Thai Wikipedia


The Thai Wikipedia is the Thai language edition of Wikipedia. It was started on 25 December 2003. As of December 2019, it has more than 134,000 content pages and 371,363 registered users. As of December 2017, Wikipedia was ranked 13th in Alexa's Top Sites Thailand.
On 31 January 2006 Thai Wikipedia was first recognized along with English Wikipedia in the Thai press. In 2007, a thesis, Thai Wikipedia and Communicating Knowledge to the Public, was published by a graduate student from the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University.
Thai Wikipedia was mentioned during a public forum during the 2005-2006 Thai political crisis when a speaker suggested that Thai people should read Wikipedia's article on Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister.
Thai Wikipedia is the second online encyclopedia in the Thai language after the Thai Junior Encyclopedia Project, which was developed under the patronage of the King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

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As of 2019 Thai Wikipedia has 73,000 unique categories and 34.37% of them do not have an appropriate page in the category. The average article in Thai has seven categories, while number of unique categories per articles ratio is 0.559. The largest number of articles has the categories Law and Society. Thai Wikipedia articles related to Events and Military have the highest average quality. Content about Military is read more often and articles in the Arts category have the highest authors' interest on average.