In the 12-month period between February 2022 and January 2023, the Bengali Wikipedia had an average of 346 active editors[6][7] and was viewed about 248 million times[8] from all over the world.

As of January 2023, the largest amount of pageviews came from Bangladesh, India, the United States and Saudi Arabia, respectively, reflecting the spread of the Bengali language and the geographical reach of Bengali-speaking immigrants.

[9] In February 2002, the developers started creating language-code based sub-domains for different language Wikipedias.

On 25 March 2006, a Wiki team was created by the Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) to popularize Wikipedia throughout the country.

Soon, many Bengali-speaking people from Bangladesh, India and abroad joined them in this dynamic project.

[16]The very low activity of the Bengali Wikipedia for many years, mostly in the period between 2007 and 2013, can be attributed to the very low number of internet users in Bangladesh, especially in the first decade of the 21st century (in 2010, there were only 556,000 internet users in Bangladesh according to research).

[16] In the meantime, the Wikimedia Foundation started their operations and on 3 October 2011, a local chapter named Wikimedia Bangladesh was approved in Bangladesh[14] by the Foundation to promote educational content in Bengali.

[28] This growth can be attributed to a mixture of successful editathons and the arrival of many prolific contributors.

Due to the history of Bangladesh, Pakistan-related themes are also well covered on the Bengali Wikipedia.

The main religions of Bengal, Hinduism and Islam, have good, expansive coverage in Bengali.

The main deficits of the Bengali Wikipedia are the content gaps in some articles, and parts of policy pages which are still untranslated, a problem that also appears on other wikis.

The Bengali Wikipedia's advantages are, among others, strong activity and a large number of editors for its small amount of articles and the expanding coverage on its focus areas (Bangladesh and India).

[35] As it happens on many other Indic Wikipedias, there is a tendency for active users and pageviews to record a significant increase during the monsoon season (June–October).

That process was disrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020; however, since 2021, there are signs of recovery regarding pageviews,[36] however the number of active users has remained stagnant with a trend of reduction (as in every Indic Wikipedia, particularly Hindi).

In April 2018, Bangladeshi print and electronic media reported that Wikipedia named Runa Laila, a renowned singer from Bangladesh, among its Top 30 Bengali people of all time.

[48] In August of the same year, an unregistered user added a fake date of death in Muhammed Zafar Iqbal's article, which also attracted media attention.