Arabic Wikipedia

Arabic Wikipedia

Infobox website
name = Arabic Wikipedia



caption =
url = http://ar.wikipedia.org/
commercial = No
location = Miami, Florida
type = Internet encyclopedia project
language = Arabic
registration = Optional
owner = Wikimedia Foundation
author =

The Arabic Wikipedia (Arabic: ويكيبيديا العربية "Wīkībīdyā al-ʿArabiyya" or ويكيبيديا، الموسوعة الحرة "Wīkībīdyā, al-Mawsūʿa al-Ḥurra") is the Arabic language version of Wikipedia. It started in July 2003. As of September 2008, it has over 77,000 articles, 342,000 pages, 145,000 registered users and 4100 files. The Arabic Wikipedia is currently the 27th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count. []

The design of the Arabic Wikipedia differs somewhat from other Wikipedias. Most notably, since Arabic is written right-to-left, the location of links is a mirror image of those Wikipedias in languages written left-to-right. Also, the background uses a traditional Arabic geometric tessellation pattern in place of the standard book.

Blocking

The Arabic Wikipedia has been blocked in Syria with no official reasons given by the Syrian government. [http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details_print.cfm?id=19035] = [ [http://www.menassat.com/?q=ar/alerts/3726- Arabic Wikipedia Disappears From The Internet in Syria] (Arabic) ] The block began on April 30 2008. All other language versions of Wikipedia remain unblocked and freely accessible.

Milestones

* Arabic Wikipedia was launched in July 2003.
* Article number 10,000 was نكاف (mumps) created on 25 December 2005.
* Article number 50,000 was جامعة تكساس مدرسة الطب في هيوستن (University of Texas Medical Branch) created on December 31, 2007.
* Article number 60,000 was مكتبة فرنسا الوطنية (Bibliothèque nationale de France) created on May 26, 2008.
* Article number 70,000 was مجموعة محاطة (Bounded set) created on 15 August 2008.

Related Wikipedias

These are the Wikipedias which either share the direction of writing the language script or the Arabic alphabet.

* Persian Wikipedia: alphabet.
* Urdu Wikipedia: alphabet.
* Hebrew Wikipedia: direction.
* Yiddish Wikipedia: direction.
* Divehi Wikipedia: direction.

References


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