Wikipedia 1000 Articles CD Project Proposal – Version 1.0 : MAYU’s Personal Blog] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206075956/http://mayuonline.com/eblog/2007/01/04/tamil-wikipedia-1000-articles-cd-project-proposal-%E2%80%93-version-10/ |date=2010-12-06 }}</ref> 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]] and [[Sri Lanka]]. Most of the project's development comes from the overseas [[Tamil diaspora]].<ref name="mayuonline.com" /><ref>[http://www.kiruba.com/2009/01/photologue-of-tamil-wikipedia-academy.html The Photologue of the Tamil Wikipedia Academy | kiruba.com]</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/01/stories/2010040162430800.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100411020638/http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/01/stories/2010040162430800.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=April 11, 2010 | location=Chennai, India | work=[[The Hindu]] | title=Move for more Tamil content in Wikipedia | date=April 1, 2010}}</ref> The contest was made with regards to the [[World Classical Tamil Conference 2010]], a meeting of [[Tamil people|Tamil]] 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.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/article457800.ece | location=Chennai, India | work=The Hindu | first=Karthik | last=Madhavan | title=1,200 articles selected to Tamil Wikipedia upload | date=15 June 2010}}</ref>

In September 2013, the Tamil Wikipedia celebrated its 10th anniversary.<ref>{{cite web|last=Subramaniam|first=Karhtik|title=Tamil Wikipedia to celebrate 10 years|url=http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/internet/tamil-wikipedia-to-celebrate-10-years/article5176688.ece|publisher=The Hindu|access-date=13 November 2013}}</ref>

== Users and editors ==

<center>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ '''Tamil Wikipedia statistics'''
|-
! Number of user accounts !! Number of articles !! Number of files !!Number of administrators
|-
| {{NUMBEROF|USERS|ta}} || {{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|ta}} || {{NUMBEROF|FILES|ta}} || {{NUMBEROF|ADMINS|ta}}
|}
</center>

== See also ==
* [[Sinhala wikipedia|Sinhala Wikipedia]]
*[[Bengali Wikipedia]]
* [[Malayalam Wikipedia]]
* [[Telugu Wikipedia]]
* [[Kannada Wikipedia]]
* [[Marathi Wikipedia]]
* [[Hindi Wikipedia]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
{{InterWiki|code=ta}}
{{Commons category}}
* [[:ta:Main page|Tamil Wikipedia]] {{in lang|ta}}
* [http://ta.m.wikipedia.org/ Tamil Wikipedia mobile version]
* [[:meta:Tamil Wikipedia|Tamil Wikipedia on Meta-Wiki]]
* [//www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia.org multilingual portal]
* [https://wikimediafoundation.org/ Wikimedia Foundation]
* [[:stats:EN/TablesWikipediaTA.htm|Statistics for Tamil Wikipedia]] by Erik Zachte
* [[:ta:விக்கிப்பீடியா:Tamil Wikipedia: A Case Study|Tamil Wikipedia: A case study]], presented at [[Wikimania 2009]] by L. Balasundara Raman
{{Wikipedia}}
{{Wikipedias}}

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[[Category:Internet properties established in 2003]]
[[Category:Tamil-language websites]]
[[Category:Tamil language encyclopedias]]

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