Malay Wikipedia is the Malay edition of Wikipedia. It uses the Malay alphabet only and not the Jawi alphabet. This edition was started on 26 October 2002 and has about 323,162 articles as of January 2019 and is the 29th largest Wikipedia by number of articles. The system was activated by Wikipedia administratorBrion 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." Starting 27 July 2016, file upload at the Malay Wikipedia is no longer facilitated and instead redirected to Wikimedia Commons due to copyright infringement issues. However, file upload at the English, Indonesian and other languaged Wikipedia 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 with 11 million page views. It ranked below the English Wikipedia and the Chinese Wikipedia but above the Indonesian Wikipedia.
Milestones
200,000 - March 21, 2013 - :ms:Belforte Monferrato|Belforte Monferrato
190,000 - February 25, 2013 - :ms:Galeri Petronas|Galeri Petronas
178,000 - February 6, 2013 - :ms:Doubravice |Doubravice
125,000 - November 15, 2011 - :ms:Morbecque|Morbecque
100,000 - January 9, 2011 - :ms:Pressigny-les-Pins|Pressigny-les-Pins
Topics
In 2019 the Malay Wikipedia had 91,000 unique categories; 68.65% of them do not have appropriate page in the category. The average article in this language version has four categories, while number of unique categories per articles ratio is 0.281. The largest number of articles are in the Organizations and Geography categories. In Malay, Wikipedia articles related to Business and Philosophy have the highest average quality. Content about Law is read more often and articles in the People category have the highest authors' interest on average.
