The Malay Wikipedia ( ms, Wikipedia Bahasa Melayu,

Jawi alphabet Jawi (; ace, Jawoë; Kelantan-Pattani: ''Yawi''; ) is a writing system used for writing several languages of Southeast Asia, such as Acehnese, Banjarese, Kerinci, Maguindanaon, Malay, Minangkabau, Tausūg, and Ternate. Jawi is based ...

: ويکيڤيديا بهاس ملايو, abbreviation: mswiki) is the Malay edition of

Wikipedia Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read refer ...

. It uses the

Malay alphabet The modern Malay or Indonesian alphabet (Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore: ''Tulisan Rumi'', literally "Roman script" or "Roman writing", Indonesia: ''Aksara Latin'', literally "Latin script"), consists of the 26 letters of the ISO basic Latin alph ...

only and not the

. This edition was started on 26 October 2002. It has articles as of and is the largest Wikipedia by number of articles. The system was activated by Wikipedia administrator Brion Vibber. Despite the similarities between Malay and Indonesian, the Malay Wikipedia and

Indonesian Wikipedia The Indonesian Wikipedia ( id, Wikipedia bahasa Indonesia, WBI for short) is the edition of Wikipedia in the Indonesian language. The Indonesian Wikipedia is the fifth-fastest-growing Wikipedia in an Asian language after the Japanese, Chinese, Ko ...

were started separately by two different user groups. The Indonesian Wikipedia was started about six months after the Malay Wikipedia was. As of 2009, the Indonesian Wikipedia had three times the number of active editors and articles the Malay Wikipedia had. In 2009

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Czech Czech may refer to: * Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe ** Czech language ** Czechs, the people of the area ** Czech culture ** Czech cuisine * One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus' Places * Czech, ...

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Can ...

Basque Basque may refer to: * Basques, an ethnic group of Spain and France * Basque language, their language Places * Basque Country (greater region), the homeland of the Basque people with parts in both Spain and France * Basque Country (autonomous co ...

Gujarati Gujarati may refer to: * something of, from, or related to Gujarat, a state of India * Gujarati people, the major ethnic group of Gujarat * Gujarati language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them * Gujarati languages, the Western Indo-Aryan sub ...

Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

, Simple English, Tagalog and Swedish Wikipedia) is no longer permitted, and users are instead redirected to

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due to

copyright infringement Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission is required, thereby infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, s ...

issues. However, file upload at the English, Indonesian and other Wikipedias remains operable. Since 2016, Malay Wikipedia has had a dearth of administrators. In June 2020, it was the third most visited language Wikipedia in

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

with 11 million page views. It ranked below the

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(59 million page views in Malaysia) and the

Chinese Wikipedia The Chinese Wikipedia () is the written vernacular Chinese (a form of Mandarin Chinese) edition of Wikipedia. It is run by the Wikimedia Foundation. Started on 11 May 2001, the Chinese Wikipedia currently has articles and registered users, o ...

(14 million page views in Malaysia) but above the

(only 1 million page views in Malaysia).Page views by country - Indonesian Wikipedia

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Statistics, July 13th 2020

Milestones

* 200,000 - March 21, 2013 - Belforte Monferrato * 190,000 - February 25, 2013 - Galeri Petronas * 178,000 - February 6, 2013 - Doubravice (Daerah České Budějovice) * 125,000 - November 15, 2011 - Morbecque * 120,000 - June 9, 2011 - La Biolle * 115,000 - March 22, 2011 - Raj British * 110,000 - February 23, 2011 - Oëlleville * 105,000 - February 2, 2011 - Bassy * 100,000 - January 9, 2011 - Pressigny-les-Pins

Gallery

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References

* Lih, Andrew. '' The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia''. Hyperion, New York. 2009. 1st ed. (paper).

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