Assamese Wikipedia

Assamese-language edition of Wikipedia

Assamese Wikipedia
Assamese Wikipedia logo
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Assamese
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Assamese Wiki community
Editor	Assamese Wiki community
URL	as.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Users	9,957 (1 December 2014)^[1]
Launched	June 2, 2002; 21 years ago (2002-06-02)
Current status	Active
Content license	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 and GFDL, Media licensing varies

The Assamese Wikipedia is the Assamese language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Its domain came into existence on June 2, 2002. In July 2015, it had reached 3,600 articles.^[2]^[3]

It now has 13,347 articles with 41,022 registered users.

The first Assamese Wikipedia workshop was organized in Guwahati University on January 29, 2012, and later another on February 1, 2012, at the Tezpur University in Tezpur to inform people how to edit and add to the wiki. Later on, many other workshops have been organized by community members in different places in Assam.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

References

^ Assamese Wikipedia statistics
^ "Wikipedia Interactive Statistics, Article count". Martin Kozak. Archived from the original on 2014-12-10. Retrieved October 15, 2012.
^ "List of Wikipedias". Wikimedia foundation. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
^ outlookindia.com Archived May 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
^ northeasttoday
^ telegraphindia.com
^ zeenews.india.com