The Thai Wikipedia ( th, วิกิพีเดียภาษาไทย) is the Thai language edition of

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. It was started on 25 December 2003. As of , it has articles and registered users. As of March 2022, Wikipedia (all languages combined) was ranked 14th in

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's Top Sites Thailand. As of January 2021, the Thai Wikipedia is the most visited Wikipedia in both Thailand and Laos. In Laos the position of the most popular language version of Wikipedia alternates between English and Thai. On 31 January 2006, the Thai Wikipedia was first recognized along with

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in the Thai press. In 2007, a

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, ''Thai Wikipedia and Communicating Knowledge to the Public'', was published by a graduate student from the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts,

Chulalongkorn University Chulalongkorn University (CU, th, จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย, ), nicknamed Chula ( th, จุฬาฯ), is a public and autonomous research university in Bangkok, Thailand. The university was originally fo ...

. The Thai Wikipedia was mentioned during a public forum during the 2005-2006 Thai political crisis when a speaker suggested that Thai people should read Wikipedia's article on Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister. audio file
on 26 July 2006 The Thai Wikipedia is the second online encyclopedia in the Thai language after the Thai Junior Encyclopedia Project, which was developed under the patronage of King

Bhumibol Adulyadej Bhumibol Adulyadej ( th, ภูมิพลอดุลยเดช; ; ; ( Sanskrit: ''bhūmi·bala atulya·teja'' - "might of the land, unparalleled brilliance"); 5 December 192713 October 2016), conferred with the title King Bhumibol the Grea ...

Timeline

* 25 December 2003: The Thai main page created after first created on 16 March 2003 with the word "Describe the new page here." * 27 December 2003: The first article created containing only one word " ดาราศาสตร์" (astronomy) and 32 interwiki links. After that it became a stub on 31 May 2004. * 28 February 2004: The real first article, วิทยาการคอมพิวเตอร์ (

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), was created. * 21 April 2004: 100th article, ห้องอนาคต ( Time & Time Travel, a fiction) * 17 August 2004: 500th article, สนเกรวิลเลีย (''

Grevillea ''Grevillea'', commonly known as spider flowers, is a genus of about 360 species of evergreen flowering plants in the family Proteaceae. Plants in the genus ''Grevillea'' are shrubs, rarely trees, with the leaves arranged alternately along the b ...

'') * 10 March 2005: 1,000th article, แฮร์รี่ พอตเตอร์ (

Harry Potter ''Harry Potter'' is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at ...

) * 1 May 2005: The first featured article, แฟร็กทัล (

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) * September 2005: More than 30 university students registered and wrote articles as their homework. * 28 October 2005: 5,000th article, เปาบุ้นจิ้น (

Bao Zheng Bao Zheng (; 5 March 999 – 3 July 1062), commonly known as Bao Gong (), was a Chinese politician during the reign of Emperor Renzong in China's Song Dynasty. During his twenty-five years in civil service, Bao consistently demonstrated extr ...

) * 31 January 2006: Press coverage in onopen.com * March 2006: Mass content addition of articles about years from 543 BC (Buddhist Era 1) to about 1800 semi-manually by using

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. About 2,500 stubs are added. * 14 March 2006: 10,000th article, มหาวิทยาลัยเพนซิลเวเนียสเตต (

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855 as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, Penn State becam ...

) * 16 March 2007: 20,000th article, อาริเอส มู (

Aries Mu The following list comprises the characters that form the three ranks of the army of the Greek goddess Athena, in the Japanese manga ''Saint Seiya'' and the canonical sequel and prequel ''Saint Seiya Next Dimension'', written and illustrated by M ...

) * 10 December 2007: 30,000th article, หลิว เต๋อหัว (

Andy Lau Andy Lau Tak-wah (; born 27 September 1961) is a Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter and film producer. He has been one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s, performing in more than 160 films while maint ...

) * 26 October 2008: 40,000th article, ฤทธิ์ดาบไม้ไผ่ ( Bamboo Blade) * 4 September 2009: 50,000th article, พระนันทะ (

Nanda Nanda may refer to: Indian history and religion * Nanda Empire, ruled by the Nanda dynasty, an Indian royal dynasty ruling Magadha in the 4th century BCE ** Mahapadma Nanda, first Emperor of the Nanda Empire ** Dhana Nanda (died c. 321 BCE), last ...

, half brother of Buddha) * 30 January 2016: 100,000th article, คริสต์ทศวรรษ 1940 (

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)

References

* Statistics page of Thai Wikipedia
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External links

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