Malayalam Wikipedia
Malayalam-language edition of Wikipedia
The Malayalam Wikipedia (Malayalam: മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയ, romanized: Malayalam Vikkipediya) is the Malayalam edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia, and was launched on 21 December 2002. The project is the leading Wikipedia among other South Asian language Wikipedias in various quality matrices. It has grown to be a wiki containing 89,077 articles as of September 2026, and ranks 13th in terms of depth among Wikipedias.
History
Beginning
Malayalam language Wikipedia is available in the wikipedia.org domain from 21 December 2002. User Vinod M. P. had taken initiatives for it. For the two years following its creation, he had been the key person striving to keep the wiki active. Almost all the early users of Malayalam Wikipedia were non-resident Malayalees. The growth of the Wikipedia during these times was heavily constrained due to OS and browser related issues, rendering issues, Unicode related issues, and so on.
Initial growth phase
By the middle of 2002, unicode and input tools had become popular. Blogging in Malayalam became widespread.
“Malayalam Wikipedia” enters the record as malayalam-language edition of Wikipedia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Malayalam, Wikipedia and Malayalam-language can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q874555. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002 and 2026.
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This entry incorporates text from “Malayalam Wikipedia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.