Wikipedia, which turns 20 on January 15 has over 55 million articles that can be accessed in more than 300 languages.
Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has a long-term commitment to India and is focussing on bringing more users to its platform by meeting language needs and introducing tools to ease access, a top Wikimedia Foundation executive said.
Wikipedia, which is operated by non-profit organisation Wikimedia Foundation, already counts India as its fifth largest market. It gets about 750 million page views a month from the Indian audience.
“India is not just the fifth largest Wikipedia source of traffic for us, it is a country of hundreds of millions of people who have real clear needs for knowledge, and to themselves have knowledge that should be shared and represented with the world…we see the multiplicity of languages as both a opportunity and a challenge,” Wikimedia Foundation CEO Katherine Maher said.
She added that certain language communities are much more active…