Persian Wikipedia

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ویکی‌پدیای فارسی
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Persian Wikipedia is a member of Wikimedia Foundation. It started work in December 2003. founder of Persian version is Roozbeh Pour-Nader.[1][2]

It is the 18th largest edition by article count.[3] Persian Wikipedia has currently more than 500,000 articles.

Articles[change | change source]

Many of the first articles on the Persian Wikipedia were about chemical materials and historical subjects. The Wikipedia added geography and religious subjects soon after. On December 16, 2004, the Wikipedia reached 10,000 articles.

Charts Progress[change | change source]

Articles Date Position
0 December 2003
1,000 December 16, 2004
10,000 February 2006 38th
20,000 April 24, 2007
50,000 October 30, 2008 36th
100,000 August 25, 2010 33th
150,000 May 23, 2011 24th
200,000 July 9, 2012 21st
250,000 January 13, 2013 19th
300,000 February 19, 2013 18th
400,000 July 18, 2014 19th
450,000 April 27, 2015 18th[4]

Related pages[change | change source]

References[change | change source]

  1. Washington Post
  2. "magazine cappuccino". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2011-02-22.
  3. "List of Wikipedias". Meta-Wiki. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
  4. List of Wikipedias/Table meta.wikimedia.org, Statistics at 00:00, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

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