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Telugu Wikipedia
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Telugu-language edition of Wikipedia
Telugu Wikipedia is the version of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia written in Telugu, a major language spoken by millions of people in India and around the world. It makes knowledge and information accessible to Telugu speakers who may prefer to read and learn in their native language rather than English or other languages.
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- తెలుగు వికీపీడియా
- Owned by
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Operator
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Official website
- te.wikipedia.org
- Image
- Telugu Wikipedia main page screenshot 15.12.2013.png
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- DuckDuckGo bang
- tewiki
- Commons category
- Telugu Wikipedia
- language of work or name
- Telugu
- inception
- 2003-12-09
- copyright license
- GNU Free Documentation License
- Wikimedia language code
- te
- product or material produced
- online encyclopedia
- number of records
- 121033
- API endpoint URL
- te.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
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Encyclopedic overview
The Telugu Wikipedia (Telugu: తెలుగు వికీపీడియా, romanized: Telugu Vikīpīḍiyā) is the Telugu-language version of Wikipedia. It had begun on 10 December 2003 by Nagarjuna Venna, who is known for Padma (a system for transforming text in Indic scripts among open-source and proprietary formats). On 26 September 2024, its article count reached the 100k milestone and it is the fifth largest Indian-language Wikipedia by article count, after Urdu, Tamil, Hindi, and Bengali.
Background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Telugu Wikipedia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.