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Editors
CategoryCategory:Indonesian Wikipedians
Major Wikipedias by active editors
(5-99 edits per month)
Indonesian~1740 (~60% of country, ~93% of project)
English~870 (~30% of country, ~2% of project)
Malay~50 (~2% of country, ~13% of project)
Japanese~30 (~0.9% of country, ~0.3% of project)
Sundanese~30 (~0.9% of country, ~58% of project)
Balinese~30 (~0.9% of country, ~54% of project)
Spanish~20 (~0.5% of country, ~0.2% of project)
Minangkabau~20 (~0.5% of country, ~63% of project)
Turkmen~20 (~0.5% of country, ~56% of project)
Korean~20 (~0.5% of country, ~0.6% of project)
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Major Wikipedias by very active editors
(100+ edits per month)
Indonesian~180 (~62% of country, ~88% of project)
English~80 (~27% of country, ~1% of project)
Readers
Major projects by monthly pageviews
Indonesian Wikipedia~123.04M (~58% of country, ~92% of project)
English Wikipedia~77.25M (~37% of country, ~0.9% of project)
Indonesian Wiktionary~1.55M (~0.7% of country, ~90% of project)
Chinese Wikipedia~839K (~0.4% of country, ~0.2% of project)
Commons~829K (~0.4% of country, ~0.8% of project)
Indonesian Wikibooks~554K (~0.3% of country, ~88% of project)
Japanese Wikipedia~544K (~0.3% of country, ~0% of project)
Malay Wikipedia~507K (~0.2% of country, ~3% of project)
English Wiktionary~480K (~0.2% of country, ~0.8% of project)
Russian Wikipedia~432K (~0.2% of country, ~0% of project)
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This page documents the existence of the Wikimedia movement in Indonesia: the world's largest island country, the 14th-largest country by land area, and world's fourth-most populous country.

Major entities within the Wikimedia movement in Indonesia are the projects, affiliate, and like-minded partner organizations.

Languages

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Indonesia has more than 700 local languages. Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language) is the national language.

As of May 2024, there are 18 languages of Indonesia that has at least one Wikimedia project.

  • Indonesian (id): Indonesian is spoken in neighboring countries such as Malaysia, Brunei, Timor Leste, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, etc. as well.
  • Javanese (jv): spoken in Indonesia and Suriname.
    • Banyumasan Javanese (map-bms): regarded as a dialect of Javanese, thus it doesn't have its own language code.
  • Sundanese (su)
  • Buginese (bug)
  • Banjar (bjn)
  • Acehnese (ace)
  • Minangkabau (min)
  • Gorontalo (gor)
  • Balinese (ban)
  • Madurese (mad)
  • Nias (nia)
  • Mandailing (btm)
  • Batak Toba (bbc)
  • Betawi (bew)
  • Komering (kge)
  • Malay (ms): at that time, the language code (ms) was regarded as separate language, but now it is regarded as a macrolanguage (LoC) or nuclear family (Glottolog). Currently the code for Malay (individual) language is msa/zlm. The code for Malaysian Malay is zsm. (See the many language codes in the infobox of w:Malay language)
  • Tetun (tet)

Projects

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Currently, there are 45 Wikimedia projects in the languages of Indonesia: 18 Wikipedias, 11 Wiktionaries, 7 Wikisources, 5 Wikiquotes, 3 Wikibooks, and 1 Wikivoyage.

Wikipedias

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Currently, there are 18 Wikipedia projects in the languages of Indonesia.

Logo Date of creation Request Project Main page Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Files Depth
May 30, 2003 pre-LPP id - Indonesian id.wikipedia.org 768836 4158831 29093034 47 1674293 15778 66063 136
October 26, 2002 pre-LPP ms - Malay ms.wikipedia.org 437905 1180458 6808245 13 390359 1833 17903 16
February 6, 2013 Request min - Minangkabau min.wikipedia.org 229269 474350 3345735 6 23513 66 180 8
March 8, 2004 pre-LPP jv - Javanese jv.wikipedia.org 75141 186265 1744770 5 71417 148 4343 20
March 15, 2004 pre-LPP su - Sundanese su.wikipedia.org 62652 100327 696348 7 35602 70 419 2
October 14, 2019 Request ban - Balinese ban.wikipedia.org 36457 75280 255981 4 84642 94 141 3
October 24, 2005 Request bug - Buginese bug.wikipedia.org 15954 20507 210142 1 15184 27 0 0
March 24, 2006 Request map-bms - Banyumasan map-bms.wikipedia.org 13942 30395 222030 1 19787 19 452 10
October 17, 2010 Request bjn - Banjar bjn.wikipedia.org 11849 35834 109916 3 17144 47 2 12
August 12, 2009 Request ace - Acehnese ace.wikipedia.org 13045 28065 157234 4 32776 58 0 7
April 18, 2018 Request gor - Gorontalo gor.wikipedia.org 15100 25001 67049 3 8346 37 0 1
December 15, 2020 Request mad - Madurese mad.wikipedia.org 5265 15790 57367 4 4859 41 0 14
January 11, 2021 Request nia - Nias nia.wikipedia.org 1770 4474 27231 2 2788 11 0 14
October 7, 2023 Request bbc - Batak Toba bbc.wikipedia.org 1413 2687 16374 2 2467 13 0 4
March 24, 2006 Request tet - Tetum tet.wikipedia.org 1384 3973 70149 2 11268 14 0 61
May 16, 2024 Request bew - Betawi bew.wikipedia.org 3233 7730 34002 6 3312 78 0 8
June 23, 2024 Request btm - Mandailing btm.wikipedia.org 1210 2724 12252 1 1499 21 0 7
September 24, 2024 Request kge - Komering kge.wikipedia.org 2900 2724 31892 0 1416 11 0 2

Wiktionaries

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Currently, there are 11 Wiktionary projects in the languages of Indonesia.

