Gujarati Wikipedia
Gujarati Wikipedia (abbreviated gu-WP) is the Gujarati-language version of Wikipedia.
Facts and statistics
Started: July 2004
Founders:
Current size: 30,458 articles
Total edits: 871,979
Total users: 79,819 users
Active editors: 59 in the past month
Active administrators: 3 administrators
Total pages: 130,264 pages
Total files: 0 files
Coverage
Gujarati Wikipedia is one of the biggest resource of database in Gujarati language.
Areas of strength
- Breaking news and current events
- Popular culture
- Sports
- Hard sciences
Areas of weakness
- Social sciences
- Humanities
- Arts
- Geography and culture of non-English speaking parts of the world
Operation
Unique qualities
- 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
- 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
Language aspects
There is no set standard on the variety of Gujarati to use, other than that it should remain consistent within articles.
History and impact
Milestones/events
Impact
- One of the most trafficked Gujarati language websites in the world,[1] attracting around 3 million visitors per month (as of March 2020)[2]