Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
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Available in | Egyptian Arabic (Articles are written mainly using the Arabic alphabet but a few are written using the Latin alphabet)[1] |
Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
URL | arz |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | 24 November 2008 |
The Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia (Egyptian Arabic: ويكيبيديا مصرى [wikiˈbedjæ ˈmɑsˤɾi, wikiˈpidjæ]) is the Egyptian Arabic version of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. This Wikipedia primarily acts as an alternative to the Arabic Wikipedia in favor of speakers of the Egyptian dialect.[2] Until 2020, it was the only Wikipedia written in a localised dialect of Arabic.[3][4] The second one is Moroccan Wikipedia, which was approved and created in July 2020.
This edition of Wikipedia has 1,625,314 articles and 249,024 registered users, including 7 administrators.
In December 2022, it was the third most visited language Wikipedia in Egypt with 2 million page views.[5] It ranked below the Arabic Wikipedia (43 million[6]) and the English Wikipedia (18 million[7]).