Urdu Wikipedia

Favicon of Wikipedia Urdu Wikipedia
اردو ویکیپیڈیا
Screenshot
Main Page of Wikipedia Urdu in April 2015
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia
Available inUrdu
HeadquartersMiami, Florida
OwnerWikimedia Foundation
Created byWikimedia Foundation and the Urdu Wiki community
URLur.wikipedia.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Users187,243
Launched27 January 2004; 20 years ago (2004-01-27)
Current statusActive
Content license
Creative Commons Attribution/
Share-Alike
3.0
(most text also dual-licensed under GFDL)
Media licensing varies

The Urdu Wikipedia (Urdu: اردو ویکیپیڈیا), started in January 2004, is the Standard Urdu-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia.[1][2] As of 25 November 2024, it has 214,855 articles, 187,243 registered users and 7,415 files, and it is the 54th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 20th in terms of depth among Wikipedias with over 150,000 articles.[3] There were 6 million page views in January 2024.[4]

  1. ^ کراچی میں وکی پیڈیا صارفین کا تاریخی اجلاس (in Urdu). Karachi: Karachi Updates. 19 October 2009. Archived from the original on 30 April 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2009.
  2. ^ "Wikipedians meetup in Pakistan" (in Urdu). Karachi: News Urdu. 19 October 2009. Archived from the original on 23 October 2009. Retrieved 23 October 2009.
  3. ^ "List of Wikipedias". Meta. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  4. ^ "Wikistats - Statistics For Wikimedia Projects". Retrieved 6 January 2023.