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has almost 70 million native speakers, Tamil Knowledge has grown slowly, with fewer than 20,000 articles. (Tamil is ranked 15th among all languages in number of native speakers, but is only the 68th largest Knowledge.)
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that "New account creations on that wiki doubled on the day the article was published."
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say they can displace a Knowledge #1 Google search result,
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Tamil Knowledge, Internet Watch Foundation, and more
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Internet Watch Foundation and Knowledge
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