[1] It has grown to be a wiki containing 86,591 articles as of February 2025[update], and ranks 13th in terms of depth among Wikipedias.

Wikipedians started to use these tools and the Wikipedia reached 100 articles by December 2004.

The year 2006 saw a number of users joining the wiki, following the widespread usage of Malayalam computing tools.

[5] When the Wikipedia crossed 10,000 articles on 1 June 2009, a number of print and online newspapers covered the story.

Early editors adopted specialized Malayalam Unicode input tools based on the Varamozhi keyboard, a phonetic transliteration device.