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Every article is openly licensed. No paywalls, no account walls, no dark patterns between a reader and an answer.
An open knowledge platform
Every language
deserves a shelf
of its own.
Riqipedia is a free, multilingual encyclopedia written by people who believe knowledge shouldn't wait for a translation. Today, two editions. Tomorrow, every language spoken on earth.
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Each language is its own complete encyclopedia — its own volunteers, its own style guide, its own voice. Nothing here is a machine translation of something else.
Mission
Knowledge shouldn't have a waiting line.
Most of what humanity knows still lives in a handful of languages. Riqipedia exists to close that gap — not by translating one canonical version, but by letting every language community write the encyclopedia they actually need, at the same quality bar, from day one.
Vision
A reference shelf with no missing volumes.
We're building toward a future where opening Riqipedia in your own language feels exactly as complete as opening it in any other — where a reader in Dhaka, Lagos, or Jakarta finds the same depth, the same care, the same speed.
Principles
What we won't compromise on
No owner, no agenda
Riqipedia isn't built to sell ads or push a narrative. Editorial decisions sit with communities, not advertisers.
Sourced, not assumed
Citations are part of the article, not an afterthought. Claims without sources get flagged, not published.
Written by people, for people
Technology helps editors work faster. It doesn't replace the judgment of someone who actually knows the subject.
Built for low bandwidth
A reader on a low-end phone in a low-signal area gets the same fast, legible page as anyone else.
One quality bar, every language
A new edition isn't a "starter" version of an older one. It's held to the same editorial standard from article one.
Why Riqipedia
Encyclopedias are infrastructure. We treat them that way.
Riqipedia runs on a publishing system designed for editors first: clean revision history, transparent moderation, and tools that catch errors before they reach a reader — without slowing anyone down. The same platform now powers every edition, so a fix to the reading experience in one language reaches all of them.
Revision historyEvery edit is visible, every change is reversible.
Community moderationEditors review editors. No single authority decides what's true.
Open dataArticle text and structured data are downloadable, not locked in.
Community
Written by people who care about the subject
Editors join Riqipedia for the same reason librarians become librarians — they want the right answer to be easy to find.
“I started editing the Bengali edition because every search for local history kept landing on a one-paragraph stub. Now that stub is twelve well-sourced sections.”
“What pulled me in was the revision history. You can see exactly how an article got better over time — it reads like a paper trail of people actually caring.”
“No edition feels like an afterthought here. The Bengali pages are as deep as the English ones. That's rare.”
By the numbers
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Timeline
How the shelf gets built
Founded
বাংলা edition opens
Riqipedia begins as a Bengali-language encyclopedia, built by a small group of volunteer editors.
Year one
English edition opens
A second, independently written edition launches — proving the model works beyond a single language.
Now
Shared platform, shared tools
Revision history, moderation, and search are unified across editions so new languages launch on solid ground.
Next
Hindi, Arabic, Spanish editions
Three new editions open to founding editors, each with full right-to-left and script support where needed.
Beyond
Every language, on request
A self-serve path for any language community to start its own edition, with Riqipedia providing the platform and the standards.
Questions
Before you ask
Is Riqipedia free to use?
Yes. Every article on every edition is free to read, share, and reuse under an open license. There's no paywall and no account requirement for reading.
How is this different from translating Wikipedia?
It isn't a translation layer. Each Riqipedia edition is written and edited independently by speakers of that language, which means coverage, tone, and sourcing can reflect what that community actually needs — not a direct copy of another edition.
Can I edit an article?
Yes. Open any article on bn.riqipedia.com or en.riqipedia.com and use the edit control. New editors start with a short orientation, and every change is reviewed through the revision history.
How do you decide which language launches next?
We look at the size of the volunteer base willing to commit to long-term editing, not just reader demand. An edition only opens once there's a founding group ready to maintain it.
Can I request a language that isn't listed?
Yes — use the "Request a language" card above. We track interest per language and reach out once a credible founding group forms.
Join in
Help write the next edition
Leave your email and the language you'd want to see — we'll reach out when there's a founding group forming.