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Persian Wikipedia
Screenshot
Main Page of the Persian Wikipedia in June 2011
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia
Available in
Persian
Owner
Wikimedia Foundation (non-profit)
URL
fa.wikipedia.org
Commercial
No
Registration
Optional (required only for certain tasks such as editing protected pages, creating pages or uploading files)
Users
1,133,601 (total registered, as of 11 July 2022)[1]
Launched
December 19, 2003; 20 years ago (2003-12-19)
Content license
Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also dual-licensed under GFDL) Media licensing varies
Persian Wikipedia (Persian: ویکیپدیای فارسی, romanized: Wīkipediāī Fārsī) is the Persian language version of Wikipedia. The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of May 2024, it has 1,001,466 articles, 1,308,290 registered users, and 90,511 files, and it is the 19th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 22nd in terms of depth among Wikipedias. It passed 1,000 articles on December 16, 2004, and 200,000 on July 10, 2012. Roozbeh Pournader is the project's first administrator, developer, and bureaucrat.
It is the most popular language version of Wikipedia in Iran and Afghanistan.
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