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Bangla Wikipedia
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Bengali-language edition of Wikipedia
Bangla Wikipedia is the Bengali-language version of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. It matters because it makes reliable, freely accessible information available to Bengali speakers around the world, helping bridge knowledge gaps in their native language.
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া
- Owned by
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Operator
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Platform
- World Wide Web
- Game engine
- MediaWiki
- Official website
- bn.wikipedia.org
- Image
- Bangla Wikipedia main page screenshot 08.01.2015.png
- Motto
- একটি উন্মুক্ত বিশ্বকোষ, যা সবাই সম্পাদনা করতে পারে
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- search formatter URL
- bn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=$1
- language of work or name
- Bangla
- inception
- 2004-01-27
- Commons category
- Bengali Wikipedia
- copyright license
- GNU Free Documentation License
- IRC channel URL
- irc://irc.freenode.net/#wikipedia-bn
- Wikimedia language code
- bn
- writing system
- Bangla alphabet
- product or material produced
- online encyclopedia
- hashtag
- bnwiki
- issue tracker URL
- phabricator.wikimedia.org
- number of records
- 184468
- API endpoint URL
- bn.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
- social media followers
- 35434
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Encyclopedic overview
The Bengali Wikipedia or Bangla Wikipedia (Bengali: বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া, romanized: Bāṅlā Uikipiḍiẏā) 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 edition to do so. On 25 December 2020, the site achieved the milestone of 100,000 articles. As of 1 June 2026, the Bengali Wikipedia has 187,553 articles. Although it joined later compared to top Wikipedias, it ranks 5th in terms of article depth among 318 active Wikipedias by language.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bangla Wikipedia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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