Arabic Wikipedia
 Arabic Wikipedia |
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| URL | http://ar.wikipedia.org/ |
| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
| Registration | Optional |
| Available language(s) | Arabic |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
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The Arabic Wikipedia (Arabic:ويكيبيديا العربية) is the Arabic language version of Wikipedia. It started in September 2001[1]. As of September 2007, it has over 40,000 articles, 160,000 pages, 76,000 registered users and 13 administrators. The Arabic Wikipedia is currently the 33th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count.[2]
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.
Milestones
Related Wikipedias
This are the wikipedias that either share the direction of writing the language script or share the Arabic alphabet.
- Persian Wikipedia alphabet.
- Urdu Wikipedia alphabet.
- Hebrew Wikipedia direction.
- Yiddish Wikipedia direction.
References
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