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Thai Wikipedia

Thai-language edition of Wikipedia

Field	Value
name	Thai Wikipedia
screenshot	ThaiWikipediaMainpageScreenshot12thSeptember2012.png
screenshot_size	264px
logo	Wikipedia-logo-v2-th (2010-08-17 Ver.).svg
logo_size	140px
url
commercial	No
location	Miami, Florida
type	Internet encyclopedia project
language	Thai, Southern Thai
registration	Optional
owner	Wikimedia Foundation
author	Thai wiki community
content_license	(most text also dual-licensed under GFDL)
Media licensing varies

Media licensing varies The Thai Wikipedia () is the Thai language edition of Wikipedia. It was started on 25 December 2003. As of , it has articles and registered users. As of March 2022, Wikipedia (all languages combined) was ranked 14th in Alexa's Top Sites Thailand.

As of January 2021, the Thai Wikipedia is the most visited Wikipedia in both Thailand and Laos. In Laos the position of the most popular language version of Wikipedia alternates between English and Thai.

On 31 January 2006, the Thai Wikipedia was first recognized along with English Wikipedia in the Thai press. In 2007, a thesis, Thai Wikipedia and Communicating Knowledge to the Public, was published by a graduate student from the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University.

The Thai Wikipedia was mentioned during a public forum during the 2005-2006 Thai political crisis when a speaker suggested that Thai people should read Wikipedia's article on Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister.

The Thai Wikipedia is the second online encyclopedia in the Thai language after the Thai Junior Encyclopedia Project, which was developed under the patronage of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

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Thai Wikipedia
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Thai Wikipedia statistics as of 4 October 2007. It shows about 28,000 articles (shown in dots) and 32,000 users (orange bars).

25 December 2003: The Thai main page created after first created on 16 March 2003 with the word "Describe the new page here."
27 December 2003: The first article created containing only one word "ดาราศาสตร์" (astronomy) and 32 interwiki links. After that it became a stub on 31 May 2004.
28 February 2004: The real first article, วิทยาการคอมพิวเตอร์ (computer science), was created.
21 April 2004: 100th article, ห้องอนาคต (Time & Time Travel, a fiction)
17 August 2004: 500th article, สนเกรวิลเลีย (Grevillea)
10 March 2005: 1,000th article, แฮร์รี่ พอตเตอร์ (Harry Potter)
1 May 2005: The first featured article, แฟร็กทัล (fractal)
September 2005: More than 30 university students registered and wrote articles as their homework.
28 October 2005: 5,000th article, เปาบุ้นจิ้น (Bao Zheng)
31 January 2006: Press coverage in onopen.com
March 2006: Mass content addition of articles about years from 543 BC (Buddhist Era 1) to about 1800 semi-manually by using JavaScript. About 2,500 stubs are added.
14 March 2006: 10,000th article, มหาวิทยาลัยเพนซิลเวเนียสเตต (Pennsylvania State University)
16 March 2007: 20,000th article, อาริเอส มู (Aries Mu)
10 December 2007: 30,000th article, หลิว เต๋อหัว (Andy Lau)
26 October 2008: 40,000th article, ฤทธิ์ดาบไม้ไผ่ (Bamboo Blade)
4 September 2009: 50,000th article, พระนันทะ (Nanda, half brother of Buddha)
30 January 2016: 100,000th article, คริสต์ทศวรรษ 1940 (1940s)

References

Statistics page of Thai Wikipedia
Usage statistics from Wikimedia

References

"List of Wikipedias".
[https://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/TH Top sites Thailand] {{Webarchive. link. (1 April 2018 from Alexa)
[https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/lo.wikipedia.org/reading/page-views-by-country/normal. table. last-month. (access)~desktopmobile-appmobile-web. monthly Wikimedia Stats]
link. (9 November 2007 on 26 July 2006)

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