Urdu Wikipedia

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اردو ویکیپیڈیا
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Screenshot of the main page of Wikipedia Urdu
Web address ur.wikipedia.org
Commercial? No
Type of site
 Internet encyclopedia project
Registration Optional
Available in Urdu
Owner Wikimedia Foundation

Urdu Wikipedia (Urdu: اردو وکیپیڈیا‎), started in January 2004, is the Urdu language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. As of 30 December, 2015, it had more than 100,000 articles.[1][2][3]

History

Wikipedia started being multilingual in May 2001. As of December 2007, Wikipedia had approximately 9.25 million articles in 253 languages. The original site address for Urdu Wikipedia was http://ur.wikipedia.com and all pages were written in the Latin alphabet, as the software did not work with Urdu characters.

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.[4] 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. Urdu language poets of bidar.

Milestones

Date Milestone
2007 5،000
2009 10،000
2013 20،000
2014 30،000
24 April 2014 50،000
12 August 2015 75,000
29 Desember 2015 100,000

See also

References

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  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ [1][dead link]
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

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