Congratulations đđđ On Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 10:16 PM Tito Dutta <[email protected]> wrote:
> āĻ āĻ¨ā§āĻ āĻ āĻāĻŋāĻ¨āĻ¨ā§āĻĻāĻ¨ (English translation: Many congratulations)āĨ¤ > > Thanks > Tito Dutta > Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind > me over email or phone call. > > > āĻļāĻ¨āĻŋ, ā§¨ā§Ŧ āĻĄāĻŋāĻ¸ā§āĻŽā§āĻŦāĻ°, ā§¨ā§Ļā§¨ā§Ļ āĻ¤āĻžāĻ°āĻŋāĻā§ ā§:ā§§ā§¯ PM āĻāĻžā§ āĻ Shabab Mustafa < > [email protected]> āĻ˛āĻŋāĻā§āĻā§āĻ¨: > >> Dear Friends, >> >> The year 2020 is full of woes and wonders. Just before the ending of >> 2020, Bengali Wikipedia[1][2] has passed a significant milestone of passing >> 100K articles. >> >> Bengali, an Indo-Aryan language and lingua-franca of the Bengal region of >> South Asia, is the fifth most-spoken native language and the seventh >> most-spoken language by the total number of speakers in the world.[3] The >> Bengali Wikipedia Project launched on 27 January 2004 with very few >> editors. On 25 December 2020, after 16 years of the initial launch, it now >> has passed the milestone of 100k+ articles.[4] >> >> As most of the contributors of Bengali Wikipedia are young and this >> year's long lockdowns and campus shutdowns of educational institutes, >> Wikipedians had managed to utilized their extra free times by contributing >> to the Bengali Wikipedia and it has enjoyed growth at an almost double rate >> than the previous year with an organized approach of topic-based >> consecutive edit-a-thons. >> >> Here is a quick overview of the milestones achieved - >> >> 27 January 2004: Launch of Bengali Wikipedia >> September 2006: 10K articles >> 28 June 2009: 20K articles >> 13 May 2014: 30K articles >> 04 January 2016: 40K articles >> 30 April 2017: 50K articles >> 08 August 2018: 60K articles >> 16 July 2019: 70K articles >> 23 January 2020: 80K articles >> 22 June 2020: 90K articles >> 25 December 2020: 100K articles >> >> I welcome you to congratulate the Bengali Wikipedia community for their >> achievement and wishing them all the best for future progress and >> prosperity. >> >> Ref: >> ==== >> [1] https://bn.wikipedia.org >> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_Wikipedia >> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_language >> [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#100_000+_articles >> >> Regards, >> --- >> Shabab Mustafa >> T. @tarunno >> S. shabab.mustafa >> W. https://shabab.me >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
