Gujarati Wikipedia

Gujarati Wikipedia (abbreviated gu-WP) is the Gujarati-language version of Wikipedia.

Facts and statistics

Started: July 2004

Founders:

Current size: 30,458 articles

Total edits: 871,979

Total users: 79,819 users

Active editors: 59 in the past month

Active administrators: 3 administrators

Total pages: 130,264 pages

Total files: 0 files

Coverage

Gujarati Wikipedia is one of the biggest resource of database in Gujarati language.


Areas of strength

  • Breaking news and current events
  • Popular culture
  • Sports
  • Hard sciences

Areas of weakness

  • Social sciences
  • Humanities
  • Arts
  • Geography and culture of non-English speaking parts of the world

Operation

Unique qualities

Challenges

  • Combating vandalism and promotional editing
  • Achieving neutrality and maintaining user trust in an increasingly polarized information landscape
  • Addressing systemic bias against women, poor people, non-white people, and other groups underrepresented among editors

Competitors

Language aspects

There is no set standard on the variety of Gujarati to use, other than that it should remain consistent within articles.

History and impact

Milestones/events

Impact

  • One of the most trafficked Gujarati language websites in the world,[1] attracting around 3 million visitors per month (as of March 2020)[2]

References