Gujarati Wikipedia
Gujarati Wikipedia (abbreviated gu-WP) is the Gujarati-language version of Wikipedia.
Facts and statistics[edit]
Started: July 2004
Founders:
Current size: 30,392 articles
Total edits: 863,249
Total users: 77,800 users
Active editors: 63 in the past month
Active administrators: 3 administrators
Total pages: 127,943 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]