Santali Wikipedia
Santal-language edition of Wikipedia
The Santali Wikipedia (Santali: ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱣᱤᱠᱤᱯᱤᱰᱤᱭᱟ) is the Santali language version of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. The site was launched on 2 August 2018. The Santali language's own alphabet, Ol Chiki, has been used as the alphabet of this Wikipedia. Santali is a language in the Munda subfamily of Austroasiatic languages, spoken by around 7.4 million people in South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Bhutan and Nepal).
History
The Santali Wikipedia was in incubator stage since September 2010. The process of creating a Santali-language Wikipedia began in 2012 and, later on, picked up momentum in February 2017. Back in 2012, Wikimedia Bangladesh organized a Wikipedia meetup and workshop with the Santali language community in Dinajpur District of Bangladesh with the goal of launching a Santali language Wikipedia.
However, that process slowed after some time.
Then in September 2017, Wikimedia Bangladesh organized another meeting with the Santali language community in a Dhaka Wikipedia meetup where a decision was made to expedite the launch of the Wikipedia. Following that discussion, a workshop was organized in Dhaka by Wikimedia Bangladesh for the Santali-language community on 30 December 2017.
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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 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55950814. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2018, 2010, 2012 and 2017.
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This entry incorporates text from “Santali 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.