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Tamil Wikipedia is the version of Wikipedia written in the Tamil language, allowing Tamil speakers to access and contribute to free, collaborative encyclopedia content in their native language. It matters because it helps ensure that people who primarily speak Tamil can learn and share knowledge without language barriers, while also preserving Tamil as a living language in the digital world.
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The Tamil Wikipedia (Tamil: தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா, romanized: Tamiḻ Vikkippīṭiyā) is the Tamil language edition of Wikipedia established in September 2003, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. The Tamil Wikipedia is the largest Wikipedia among Indian languages and the 59th largest Wikipedia by article count (as of 1 June 2026). It is also the first and only Wikipedia of Dravidian origin to possess more than 150,000 articles (as of 2022). The project is one of the leading Wikipedia among other South Asian language Wikipedia's in various quality matrices. It has 184,915 articles and 260,293 registered users as of 1 June 2026. It crossed 100,000 articles in May 2017.
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