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TheBengali Wikipedia or Bangla Wikipedia (Bengali: বল উইকপডয়) is the Bengali language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. Launched on 27 January 2004, it surpassed 10,000 articles in October 2006, becoming the second South-Asian language to do so.[1] On 25 December 2020, the site achieved the milestone of 100,000 articles. As of 28 July 2024, the Bengali Wikipedia has 155,572 articles.[2][3] Though it joined later compared to top wikipedias, it ranks 5th in terms of article depth among 318 active wikipedias by language.[4]

As of June 2020, the Bengali Wikipedia is the only online free encyclopedia written in the Bengali language. It is also one of the largest Bengali content related sites on the internet. The mobile version of the Bengali Wikipedia was launched in 2010.[5]

It also has a phonetic Latin alphabet to Bengali script tool so Latin alphabet keyboards can be used to type Bengali without downloading any software. Community-produced news publications include WikiBarta. Similar to most Wikipedias of the region, the median age of the Bengali Wikipedia's editors is younger than that of many European Wikipedias.

Between the 12-month period between February 2022 and January 2023, the Bengali Wikipedia had at average of 346 active editors[6][7] and was viewed about 248 million times[8] from all over the world.

As of January 2023, the largest amount of pageviews came from Bangladesh, India, the United States and Saudi Arabia, respectively, reflecting the spread of the Bengali language and the geographical reach of Bengali-speaking immigrants. The article সুভষচন্দ্র বসু (English: Subhas Chandra Bose) was the most viewed article with 74,239 page views.[9]

In February 2002, the developers started creating language-code based sub-domains for different language Wikipedias. Along with other Wikipedia sub-domains, the Bengali language sub-domain was created at that time.[10] A placeholder page was created automatically in that sub-domain on 1 June 2002.[11] On 9 December 2003, a Bangladeshi Ph.D. student of Canada's McGill University named Shah Asaduzzaman emailed Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales with a request to create the Bengali Wikipedia.[12][13] As a result, the developers created a test page on the Wikipedia named "Home Page" on 26 December of the same year.[13]

The Main Page of the Bengali Wikipedia was created on 27 January 2004, from an IP address, marking the official beginning of the Bengali Wikipedia. 'বল ভষ' ("Bānglā Bhāshā"; Bengali Language in English) is the first article on the Bengali Wikipedia, which was created on 24 May 2004.

The Bengali Wikipedia started its journey on 27 January 2004.[14][15] Back then, the Bengali-speaking population had little interest in Wikipedia. A few students and scholars used the English Wikipedia, but it was not accountable. Besides that, there were various difficulties contributing in Bengali. The whole scenario had changed as of 2006.[16] During that time, the Bengali blogging world was growing slowly, and many people became accustomed to Bengali computing where a free and open-source Bengali typing tool, Avro Keyboard, played a key role. On 25 March 2006, a Wiki team was created by the Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) to popularize Wikipedia throughout the country.[16] The aim was to represent Bengalis to the world through Wikipedia and build a complete encyclopedia in Bengali.

At that time, Bengali Wikipedia had only 500 articles. The 'BdOSN wiki team' managed to spread the word through some newspapers and start a Bengali Wiki mailing list. Soon, many Bengali-speaking people from Bangladesh, India and abroad joined them in this dynamic project. As a result, by the end of October, the Bengali Wikipedia got to 10,000 articles.[16] Among the South Asian language Wikipedias, the Bengali Wikipedia reached that milestone first, and many of these articles were illustrated with photos from the demonstrator of the Bengali Language Movement, Rafiqul Islam, who donated all his historical photographs taken during the language movement to Wikimedia Commons.[16]

The very low activity of the Bengali Wikipedia for many years, mostly in the period between 2007 and 2013, can be attributed to the very low number of internet users in Bangladesh, especially in the first decade of the 21st century (in 2010, there were only 556,000 internet users in Bangladesh according to research). Thus it ranked below many other languages with much fewer speakers, including regional languages of Western Europe.[17]

Since 2018, the Bengali Wikipedia has begun to experience a very strong growth in articles, as more than 16 thousand articles were written in 2019[26] and 21 thousand articles in 2020,[27] from just 8.8 thousand articles in 2018.[28] This growth can be attributed to a mixture of successful editathons and the arrival of many prolific contributors.