Logo Date of creation Request Project Main page Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Files Depth
September 19, 2004 pre-LPP id - Indonesian id.wiktionary.org 174327 267190 1348713 7 47282 122 3 1
December 11, 2004 pre-LPP jv - Javanese jv.wiktionary.org 81955 95849 220885 2 5052 8 1 0
May 24, 2004 pre-LPP ms - Malay ms.wiktionary.org 43491 104719 276333 6 10577 54 3 5
October 21, 2019 Request min - Minangkabau min.wiktionary.org 14141 15528 60400 3 1497 7 0 0
January 4, 2023 Request gor - Gorontalo gor.wiktionary.org 12724 13330 32106 2 807 6 0 0
October 5, 2004 pre-LPP su - Sundanese su.wiktionary.org 3652 6187 23825 1 2885 15 1 1
January 11, 2021 Request nia - Nias nia.wiktionary.org 6362 9757 56216 3 1261 18 0 1
July 26, 2023 Request btm - Mandailing btm.wiktionary.org 4186 4372 13594 2 683 6 0 0
August 17, 2022 Request bjn - Banjar bjn.wiktionary.org 3344 6134 25842 2 886 9 0 2
September 25, 2024 Request mad - Madurese mad.wiktionary.org 9370 10327 35739 1 574 14 0 0
August 21, 2025 Request bew - Betawi bew.wiktionary.org 6033 9917 60153 3 428 7 0 2

Wikisources

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Currently, there are 7 Wikisource projects in the languages of Indonesia.

Logo Date of creation Request Project Main page Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Files Depth
October 6, 2005 pre-LPP id - Indonesian id.wikisource.org 9077 87500 267528 9 26897 45 303 228
August 4, 2021 Request jv - Javanese jv.wikisource.org 3114 22753 72552 3 1900 12 149 126
June 30, 2021 Request ban - Balinese ban.wikisource.org 5186 36440 123396 2 1680 5 0 122
August 16, 2023 Request su - Sundanese su.wikisource.org 405 12789 47600 1 1083 10 0 3480
April 23, 2024 Request ms - Malay ms.wikisource.org 1098 7876 22383 2 1185 12 0 108
August 11, 2025 Request mad - Madurese mad.wikisource.org 207 1115 4285 2 313 8 0 73
October 28, 2025 Request min - Minangkabau min.wikisource.org 735 4357 15352 2 309 4 0 85

Wikiquotes

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Currently, there are 5 Wikiquote projects in the languages of Indonesia.

Logo Date of creation Request Project Main page Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Files Depth
October 25, 2005 pre-LPP id - Indonesian id.wikiquote.org 3471 9897 51892 3 20774 39 5 17
September 2, 2004 pre-LPP su - Sundanese su.wikiquote.org 2421 3949 15824 1 2185 10 6 1
October 7, 2023 Request bjn - Banjar bjn.wikiquote.org 641 1336 6042 2 624 11 0 5
October 1, 2024 Request gor - Gorontalo gor.wikiquote.org 124 1641 15798 1 460 10 0 1440
September 18, 2025 Request ms - Malay ms.wikiquote.org 232 1493 7159 2 512 42 0 141

Wikibooks

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Currently, there are 3 Wikibooks projects in the languages of Indonesia.

Logo Date of creation Request Project Main page Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Files Depth
July 31, 2004 pre-LPP id - Indonesian id.wikibooks.org 5549 21217 114838 3 42115 92 862 43
August 24, 2004 pre-LPP ms - Malay ms.wikibooks.org 558 3582 16039 3 3545 15 76 131
September 4, 2025 Request min - Minangkabau min.wikibooks.org 527 2112 9489 2 335 12 0 40

Sundanese Wikibooks (su.wikibooks.org) was closed without community consultation in 2012.

Wikivoyage

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Currently, there is 1 Wikivoyage project in the languages of Indonesia.

Logo Date of creation Request Project Main page Articles Total Edits Admins Users Active Users Files Depth
December 2, 2024 Request id - Indonesian id.wikivoyage.org 1626 3955 33812 3 1294 32 0 17

Other projects

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Affiliate

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Wikimedia Indonesia (WMID) is the Wikimedia affiliate in Indonesia. The chapter was established on September 2008 and has its national office in Jakarta. It is part of the East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific (ESEAP) Hub.

WMID currently financially supports the following local Wikimedia communities:

Logo Community Email
Wikimedians of Bandung bandung@wikimedia.or.id
Banjar Wikimedians banjar@wikimedia.or.id
Wikimedians of Banjarnegara banjarnegara@wikimedia.or.id
Wikimedians of Denpasar denpasar@wikimedia.or.id
Gorontalo Wikimedians gorontalo@wikimedia.or.id
Wikimedians of Jakarta jakarta@wikimedia.or.id
Madura Wikimedians madura@wikimedia.or.id
Wikimedians of Manokwari manokwari@wikimedia.or.id
Wikimedians of Medan medan@wikimedia.or.id
Nias Wikimedians nias@wikimedia.or.id
Wikimedians of Padang padang@wikimedia.or.id
Wikimedians of Palembang palembang@wikimedia.or.id
Wikimedians of Yogyakarta yogyakarta@wikimedia.or.id
Wikidata Indonesia Community idwikidata@wikimedia.or.id
Wikisource Indonesia Community idwikisource@wikimedia.or.id
KlubWiki Universitas Brawijaya klubwikiub@wikimedia.or.id

Partners

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Events

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Offices/community spaces

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as of November 2023

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