Gujarati Wikipedia

Gujarati Wikipedia (abbreviated gu-WP) is the Gujarati-language version of Wikipedia.

Facts and statistics

Started: July 2004

Founders:

Current size: 30,406 articles

Total edits: 866,003

Total users: 78,509 users

Active editors: 68 in the past month

Active administrators: 3 administrators

Total pages: 128,740 pages

Total files: 0 files

Coverage

Gujarati Wikipedia is one of the biggest resource of database in Gujarati language.

Areas of strength

• Breaking news and current events
• Popular culture
• Sports
• Hard sciences

Areas of weakness

• Social sciences
• Humanities
• Arts
• Geography and culture of non-English speaking parts of the world

Operation

Unique qualities

• Highly developed bureaucracy, with intricate rulesets/processes
• Significant weight placed on adminship (despite ostensibly being "no big deal")
• Very active use of software robots for maintenance tasks
• Categorization of redirects. For example, en:Template:R with possibilities marks redirect pages with potential to develop into a standalone article.
• Template-based edit request system for each protection level.

Challenges

• Combating vandalism and promotional editing
• Achieving neutrality and maintaining user trust in an increasingly polarized information landscape
• Addressing systemic bias against women, poor people, non-white people, and other groups underrepresented among editors

Competitors

• Gujarati Vishwakosh

Language aspects

There is no set standard on the variety of Gujarati to use, other than that it should remain consistent within articles.

History and impact

Impact

• One of the most trafficked Gujarati language websites in the world, attracting around 3 million visitors per month (as of March 2020)