The Bengali Wikipedia now has 155,572 articles on various topics with 848 active editors per month. As of January 2019, Bengali Wikipedia is the only online free encyclopedia written in the Bengali language.[29][30] It is also one of the largest Bengali content related sites on the internet.[31] Statistically, since early 2019, the Bengali Wikipedia has recorded significant growth. The number of articles has increased from 63,000 to nearly 101,000 in just two years and the number of active users has increased to above a thousand.[32] The number of edits has also recorded significant growth.[33]

The Bengali Wikipedia has about 155,572 articles (On July 2024). It features thousands of articles about Bangladesh and India, although it lacks some articles about the latter, and about Europe as well. Due to the history of Bangladesh, Pakistan-related themes are also well covered on the Bengali Wikipedia. The main religions of Bengal, Hinduism and Islam, have good, expansive coverage in Bengali. Most contributors are based in Bangladesh, and a fair minority in West Bengal; however, very few users are based in other Bengali-speaking areas of India or abroad.

The main deficits of the Bengali Wikipedia are the content gaps in some articles, and parts of policy pages which are still untranslated, a problem that also appears on other wikis. The Bengali Wikipedia's advantages are, among others, strong activity and a large number of editors for its small amount of articles and the expanding coverage on its focus areas (Bangladesh and India). Themes such as women's rights are well-covered on the Bengali Wikipedia. Also, thematic editathons take place frequently in Bengali, and have contributed nearly 12,000 articles to the Bengali Wikipedia. The pageviews of the Bengali Wikipedia are ranging around 18 to 21 million per month, as of October 2022.[35]

During May 2022, the Bengali Wikipedia received 12 million pageviews in Bangladesh and 4 million pageviews in India. Small numbers of pageviews also come from the United States and from the Gulf states,[38] where there are sizable Bengali-speaking migrant communities.[39] It is Bangladesh's second most popular language version of Wikipedia, behind English, but in India it does not receives more than the 1% of the Wikipedia pageviews in this country.[40]

The significant number of people who live under the poverty line in Bangladesh (20.5% as of 2019)[41] and lower penetration of internet in Bangladesh[42] and India is one of the causes for the still low number of articles in Bengali. Also to blame is the socioeconomic context of Bangladesh and West Bengal as a whole.[43]

Over the years, there has been confusion in Bangladeshi media regarding some information on the Bengali Wikipedia. In April 2018, Bangladeshi print and electronic media reported that Wikipedia named Runa Laila, a renowned singer from Bangladesh, among its Top 30 Bengali people of all time.[44][45][46][47] This confusion arose due to the use of a collage image in the Bengalis article's infobox on the Bengali and English versions of Wikipedia.[48] In August of the same year, an unregistered user added a fake date of death in Muhammed Zafar Iqbal's article, which also attracted media attention.[49][50][51][52]

These are the 10 oldest edits currently residing in the revision database. It appears the first 5 edits are no longer in the revision database. There's a number of things that could have happened to them, a few guesses:

The reason for the high page id (608) is due to the many temporary "pages" created by the software update for the interface messages, between the creation of the wiki and the creation of this (first) article.

The Bangali Wikipedia never had an incubator so there were no imported edits from another wiki. As a result, this query shows no new edits that were made before the "oldest revisions by revision id". Various software updates which all had their timestamp set to 20040129142451. And there are 2 edits that appear to have come from Microsoft-owned IP-addresses that created statistics pages ("User:!Popular articles", "User:!Short articles") in the User namespace (more "User:!"-style statistics pages).

The archive has no id, only timestamp. The archive is where pages and revisions go when a wiki administrator (sysop) deletes them. They can probably be restored today by a bn.wikipedia.org administrator.

The logging feature of the software (mw:Manual:Logging table) wasn't introduced until MediaWiki 1.4 (in 2005). Before that special actions were logged manually in pages, so if there were any such actions logged, they would have shown up in the the revision tables above.

This is an estimated date of when the developers created the "reserved for the creation of a Wikipedia" placeholder pages. It was first captured by Archive.org on 23 July 2002, but (as the archive.org snapshot shows) the revision was created "June 1, 2002".

Durement touche par l'invasion musulmane (fin du XIIe sicle), la culture sanskrite du Bengale se rfugie dans le nord du Bihar, Mithila, non loin de la frontire du Npal. C'est ici que fleurit dans un milieu de brahmanes la posie en langue bengalie, reprsente par Vidyapati (en), le premier grand pote en langue bengalie[14].

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