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The '''Bengali Wikipedia''' or '''Bangla Wikipedia''' is the [[Bengali language]] edition of [[Wikipedia]], the free online encyclopedia. Launched on 27 January 2004, it surpassed 10,000 articles in October 2006, becoming the second South-Asian language to do so.<ref name="Nazmul">{{cite web |url=http://www.monstersandcritics.com/tech/news/article_1206718.php/Bengali_Wikipedia_crosses_10000_articles |title=Bengali Wikipedia crosses 10,000 articles |last=Noronha |first=Frederick |date=30 September 2006 |work=[[Indo-Asian News Service]] |publisher=Monsters and Critics |access-date=25 December 2013  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226084330/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/tech/news/article_1206718.php/Bengali_Wikipedia_crosses_10000_articles |archive-date=26 December 2013}}</ref> On 25 December 2020, the site achieved the milestone of 100,000 articles. As of {{Date}}, the Bengali Wikipedia has [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|bn|N}}]] articles.<ref>This prediction is based on <nowiki>{{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES|bn|N}}</nowiki> Wikipedia template that automatically updates article numbers. So this is not a permanent or fixed count. The number of articles shown here, change in real-time as soon as a new article is created or removed. Therefore, this is not a reliable source and the numbers shown here are subject to change without prior notice.</ref><ref name=DS-1>{{cite news |title=A decade of Bangla Wikipedia An open call |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/bytes/a-decade-of-bangla-wikipedia-an-open-call-15875 |access-date=15 April 2014 |newspaper=[[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)|The Daily Star]] |date=17 March 2014  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323090248/http://www.thedailystar.net/bytes/a-decade-of-bangla-wikipedia-an-open-call-15875 |archive-date=23 March 2014}}</ref> Though, it joined later compared to top Wikipedias, it ranks 5th in terms of article depth among [[List of Wikipedias|318 active wikipedias by language.]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wikipedia article depth - Meta |url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_article_depth |access-date=2023-02-01 |website=meta.wikimedia.org |language=en}}</ref>