What is non-English language Wikipedia?
A non-English language Wikipedia is not a translation of English articles.
It is self-sustaining: active users and moderators create and moderate content in their languages.
Most used non-English language in the platform
In India, if we consider non-English language Wikipedia, the highest number of articles are available in Urdu (1.91 lakh), Hindi (1.57lakh) and Tamil (1.54 lakh).
Among languages which are mostly confined to a State, Tamil leads by a wide margin, with 1.6 times more articles than the second best, Marathi, followed by Malayalam and Telugu.
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There are no Wikipedia articles in two of the 22 languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution: Bodo and Dogri.
When all the global languages are considered, English leads.
Cebuano, a regional language spoken widely in the Philippines, has the second highest number of articles in Wikipedia
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