As of November 2024, there are about 124,000 users, 4 admins and 2,907 files on the Burmese Wikipedia, ranking 71st by article count.[1]
History
Timeline
2004: Burmese Wikipedia launched.
2005: Some of Burmese Wikipedians joined and started writing.
2008: Content grew drastically.
2010: First Burmese Wikipedia workshop held at Bangkok, Thailand with people from Wikimedia Foundation, local and international Unicode experts and Burmese Wikipedians.
2012: Burmese Wikipedia was introduced at Barcamp Yangon.
The Myanmar Computer Professionals Association had launched Wikipedia Myanmar project with the aim of expanding Wikipedia in 2010.[2]
The Burmese Wikipedia community had held their first joint workshop in Yangon, Burma (Myanmar) with the help of Telenor Myanmar in June 2014 to recruit new volunteers.[3] The Burmese Wikipedia Forum was held at Dagon University in July 2014 attracting over 2,000 people, including students.[4]
Challenges
The majority of Burmese internet users used the non-Unicode Zawgyi font so they have difficulty viewing Burmese Wikipedia before 2019.[2][4][5]
