The Malay Wikipedia (Malay: Wikipedia Bahasa Melayu, Jawi alphabet: ويکيڤيديا بهاس ملايو, abbreviation: mswiki) is the Malay edition of Wikipedia. It uses the Malay alphabet only and not the Jawi alphabet (with the exception of some cases). This edition was started on 26 October 2002. It has 364,493 articles as of April 2023 and is the 35th 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 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 Andrew Lih wrote "Because these groups are drawn on national boundaries, merging is not likely to happen soon." More information...
According to PR-model, ms.wikipedia.org is ranked 42,168th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 42,192nd in English Wikipedia.
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