Urdu Wikipedia

Urdu Wikipedia (Urdu: اردو ویکیپیڈیا‎), started in January 2004, is the Urdu language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia.[1][2] As of 9 February 2021, it has 160,558 articles, 125,626 registered users and 10,875 files, and it is the 50th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 21st in terms of depth among Wikipedias.[3] There were 10.4 million page views in January 2020.[4]

Urdu Wikipedia
اردو ویکیپیڈیا
Screenshot
Main Page of Wikipedia Urdu in April 2015
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia
Available inUrdu
HeadquartersMiami, Florida
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
Created byWikimedia Foundation and the Urdu Wiki community
URLur.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Users125,626
Launched27 January 2004 (2004-01-27)
Current statusActive
Content license
Creative Commons Attribution/
Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL)
Media licensing varies

History

Wikipedia started being multilingual in May 2001. At first, Urdu Wikipedia faced technical problems with the Urdu script font, but now this matter is mostly settled; some unsolved areas remain. Urdu is written in Perso-Arabic script, a right-to-left writing system. As a result, users sometimes need to configure their operating systems and web browsers accordingly.

Currently Urdu Wikipedia uses "Urdu Naskh Asiatype" font, which was introduced and is freely distributed by BBC at BBC Urdu Service website.[5] The font is primarily used for article bodies and headings. Urdu variation of Times New Roman is used for navigation links. Both of these fonts are variations of Naskh style.

Some Pakistani variations of complex Nasta'liq script are also supported only as a secondary choice in class definitions of CSS, i.e. if default font is not found on client system, then Nasta'liq script is used.

The translation of the Wikipedia interface and project information pages into Urdu is still in progress. Some pages about how to edit have been translated.

Milestones timeline
DateMilestone
19 June 20061,000
13 August 20062,000
15 March 20075,000
29 March 200910,000
28 October 201220,000
201440,000
24 April 201450,000
12 August 201575,000
29 December 2015100,000
December 2017125,000
23 November 2019150,000

Users and editors
Urdu Wikipedia statistics
Number of user accountsNumber of articlesNumber of filesNumber of administrators
1256261605581087511

See also

References
  1. "کراچی میں وکی پیڈیا صارفین کا تاریخی اجلاس" (in Urdu). Karachi: Karachi Updates. 19 October 2009. Archived from the original on 30 April 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2009.
  2. "Wikipedians meetup in Pakistan" (in Urdu). Karachi: News Urdu. 19 October 2009. Archived from the original on 23 October 2009. Retrieved 23 October 2009.
  3. "List of Wikipedias - Meta". Meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  4. Total page views - ur.wikipedia.org, Wikimedia Statistics, December 31th 2020
  5. "BBC Urdu - صفحۂ اول". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
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