Balinese Wikipedia

This page is last updated on May 2023

This page is a descriptive article on the Balinese Wikipedia, feel free to add any comment.

Facts

The Balinese language Wikipedia started on October 19th, 2019. Its first article was about Kaca utama (Main Page).

Areas of weakness

• Too many stubs, especially with geographical articles.
• Some (many) articles are not referenced well.

Features

What are some unique practices/characteristics?

• The only wikipedia in Indonesia using both scripts, Balinese and Latin scripts.
• Create WikiPustaka and WikiLontar, the first project in Wikipedia about manuscripts.

Who were the earliest participants, who started it?

• User:Angayubagia
• User:Chinamoonroll
• User:Wandering ant
• User:Kadek Ayu Sulastri (a Balinese speaker)
• User:Siti Noviali (a Balinese speaker)
• User:Luh Gede Krismayanti (a Balinese speaker)
• Carma Citrawati (a Balinese speaker), won Newcomer Wikipedians in 2021.
• Bayu Gita (deceased, Balinese lecturer and speaker)

Administators

List of admins

Statistics

• Statistics

See also

• Wikimedia Indonesia
• Wikimedia movement in Indonesia
• Administrators of Wikimedia projects/Indonesian projects