Arabic Wikipedia
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Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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| Available in | Arabic |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| URL | http://ar.wikipedia.org/ |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
The Arabic Wikipedia (Arabic: ويكيبيديا العربية Wīkībīdyā al-ʿArabiyya or ويكيبيديا، الموسوعة الحرة Wīkībīdyā, al-Mausūʿa al-Ḥurra) is the Arabic language version of Wikipedia. It started in July 2003. As of August 2008, it has over 66,000 articles, 307,000 pages, 136,000 registered users and 3600 files. The Arabic Wikipedia is currently the 29th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count.[1]
The design of the Arabic Wikipedia differs somewhat from other Wikipedias. Most notably, since Arabic is written right-to-left, the location of links is a mirror image of those Wikipedias in languages written left-to-right. Also, the background uses a traditional Arabic geometric tessellation pattern in place of the standard book.
Blocking
The Arabic Wikipedia has been blocked in Syria with no official reasons given by the Syrian government.[2] [3] The block began on April 30 2008. Interestingly, all other language versions of Wikipedia remain unblocked and freely accessible.
Milestones
- Arabic Wikipedia was launched in July 2003
- Article number 10,000 was نكاف (mumps) created on 25 December 2005
- Article number 50,000 was جامعة تكساس مدرسة الطب في هيوستن (University of Texas Medical Branch) created on December 31, 2007
- Article number 60,000 was مكتبة فرنسا الوطنية (Bibliothèque nationale de France) created on May 26, 2008
Related Wikipedias
These are the Wikipedias which either share the direction of writing the language script or the Arabic alphabet.
- Persian Wikipedia: alphabet.
- Urdu Wikipedia: alphabet.
- Hebrew Wikipedia: direction.
- Yiddish Wikipedia: direction.
- Divehi Wikipedia: direction.
References
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