Bangla Wikipedia

Also known as bnwiki, BNWP, bnwikipedia, bn.wikipedia.org, bn.wp, bnwp, Bengali Wikipedia, bn wikipedia

Bengali-language edition of Wikipedia

AI overview

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.

AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.

In the Vinony graph

Within Vinony's link graph, Bangla Wikipedia is referenced by 132 other articles, and connects out to list of Wikipedias, United States and India.

It sits within the topics 2004 establishments in Bangladesh, Bangladeshi encyclopedias and Bengali-language encyclopedias.

Its subject is documented across 63 Wikipedia language editions.

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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web feed URL: bn.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=potd&feedformat=atom
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
random page URL: bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B7:%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE

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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.