page_title: Thai Wikipedia
section_title: Timeline
hierarchical_section_title: Thai Wikipedia / Timeline
caption_attribution_description: Thai Wikipedia statistics as of October 4, 2007. The graph was created in Microsoft Excel. The original file can be found from Thai Wikipedia (at th:Image:Wiki Graph TH.png)
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: 25 December 2003: The Thai main page created after first created on 16 March 2003 with the word "Describe the new page here."
  27 December 2003: The first article created containing only one word "ดาราศาสตร์" (astronomy) and 32 interwiki links. After that it became a stub on 31 May 2004.
  28 February 2004: The real first article, วิทยาการคอมพิวเตอร์ (computer science), was created.
  21 April 2004: 100th article, ห้องอนาคต (Time & Time Travel, a fiction)
  17 August 2004: 500th article, สนเกรวิลเลีย (Grevillea)
  10 March 2005: 1,000th article, แฮร์รี่ พอตเตอร์ (Harry Potter)
  1 May 2005: The first featured article, แฟร็กทัล (fractal)
  September 2005: More than 30 university students registered and wrote articles as their homework.
  28 October 2005: 5,000th article, เปาบุ้นจิ้น (Bao Zheng)
  31 January 2006: Press coverage in onopen.com
  March 2006: Mass content addition of articles about years from 543 BC (Buddhist Era 1) to about 1800 semi-manually by using JavaScript. About 2,500 stubs are added.
  14 March 2006: 10,000th article, มหาวิทยาลัยเพนซิลเวเนียสเตต (Pennsylvania State University)
  16 March 2007: 20,000th article, อาริเอส มู (Aries Mu)
  10 December 2007: 30,000th article, หลิว เต๋อหัว (Andy Lau)
  26 October 2008: 40,000th article, ฤทธิ์ดาบไม้ไผ่ (Bamboo Blade)
  4 September 2009: 50,000th article, พระนันทะ (Nanda, half brother of Buddha)
  30 January 2016: 100,000th article, คริสต์ทศวรรษ 1940 (1940s)
caption: Thai Wikipedia statistics as of October 4th, 2007. It shows about 28,000 articles (shown in dots) and 32,000 users (orange bars).
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