Persian Wikipedia
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| URL | fa.wikipedia.org |
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| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Internet encyclopedia |
| Registration | Optional (required only for certain tasks such as editing protected pages, creating pages or uploading files) |
| Available language(s) | Persian |
| Users | 291,442 (total registered, as of 2 July 2012)[1] |
| Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation (non-profit) |
| Alexa rank | Iran:  8 (July 2012)[2] |
The Persian Wikipedia (Persian: ویکیپدیا، دانشنامهٔ آزاد Wikipedia, Dānešnāmaye āzād / "Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia") is the Persian language version of Wikipedia. The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. It passed 1,000 articles on December 16, 2004 and 200,000 articles on July 10, 2012.
The Persian Wikipedia was started by the efforts of Roozbeh Pournader and other contributors.[3]
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Number of articles [edit]
In January 2013, close to 50,000 new articles have been added within a month. A few days later, on 19 February 2013, the Persian Wikipedia reached 300,000 articles, ranking it 18th among all Wikipedias based on number of articles.[4]
Article depth [edit]
With article depth of 146, the Persian Wikipedia is currently ranked 152nd among all Wikipedias based on article depth.[5]
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ List of Wikipedias. Wikimedia.org. 2 July 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
- ^ "Alexa - Top Sites in Iran". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2012-07-12.
- ^ Tabesh, Sina (2004-05-14). "ویکیپدیا چیست؟" (in Persian). Cappucino Magazine. Retrieved 2007-07-09.
- ^ List of Wikipedias. Wikimedia.org. 19 February 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ^ List of Wikipedias. Wikimedia.org. 2 July 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
External links [edit]
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Persian Wikipedia edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
- Persian Wikipedia (Persian)
- Persian Wikipedia mobile version (Persian)
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