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| Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
|---|---|
| Available in | Burmese |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | Burmese Misplaced Pages community |
| URL | my.wikipedia.org |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 30 July 2004 |
| Current status | Active but banned in Myanmar |
| Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
The Burmese Misplaced Pages (Burmese: မြန်မာဝီကီပီးဒီးယား pronounced [mjəmà wɪkɨˈpiːdiə]) is the Burmese language edition of the free online encyclopedia Misplaced Pages. This edition was started in July 2004, and has about 109,000 articles as of January 2025.
As of January 2025, there are about 126,000 users, 4 admins and 2,913 files on the Burmese Misplaced Pages, ranking 71st by article count.
History
Timeline
- 2004: Burmese Misplaced Pages launched.
- 2005: Some of Burmese Wikipedians joined and started writing.
- 2008: Content grew drastically.
- 2010: First Burmese Misplaced Pages workshop held at Bangkok, Thailand with people from Wikimedia Foundation, local and international Unicode experts and Burmese Wikipedians.
- 2012: Burmese Misplaced Pages was introduced at Barcamp Yangon.
Events and promotions
| Burmese Misplaced Pages (update) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Articles | 108595 | ||
| Files | 2913 | ||
| Edits | 855734 | ||
| Users | 125934 | ||
| Active users | 136 | ||
| Admins | 4 | ||
The Myanmar Computer Professionals Association had launched Misplaced Pages Myanmar project with the aim of expanding Misplaced Pages in 2010.
The Burmese Misplaced Pages community had held their first joint workshop in Yangon, Burma (Myanmar) with the help of Telenor Myanmar in June 2014 to recruit new volunteers. The Burmese Misplaced Pages Forum was held at Dagon University in July 2014 attracting over 2,000 people, including students.
Challenges
The majority of Burmese internet users used the non-Unicode Zawgyi font so they have difficulty viewing Burmese Misplaced Pages before 2019.
References
- "Misplaced Pages Statistics - Tables - Burmese". wikimedia.org. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
- ^ The Myanmar Times (22 November 2010). "Myanmar Misplaced Pages project targets 15,000 pages". mmtimes.com. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
- "Telenor Group - Bringing Misplaced Pages to Myanmar". Telenor Group. July 2014. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
- ^ Win Htut. "Telenor hosts Misplaced Pages forum at Dagon University". Eleven Myanmar. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
- The Myanmar Times (3 November 2014). "Spark of knowledge starts with Misplaced Pages". mmtimes.com. Archived from the original on 2015-02-28. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
External links
- (in Burmese) Burmese Misplaced Pages
- (in Burmese) Burmese Misplaced Pages mobile version