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ویکی‌پدیای فارسی
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Type of site
Internet encyclopedia
Available inPersian
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
Created byEditing community
URLhttp://fa.wikipedia.org/
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional

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

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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 16 December 2004, the Wikipedia reached 10,000 articles.

Charts Progress

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

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