Gujarati Wikipedia
Gujarati Wikipedia (abbreviated gu-WP) is the Gujarati-language version of Wikipedia.
Facts and statistics
[edit]Started: July 2004
Founders:
Current size: 30,438 articles
Total edits: 870,802
Total users: 79,532 users
Active editors: 65 in the past month
Active administrators: 3 administrators
Total pages: 129,927 pages
Total files: 0 files
Coverage
[edit]Gujarati Wikipedia is one of the biggest resource of database in Gujarati language.
Areas of strength
[edit]- Breaking news and current events
- Popular culture
- Sports
- Hard sciences
Areas of weakness
[edit]- Social sciences
- Humanities
- Arts
- Geography and culture of non-English speaking parts of the world
Operation
[edit]Unique qualities
[edit]- Highly developed bureaucracy, with intricate rulesets/processes
- Significant weight placed on adminship (despite ostensibly being "no big deal")
- Very active use of software robots for maintenance tasks
- Categorization of redirects. For example, en:Template:R with possibilities marks redirect pages with potential to develop into a standalone article.
- Template-based edit request system for each protection level.
Challenges
[edit]- Combating vandalism and promotional editing
- Achieving neutrality and maintaining user trust in an increasingly polarized information landscape
- Addressing systemic bias against women, poor people, non-white people, and other groups underrepresented among editors
Competitors
[edit]Language aspects
[edit]There is no set standard on the variety of Gujarati to use, other than that it should remain consistent within articles.
History and impact
[edit]Milestones/events
[edit]Impact
[edit]- One of the most trafficked Gujarati language websites in the world,[1] attracting around 3 million visitors per month (as of March 2020)[2]