Urdu Wikipedia
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Wikipedia Urdu, started in January 2004, is the Urdu language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. As of November 2005, it is relatively small in size, with only about 600 articles, but hopefully in time it will grow to a similar size as the other language versions of Wikipedia, like the English, German, and French editions.
History
Wikipedia started being multilingual in May 2001. According to the announcement,[1] about 12 non-English editions had been created, including a Japanese one. The original site address was http://ur.wikipedia.com and all pages were written in the Latin alphabet, as the software did not work with Urdu characters.
Urdunization
At first, Urdu Wikipedia faced technical problems with the Urdu script font, but now this matter is mostly settled; some unsolved areas remain. Urdu, like Arabic, uses a right-to-left writing system, so clients must configure their operating systems and web broswers accordingly.
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.