The Kannada Wikipedia () is the Kannada-language edition of Wikipedia. Started in June 2003, it is moderately active and as of , it has articles with active users. It is the twelfth-most popular Wikipedia in the Indian subcontinent.
The Kannada Wikipedia community held a meeting in Bangalore on 2 April 2006, which got fairly high press coverage.
History
As of 16 August 2009 the Kannada Wikipedia had about 6,800 articles,Statistics - Wikipedia making it the 100th-biggest Wikipedia edition.
As of January 2016, the Kannada Wikipedia is the tenth-largest Indian-language Wikipedia, behind Urdu, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati, and Punjabi. Administrator Omshivaprakash attributes the lack of articles to a lack of interest among the Kannada-speaking community, a lack of awareness of the Kannada Wikipedia and Kannada typing tools, and limited Internet access in parts of Karnataka.
Users and editors + Kannada Wikipedia statistics Number of user accounts Number of articles Number of files Number of administrators
See also Telugu Wikipedia Tamil Wikipedia Malayalam Wikipedia Tulu Wikipedia Marathi Wikipedia
References
ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಟ್ಟ ಸಸಿಗೆ ಈಗ ಹತ್ತು ವರ್ಷ | - Kannadaprabha.com
Further reading Statistics for Kannada Wikipedia by Erik Zachte
External links
Kannada Wikipedia