Persian Wikipedia

Persian Wikipedia
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The main page of the Persian Wikipedia
The main page of the Persian Wikipedia
Type of site
 Internet encyclopedia
Available in Persian
Owner Wikimedia Foundation (non-profit)
Website fa.wikipedia.org
Alexa rank

Iran: Increase 3 (April 2017)[1]

Persian: 1 (April 2017)[2]
Commercial No
Registration Optional (required only for certain tasks such as editing protected pages, creating pages or uploading files)
Users 669,086 (total registered, as of 21 August 2017)[3]
Launched December 19, 2003 (2003-12-19)
Content license
 Creative Commons Attribution/
Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL)
Media licensing varies

The Persian Wikipedia (Persian: ویکی‌پدیای فارسی‎, Romanized as Wikipediā, Dānešnāme-ye Āzād / "Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia") is the Persian language version of Wikipedia, pronounced "Wikipedia (Wikipediā)". 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. Roozbeh Pournader is the project's first system operator, developer and bureaucrat.

Number of articles

In January 2013, close to 50,000 new articles were 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]

It currently has 644,448 articles, making it the 17th largest Wikipedia by article count.

History of articles number:

  • 19 December 2003, started,
  • 30 October 2008, reached 50,000 articles,
  • 25 August 2010, reached 100,000 articles,
  • 9 July 2012, reached 200,000 articles,
  • 19 February 2013, reached 300,000 articles,
  • 18 July 2014, reached 400,000 articles,
  • 27 July 2016, reached 500,000 articles,
  • 31 January 2018, reached 590,000 articles.[5]

Article depth

With article depth of 180, the Persian Wikipedia is currently ranked 7th among all Wikipedias based on article depth.[6]

Censorship

In a November 2013 report published by the Center for Global Communication Studies of the University of Pennsylvania, researchers Collin Anderson and Nima Nazeri scanned 800,000 Persian language Wikipedia articles and found that the Iranian government blocks 963 of these pages. According to the authors, "Censors repeatedly targeted Wikipedia pages about government rivals, minority religious beliefs, and criticisms of the state, officials, and the police. Just under half of the blocked Wiki-pages are biographies, including pages about individuals the authorities have allegedly detained or killed."[7] Anderson said that Persian Wikipedia, as a microcosm of the Iranian internet, is a "useful place to uncover the types of online content forbidden and an excellent template to identify keyword blocking themes and filtering rules that apply across the greater internet."[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Alexa - Top Sites in Iran". Alexa Internet.
  2. ↑ "Alexa - Top Sites in: All Categories > World > Persian". Alexa Internet.
  3. ↑ List of Wikipedias. Wikimedia.org. 13 January 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
  4. ↑ List of Wikipedias. Wikimedia.org. 19 February 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
  5. ↑ List of Wikipedias/Table meta.wikimedia.org, Statistics at 12:00, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
  6. ↑ List of Wikipedias. Wikimedia.org. 24 October 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  7. ↑ Anderson, Colin; Nazeri, Nima (7 November 2013). "Citation Filtered: Iran's Censorship of Wikipedia" (PDF). Center for Global Communication Studies (University of Pennsylvania).
  8. ↑ "How Iran Uses Wikipedia To Censor The Internet". BuzzFeed. 12 November 2013.
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