Urdu Wikipedia

Urdu Wikipedia
اردو ویکیپیڈیا‬
Screenshot
Screenshot of the main page of Wikipedia Urdu
Type of site
 Internet encyclopedia project
Available in Urdu
Headquarters Miami, Florida
Owner Wikimedia Foundation
Created by Urdu wiki community
Website ur.wikipedia.org
Commercial No
Registration Optional
Launched 27 January 2004 (2004-01-27)


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 October 2018, it has 141,121 articles, 85,835 registered users and 5,050 files and it is the 49th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count.

History

Wikipedia started being multilingual in May 2001. As of December 2007, Wikipedia had approximately 9.25 million articles in 253 languages.

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.[3] 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

DateMilestone
20075,000
200910,000
201320,000
201440,000
24 April 201450,000
12 August 201575,000
29 December 2015100,000
December 2017125,000

References

  1. ↑ "کراچی میں وکی پیڈیا صارفین کا تاریخی اجلاس" (in Urdu). Karachi: Karachi Updates. October 19, 2009. Archived from the original on April 30, 2014. Retrieved 2009-10-23.
  2. ↑ "Wikipedians meetup in Pakistan" (in Urdu). Karachi: News Urdu. October 19, 2009. Archived from the original on October 23, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-23.
  3. ↑ "BBC Urdu - صفحۂ اول". Bbc.co.uk. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 2013-09-28.

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