Urdu Wikipedia

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 June 2020, it has 155,483 articles, 115,946 registered users, 10,553 files, and ranks 21st in terms of depth among Wikipedias. It is also the 50th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count.

Urdu Wikipedia
اردو ویکیپیڈیا
Screenshot
Screenshot of the main page of Wikipedia Urdu
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia project
Available inUrdu
HeadquartersMiami, Florida
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
Created byWikimedia Foundation and the Urdu Wiki community
URLur.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Launched27 January 2004 (2004-01-27)

History

Wikipedia started being multilingual in May 2001. As of December 2007, Wikipedia had approximately 9.25 million articles in 253 languages. The Urdu Wikipedia was created on January 27, 2004. 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
September 2019130,000

Research

In 2019, the Urdu Wikipedia has 178 thousand unique categories and 4.96% of them do not have appropriate page in the category namespace. The average article in this language version has 7 categories, while number of unique categories per articles ratio is 1.23. The largest number of articles has Government (19%) and Politics (18%) category. In Urdu Wikipedia articles related to Organizations and Crime has the highest average quality. Content about Military is read more often and articles in Education category have the highest authors' interest on average.[4]

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. Retrieved 2013-09-28.
  4. Lewoniewski, Włodzimierz; Węcel, Krzysztof; Abramowicz, Witold (2019). "Multilingual Ranking of Wikipedia Articles with Quality and Popularity Assessment in Different Topics". Computers. 8 (3): 60. doi:10.3390/computers8030060.
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