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Malay Wikipedia

Also known as ms.wikipedia.org, mswikipedia, mswiki, mswp

Malay-language edition of Wikipedia

AI overview

Malay Wikipedia is the version of Wikipedia written in the Malay language, allowing Malay speakers to access and contribute to free, open-source encyclopedia content in their native language. It matters because it helps make reliable information accessible to the millions of people who speak Malay across Malaysia, Brunei, and other regions where it is used.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Malay Wikipedia connects to list of Wikipedias.

Vinony links it to 64 Wikipedia language editions.

Wikidata facts

Official name: Wikipedia Bahasa Melayu
Owned by: Wikimedia Foundation
Operator: Wikimedia Foundation
Official website: ms.wikipedia.org
Image: MalayWikipediaMainpageScreenshot1October2012.png

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Wikimedia language code: ms
product or material produced: online encyclopedia
API endpoint URL: ms.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
Commons category: Malay Wikipedia
copyright license: GNU Free Documentation License
number of records: 338894
language of work or name: Malaysian Malay
inception: 2002-10-26
writing system: Latin script
random page URL: ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khas:Rawak

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Encyclopedic overview

Most popular edition of Wikipedia by country as of December 2022. In grayed-out countries, a local language edition is usually the most popular. Wikipedia is a free multilingual wiki-based open-source online encyclopedia edited and maintained by a community of volunteer editors, started on 15 January 2001 as an English-language encyclopedia. Non-English editions followed in the same year: the German and Catalan editions were created on 16 March, the French edition was created on 23 March, and the Swedish edition was created on 23 May. As of June 2026, Wikipedia articles have been created in 361 editions, with 345 currently active, 16 closed and 11 moved to Wikimedia Incubator.

The Meta-Wiki language committee manages policies on creating new Wikimedia projects. To be eligible, a language must have a valid ISO 639 code, be "sufficiently unique", and have a "sufficient number of fluent users".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Malay Wikipedia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.